Exit Stage Left

Halloween is a dangerous time of year for me. I LOVE candy and walking into every store and finding an infinite sea of candy and knowing that I have access to a line of credit is bad news for me. As a child after Halloween I would bargain with my siblings for the "good" candy and even after I'd eaten my way through the Snickers and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and was stuck with Tootsie Rolls and Butterscotch Discs I'd eat them anyway, because sugar is goodness. Now I have a reasonably good-paying job and a car that can carry me to Target on a moment's notice. I can buy up all the White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups and Bottle Caps that my heart desires, though my ass doesn't appreciate it.

Tonight I had a craving for some of these aforementioned white chocolate treats and though I feared the streets were getting icy after our storm last night, I had a few other things I could stand to pick up, so I ventured out. I was searching for the bite sized peanut butter cups, not the standard snack size that are generally handed out to the kiddos on Halloween night. The texture of the little ones is different. Better. And aside from that, I like to wrap up all the foil wrappers into one giant ball of foil. Call it a quirk, but tonight the snack-sized wouldn't do. I walked up and down the three aisles of seasonal candy and didn't find what I was looking for. I even went over to the regular non-Halloween candy aisle and couldn't find them there, either. I was disappointed and thought about the snack-sized, but decided against it; they weren't what I had my heart set on. I was bummed out, but I'll get through it. Somehow I managed to talk myself out of the Vanilla Tootsie Rolls, the Bottle Caps AND the Peanut Butter M&M's, too---I'm still not sure how. I escaped the temptation tonight, but I have to actually buy the candy I will hand out to the hoodlums in my neighborhood this weekend--that will be another challenge entirely; will they still be around on Tuesday evening?

On another ghoulish note: does anyone have any good ideas for a simple yet clever costume? I have a party to attend on Saturday and zero creative ideas. If you come up with something and I decide to do it, I'll buy you the Halloween treat of your choice.