I don't celebrate Halloween, I celebrate the harvest. WHAT!??!?!
I don't know where I was going with that, but if ya think about it isn't it odd that the church instead of celebrating "Halloween" they all throw together a 'harvest party' and hope that their children go to that, and maybe bring other neighbourhood children to it as well. I guess maybe it's a decent idea. However, i do have this to ask, when was the last time u were at a 'good' 'harvest party'....most of them end up rather dissapointing, and you still gotta go out and buy the candy, because they always hand out candy at these events, so have you really not supported the 'holiday'. you bought candy, rented/made/bought a costume for the evening. Sure ur celebrating a good thing, ur coming together in the unity of the christian community, which is a good thing, quite frankly i don't thing we do that enough (ever read the new testament, they knew what community and family in a christian context was). But you've bought in to everything EXCEPT trick-or-treating. so have we gotten anywhere, i just don't know. alot of christians i know need a good scare, maybe they should allow scary costumes at these events (most churchs say 'no scary costumes')...
But enough about the harvest, here's to the real question at hand. So, i wanted to hand out candy this year, i really did, i had FULL intent to. One major downfall to that thought, i don't have money right now, and that candy is damn expensive. So, i don't have candy. In the thought of "i'm probably going to have kids nocking on my door" i didn't put up any decorations, NONE, my door in the hallway to the townhouse complex i live in is completely bair, AND the outside door, which is onto my patio, which i would imagine people wouldn't come to any ways, is bare as well. I wouldn't expect people to come to that one because most of the people in our row have fences surrounding thier patio's. So, where have kids been knocking, well, on BOTH doors. lots of them. children everywhere, my first reaction was to be an outright oaf, just sloppy, mean etc... but the kids, so cute. oh goodness. i had a witch, and a princess, a pumpkin and a dragon ninja, man, all kinds of them. And i felt so bad not having candy for them. Sooo, finally i got fed up, couldn't handle tellin' the little kiddies i didn't have candy, i wrote "No Candy Left...Sorry" on a piece of toilet paper, so i've got a string of toilet paper hanging on my door....sure it might be sick, but i figure no respectable mother, or father (well maybe the fathers) would let their childern knock on a door that has toilet paper hanging on it.
Playing Champions of Norrath today (http://championsofnorrath.station.sony.com/) , get to the end of the game, and how it works, ya kill the end bad guy, but if ya don't well then ur game ends, and it puts you back to where you last saved, well moron me didn't save just before i walk in. here's a taste of how bad that is, i had gotten a 2h weapon that was critical hitting for about 7300hp on a slam, and i didn't save, so i lost that item. now i don't have that item. it's tragic... and haven't seen an item that good again yet. it hurt...it hurt bad... but really video games are a pastime children, don't let them overtake ur life.
so, it's halloween, i don't have candy, i didn't hand any out, i haven't even eaten supper, odd..
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