Happy Halloween!

And happy birthday to shadowfax8!!! Sorry, that's Dr. Shadow to me.

Halloween is like a combination social/non-social holiday for me. Like my birthday, in a way, but moreso. I've gone to some great costume parties and eat candy in obscene amounts but when I think about it I mostly think about it as solitary. It's more the end of the year to me than New Year's Day is, so that's when I try to make resolutions think about what I did that year and what I want to do the next year. I do a big card spread with my Animal Oracle cards that spans the whole year and look back on the spread from the year before. Then I'll usually throw some other cards. I have a great Tarot Deck I love now from Vertigo so I'll probably do that. I watch my favorite scary movies and read gothic lit.

Then I usually do some kind of a little dumb feast where I think about people who have died, things like that. It's not like a big ceremony or anything but the time of year seems to make it appropriate, you know? I don't know that many dead people (something to be thankful for, really) so I also include people in my family I never knew but would like to have. I really really like this, though. It's part of why Halloween is my favorite holiday. ((Hugs Halloween))

The subways are apparently a mess because of a fire. Good to know. Also, I just spilled melted butter all over some folders I'll be needing for work. Go me.

( A brief tangent on the scariest TV episode I ever saw. )