I keep forgetting it's Halloween. Haven't left the house today and don't plan to. I did put on a striped shirt in a sort of vague gesture at homage towards Pugsley, maybe, but I don't have any candy (I did buy a bad of my usual Hershey's miniatures but I brought it to work. We didn't do the thing where people bring their kids to trick-or-treat in the office (last year we officially did it but I didn't see any kids, this year no mention of it) but my co-workers will be happy to have a bit of chocolate available from time to time) and I never even opened my boxes of decorations. Oh well.
Occasionally I'm callous and strange.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Oct 31, 2025 3:42:43 pm PDT #9973 of 10286
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Steph L. - Oct 31, 2025 4:38:02 pm PDT #9974 of 10286
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
We had maybe 10 trick-or-treaters, which is low for a year with weather like today (50 degrees, not rainy, not windy). So we have a shit-ton of candy left, which can go to Tim's office on Monday. Although, let's be real, I'm going to keep the Reese's pumpkins.
lisah - Oct 31, 2025 4:40:18 pm PDT #9975 of 10286
Punishingly Intricate
We had I dunno 100 kids? Anyway all our candy is done.
Karl - Oct 31, 2025 5:11:39 pm PDT #9976 of 10286
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
I was sitting here minding my own business and scrolling through my social media feed, and that picture of whatsisnose's widow hugging the Hillbilly Elegy guy went by. I had two immediate thoughts:
- "Gah! You made a bear! Undo it! Undo it!"
- "That is not the Erika I want to see in leather (pleather?) pants. Some traditions should stay inside their subcultures."
erikaj - Oct 31, 2025 5:33:00 pm PDT #9977 of 10286
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
For someone who aspires to...le vie boheme(minus tuberculosis), I know I can be a little too private about physical contact and, you know, the application of same in public--it might be me, right? But that was so embarrassing I had to watch a bunch of Archers to kill the urge to find out how to say "Get a room, she-beast," in German and post it where they might see it--woof. (if they did Too Much Candy, I'd yak.) Well, still got the pleather, and, yes, I actually like sharing my name with that soap-opera chick more than Merry Widow Kirk. Have been feeling a bit repellingly single this week, but I think ita's rule applies and I'd rather lick a water fountain in the county jail than touch either of those individuals--I might catch it.
Jessica - Oct 31, 2025 6:01:09 pm PDT #9978 of 10286
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
We had 5 trick or treaters all night. Most of the candy will go to work with me on Monday I guess.
Calli - Oct 31, 2025 7:24:57 pm PDT #9979 of 10286
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I handed out candy at my nephew and niece in laws’, so they could take their kids out (the kids are young enough that one on one attention is helpful). It was fun. We had 20–30 kids. They were all polite and nice.
Steph L. - Oct 31, 2025 8:18:49 pm PDT #9980 of 10286
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
We had a family where the mom was Elphaba, the adolescent son was Waldo (of Where's Waldo fame [guess I found him]), and the 9-ish daughter was a princess in a pink dress with a tiara and a wand. After I gave the kids candy, the daughter dropped her magic wand and I said "Oh! You dropped your magic wand—you can't be a princess without your magic wand!" She spun around with the skirt of her big pink dress swirling around her and pronounced, "I am NOT a princess; I am Ga-LIN-da!!!" Considering her mom was Elphaba, I felt silly for not putting two and two together immediately, because, duh. Of course she was Galinda!
I was hoping for some K-Pop Demon Hunters, but no Huntrix and no Saja Boys, alas.
JenP - Nov 01, 2025 6:19:31 am PDT #9981 of 10286
We had about five rings and maybe twenty kids total. All of them actually said, "Trick or treat!" except for the teeny ones, which was cool. I had noticed that falling by the wayside in recent years.
Looks like a gorgeous day here. I need to motivate. It was kind of a discombobulated week last week. I did make it over to vote, though, so its an overall win.
askye - Nov 01, 2025 10:14:16 am PDT #9982 of 10286
Thrive to spite them
We didn't have trick or treaters but we really don't. Just not an area for it
My day off is less relaxing than I'd like. I've slept horribly since we've gotten back. Partly is the terrible bad, partly my mind going non stop and partly because M's cousin and her tween daughter have been staying here. They live with M's aunt and she's out of town and the cousin works overnights and the tween is ...well a tween. So she can't stay by herself at night so they have been over here and M's mom has been getting the tween to school and back . They go home today and I can't wait. Because there is also an added dog. And the tween likes to sleep with lights on. So she's had a lamp on in the living room and that light shines in my eyes. I have an eye mask but even then I know it's there and it just . Bothers me
I miss the dark and quiet of the beach .
Mom came and got her car. She took us to breakfast. Then in a little while we are going to some family reunion dinner that M doesn't really want to go to but we are. And then when we get home we will tackle take out bed frame apart and getting it out of here so we can get the new one out together