How much Halloween spirit do you have?

Surprisingly, I don't have that much. I love the season, I love seeing all the Halloween sales in stores, the specials on tv (hell, Robert Englund is coming back as Freddy for a tv special this year, for fuck's sake!), and I love that horror movies crawl out of the woodwork. I love that this day can decorate an entire month, but do I do much about it? Not really.

I usually don't do anything out of the ordinary on October 31st, because I get drunk and watch horror movies year round. But I still love that everyone else is embracing it more so than I am, and it gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling inside.

This year will be my first Halloween at a house in a while. I've been living in apartments for the past several years, and those aren't condusive to seasonal shennanigans as much as a suburban house, where you'll get trick-or-treaters. I'm a bit excited about that aspect of it. I can decorate this year. Probably mostly autumn stuff, with a little bit of "halloween" specific imagery, but it's still something I know I ought to do, but I'm a bit clueless, seeing as how I haven't decorated since I was a kid.

Another good thing is that I can help force tradition on my nephews, which gives me a better excuse to carve pumpkins and trick or treat with them (and steal their good candy).



I understand that some of you around the world don't celebrate Halloween as much as in the states (and some of us in the states barely celebrate it, for shame), but surely, the spirit of these festivities must bleed over, at least a little bit.

So what about you? What does Halloween mean to you, and what do you do to celebrate your Halloween spirit?