It's weird that I'll always remember that. Oh, and he was my "boyfriend" when we were six. We sat together in Sunday School and he gave me a blue jean purse and a candy cane for my 6th birthday. RANDOM.
Halloween! I had 12 groups of trick or treaters. THAT IS IT! Um, let me remind everyone that I live in the suburbs, which translates into MANY MANY CHILDREN. I not only have left over candy that I bought, but all of the loot the Stonettes came home with. My normal routine is thus: buy just enough candy, pick out the nasty candy (the Sugar Babies, the Brach's toffees, all salt water taffy, the Tootsie Rolls) from the kids' loot bags and RECYCLE IT TO LATE COMING TRICK OR TREATERS. It's a genius plan that hasn't failed me yet. (It keeps us from having too much in the house.) Well. SO MUCH FOR THAT PLAN.
While going through the kids' stuff to pull out aforementioned crapandy (crap +candy) I found SEVERAL full sized bars of chocolate. !!! Apparently a bloc of five houses decided to go the full-sized bar route and ALL THE KIDS WERE HITTING THAT BLOCK. Plus, some houses gave out zip-loc bags of four and five pieces of candy. AND: most of the neighbors on my street are older, retired people, so their lights weren't on. Which meant that kids were SKIPPING MY BLOCK. Bah. Who wants Whoppers, Heath bars, or Almond Joys?
Funniest thing The Boy said (he looked SO AWESOME as a WWII Zombie soldier) while I was making his face look zombie-riffic: "faces always get the most trashed when you're a zombie." True dat. And we got not ONE Chick-tract all night. Sign of the Christian Right losing its stronghold in our neighborhood? Mayhaps! (I like how the "sinner" looks like Pig Pen. And how contrite the Evil Satanic Witchcraft Kids turned around. With the help of JESUS.) How was everyone else's night? (Oh, and Blessed Samhain to my Pagan flisters! I hope you dreamed of your ancestors and had lovely nights.)
(AND WHY IS LJ BLOCKING MY SCRUBS/ELLIOT ICON?? "Hi I'm a Whore ask me how." is on the icon, and she's FULLY DRESSED. Lame, LJ. Lame.)
Halloween! I had 12 groups of trick or treaters. THAT IS IT! Um, let me remind everyone that I live in the suburbs, which translates into MANY MANY CHILDREN. I not only have left over candy that I bought, but all of the loot the Stonettes came home with. My normal routine is thus: buy just enough candy, pick out the nasty candy (the Sugar Babies, the Brach's toffees, all salt water taffy, the Tootsie Rolls) from the kids' loot bags and RECYCLE IT TO LATE COMING TRICK OR TREATERS. It's a genius plan that hasn't failed me yet. (It keeps us from having too much in the house.) Well. SO MUCH FOR THAT PLAN.
While going through the kids' stuff to pull out aforementioned crapandy (crap +candy) I found SEVERAL full sized bars of chocolate. !!! Apparently a bloc of five houses decided to go the full-sized bar route and ALL THE KIDS WERE HITTING THAT BLOCK. Plus, some houses gave out zip-loc bags of four and five pieces of candy. AND: most of the neighbors on my street are older, retired people, so their lights weren't on. Which meant that kids were SKIPPING MY BLOCK. Bah. Who wants Whoppers, Heath bars, or Almond Joys?
Funniest thing The Boy said (he looked SO AWESOME as a WWII Zombie soldier) while I was making his face look zombie-riffic: "faces always get the most trashed when you're a zombie." True dat. And we got not ONE Chick-tract all night. Sign of the Christian Right losing its stronghold in our neighborhood? Mayhaps! (I like how the "sinner" looks like Pig Pen. And how contrite the Evil Satanic Witchcraft Kids turned around. With the help of JESUS.) How was everyone else's night? (Oh, and Blessed Samhain to my Pagan flisters! I hope you dreamed of your ancestors and had lovely nights.)
