It was his first TorT, and he was whispering :'appy 'awwoolleen... Ded.

So. Ded.

There was a little girl wearing what looked like a Where the Wild Things Are in an Incredible Hulk color scheme. With huge furry boots. She was so damn adorable and I was too impressed to ask her design. But she looked fantastic.

Need more trick or treaters. Too. Much. Candy. And not candy I particularly want. It's good candy but mostly I stole as many cherry Jolly Ranchers as I could and a few dark Milky Ways.

No other trick or treaters yet, dammit. And my cats are unnerved by my giant witch's hat.

Trick or treating is like browsing "versions of clothes Jilli would own" without leaving the house. Except for the most recent pirate. Her skirt was stripy and should be MINE.

Tiny witches! One of whom was wearing a black and pink witchy outfit!

Trick or treating is like browsing "versions of clothes Jilli would own" without leaving the house

You're not wrong.

Oh, and there was a wee little pirate girl with a patch and stubble. And blinky shoes. Carried by her dad up the stairs in a full business suit, clearly everyday work attire. "Ask me what my daddy is!" I did. "He's a scary lawyer!" He looked sheepish and said he was a lawyer, it was a throwaway line in the car this morning when she insisted he had to be going as SOMETHING for Halloween. It stuck.

We saw a tiny Dorothy with her sleepy!lion baby brother in a stroller, and many princesses. One kindergarten-age Thomas the Tank Engine, too -- he made sure to tell us, very seriously, that it is his favorite show. Too cute.

Lots of really awesomely carved pumpkins out there this year, too. I was impressed.

I'm sorry so many of you had bad weather! It was absurdly warm here, with a nice breeze. Almost too warm for Halloween.

But no, no lascivious behaviour involved with Oreos otherwise (I totally had to google "twerk", that's a new one on me).

You were spared Mileygate! I envy you :)

Aw, cute!

Huh, Verizon just called me up to save me money on my cell phone plan, and it's actually a pretty good deal. I'm sure there must be some kind of a catch, but whatever, easy expense reduction is easy. She kinda of sounded like she was supposed to be talking me into upgrading my phone, but she didn't push it, like, at all.

We've only had about 5 TorT groups so far, but our neighborhood skews late. I hope we get a whole bunch more as someone else did the candy shopping and bought 2X more than I would usually purchase.

Cody took the kids to go meet up with friends so I am home alone, just me, the candy bowl, the internet, and a glass of whiskey.

Sparkly pink Batman! She was here twice but it was a good costume. ... Upon further reflection, there are a couple of them. It's still very cute.

I am not going to make it to 8. So next year maybe 40 lbs of candy?