Last week the Holiday season bug bit me hard, as I’m craving all of my favorite holiday foods (Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Years). Thank goodness tomorrow is Thanksgiving.
Salivate with me if you will…
The kids took in quite a haul last night since the weather was nice and since we took them to my parents neighborhood again this year since people actually give out candy there (including full sized candy bars…and hot dogs)…for some reason most people/households in my neighborhood don’t partake in much of anything that involves decorating, landscaping, mingling, etc. That’s fine I suppose, but it makes for a boring Halloween through New Years.
(Our first Christmas in our house I lit up the entire roof with Christmas lights…which made it easy for people to find our house (and gave me quite an electric bill)…but lately I’ve just stuck with some “icicle” lights and can tell anyone who hasn’t been to our house to look for the house with Christmas lights…and I’m not exaggerating.)
Anyway, back to Halloween for a moment…
We didn’t get started until around 7 pm (so much for the “official” trick-or-treating hours) and wrapped things up around 8:15 pm or so. Last year it was so cold that I think the kids might have lasted 45 minutes (probably less), but last night was truly ideal…a little brisk but not too cold, on the brink of raining but not raining, with the wind howling and rustling leaves down the street. Very ideal indeed.
But Halloween is over and now it’s time to start talking turkeys, pies, football and Christmas and New Years parties. There are only three weeks until Thanksgiving and eight and a half weeks left in the entire year. Where, oh where, does the time go?
For New Years Eve we went to the Colts game and bought overpriced “souvenir” popcorn and Cokes. The Colts played the starters the entire game, which made me happy since they hadn’t done so the past few seasons when we’ve locked a playoff berth early. And while not overly dominating, we did pull off the win to go 8-0 at home this season. We’ll have to see how the playoffs go though…because everyone knows how horrible our defense is (thank God for the offense).
Once we got home after figuring out how to hitch a ride out of downtown Indianapolis (for some reason the police decided that it was a good idea to close down just about every street) we had a few friends over to ring in the new year and headed to bed around 1am.
So, New Years Eve 2006 year was definitely more exciting than last year when we had an early morning flight and sat in a hotel room in Jacksonville, Florida. I can say that I’m glad there was football on TV very close to midnight, because I must be so un-hip that I hadn’t clue who half of the “artists” on the various specials were…but frankly, I don’t care all that much, as it seems like I’m really not missing anything.
