Ooo, I Wanna Take Ya Down to NaBloPoMo…
Joelle said in the early morning on November 1, 2007
Every time I say NaBloPoMo, I think of that painfully catchy song by the Beach Boys, Kokomo… one of those songs that blows, but you sing along anyway. What kind of cruel joke is that?
So, this is my first entry for November. Hopefully I can keep up and not miss any days this month. There once was a time when I would blog twice, sometimes three times a day. Of course, that was also when I was working for The Man. If I weren’t blogging I just would have been inappropriately emailing on company time and wondering if the girl two cubicles over slept with that hairy guy from accounting. So, it’s not like it wasn’t time well spent.
Halloween was a non-event here. Around 5:30pm, my first trick-or-treaters arrived: a wee Spiderman, a pretty princess… and 3 heavyset, heavily hair-sprayed and heavily made-up grown women with their hands cupped and outstetched, leaning over their kids, waiting for me to load them down with Kit-Kats. (I actually heard a mom say as brought out the bowl of candy, “Ooo, she’s got Kit-Kats!") The moms were trick or treating, too… without costumes or sacks or anything! Apparently, these women figured if they had to schlep their kids around the neighborhood, they needed some kind of payola. Go buy your own, lady — this is for your kids. Have some dignity! I probably wouldn’t have felt that way if they had been dressed up or made some kind of effort, though. I wanted to say, “Sorry, you outgrew this 15 years ago.” but instead I just gave them Whoppers. No Kit-Kats for you!
Then next batch came about an hour later. My neighbor from around the corner rolled up with an army of kids. One right after of the other well-behaved, incredibly cute kids came up to my door saying “Trick or treat, please!” Please! How cute is that? Anyway, there was an abundance of candy given all around, but a little extra was tossed at the toddler in the monkey outfit. Toddler + Monkey Outfit = Comedy Gold.
And that was it! Not a soul showed up after that. Instead it was a Halloween edition of The Singing Bee and more mini-100 Grands than one girl should really consume in an evening.
How was your Halloween? 
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from Escanaba, MI • Cocktail: Fabulous-Tini
Ohhhhhhh.... you had Kit-Kats!
YUM!
I had every intention of handing out Smarties & Nerds but I had a meeting that ran late and didn’t make it home in time for the trick-or-treaters. I feel so bad for the kiddies that were drawn to my house because of my Halloween fence. :(
from West Palm Beach, FL • Cocktail: Champagne Bellini
I love whoppers.
I am royally pissed to be left with a ton of candy. I am considering building the empire state building with it and then setting it on fire.
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
@Kathy: HAHAHAHAHA. No, you can build Sears Tower out of them. You already built the Empire State Building out of cream cheese, remember?
@Kit-Kat: Aw, well… next year!
from Tampa, FL
We spent it taking Maya around to all of her grandparents neighbors. They had to show her off, of course! She was the cutest little scarecrow you ever did see!
I had a good time, and I think she did too. Oh, and there is NO way she is eating all of the candy she scored. I sent most of it to work with her Daddy this morning!!
;O)
from Norfolk, VA
I’m hearing an awful lot about overgrown trick or treaters sans costumes. Bad taste and poor raising, if you ask me. But you didn’t, so I’m sharing anyway.
from Virginia Beach, VA • Cocktail: Calypso Cooler
Ours was good! I am exhausted from it - having kids is not for the weak (or lazy). That is so funny about the moms!!!
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
@Jen: aw, that sounds nice.
Scarecrow! How cute.
@Geggie: Seriously… how lazy can you be? Why don’t they just go buy thei own candy? That’s what being an adult is all about. lol.
@soapbox: Glad you had a good time.
from West Palm Beach, FL • Cocktail: Champagne Bellini
*builds the leaning tower of Pisa*
from Indy
I live in an urban area adjacent to downtown Indianapolis. Translation: Our street alone maybe gets 200 or more trick-or-treaters. Insane. Last year we had non-costumed, thug teenagers shamelessly trick or treating. So this year there was a new plan - if you were not in costume, you received 3-4 packets of Taco Bell Fire sauce cleverly concealed under a M&M;pack. Hee hee!
from Alexandria VA
Joelle, I just wanted to let you know that you are on my fantasy team for NaBloPoMo. I’ll be reading and rooting for you this month. Good luck!
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
@merseydotes: Thanks so much! I didn’t realize they had Fantasy Teams. haha. That’s funny. I’ll do my best to make you proud, coach.
@katie: I’ll have to remember that for next year. I’ve probably got some soy sauce lying around here, too…
It was good trick or treating for the girlies. Of course, I had the route picked out that would maximize houses-visited-per-steps-taken, and minimize streets crossed. My 2 kids filled 3 bags.
Now, the fun begins. The candy ain’t just for the kids, you know. And, there’s all that candy that we overbought…
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
@Deltus: I love that it still says you’re from Germany. heh. I’m glad you had a good time. sounds like the princesses made a good haul!
My parent’s neighborhood gets the parent problem. They also get the drive thru trick or treaters. Trucks filled with kids will drive down, let the kids out at one end of the street and pick them up at the other. Because the block is secluded with little traffic, parents feel safe letting their kids run willy nilly, so sometimes the kids will try to make two (or three) passes. My parents stand firm behind three rules: No adults (except for this one pregnant woman who had two kids with her and a shirt that said “Future Pumpkin!” with an arrow pointing at her belly, they gave in for that), No costume/No candy, and one pass only.
from big city, usa
Just found you through NaBloPo website...love it!!! Just sayin’ Hi!
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
@amy t.: boy, your parents weren’t fooling around! haha!
@nap warden: Thanks!
Hi!
from Toronto
Oh, my, that is totally cruel. Now I’ll be singing Kokomo. Arrrgh!
No kids came to our door at all. None. So I got to buy and eat all my own kitkats - lol!
You know, I noticed our trick-or-treaters were extra polite this year too. I got lots of “thank you"s. They also only took ONE piece of candy each. I was impressed that some kids still have manners.
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
@Jamie: sorry! hehe.
But mmmm, kit-kats.
@geeky: Yeah, lots of “thank you”, which was a pleasant surprise. I gave two pieces per kid, in most cases… I was glad to be rid of it. lol.
from New Jersey
I meant to do NaNoBloMo, but it’s to late and I have nothing to talk about for 30 days straight. LOL But good luck doing it