Monday, October 31, 2011

Treat Piques 'n Peccadilloes


Okay.  I’m going to step in it.  Halloween irks me.  So how about I leap-frog right over Halloween and get a head start on Thanksgiving.

This Halloween, I’m thankful that….

·        I live in an off-the-road, upstairs apartment with two sets of steep, wooden stairs on the dark side of the building.  Pretty sure I won’t have any costumed company, but I think I hid some Reese’s® PB cups around here somewhere….just in case;

·        my kids are grown so I won’t wake up tomorrow with a belly ache because I ate all the candy they didn’t like. There are starving people somewhere in the world and I can’t throw food away;

·        I’m not a teacher and won’t need extra sleep, Xanex® and a Kevlar® vest for the next week so I can manage a room full of sugar charged students who bring gummie bears, chocolate kisses and Dum Dums for snack and lunch then throw up in the middle of recess;

·        with the money I didn’t spend on four bags of Halloween candy I bought some vitamin C so I have a chance at not catching the next bug that the sugar disabled kids will start passing around next week, and Puffs® with lotion in case the vitamin C fails;

·         I have friends on Facebook who will post great pictures of their costumed kids and grandkids that I can ooooo and ahhhhh over, because they truly are adorable;

·        I have childhood memories of wearing my brother’s Pop Warner sweat infused football gear from door to door, dumping my loot out on the bed and swapping favorites with my sister; 

·        my sister didn’t like SweeTARTS® and I didn’t like Twizzlers®.  She was too young to know that a giant SweeTART® was worth more three Twizzler® and I never told her;

·        my mom kept Anbesol® on hand for the canker sores I inevitably got from eating too many SweeTARTS®;

·        giant SweeTARTS® will be on sale half price tomorrow at the corner drug store and they open at 7:30.  I should still be able to make it to work on time;

·        you may outgrow the tradition but never the memories.

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