On Halloween

Last night was Halloween.  Since The Toddler is too little to really understand the holiday, and since it's butt cold outside right now, we stayed in and handed out candy.  The Wife, who is 38.5 weeks along at this point was adorable dressed as Winnie the Pooh, and for a party last weekend, The Toddler was even more adorable as Piglet, and I was along for the ride as Christopher Robin.  If I wasn't next to both of them, I just looked like another dad without any fashion sense.  Image search Christopher Robin and you'll understand.

So we stayed in last night.  The Wife and I love Halloween.  We love handing out candy.  We love seeing all the creative costumes.  We love the polite kids who are friendly and thank us, and we love the parents out there doing their best and yelling, "SAY THANK YOU!" from the sidewalk.  We also love scary movies. 

We decided yesterday afternoon that we'd hand out candy until 8:00 or so, when it's mostly over anyway, and then go watch Rosemary's Baby.  Neither of us had ever seen it and it's a classic horror movie for a reason.  8 rolls around and we still have a lot of candy, so we say to heck with it, put a stool out on the steps, put the bowl on the stool, leave the lights on but lock the door, and we head to the basement to watch the movie.

Mistake 1:  DO NOT WATCH ROSEMARY'S BABY WHEN YOUR WIFE IS PREGNANT.  I loved the movie.  Loved it.  It scared the shit right out of me.  But geez, aside from the being-raped-by-the-devil thing, it includes a lot of the crazy emotional shit that happens during a pregnancy.

Mistake 2:  Leaving the candy out in the bowl.  Some little asshole stole our bowl.  This isn't that big a deal, but it's really disappointing and annoying.  I mean, it was part of a set.  Now we have an incomplete set and what are the chances of finding an individual replacement bowl that matches the rest of the set?!  We're gonna need a whole new set!  Life can be really hard sometimes.

So Halloween was OK.  And I'm certain that two days after we buy a new set of mixing bowls, we'll the find the stolen one thrown in the bushes in the neighbor's yard or something.