Happy Hallowe'en!

[mousme]

Funny how, even though I'm technically on vacation and am not working, my days are still full. Granted, a couple of them have involved several episodes of Stargate and MacGuyver, but for the most part I've been running around doing much-needed errands and suchlike. I'm rather hoping that next week turns out to be less busy, as I haven't even remotely gotten around to cleaning yet, which is one of my Major Goals for this vacation.

Did Hallowe'en for the third year in a row with Jan and t!, which was much fun, except that poor ai731 has a really bad cold/sinus thing and seemed absolutely miserable, which is no fun a all for her. This year instead of distributing candy we made a point of giving out homemade gingerbread cookies. I bought some candy as a standby, and the cookies had about an 85% success rate, which is pretty good all told. The few kids who refused the cookies gave us very bemused (and sometimes disgusted) looks, as though to say: "It's Hallowe'en! We're here for candy. Don't you know anything?" It was amusing, anyway.

Tomorrow is the first day of NaNoWriMo, during which I expect to get very little written, unlike last year's 10,000 word display of insanity. I am getting a haircut in the morning, then seeing a movie with my mother, and then meeting up with the Capricornucopia crew for some more playwriting goodness. If I write 1,500 words of my novel, I will consider it a successful day for NaNo.

Eventually I will get back online, I promise. I know I've been MIA for, gosh, weeks really. Possibly months. My non-internet life has become very very full and very very busy, and by the time I get home and switch on the computer I have just about enough energy to read LJ and my webcomics and then hit the proverbial hay. With luck, once I've caught up on my sleep and run all the errands I've been putting off for two months, I will have more time and mental energy to catch up with all my internet friends, whom I've missed very much.

Happy Hallowe'en, everyone!

Comments

[sultrysong.livejournal.com]

It's a really sweet and healthy idea to give out homemade cookies. Unfortunately, children and parents are warned every year to immediately throw away anything that isn't machine-wrapped. It's a sad world, huh?

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Yup. I pointed this out when the idea first came up, but I was assured that we were handing them out for immediate consumption under the parents' supervision. Since we weren't hiding or anything, we figured we might overcome the parents' reticence —bred by years of urban legends of razor blade-infested apples and muffins laced with rat poison. :P

[jteethy.livejournal.com]

Paze here:
I'm sorry to say this---really cannot express how sorry---but those stories of razer blades, needles, etc. in candy apples and homebaked goods at Hallowe'en are not urban legends. It all makes good and honest people's work more difficult and disheartening, I know, but one can understand a caregiver's reluctance to take any chances.

[pasley.livejournal.com]

And before anyone jumps on me. . .
The razor blades, pins, needles in Hallowe'en candy stories have become urban legends in that they have been highly exaggerated in terms of number of incidents and cases of actual death as a result; most often, children or parents detected the foreign objects in the apples, etc, before they were injured by them. In other words, it's an urban legend that has its basis in truth---just enough truth to scare a lot of parents.

That said, I hope you will continue with the baked goodies at Hallowe'en, because I think the longer you do it, the more neighbors will trust you that you're not a sicko!

two things ...

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

1 - what movie are you going to see? I saw Dan in Real Life on Tuesday and it broke my heart about 6 times, it was great!

2 - what date is Capricornucopia?

[joane.livejournal.com]

Homemade? Seriously? I'm sorry about that waste. Even back in the 80s, we were never, under any circumstancs, allowed to eat homemade goods of any kind, or storebought ones with any damage to the packaging, even if they came from homes where I babysat. That was - and still is, from what I hear - standard. Every year we got rice krispie treats from the nice elderly couple across the street, and every year they went into the trash immediately upon getting home even though we'd had lunch at their place before. "You never know," mom said, and it may sound extreme, but I'll probably do the same thing.

It is good to hear from you, however.

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

There you are. There was an MIA report put out on you by fearsclave, but I figured you were just laying low before you started the new job. :)