Bleeding Fiction

I've been quiet lately so as not to be a blog-whiner, and I don't have a lot of positive stuff to say right now. The past few months have been sort of... dull, brightened up once in a while by visitors from out of town (and one trip to Norway - which was awesome), and I've also taken some pretty terrible hits that I don't want to talk about. Or blog about, at least. But Halloween was yesterday, and I really need to say something about what a crappy Halloween it was.

Maybe it's just because it stands in counterpoint to last year's Halloween, which was one of the top three, if not the single best, Halloween I've ever had. I worked in an office that didn't just allow us to wear costumes, but actually encouraged it. We spent the day hanging around, goofing off, taking pictures, eating candy and generally having a good time.

I spent some time with friends, watching bad spooky movies, chatting and eating some really, really good food.

And then I went to an awesome Halloween party. There was this amazingly sexy girl there, in this amazingly sexy costume. Two months later, almost to the day, that girl (who was Marie) and I had a date, of sorts, and that began the best relationship of my life.

This year had none of that. No workplace excitement, no costumes, no parties, no friends, no sexy girl who later became my girlfriend. It's like it wasn't Halloween at all.

And all of that was pretty bad, but I think the worst of it was that I didn't get to watch It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Most folk, I think, know what a big Peanuts fan I am, particularly Linus. So it's a big part of my holiday psyche to watch the specials every year. This year my computer broke down (more on that later), and my downloaded copy of Great Pumpkin became... well... vaporware.

So, bad Halloween.

But I plan to fix all of this next year. By then I will surely be in an office that celebrates. I hope that Marie and I can throw a hell of a Halloween party (loaded statement? Yes. Yes it was.). And BY GOD will I have Great Pumpkin in my hands to watch and enjoy from my couch, with some apple cider and some pumpkin pie!