Sunday Stealing: The Halloween Meme

This week’s meme comes from Apryl at Merid­ian Ariel.

The Hal­loween Meme

1. What is your favorite writ­ten work of hor­ror fiction?

I am not a big fan of hor­ror fic­tion, but my favorite would prob­a­bly have to be The Other by Thomas Tryon. I remem­ber read­ing it when it was first pub­lished and it enthralling.

2. What is your favorite work of sci­ence fiction/fantasy?

The Rocky Hor­ror Pic­ture Show. I still watch it every year — I do The Time Warp, much to my kids’ cha­grin. Sadly, they don’t relate.

3. Who is your favorite monster?

Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

4. What is your favorite Hor­ror movie?

I don’t watch hor­ror movies.

5. What hor­ror movie gives you the most chills?

As noted, I don’t watch hor­ror movies.

6. What char­ac­ter from any hor­ror film would you most like to play?

I would love to be either Mor­ti­cia from The Addams Fam­ily or Lily from The Mun­sters.

7. Freddy or Jason?

Nei­ther.

8. What is your favorite Hal­loween treat?

Peanut but­ter Rice Krispie treats.

9. Ghosts or goblins?

Ghosts.

10. Friendly-faced jack-o’-lantern or scary one?

Friendly.

11. What is your scari­est encounter with the paranormal?

I have had a few and I def­i­nitely believe that there are both good and evil forces. With­out going into a lot of detail, I will say that I have encoun­tered, squared off with, and, with assis­tance from a divine spirit, pre­vailed against evil. In par­tic­u­lar, I fought one legal bat­tle that was indis­putably a war between good and evil.

12. Do you believe in ghosts? Why or why not?

I believe that when peo­ple die, they tran­si­tion to a dif­fer­ent realm. I do not believe in “ghosts” per se, but I do believe that there is a spir­i­tual dimen­sion to our lives and have had the sense many times of still being con­nected to peo­ple who have died.

13. Would you rather be a zom­bie, alien, or psycho?

I would pre­fer to be an alien and see what life on another planet is like.

14. Favorite Hal­loween costume?

My kids had a lot of cute cos­tumes over the years, so it is hard to pick just one, but I thought #1Son was an adorable spider:

Mat­tieBoo had the right atti­tude as Obama last year:

15. Best thing about Halloween?

I love to dec­o­rate my house and pass out the trick-or-treat candy because I really enjoy see­ing all the lit­tle kids in their cos­tumes and watch­ing their eyes light up when they get more treats. I always looked for­ward to pick­ing out my boys’ cos­tumes and tak­ing them trick-or-treating when they were young.

16. Per­son in your fam­ily who most likes Hal­loween (not count­ing yourself)?

I think both boys like it about as much as I do.

17. Are you superstitious?

No.

18. Share an unusual Hal­loween story.

Mat­tieBoo was born on Novem­ber 16, so I was preg­nant on Hal­loween. I could not take #1Son trick-or-treating because my ankles were so swollen I had to keep my feet ele­vated as much as pos­si­ble. We made the usual stops at my mother-in-law and par­ents’ houses before head­ing to my sister’s neigh­bor­hood. #1Son went trick-or-treating with his cousins, as usual, but I had to stay at her house with my feet up. I was dis­ap­pointed! I was in law school, com­mut­ing to Sacra­mento at three to four times per week, and work­ing as a law clerk for a firm in Modesto on the days I did not have class. All that time in the car even­tu­ally got to be too much and I had to quit my job ear­lier than planned. I recall telling my boss, “I’m preg­nant, I’m swollen, I’m through.”

19. What did you do for Hal­loween as a kid?

We always went trick-or-treating in our neigh­bor­hood, but our par­ents never went with us. They stayed home and passed out candy to the other kids.

20. What’s the best Hal­loween party that you’ve attended?

I recall one in the late 1970’s that started on Sat­ur­day night at the movie the­ater see­ing The Rocky Hor­ror Pic­ture Show, but didn’t end until Mon­day morn­ing. It was a blast.

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