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Post by savtele on Oct 31, 2016 1:04:35 GMT -5
What’s on your mind – how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.
Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:
Angelika
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy
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Post by savtele on Oct 31, 2016 1:28:57 GMT -5
Boker Tov All! Frieda, I posted on your thread last night - I am sorry you went through that! Poor dog. Poor you! I hope the dog feels better today!
I do have some other thoughts - but today is Halloween. It has morphed from whatever it once was into a totally fun and funny day of ghosts, goblins, scary movies, too much candy, games, and generally a good time for young and old!
There is something in the human psyche that enjoys a good fright! Something to make the heart skip a beat, and to make you jump. Haunted houses, bowls of spaghetti & jello, with glowing lights, jack-o'-lanterns, and costumes & make-up all add to the fun. Spooky stories told by candlelight, with chains and moans in the background.
So - my 1st question: do you have a favorite Halloween candy? (I simply love the malted milk chocolate balls, you know, with the eyeball foil wrappings) It does work in my favor that, since we live far out in the country, we don't get trick-or-treaters. The kids here all go into town, where the local businesses & churches host treats and games from 4-8 PM. I'm sure the older kids are out much later than that - one year there was a car up a tree down the road from us the next day. I believe the football team & a backhoe or excavator of some type were involved in this. (farm kids have time & the equipment to think this stuff up!) Do you get a lot of kids at your door?
Do you have a Halloween tradition at your house? We usually watch a themed movie - not TOO scary mind you, mostly fun or funny. This year it will be Rocky Horror Picture Show. (Let's do the time warp again!) I'm looking forward to it!
Have a spooktacular day!
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Post by louise on Oct 31, 2016 7:33:50 GMT -5
We never had any Halloween traditions when I was growing up but I did go out trick or treating. Not what you asked but a big difference these days, at least where I live, is the decorations. They used to be witches, ghosts, pumpkins, skeletons. These days there seems to be an emphasis on gore. My neighbor has a "body" on his stoop that is just the top half with blood and gore coming out of the cut/torn side. I see bloody fingers coming out of window ledges. I find it pretty disconcerting. I live in a 2-family house and my landlady takes care of giving out the candy so I don't buy it anymore. Was always another kind of horror for me because I would buy what I like and then eat it - Hershey's kisses, York peppermint patties, "fun size" candy bars. Have been known to take handfuls from the overflowing bowl she keeps near the door. Fortunately this year I see she has little bags of chips and pretzels.
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Post by lee058 on Oct 31, 2016 7:37:24 GMT -5
Good morning everybody and Happy Halloween! I have a busy day planned for today with chores and errands, and then handing out candy tonight. I enjoy seeing the kids' costumes. We don't really have any Halloween traditions other than handing out candy. I used to dress up but haven't for a long time. RHPS is a great Halloween movie; I thought the new version was okay but the original is a classic. Love it!
Re getting scared on purpose: I think that it's like reading mysteries. You know that everything is going to turn out well in the end, so any scariness is safe.
I'll check back later when I have time. Have a peaceful day, Lee
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Post by gazelle18 on Oct 31, 2016 10:26:42 GMT -5
Actually I do not love Halloween, because I am probably one of the few people in the world who does NOT like a good fright! I never go to scary movies, I rarely read science fiction, etc. I'm an anxiety ridden ninny!!
That being said, I love Halloween candy, of course. Do I have a favorite? That's hard because I love it all. I love Twix bars, candy corn, m and m's, and the list goes on and on!
We always went trick or treating and I did love it! I would hoard my candy for weeks! Nowadays, I try to just buy the stuff I can easily pass on, like sweet tarts and suckers. When DH buys the good stuff, too much of it manages to get eaten between door rings!
The Halloween weather is gorgeous here! It will 75 degrees and crystal clear, so the kids should have fun.
I'll tell you what scares me to death.... THIS FRIGGING ELECTION!!
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Post by peachymom1 on Oct 31, 2016 10:27:45 GMT -5
Good morning! I loved Halloween as a kid, because my 3 sisters and I would all go out trick-or-treating together, then trade candies.
