Candy Catching

So this post is what i think to be my first column in the school newspaper. im not 100% sure if i made it, but i sure hope so.

                                   Candy Catching

           

            Every year we celebrate a whole heap of holidays, one of my favorite is Halloween, the holiday of “candy catching.” Trick-or-treating is only one of the many activities of Halloween, and by far my favorite. In truth I don’t ever remember missing a trick-or-treating excursion since I was born.            

            There are a lot of people my age that would rather go to a party or go do something else besides trick-or-treating. But I always have to ask myself why. Why wouldn’t you want to go walk around in the dark wearing a wicked-awesome costume, and ask random people for candy? I mean that’s awesome! I always love coming up with a costume. I mean sure you can go and buy one of those dinky, manufactured costumes from K-Mart. But where is the fun in that?

Its always entertaining to come up with a costume based on a favorite media character, occupational figure, mythical being. Once you’ve figured out what you are going to be, you try like heck to make it perfect. After this, you’re ready for the next step: picking the “candy catcher”. Some choose the conventional plastic jack-o-lantern. Personally I dive for the pillowcase, the atomic bomb of “candy catchers!”

 Once this is done you wait impatiently for that glorious night of “candy catching.” Once it arrives you can not help it. No matter your age you’re as giddy as a teenage girl who’s just gotten a pair of shoes. You then make all the arrangements of where to meet your friends. And then… it begins. You go as fast as possible spending no more than 17 seconds at each house, running door to door, not wasting any time to talk, except for to use the two phrases used in trick-or-treating: “Trick-or-treat” and “ Thank you”. After hours of this you decide that you have enough candy. The only night that ever happens.  

You walk through the front door with a bag so full of candy it was almost impossible to lug down the street. As you begin to take off your costume one thought is constantly passing through your mischievous mind: chocolate binge!

Warm Fuzzies

Hey sorry guys that I haven't posted in a while, things just got busy. This post was used for my application for the school newspaper. hope I get the job, and hope you enjoy.             

                         Warm Fuzzies 

 

 

 

 

            Ever get one of those “warm fuzzy” moments? You know like the ones where you’re just filled to capacity with warmth? I love those feelings. I wish, probably along with a lot of people as well, that they could just last forever. If you want to have these “warm fuzzies” as much as possible then you need to figure out the easiest way possible to create these feelings. Some people go for doing what they like to do best in the whole wide world and some go for love. Both of which are somewhat difficult to come by. I personally go for a warm chocolate-chip cookie and some cold milk.

         The easiest way to get those extraordinary feelings, called “warm fuzzies”, is to have the extraordinary taste of chocolate-chip cookies engulf you completely, at least for me. Let me ask three simple questions. Have you ever had a chocolate-chip cookie? If you have had one, then did you like it? How much? You have most likely had a chocolate-chip cookie, and its up for you to decide the other two.  If I were to answer the questions my self, then the answers would be first, yes. Second, I adored it. Third, indescribably so.

         On the back of one my favorite books, Everything I Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, by Robert Fulghum, is a list of some of the things that apply to the title. One of them is “ Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you”. Funny thing is, is that that is what we all learned in kindergarten. I still believe it now. Can you imagine a better feeling than that? A big, fat, chocolate-chip cookie, so warm that it falls apart in you hand and melts away into your mouth and you can feel the warmth run down your throat, and then slowly spread to your entire body. You then look at your hand and you have warm chocolate all over you, and say “What the heck” and start licking away. Then the simple but profound thought, milk. You slowly get up and walk towards the fridge, grab the carton of milk, a tall glass and combine the two and walk slowly back to the counter stool and sit and look at the glass of milk as if it were some odd thing, and then pick it up slowly and… GULP. And then… the “Ahhhh.”

         This is the “warm fuzzie” feeling that I speak of.  No better feeling. Not difficult, not complicated, just goodieness. How do you get your “warm fuzzies”?