Halloween Redoux

[NeverMore]

2 week anniversary since Halloween. Anyone else celebrating?

I probably wouldn't be but I went hunting tonight for some more pumpkin beer and ended up with a particularly nasty one. See the beer log on this forum. So I find myself viewing different Halloween sites on my four monitors (four?) while listening to Halloween themed music on Y-tube.

Current playlist...

• Harley Poe - The Hearse Song
  Creature Feature - The Greatest Show Unearthed
  Crumpkin's Pumpkins' Pumpkin Song
  Erutan - Come Little Children <--- Hocus Pocus fan?
  Kiboomu Kids - Halloween Song
  Kristen Lawrence - Vampire Empire
  The Kingdom of Witches
  ZipZipper - Slender Man
  Slenderman does Come Little Children

BTW: Speaking of "Come Little Children", did you know?

• https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/604023 ... nto-a-land

How many more days till Halloween?

[Murfreesboro]

If I'd ever read that Poe poem, I'd forgotten it. That is creepy!

As for celebrating Halloween last night, I was freezing at a high school play-off game. I mean, really freezing. Temps in the 20s. My daughter was having fun in the stands (even though her toes looked to be in the first stages of frostbite when we got home), but I hid out in the women's bathroom the whole second half because it was warm.

[NeverMore]

What is this 'cold' you speak of? Isd... darn! It's so hard to type when you still have sunscreen on you fingers. Is this 'cold' concept what happens when temperatures drop below 65? I don't believe such a thing exists, just like that 'rain' people speak of.

[Andybev01]

Thank you, Nevermore.

The only Poe-m I have read was The Bells, which drove me nuts just reading it.

We are experiencing cold too, with temperatures hovering around 70 this week.

[Andybev01]

Day 15: the natives haven't noticed and in fact, have accepted me as one of their own.

[MauEvig]

looks like that ghost has infiltrated the snowmen! But he can stay out, he's got a cat.

Just put a little Santa hat on him and he'll be fine. You can turn anything into a Christmas decorating by adorning a Santa hat.

[Murfreesboro]

You West Coasters can poke fun at us all you like. I actually enjoy the winter, although I don't think I'd like it if I lived somewhere with truly brutal winters. But I like my four seasons, thank you very much.

Mau, you are right about a Santa cap--it converts everything into Christmas!

[Boogeyman]

I love winter. I know I will have a hard time getting in to the spirit of the holidays because of the temporary job I have right now. But having snow on the ground does help. We have had snow on the ground since last Thursday. My birthday was on Saturday and it has been quite some time before there was any snow on the ground on my birthday.

[Murfreesboro]

Happy belated birthday, Boogeyman! I hope you get a permanent job soon, but don't let the temp position dampen your enjoyment of the holidays. There is so much to enjoy about Christmas that doesn't require money, really. As I've gotten older, I enjoy almost everything about it more than I do the presents.

[johnsoneliza52]

Happy belated birthday!!

I'm still enjoying Halloween..everything is put away for the most part, and Christmas is
creeping in..but I find that it is still creeping into the conversations here and there.
Husband is feeling like we dropped the ball this year, and is already talking about next year!!

[Boogeyman]

Thanks for the belated wishes. I agree with you Murf regarding Christmas. Last year, my stepdad was in a nursing home. I kept urging him to come home on Christmas day. He wasn't sure that he wanted to because it is more involved that just getting in the car and driving there since he was in a wheelchair. He did come home for the day. And it was the best Christmas. There were no gifts and the focus on being with the ones you love.

He died in June, so this will be the first season since, making it tough. Also I already know I will be working on Thanksgiving, so I probably won't do anything else. By the end of my shift, I can barely walk and have lower back pain. So, I will probably come home and rest before going in on Friday.

I just have to survive until February because that is when the call center will open. I might be dead by then though. I have fallen twice and have dropped a skid on my big toe. Due to my cleft lip and palate, my balance isn't always perfect. And it doesn't help when I am exhausted and there is a maze of skids to walk around.

I hope everyone has a very happy Thanksgiving and remembers the real meaning behind the day.

[Murfreesboro]

Hang in there, Boogeyman! Better days are coming.

[Boogeyman]

If things weren't bad enough already, I had a car accident last night on the way home from work. I spun around a few times and hit the railing as I was getting on the expressway. There is minor structural damage and my car is still driveable. But the last thing is another thing to be depressed about.

I am beginning to wonder what the point is anymore.

[Murfreesboro]

Oh my, I had a spin-out accident a number of years ago--so scary!

Boogeyman, don't lose heart. You are probably going to be somewhat depressed this holiday season, since it is the first after you lost your stepdad, but just remember that the passing of time does have a way of softening the grief we feel over loved ones we have lost. I hope you can remember some happy times and smile. And then you have your new job to look forward to in the late winter/early spring. Things will brighten for you then. You will probably even change and perhaps enlarge your social contacts because of it.

[Boogeyman]

The weird thing is that this accident was four days after my birthday. The last one, about four years ago, was two days after my birthday. Maybe my birthday is a bad omen.