Happy New Year!
Nov. 1st, 2012 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seanan_mcguireBeing a devout follower of the Great Pumpkin (hallowed be His fields), today is my local new year, for values of "local" that include me, my cats (who enjoyed their new year's treat of tuna juice from the can), and any pagans in my vicinity.
I like having multiple New Years. It gives me the chance to try again if I feel like this one isn't working out (although strict application of the math involved may well mean that I'm in my sixties). I like the fact that everything is different today than it was yesterday, even if everything is also exactly the same.
I hope you all had a fantastic Halloween, whether it's something you celebrate or something you endure or something you barely notice until it's over and the basic cable stations stop showing endless horror movie marathons and repeats of Hocus Pocus. I hope you ran amok, or didn't, as your heart prefers. I hope you spent some time in the cornfield of your heart, remembering the sweetness of the season.
From all of us here (mostly me and the cats) to all of you out there, Happy New Year. Welcome to November.
It's going to be a good year.
I like having multiple New Years. It gives me the chance to try again if I feel like this one isn't working out (although strict application of the math involved may well mean that I'm in my sixties). I like the fact that everything is different today than it was yesterday, even if everything is also exactly the same.
I hope you all had a fantastic Halloween, whether it's something you celebrate or something you endure or something you barely notice until it's over and the basic cable stations stop showing endless horror movie marathons and repeats of Hocus Pocus. I hope you ran amok, or didn't, as your heart prefers. I hope you spent some time in the cornfield of your heart, remembering the sweetness of the season.
From all of us here (mostly me and the cats) to all of you out there, Happy New Year. Welcome to November.
It's going to be a good year.
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Date: 2012-11-01 03:44 pm (UTC)Happy New Year to you as well!
(Said fan-nerdiness this year involved combining two of my favorite fandoms in one costume…hooray!)
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Date: 2012-11-01 03:57 pm (UTC)I spent the evening w/ some of my Fire Dept. family, passing out candy at the station to all the local ghouls and goblins. We had a few quite acceptable zombies, and a really adorable black and purple bat. I was pleased by this.
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Date: 2012-11-01 04:02 pm (UTC)Question: Does the recent sale mean that Leia is now a Disney Princess?
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Date: 2012-11-01 04:12 pm (UTC)Happy new year to Seanen and everyone else who celebrates. I had a nice quiet evening at my friendly local game store. We had a variant set of rules for Arkham Horror so we played a 13 player game with ALL of the expansions. It was an awesome 3.5 hour game with many tense moments, but we prevailed with only 3 investigators devoured.
Posted at second level for Disney Princess and so Seanen doesn't feel obligated to respond.
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Date: 2012-11-01 04:03 pm (UTC)Halloween is exactly equal to Christmas.
31 oct = 25 dec
thirty-one in base 8 = twenty-five in base 10
Secondly, I've been thinking a lot about WHY this is my favorite holiday and ... a lot of that is the dress-up aspect but that's not the most important part. It's the spiritualism. No, not the fake bible-thumping "Devil-worship" bunco, but the underlying spiritualism, the feeding of the hungry wandering spirits, the remembrance of our dead, the placating of the unknown by means of a show of open-handed generousity to beggars at the door.
I think, though, that what appeals to me most of all about this holiday as celebrated in the USofA is the universality. This is the only celebration that I know of that occurs in the immediate neighbourhood with everyone (well, most everyone) living "within the bounds" participating - regardless of ethnicity, of religion, of sexuality or gender.
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Date: 2012-11-01 04:16 pm (UTC)My MP3 player played Glee's version of Born This Way followed by your My Story is Not Done, and they're both things I needed to hear right now. Thank you for being yourself and introducing me to Glee and making all sorts of awesome music and books.
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Date: 2012-11-01 04:18 pm (UTC)I actually got some treat or treaters! Including some teen-agers! It was awesome (Where I have lived for the last several years was on the wrong side of a street with no light or crosswalk for more than a mile so no one every visited us on Hallowee).
Though I did buy way too much candy - I think most of the kids went around before I got home from work.
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Date: 2012-11-01 04:52 pm (UTC)Anyway. I like having multiple new years's, too. (I mostly observe the Jewish one in fall and the Gregorian one at the end of December, though this week makes a fine one, as well.) Happy new year to you!
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Date: 2012-12-17 05:31 pm (UTC)Tiny trick or treaters rule.
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Date: 2012-11-01 06:22 pm (UTC)HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I'll take this opportunity to say "thank you!" for the many enthralling hours I spent first with the Newsflesh trilogy and now with October Daye (I'm in the middle of book 5), and to ask the Great Pumpkin to bring you a constant stream of inspiration - of course this request is made for purely selfless reasons.... **insert innocent smile**
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Date: 2012-11-01 06:30 pm (UTC)Sigh.
I think the Kid went down to her stoop intending to press candy upon strangers, but won't hear update until she treks forty blocks again to go find heat, light, power, and internet access.
In Berkeley the rain seems to have kept a lot of people home and we had NO trick-or-treaters, a first.
So I kept Halloween in my heart, and opened Their Own Cans of People Tuna for the cats.
(I am in charge of treats, and they are in charge of tricks - it sorta works.)
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Date: 2012-11-01 09:32 pm (UTC)I love Hallowe'en ... and only partly because it's my birthday. Until I was about 6, I thought the candy was being given out -because- it was my birthday. ^_^ ...and it gave my folks something to point at as an 'explanation' of why I turned out 'odd'. So ... let's celebrate the falling time of the year!
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Date: 2012-12-17 05:33 pm (UTC)*DIES*
*IZ DED*