We’ll Get Up Again.
Nov. 9th, 2012 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dodger_sisterI meant to make this post last week, but then Sandy hit and the World Series seemed less important suddenly. And then my Halloween fic came back from beta and then the election happened. So now…let’s talk a few things.
Not only did the Tigers lose the World Series, but we got completely swept, losing the first four games right off the bat. Ugh, boo. For the record, my appreciation for the San Francisco Giants has turned bitter. No amount of adorable flirty fanfic about their pitchers and cute little talented catcher will sway me now. San Francisco, you’re officially on my list!
This is the problem with being overly invested in these things. What an anti-climatic letdown that was. Still, I am going to get myself an American League Champions shirt because the Tigers are still amazeballs and that was an awesome season! And I still hate The Yankees. This year was the 11th ALCS win for the Tigers since they were founded in 1894...112 seasons, all of them in Detroit! Just wish we hadn’t got swept so bad in The World Series.
And now baseball season is over and…/gasp/…I can go back to filling my days reading fanfic! I know, you’re all shocked.
In other news that makes me sad-face, Halloween kind of blew. The BFF was sick and didn’t come down. Half of our tombstones were ripped or destroyed. It was too cold out to do our witches theme in the front yard. And we only got, maybe, 1/3 of our usual trick-or-treaters. Both the weather and those stupid trunk-or-treat things kept them away. (Raise your hand if you know what Trunk-Or-Treat is - I am curious as to what other states have this.) We sat for an entire hour without a single trick-or-treater. Finally we got about 30 kids and my sister gave away the candy in handfuls, because it was obvious that we weren’t going to get our usual 150+ kids. Of course, after she gave away the candy, we got 20 more kids at the door and I had to send them away empty-handed. The whole thing was a bust.
Here’s to next year, I guess.
Finally, on a better note, I would like to take a minute to say ‘THANK YOU’ to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lizibabes, denig37 and vikingprincess for the V-gifts of Halloween cookies. I think I am really hungry right now because suddenly I am craving cookies coated in delicious sugary frosting.
Not only did the Tigers lose the World Series, but we got completely swept, losing the first four games right off the bat. Ugh, boo. For the record, my appreciation for the San Francisco Giants has turned bitter. No amount of adorable flirty fanfic about their pitchers and cute little talented catcher will sway me now. San Francisco, you’re officially on my list!
This is the problem with being overly invested in these things. What an anti-climatic letdown that was. Still, I am going to get myself an American League Champions shirt because the Tigers are still amazeballs and that was an awesome season! And I still hate The Yankees. This year was the 11th ALCS win for the Tigers since they were founded in 1894...112 seasons, all of them in Detroit! Just wish we hadn’t got swept so bad in The World Series.
And now baseball season is over and…/gasp/…I can go back to filling my days reading fanfic! I know, you’re all shocked.
In other news that makes me sad-face, Halloween kind of blew. The BFF was sick and didn’t come down. Half of our tombstones were ripped or destroyed. It was too cold out to do our witches theme in the front yard. And we only got, maybe, 1/3 of our usual trick-or-treaters. Both the weather and those stupid trunk-or-treat things kept them away. (Raise your hand if you know what Trunk-Or-Treat is - I am curious as to what other states have this.) We sat for an entire hour without a single trick-or-treater. Finally we got about 30 kids and my sister gave away the candy in handfuls, because it was obvious that we weren’t going to get our usual 150+ kids. Of course, after she gave away the candy, we got 20 more kids at the door and I had to send them away empty-handed. The whole thing was a bust.
Here’s to next year, I guess.
Finally, on a better note, I would like to take a minute to say ‘THANK YOU’ to
lizibabes, denig37 and vikingprincess for the V-gifts of Halloween cookies. I think I am really hungry right now because suddenly I am craving cookies coated in delicious sugary frosting.
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Date: 2012-11-11 12:17 am (UTC)Trunk-Or-Treat got popular here in MI about 5 years ago. It is usually at churches or schools. You come with candy and set up in the parking lot and everyone pass out candy from the trunk of their cars. The kids come dressed up and they go from car to car and get candy and then there is usually some kind of carnival inside the church or school as well.
It sounds good in theory except...a) It's a little creepy to be like "Hey kiddies, I have some candy in my car...do you want some?" and b) It supposedly promotes 'community living' but I always thought your community was the neighborhood you lived in, where you should be trick-or-treating. It's my theory that it was just made up by parents who are too lazy to walk their kids around the neighborhood.
Anyway, it leaves single 34yr old women without any children, like myself, no place to go for the holiday. It would be weird if I showed up at a church I don't even belong to or a school I don't have any kids in, all dressed up like a creepy witch and tried to entice children to my car, right? Trunk-Or-Treat may have started with a good intention - but it's stealing my trick-or-treaters away!
So, hm, I wonder if it is not popular in your state or if you just don't have it there because you are in a bigger city (though that might actually be the kind of area you would want something like this, with so many apartment buildings).
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Date: 2012-11-13 09:39 pm (UTC)My brother took his kids down to the city to trick or treat the Saturday before. Apparently they had some fun event in one of the plazas. My BFF takes her kids by her grandma's (also out in the burbs) where they trick or treat at the safety town, which is kinda reminiscent of what you're talking about but a few less car trunks involved :-P