tobermory's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I want candy I went out at lunch today and bought a metric ton of candy. Seriously � I think it cost about $75. We better get many, many trick-or-treaters this year or I�ll be doling out gummy skulls and Twizzlers to myself for the next eight months until I completely tire of it all and bring in the hardened remains to the office. I tried desperately to find bags of fun size Milky Way bars, but Target was pretty cleared out by the time I got there and I wound up with those strange mixed bags where there are three good kinds of candy like Reece�s Cups, Kit Kats, and M&M�s, and then one or two oddballs like Almond Joy � what kid likes Almond Joys? This happened to me last year too, but I did a secondary run to the regular grocery store to get a couple of bags of The Good Stuff. Now the challenge is to keep my hands out of the not-so proverbial cookie jar until Wednesday night. I had a better offer from Weetabix for Wednesday night (get your minds out of the gutter � it was an offer to meet for dinner & shopping) but I know if I leave Steve at home on Halloween I�ll come home to find the �good� candy eaten, the bad candy still in the hand-out bowl, and my four painstakingly carved pumpkins still sitting on the back steps unlit and unloved. Steve must have gotten a razor in an apple as a kid because he has no love for the trick-or-treaters and finds them to be annoying little beggers. I enjoy seeing all the costumes but I find the sullen uncostumed teens to be a little freaky � like I�m giving them a candy bribe so they don�t deface my home with oil-based spray painted slogans about what I like to do in my free time. Friday dinner: I wound up having a slice of tomato/mozzarella/basil quiche and a few pieces of fruit garnish with a lemon soda and then at the movies I had part of a bag of Reece�s Pieces (and then I dutifully yet sadly threw the rest away). Later I had a Miller Lite (don�t judge � it was at a party and I didn�t have a choice) 3:11 p.m. - 2007-10-29 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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