Let me gaze upon the lovely morning [Sarah's Scribbles]

It’s got nothing on the big box hardware stores now.

Ever since the 10 foot skeleton happened things have been nuts.

Halloween-Thanksgiving crossover is the holiday I've needed all my life.

Let's just make it the full year.

Yes. In fact, I would give them 2 week pre-christmas for Christmas music if I can have 2 weeks of true spooky season.

And that's as a former retail worker that has been driven to the point of insanity by Mariah Carey.

Because it is.

Side note to anyone reading this, don't fucking buy a house with an HOA

Fun fact: lots of city and county governments either mandate or highly encourage HOAs for new subdivision developments. This is mostly because they love abdicating their responsibility to maintain infrastructure for low-density parcels that will never generate enough tax revenue to pay for it, but in some cases could also be for the traditional reason HOAs exist (to facilitate racism and classism).

In other words, most homebuyers will essentially be forced into an HOA simply because most homes are encumbered by them.

Hard no. My day job is in government and I cannot take one more meeting in my life. I've attended some of the HOA meetings and they were actually worse than pretty much every meeting I have at work, because they last forever and the stakes are so stupid.

The holiday that showed up because of it being the day before All Saint's Day isn't religious?