Trick or Treat?

I ♥ Halloween! I ♥ the decorations. I ♥ dressing up. I ♥ carving pumpkins. I ♥ candy, both giving and receiving (and eating, duh). I ♥ how we have a potluck at work. I don't necessarily like scary. But everything else is ♥ ♥ ♥

(It probably doesn't hurt that Halloween is also about 2 weeks post-birthday, so in a way it is the delayed after party to my birthday. And who wouldn't love that?)

Being that Halloween this year falls on a Friday, I wasn't 100% sure how I was going to fit all of my preparations in, as I have a commitment on Thursday nights. So, I decided to leave a little early from work, do a little running around, and then come home, where I made Kristen's World Famous Kick Ass Chili (patent pending) (Just kidding, I've just always wanted to say that). While that was simmering away, I decided to attack my pumpkins.

A note about my pumpkins: They came from Walmart, but only cost me $5, which in my world is an awesome steal. However, there is a reason that Walmart is selling pumpkins for $2.50. Some are rotten, most don't sit properly, almost all are misshapen, and all are dirty. It took me a good 20 minutes to find the 2 I did buy. Here are their good sides:


Here I am, totally stoked that I'm about to carve these bad boys up:

Here are the tools I will use in this battle:

The best $1 I've ever spent. These flimsy looking things shit on regular knives when it comes to pumpkins

Here I am wielding said tools:

Bitch, I will cut you

Tops are off:

And I'm going in!

Pumpkin guts are disgusting. Good thing Friday is garbage day

First pumpkin, done!


Had a couple of minutes, so I gave him some eyebrows:



Pause, to go to choir practice...

Return and make this guy:

He's no Edward Cullen, but still...

Spooky, I know

So, at work, we had the theme of "Back in the Saddle Again" and so we dressed up as cowboys. My costume, of course, rocked. (But obviously not enough for me to remember to take a picture).

One other thing I ♥ about Halloween is that there is always food around to help celebrate, including the aforementioned potluck. Here is a list of what I ate today (try not to judge too harshly):

Coffee cake
A donut
A blueberry muffin
Starbucks drink
Tortilla chips with 7 layer dip
Tortilla chips with mango salsa
Chili dog with sour cream, cheese and onions
Pasta salad
BBQ potato chips
Apple crisp with vanilla ice cream
2 cups of hot apple cider
2 bottles of water
An oatmeal cookie
Pan dulce (Still warm. Yummmmmm)
2 packs of smarties candy
A mini bagel with cream cheese
Pizza and salad. And 2 chicken wings. With ranch.
More water

(Needless to say, one of the motivators to blog is the fact that I can hardly move anything except fingers)

So I rolled home (pun intended) and put out my super sweet jack-o-lanterns and got my candy ready:

And waited...and waited...and waited...

until 7:55 when my very first (non-pizza delivery guy) trick-or-treaters arrived. And about 20 minutes later my next one came up to the door. When I finally closed the door, this is how much candy I had:

I promise you, this is a different picture

So, including the pizza guy, I had a grand total of....4 trick-or-treaters.

Blast!

Am I expecting too much here? It is a Friday night. I live right by a school for god's sake; there are definitely children in the vicinity. Granted, I know that it was raining earlier and it was a little breezy...but not between the hours of 4:15 (when I got home) and 9:00 (when I turned out the light and shut the door).

Does anyone want some candy?