We're Either Really Cool or Total Losers

It's October and that means it's time to buy Halloween Candy. So Minh and I recently hit Costco with the intention of buying a huge bag of assorted chocolate bars, like we always do. (We also always way over-buy so that we get to eat at least half ourselves).

But this year, as we were browsing the various assortments and trying to decide which to buy, we spotted something totally different--tiny little containers of Play-Dough to be handed out for Halloween. Having been a huge fan of Play-Dough myself, I thought this was really fun. But it never occurred to me that we would actually buy that instead of chocolate. Until Minh said "If we buy all that candy, we'll only eat it." How true. This sudden and unprecedented concern of his for our candy consumption is undoubtedly rooted in the fact that Minh is keeping pace with my pregnancy weight-gain.

So, we bought the Play-Dough. And no chocolate at all. There are 80 containers of dough, in assorted colors. And since we only get about 30 kids each year, they can each take a few.

But we couldn't send the neighborhood kids away from our front door with nothing edible, so we also bought a small bag of gummy eyeballs. Yes, gummy eyeballs. They are the size of large jaw breakers and each is contained in a clear plastic sphere. They are, of course, all blood shot and Halloweeny. I think the point is really that they just look cool. Minh tried to eat one and ended up spitting it out in the garbage--he said all he could taste was plastic. Yum. That's one way to lose weight - buy shitty Halloween candy!

So, this is our little experiment. We'll either be the coolest house in the neighborhood for giving out something different....or we'll go down in history as the house that once handed out "stupid Play Dough and gummy candy that tasted like plastic". We'll see how it goes.