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November 1st, 2006In the saddest of sad news, I came home yesterday, excited to light candles and display our pumpkins aglow, to find both pumpkins deflated, rotting, and leaking rotten-deflated-pumpkin juice all over the carpet. It was not only a heartbreaking blow to my Halloween, but it smells like a garbage dump in our living room now. How could this happen in just eight hours? When I left for work, the pumpkins were looking just fine. Damn you, Pumpkin Goblin!
Linus was a very bad bedmate last night. He scratched my ear, and it’s still bleeding. It wasn’t intentional. It’s just his way. He walks by putting one foot out and then another. He pays no attention to the depth of the “ground” before him or to whom it belongs to. This is why sometimes he steps in our eyes, on our hair, in our mouths, etc. But he couldn’t quite get traction in my ear, and in the process of slip-sliding, he scratched me a good one.
Now I am in a post-Halloween grump. Stevel took our candy to work, so there’s no sugar-remedy immediately available. I might need a Frosty on the way to campus.
November 2nd, 2006 at 12:30 am
I thought Linus was banned from sleeping in the bed. Did Steve wear his 80′s hair metal wig to work? I mean, he took the plastic pumpkin, why not the hair metal wig?
November 2nd, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Carved pumpkins are normally placed outside. In every normal climate (*glare*) it is cold this time of year. This naturally delays the decomposition since there are fewer bacteria to accelerate the process.
November 2nd, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Outside. Yes. That would have been smart.
November 2nd, 2006 at 9:12 pm
They make a Pumpkin Dip to dunk your completed and decorated goblin in when done. Works for up to two weeks to preserve your masterpiece. As long as your pumpkin survives, free candy is supposed to be yours for the asking. Or so the legend says.