Happy Halloween

Wah-HA-HA-HA haaaaaaaaaaa!


It's Halloween! I just LOVE Halloween!
I haven't decided if I am dressing up this year. Are you? If so, what will you be?
Just a reminder, Be sure to take pictures of yourself in costume and be sure to send them in so I can post them on the Bloggeritaville Costume Contest this weekend.

I have two things that are off Halloween subject:

I had a crazy dream last night, and woke up to tell Big Daddy...Me and Mr. Jimmy Buffett were at JB's home, you know Margariatville (LOL) and we were working on a collaborative song together called,
"It's a crazy Tradition to Shop at the Mission, and I'm not talking 'n bout the clothes!"

What????? I don't even know what that means. And no, I can't blame it on a margarita, though I did have alot on my mind as I went to bed.

Also, I have noticed, and through extensive study, this act of nature relative to going to the bathroom. As I was in a department store yesterday, I got struck with the need to go. And as I took off for the bathroom it became a dire situation, the closer I got the more urgence to the situation there was. Why is that? Why is it the closer one gets to a bathroom the more urgent the call?

Ok, just a couple dumb and random questions for this freaky day. And speaking of freaks (myself included)....

We all know that Halloween is when the freaks come out. And I can't help but sing the old school Whodini song on a day like today....because I am always singing!
So join in everyone, sing along..



I also thought I would give a little history of the holiday, courtesy of the Black Dog web site:

About 2,000 years ago in the area of the world that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, lived a group of people called the Celts. The Celts' lives revolved around growing their food, and considered the end of the year to be the end of the harvest season. So, they celebrated new year's eve each year on October 31st with a festival called "Samhain," named after their Lord of the Dead (also known as the Lord of Darkness). Samhain (pronounced 'sow-in') was presided over by Celtic priests called Druids. Back then, winter was the time of year associated with human death. The Celts believed that on the night that marked the end of summer and the beginning of winter, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead blurred allowing ghosts of the dead to return to earth. Celts thought that the presence of the ghosts made it easier for the Druids, their priests, to predict the future. These predictions were an important source of comfort and direction for the Celts during their long, dark, frightening winters. To celebrate Samhain, the Druids built huge sacred bonfires around which the Celts gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to their ancient gods. During the celebration, the Celts dressed up in costumes consisting of animal heads and skins and tried to tell each other's fortunes. The Celts eventually were conquered by the Romans, and by about the year 43 AD two Roman festivals were combined with the Celtic Samhain festival. The first Roman festival was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of "bobbing" for apples practiced today on Halloween. By 800 AD, the influence of Christianity spread into Celtic lands. In the seventh century, replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday, Pope Boniface IV designated November 1st as All Saints' Day, a time to honor saints and martyrs. The combined and updated celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints' Day) and the night before it, the night of Samhain, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween. Think you know a lot about Halloween history and traditions?

Try BlackDog's Halloween Quiz.
For more details and information on the origins and history of Halloween as well as modern Halloween traditions, visit the History Channel's website.


Have a safe and festive Halloween!