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November 01, 2007
Not........A.........One.........
When we bought our house last year, we were warned that we wouldn't get any Trick or Treaters...our house is down a small country lane w/ only 2 other houses and its kinda scary-dark down here (we still turn our porch light on and I had my plug-in pumpkins)...I bought two small bags of candy and we had not a one kiddo come visit us...but that's ok, I guess...I still got to enjoy Halloween and even in our house in Austin that was in the center of town on a city block, it was kinda hit-or-miss as to whether we'd get any kids, so we're kinda used to it...I know some folks would LOVE to not have any kids come to their house, but I always enjoyed dressing up and handing out candy...the house we were in 10 years ago was near the UT campus and not many children lived there...so most of my adult years has been rather Halloween Trick or Treater-free...I'm still not sorry we bought this house, we wanted to be out of the way, and we are...and that's ok...
So Brian and I ate some Snickers and Twix and got ill...too much...We caught Pushing Daisies and South Park and I watched part of Halloween until I fell asleep...another Halloween well spent...heh...
So now its the very quick downhill slide to Christmas...look out, its right around the corner...even tho we still have a thriving garden and butteflies all over it, we all know that the jolly fat man is coming soon...we'll be putting a tree up and lighting the house soon...I'm not ready...I don't even have a list of stuff I want Santa to bring me...maybe we'll just go on a vacation...we haven't gone anywhere in over 2 years, since we got our dog...I want to go somewhere interesting, informative, not a beach, no sun or heat or sweating...we get plenty of that...while we like living in Central Texas, its really hard to just jump in a car and drive to somewhere other than Texas...its a 5 hour drive to any border state...unlike living in, say, Pennsylvania where you could just drive to Williamsburg Va, or up north to Canada, we aren't close to anything other than more Texas...and frankly, we've seen plenty of Texas, we wanna see something ELSE...is that so wrong???
Posted by Donner at November 1, 2007 10:50 AM