Well Halloween's over. How I'm going to miss that festive holiday. Sure I know, Thanksgivings coming and then Christmas, but nothing seems to get me in a festive mood more than headstones, spiders, and the undead.

I don't mind kids having a night of costumes and candy extortion, but when did the entire month of October become a tribute to Halloween. Our neighborhood had Halloween decorations up the entire month! A months worth of decorations used to be reserved for Christmas only, and why not? Beautiful lights hung on homes, wreaths and Poinsettias, Christmas music wafting through the ethers.

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