Off the Cuff / My Other Journal

Halloween

I'll go get candy late this afternoon. I waited until now, because of a car problem. I hope we'll get the car back in a couple of hours.

I buy the same things every year, Hershey's dark chocolate bars, six in a box, and a few boxes of KitKats . Kids seem to like them as do their parents who come to the door. If anything's left over, it is for our consumption.

It used to be my kids would have a fit if I accompanied them on their trick-or-treating. I still did but stayed way back, out of sight. Parents, rarely -if ever, accompanied the children, then. I am so happy to see so many parents coming around with their children during the later years. I feel like treating the parents, too, but that would be funny and odd.

The Irish and the Scotch brought Halloween to US. Christian and Celtic rites combined (Sam'hain), the holiday originally was a day/night of feasting and mischief. Jack-o'-Lanterns are probably a couple of centuries older. It belonged to the night watchmen holding a simple lantern. Somehow, it became associated with Halloween.

This year's Halloween is a bit more special for me, because the next day, I start NaNoing for the first time. After having prided myself in acting cool in most situations, NaNo did away with my so-called cool. Drama, drama, drama! I've turned into a drama queen.
Even though I know it is no big deal, I am curious about me: how I'll do; how much I'll complain; will the arthritis in my legs jump to my fingers; how will my family react to my new obsession, and so on and so forth. Still, I am really looking forward to it. Weird? Yeah, that's what I am.

Happy Halloween!