Boys and girls of every age...

[seanan_mcguire]

Welcome to Halloween! The most wonderful day of the year. I adore Halloween and all of its fixings, and this year, spending the holiday in Alabama (rather than my native California), I've been lucky enough to experience some truly awesome things, like a hay maze, a giant bin of corn, and the spooky scarecrow trail. Tonight, after we hand out candy to all and sundry, we're going to be heading for a haunted corn maze, which I am assured will be spectacularly awesome.

Mary asked me yesterday when my love of Halloween and pumpkins and all such things began, and I replied, after a relatively brief pause for thought, that it started basically at birth. I've always loved Halloween, just as long as I knew there was a Halloween to love. It never occurred to me to be afraid of it. Afraid of Halloween? Might as well be afraid of Christmas, or Easter, or Arbor Day! Only none of those holidays were anywhere near as fantastically amazing as sweet, sweet Halloween.

I'm sitting in a warm kitchen, surrounded by color-changing trees, eating candy corn and doing my administrative catch-up for the day, and I couldn't possibly be happier. Here's hoping that everyone has a fantastic Halloween, however you choose to celebrate the day, and if you hear a funny noise in the cornfield outside, no, it isn't Johnny.

It's me.

Comments

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

Happy Halloween and a Blessed Samhain, Seanan.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

The same to you, my dear. A bit late, but sincere.

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

It is an everlasting night, in its way. A Samhain blessing any time of year is welcome.

For that matter, so is being called "my dear" by The Blonde. ;)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Well, there you are, then! :)

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

Have a fabulous day. :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I truly did, and hope you did the same!

[jodimuse.livejournal.com]

Have a fantastic Halloween, Seanan! :D

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

It was AWESOME. Everyone should have an Alabama Halloween.

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

Happy Halloween, Seanan. Too bad you aren't in Dallas next week - they're filming a zombiepocalypse movie scene in Denton and are looking for zombie extras. Best costume gets a guaranteed onscreen gory death scene.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

That is...fantastic.

[snowishness.livejournal.com]

Happy Halloween!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Happy new year!

[kyrielle]

Happy Halloween!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Happy candy-coma day!

[scholarinexile.livejournal.com]

Happy Halloween to you too! Passing out candy tonight, followed by watching Nightmare Before Christmas and then conducting my seasonal rite for the dead.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Rock on. I find your Halloween rituals...worthy.

[genre-savvy.livejournal.com]

Happy Halloween! I think everyone who likes Halloween has to defend it sometimes; that's just the way it works. I still maintain that I have the coolest defense, though. Halloween is my birthday, so I can't not like it.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

That ROCKS. I got January. You're awesome-lucky.

[sheistheweather]

Halloween is birthday season! I went up to Capitol Hill for Halloween with eman_p and inkandalchemy, after the Samhain ritual that I got tapped to help put on. :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[sheistheweather]

*cheer!*

How is Alabama?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Presumably, still there.