SolemnDragon's Journal: scenes from home and warcraft

blinder arrives home to find a dragon on the couch. With laptop, kitten, and 3-gallon bowl of halloween candy, because the dragon had been fishing through it for a piece of candy she felt like eating and wasn't sure there were any of that kind left.

Blinder: Oh, look! A dragons- and you've been babysitting the halloween candy? (he says, hopefully, looking at the candy spread out all over the couch)

WoW has a halloween feature where you can trick or treat. The treats are fine, but the tricks are not by you, they are by the NPCs. An innkeeper turned me into a bat for an hour.

If that were a part of the real world adventure, our lives would be a lot more interesting. How many kids coming by your house have you thought about turning into a sheep, or a bat, or something?

And the cities all get decorated with jackolanterns. which makes me which there were a halloweentown section permanently.

Oh, well, we'll have to settle for keeping it alive in OUR house on a more permanent basis.

I don't know what it is about halloween that i like. The fires, the spooky, the candy...

dragon: i want halloween off.

work: as a religious holiday, i suppose?

dragon: is candy a religion?

What makes halloween special for you?

Regarding WoW and Trickeries

[SiliconJesus]

If you don't want to be a bat, you don't have to be. Its a 'buff' and you can dispel it by right clicking on it, or dying (I do the later frequently). My favorite thing in wow is to get the wands. I still have my "Gnome Leper Wand" from last year stored away in the bank. I horde seasonal gifts from the WoW Gods in my cache until they're popular again. I still have my X-mas hat from last year, as well as Mistletoe, Preserved Holly (the kind that turns your mount into a reindeer), snowballs, three 'chris

Pumpkins and cookies!

[Some Woman]

I like Halloween. It's no Christmas, but it'll do in the interim. Plus there are all sorts of 2-bite sized candies to discover. I'd never had a Charleston Chew before, but thanks to the 5-lb bag of mixed Tootsie-brand candies that I bought for the *cough* trick'o'treaters *cough*, I can assure you that they are quite tasty.

pssst!

[SolemnDragon]

try freezing them!

I'm not kidding.

When you get the fullsize version, especially, what you do is freeze it, take it out and -still wrapped- smack it down on a countertop as hard as you can so that it splinters.

It's a secret i remember from childhood. Blinder didn't know about them, either. But if you freeze them, the texture changes, and then changes back as you eat it, kinda like taffy but better, as the elasticity returns.

Um, it tastes better than it sounds, just try it and report back.

Re:

[Some Woman]

I'll see if this works with the little ones. Assuming there are any left. You know, those kids come and take my candy earlier and earlier every year...

Re:

[Timex]

try freezing them!

You're not the only one to know this trick. I think it was well-advertised up in Maine (where I spent most of my childhood), usually on in-store displays.

When they're frozen, the chocolate melts before the insides do. :)

Halloween

[gmhowell]

Used to be the number two holiday, right behind Christmas. Heck, in some ways, it was bigger than Xmas.

But this year, the porch light will be off. None of the decorations will be up, and I won't be buying a single bit of candy. Nobody to celebrate with:(

I like the

[redhead-kitten]

Flimsy female gnome mask that BBB got at the Inn at Ironforge. It looks quite *fetching* on his male dwarf paladin. *snicker* He says it only lasts 7 days, tho.

Halloweeen should be quite fun this year. My choir meets on Tuesdays, and halloweeen lands on choir practice this year. We have been encouraged to dress up if we wish. Wonder how many people will bring candy to practice?

^_^

Re:

[SolemnDragon]

i got a flimsy female tauren mask.

the best part was we got to do a quest for an orphan who couldn't go trick or treating. I like those quests.

We get a big kick out of helping the bibbitts, even imaginary ones.

You go around to various places picking up candy for him, it's very charming.

i finished nicholas nickleby today. Happy ending all around.

do we all get to vote what your costume is? and if you bring candy i advise bringing lemon drops, the sugar and citric acid soothes the voice.

Re:

[redhead-kitten]

the best part was we got to do a quest for an orphan who couldn't go trick or treating.

Is that how you got turned into a bat?

do we all get to vote what your costume is?

I'd like to see what you'd come up with for a costume for me.

^_^

Re:

[SolemnDragon]

Well, MY traditional costume now is to dress up as blinder... with the knee length pants, the band tshirt, the x marks on my hands... (he dresses up as blinder every year, too)

maybe you could go as BBB?

i'm not sure

[subgeek]

i think i like the combination of fun and spooky. it's come to be such a cartoonish flavor of the macabre, and i appreciate that.

i'm not allowed to get candy unless i hide it.

Dead leaves and acorn guts

[sielwolf]

I like the smell in the air at peek Autumn. It smells brisk. You can walk along the sidewalk and pull a big handful from a pile of leaves raked from a lawn and hold them to your face and you get a whiff of that smell that is so distinct. It smells like orange and brown and yellow. The kids are still out, the sun is still out. Kids in coats. The sun's lower, and it too leaves color of orange clove and cinammon. Driving home I saw a girl crouching behind a parked car with a big grin on her face: her m

Walks, weather and costumes

[IamBMETammy]

Walking through vividly colored leaves is much better than walking without them. I don't know what it is... A lot of people here use their fireplaces, so I love how the cold air carries faint traces of wood smoke.

But the best part is the sillyness, the costumes, the consumption of sugar without worry, and letting yourself get scared when you know it's not real.

Halloween

[Sylver Dragon]

My 2 favorite things about Halloween are:
1. Where I live goes from being the burning inferno of hell blasted wasteland to the freezing, blasted wasteland of hell. While the area still sucks its a huge improvement. Figure, if you are cold you can always put on more clothes. When its hot there are only so many layers of clothes I can take off before it becomes indecent exposure. And belive me, its pretty damn indecent.
2. My wife loves dressing up in costumes, and fills the tops out nicely. ;-)
Contrary

A bat?

[Keith Russell]

Well... um... I got better...

If that were a part of the real world adventure, our lives would be a lot more interesting. How many kids coming by your house have you thought about turning into a sheep, or a bat, or something?

What, and spend the entire night listening to "Baaaa, baaaa" and cleaning up guano? I guess it's only marginally worse than flaming bags of dog poo, but still...

A Real World Of Warcraft Halloween would be better than a Real City Of Heroes Halloween:

Treat: Performance-enhancing dr

Halloween

[MsWillow]

See my blog for what Halloween means to me. That, plus it's my birthday - 12 years ago, I was going to be myself, Jeannette, or be dead.