(AND WHY IS LJ BLOCKING MY SCRUBS/ELLIOT ICON?? "Hi I'm a Whore ask me how." is on the icon, and she's FULLY DRESSED. Lame, LJ. Lame.)
- Spock is::
candy filled belleh
'Oos dis bint, then?
stoney321- Laura Stone
- Hey, Don't Judge Me
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This is my favorite one of their tracts: If you believe in Evolution, you'll go to hell.
I swear, FNL just gets better every episode. EVERY EPISODE!!!
Dude, that's the good stuff! Especially the toffees. Mmm... I'll take some caramelized sugar over plain ol' chocolate bars* any day!
*Not to be confused with Very Good Chocolate, such as the European chocolate bars I'm currently trying not to scarf down in one sitting...
I heartily approve of Whoppers and Heath bars, however.
BLEH. All for you, cookie. And mmmmmm, I'll help you with those Euro chocolates. *chomp*
Her older son is now in college and judging by his myspace page, he is, um, BRANCHING OUT :)
Why am I not surprised to hear that someone from a strict religious background freaks out when they get away from parental control?
I am reading all the Chick Tracts right now and laughing my ass off. I love how all the sinners look worn and wrinkled and angry, and all the good folks have big, clear eyes and radiance beaming forth.
The best part? I've checked a few of the scriptures they have for "reference" and they're totally wrong. Hahahaha! AWESOME.
(Oooh, what did you get from Outback? I'm all about the meat this week. And cheese. And heavy food. I'm STILL hungry.)
Morning, Stoney! All the candy you think is crap is, like, New England tradition candy! *is so snubbed and offended, omg*
CHOCOLATE OR NUTHIN! Hahaha. And what's up with the blockage of icons again? I changed it to the Elliot icon like four times yesterday! BAH.
:|
Can you believe my husband and daughter actually like that stuff? Last night as we were out my husband said to my daughter, "Now remember, if you get any Sugar Babies, they're mine." Next house she went to? Gave her Sugar Babies.
My daughter was zombified, too! She was supposed to be a vampire, but had lost a few pieces of the costume after attending a party. She did a little presto-chango routine and ended up being a zombie-goth-prom girl instead (and scared the little kids).
SUGAR BABIES. I loved those when I was teeny. Now they make my teeth ache. We got a Sugar Daddy from one house! (One giant Sugar Baby on a stick? Everything's better on a stick!)
I love the versatility of costumery in your house, AWESOME!! Zombies rule. (And did you see the links for the chick tracts?)
I do! I do! I do!
Stoney -- we had kids in drag. My town's a little on the conservative side. There were boys in lingerie at my door. Lingerie! I was blown away. It was awesome. :)
I didn't get a single trick or treater which I was a little bummed out about. Thankfully I only bought one bag of candy so it won't be too hard to get rid of.
Not ONE?? Woe. At least you can dump what you don't want at work or somesuch. A night without trick-or-treaters is like a night without DARKNESS.
Seriously, I'm going to put signs out next year that I have loads of candy and to COME SEE ME, omg. Which shouldn't raise red flags with parents. Hahahahaha!!
I'm so glad there was warm weather! It was pretty chilly at our end - I made Em put on longjohns under her Ariel costume. Sorry! (Still loving the Banana costume. SO HILARIOUS.)
I LOVE TOOTSIE ROLLS.
Also, I've tried to love FNL but there is too much damn football. I'm not sure how to overcome that.
*gasp!* What does Lee think of your dissage of football?? And you can walk around chanting "Lee is a pirate hooker" while the football parts are on the show, and sit back down for the story bits?
I like Heath bars but hate Whoppers (nasty dry things).
No Whoppers? That means no Malteasers either, huh? *shares the Heath and Score bars*
You should eat all the candy and then go for a run. It would be FUN! Also, start rumours that the other block put crack cocaine in the chocolate bars so that you get to be the more popular block next year. It's what any responsible mother would do.
Haha, I put my running shoes on to get a little workout in today and I walked out the door, turned around, and walked right back. That Achilles isn't quite ready yet... *eats chocolate, omg*