We usually don't get any trick-or-treaters in our building, but I always buy some candy anyway. I make sure to get a kind DH doesn't like, so as not to tempt him; he doesn't need any more challenges to his diabetes than he already has. (He managed to stay off medication for ten years but recently went on Metformin.) Whatever is left, I bring to work the next day, like everyone else on my floor, and there are tons of sweets everywhere. Luckily for me, I'm not a candy person and am not tempted by the mountains of candy.
I don't care for the shift in our culture to blood and guts -- I don't find it entertaining at all. So I think we will also watch RHPS tonight -- great idea, thanks for the suggestion!
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Post by peachymom1 on Oct 31, 2016 10:31:02 GMT -5
Lynn, we cross-posted, and I'm with you, the election is the scariest thing right now! I voted by mail last week, so at least I don't have to deal with the meshugas of waiting in line at the polls. We have a lot of propositions on our ballot this time, so it took me a while to go through them all carefully and decide how to vote, but it's done now, so I'm just waiting.
It's beautiful here too, clear and just a little chilly (by my wimpy SoCal standards) at about 55 degrees. It rained on and off yesterday, and it definitely feels like autumn now.
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Post by happysavta on Oct 31, 2016 11:24:26 GMT -5
I abhor Halloween. It's a gory, disgusting, and utterly meaningless "holiday". I have one neighbor who has a full size body with a hood over its head hanging from his garage. Idiot! There are 2 people living within 2 blocks of him that lost a family member to suicide by hanging. I wonder what they must feel when they drive by his "decoration". I myself have a dear friend in New York who lost a son that way. It's not funny.
The lawns around here are full of creepy graves with body parts protruding and vicious fanged ceramic creatures dripping with blood, They turn my stomach. I'm happy when Coco pees on them. What's wrong with people?
Oh, and while I'm ranting, let me get in a shot at the candy business. Halloween is a training exercise teaching our children what fun a big old binge can be. Hey kiddies, want to see what a sugar brain fog is? It's a trip!
Halloween should be banned. Categorically. It celebrates nothing worthy of celebrating anyway.
OK, yes, there is one redeeming factor - the kids are adorable in their costumes. I'll admit that. Forget Halloween. Give the world Purim, I say.
Oh, dear, I am so sleep deprived. Coco made me take her out at 1 am and at 4 am. and then I had to wash her poopy butt. Usually she sleeps all night. I'm not a nice, kind person when I'm tired. I think Coco is going to have to find a new home.
In my current state, I'm not even going to touch the topic of the upcoming election. We should plead for divine intervention to safeguard our country. G-d help us. What happened to "A hero shall rise"? Oops, that's just the tagline for a Hollywood movie - Gladiator. I vote for Maximus!
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Post by hollygail on Oct 31, 2016 11:40:26 GMT -5
I remember dressing up in home made costumes as a young kid and walking around the neighborhood. We got treats, plus we had pushkes for UNICEF. People always put pennies, nickels, dimes into them for us. And I always turned in my pushkes, always. I don't remember anything remotely like Halloween parties or activities from my childhood.
Then, as a young adult, sometimes we'd dress up to open the door to the kids who rang the bell, although most of the time, we wore whatever we had on that day.
Then, older, I went to parties with adult friends. My favorite costume: blue jeans, blue top, blue spray in my hair (only a little; it was sticky and I absolutely HAD to wash it out immediately after returning home), then I pinned some sanitary napkins onto my clothes here and there. Can you guess what I went as?
Where DH and I live now (townhouse community, 100 townhouses inside our subdivision), we get anywhere from zero to 5 kids at the door. We buy lollipops and always have some left from "last year" for "this year" (except I finally threw away what was in the pantry on the top shelf). DH asked me to buy some today "just in case" we get anyone ringing our doorbell.
It's a normal Monday night for us tonight.
Most of the decorations I see are still in the cutesy category. I am familiar with the more gory stuff people are talking about, but I don't see it much around here. I'm sure it's around; maybe I just don't pay enough attention.
And I do read mystery novels and used to be heavily into science fiction (and never thought of either genre as scary or gory or anything at all like that).
Okay. Give up on what I went to Halloween parties as?
Picasso's blue period.
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