poll: trick-or-treating

Worked yesterday morning, then had lunch/brunch with Jeff, Parki, Lindsay and Wendy. Lindsay, Wendy and I went to Parki's afterward to sample some a chocolate Sacher-Torte that a friend had brought him from Vienna, drank tea, chatted. Okay, so my sample was somewhat bigger than the others. Parki loaned me a honking huge PHP Programming manual (Wrox).

I had planned to indulge in a decadent Sunday afternoon nap when I got back, but ended up writing instead.





Jeff and I are going trick-or-treating with Sara and Annie this Thursday night. Sara is going as Sarah from Sarah, Plain and Tall, a children's novel by Patricia MacLachlan that she read a while back and really enjoyed. Annie is going to be Arwen from the movie version of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

Remember trick-or-treating strategy when you were a kid? How disappointing it was to get an apple instead of candy? How houses that gave out chocolate bars instead of the orange-and-black wrapped tooth-loosening candy were way more popular? When people put pennies into Unicef boxes?

The picture below is of me at age 4, about to go out trick-or-treating dressed up as Snow White. My mom sewed my costume. I'm not sure exactly why Ruth is wearing that scarf. Whatever the reason, it looks pretty pitiful that I'm sitting there in my cool Snow White costume while my little sister probably thinks she has a cool costume, too, even though it's just a scarf around her head. I look reprehensibly smug about it, too.

Poll: Are you doing anything kid-related on Hallowe'en?

Handing out candies? If so, what kind? Are you taking your kid(s) out trick-or-treating? What are they dressed up as? Are you going to any Hallowe'en parties in costume? If so, what costume?

Answer in Blatherchat

Links/News:

I've updated Waiting For Frodo today and yesterday.

One year ago, I posted my OVFF report.

Three years ago, Allison, Jodi and I were practising before leaving for OVFF.

Five years ago, Jeff and I went to a U2 concert but left partway through.

Today's Blatherpics:

	Parki and Lindsay and Wendy on Parki's couch. I told them not to smile, to make the photo look like a album cover. I asked them what they wanted to call themselves. Their answer: "Sphincter-hosen".
	Another couch shot.
	Ruth and me in 1966. Ruth looks darned cute, don't you think?