Halloween of 2009 ended up being far better than I originally anticipated. For one thing, I felt like absolute crap on the 30th and most of the day on the 31st. I was really worried about whether I could actually manage to walk around with the kids trick-or-treating. The thing is, Halloween is and always has been one of my favorite days of the year. Christmas and birthdays are great what with all the presents and family stuff but for me it’s far more fun to get dressed up and eat obscene amounts of candy. Because of that I was actually pissed off that my body would dare to fail me by being under the weather on Halloween of all days.

Maybe it was adrenaline or something but I managed to perk up once I started gathering everyone’s costume pieces – including my own. George doesn’t dress up but Hayley went as a vampire, Breanna was a wee pirate, and I was the usual witch. Next year I might change it up and bring back the Catwoman costume (original Catwoman in purple, not Michelle Pfeiffer’s leather Catwoman – I’m not THAT brave!). We met up with our friends who were escorting their daughter-turned-devil for trick-or-treating.

We were also really lucky because it had poured rain for most of the morning and afternoon and I thought it was going to be a pretty soggy Halloween while awkwardly trying to hold an umbrella over everyone, but as we got in the car to go meet our friends, we were greeted with this beautiful sky.

That was really lucky.

We went to our usual trick-or-treating location, a nice big housing development where most doors are wide open with candy offerings. Our own area pretty much sucks, so we avoid the neighborhood altogether. We were out for about an hour and collected quite the haul; I think that for the sake of our kids’ teeth, we’ll have to step in and uh, “dispose” of some of it ourselves. I’m just thinking of their health of course. Really.

We ended the night by going to George’s parents’ house. They don’t get many people at the door so they usually divide up the leftover candy between the two kids and we know that they can eat them without inspecting them first.

Luckily, they were both tired enough from all the walking around and excitement that they both fell asleep within about 15 minutes of bedtime, sugar high and all. George and I intended to watch a horror movie, most likely The Last House on the Left but we were too tired so we’ll give it a shot tonight if bedtime goes smoothly (and early) enough. I don’t want to traumatize anyone by having one of the kids walk into the living room right in the middle of a scary scene.

I hope everyone had an excellent Halloween with lots of candies!

By the way, if you’re wondering about the title, it comes from this.

Total classic from my good old goth days, dancing beside the smoke machine!

In other news, I’m – as usual – participating in NaBloPoMo so you can expect a post a day for the month of November. Maybe that will kick-start my creativity again!