Reasons to Like Halloween

Reasons to Like Halloween:

1. When people come to your house, they're not coming inside (no crisis cleaning needed).
2. Nobody is expecting you to cook a meal.
3. If your in-laws insist on coming over, you can give them a bowl of candy and leave them in the house while you go somewhere, anywhere. Perhaps a goblin will get your MIL.
4. If you have to a wear a costume, you can choose a baggy one and wear a mask if you don't feel like putting it all together. If you've just lost weight and look great, you can dress trashily to show it off and nobody but me will say nasty things about you. I'll talk bad about you from under my Halloween Burqua, but people in burquas are invisible so nobody will pay any attention to me.
5. You can be stupid and buy good chocolate candy, which will call your name all week long and you'll end up having to buy more if you give into temptation (plus you'll have to Trick or Treat in your Burqua), or you can buy non-chocolate candy and wonder why you're eating it when you really don't even like Sour Patch Kids candy all that much. I should've bought candy corn. I will not touch that stuff.
6. Your cobwebs will look like Martha Stewart Halloween decor.
7. Anything broken or needing repair on your porch or house will seem like part of your Halloween scenery.
8. You don't have to watch your husband wrestle the pumpkin into a stand, then realize it is too tall and scrapes the paint off of the ceiling. There's no reason to curse over a pumpkin. (Why I caved in and we have an artificial Christmas tree.)
9. You don't have to send Halloween cards, and if you did, please don't do it again.
10. You don't have to buy anyone presents.
11. The only thing you need to feel guilty over is whatever you ate.
12. Maybe a goblin really will take your MIL.

Coming Tuesday or Wednesday:  The Maco Light.  A real ghost story, and I have seen the lights. Scared me to my tingly toes.