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Have you bought your Halloween candy? Costumes anyone? Halloween is big in our area!

So is All Saints Day at our cemeteries tomorrow. It’s also known as laToussaint due to our French heritage in Louisiana.
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I'm going dark this year, we get so few kids every year I can't get into the spirit of it. (and I end up eating all the leftover candy)
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cw,

We don’t usually have cold weather for Halloween.

You’re right about wearing jackets. If it was chilly on Halloween when I was young, I’d wear clothes underneath my costume. I didn’t want to cover up my costume!

I love Reese’s peanut butter cups at Halloween! Yep, hard not to indulge.
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The last costume I wore was a vampiress for a party that our friends had.

My husband was a vampire too. We had really cool capes, black lined in red!

I did our makeup. It was fun to wear our costumes and see our everyone else’s costumes.

Vampires are big here. Anne Rice grew up here in New Orleans. Love her books and movies!

Many vampire balls have occurred in our spooky city! There is a fabulous haunted house that is set in an old mortuary.

Anne Rice and her husband are buried here in Lakelawn cemetery, a very beautiful cemetery.

They also host special events and weddings. Can you imagine being married in an old mortuary? 🤣

It’s on Canal Street. themortuary.net
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I nanny for a baby who is currently napping as I write this . This morning the Mom told me she will be home a little late today . She has to stop for more candy . Her husband has been eating what she had already bought . He’s a dentist . I thought that was hysterical .
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Way,

That is funny! My kids didn’t like going trick or treating at the neighbor’s house who is a dentist. He gave out toothbrushes instead of candy! LOL 😆

I remember one year my brothers and I didn’t want Halloween to end. Mom said that we couldn’t knock on a door twice.

Daddy took us to a nearby neighborhood and we were able to trick or treat again! I’m pretty sure that my mom hid some of the candy from us so we didn’t go overboard! 🤣 She was the voice of reason.
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Snack size Kit Kat bars are better than regular. Larger chocolate ratio
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Kit Kat chunky is the way to go, that's one of my favourites.
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cwillie , Never had the chunky . I should try that. Does it say chunky on the wrapper ? Or are you calling the regular one chunky ? Also, I thought you didn’t live in the states . Different countries have different products from the same company . It’s annoying . I don’t pay much attention though , for all I know it’s by me too .
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Have never had the chunky version of KitKat bars. Sounds yummy!

Hey, candy will be on sale tomorrow! Maybe I will try some of those.
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Peanut M&M’s are addictive! At least they do have protein from the nuts.

Any dark chocolate is my favorite!
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Gotta run, grabbing a cup of coffee with my daughter and her friend. Have a happy Halloween everyone! Enjoy your candy!
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Hm, after a little bit of exploring I see they are called something else in the US.... big kat I think? And they say the ingredients are different too 🤔
Oh wow, in the US it's made by Hershey's, everywhere else it's made by Nestle.
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cwillie , Thanks .
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There used to be a chocolate bar called Chunky I think . Maybe that’s why they can’t call the Kit Kat chunky.

Nestle has 40% stake in Hershey . It was a joint agreement that’s been beneficial for both companies. I just looked it up .

My daughter’s best friend works for Hershey .
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I heard that there's a shortage of chocolate,so the price on it might go up pretty soon~ :(
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Bounce , I’m like 90 minutes from Hershey . They do have a factory there and an amusement park . My daughter’s friend is a production planner for Twizzlers , which aren’t chocolate . The store they have is cool . They have specialty products you don’t see in the stores . I haven’t been there in many years though . They had a lame fake factory tour when I was there .
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To whoever jinxed us by dressing up like Santa and all his elves last night - this. isn't. funny. ❄️☃️🌨️
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Heading out to the cemetery in a little while. My daughters want to bring flowers.

So many beautiful flowers to choose from. I don’t have an all time favorite flower. I love all of them.
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Bounce,

Just bringing flowers. My mother loved flowers.
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Need: My fav flower is an iris. So delicate. It waa your mom's birthday? I missed that. Happy heavenly birthday to her.
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Llama,

Thanks. Her birthday was on the 3rd of November.

All Saints Day is November 1st. All Saints Day (Catholic Feast Day) is heavily observed in New Orleans. The cemeteries are filled with beautiful flowers.

I love irises too. We have irises that are native to Louisiana that are very pretty.

I brought roses today. Mom loved roses.
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Bounce,

Thanks, it was nice. My mother had a special relationship with my daughters.
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Need: You're very welcome. So sweet that your mother loved roses. They are lovely.
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There is someone I know of who has spent the majority of their life living outside of the country and now wants to return "home" to the bosom of their family (and to access our healthcare). I'm really getting tired of hearing about these people's problems and pleas for help. They have spent years preparing for this eventuality, setting up false bank accounts and mailing addresses and who knows what else, and are still trying to game the system and jump the now lengthy queues. The thing is as a citizen they've always had the option to move home and receive full healthcare coverage after only 3 months, but they seem to be so invested in this belief that they scam their way in that any advice given on how to work within the current system, and current reality of too much need and not enough resources, seems to disappear into the aether.
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I would simply like to vent. Plus it’s funny.

Some of you may have noticed a pattern - my complete inability to do anything right by my mother. Ever.

My mother (in care, near me) did not recognize us during yesterday’s visit. So we got an earful about how she is not happy with her daughter. Seems Ana is getting married again July 21st, and the wedding will be where Ana lives. Mother said she knows the bride’s parents traditionally pay but she refuses to shell out a cent unless Ana moves the wedding to the city where she (mother) believes she (mother) still lives.

We did our best to keep poker faces and redirect the conversation. But my husband now regrets not probing to learn who I am going to marry.
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Anabanana

That’s funny.

My sister was in the hospital last week and had delirium after surgery. She also most likely has vascular dementia per MRI ( they did the MRI to see if she had a stroke , because she was off the wall ). She has to follow up with cog tests for diagnosis . But I can tell you she has it . She’s doing some of the same things my Mom did .

Anyway while she had delirium , she texted me ( with poor spelling ) that I put all the old people in homes . ( She is correct , In my family that has been left for me to do) . She went on to say that I should do something good for once to help the old people . She also told me she wants her car keys back from me . ( Her son took them )

Funny part is , this sister was the only 1 out of 4 siblings that stood up for me to take car keys away from Dad and to place my mother in AL . It’s funny how their minds work .
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Waytomisery - plus there is no way to convince them otherwise and no point in trying. Certainly my mother’s mind has been made up about me since I was born.
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Anabana

I know , ditto with my ( late) narc Mom,
(((hugs)))
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Ana,

When we listened to the fabricated stories from my husband’s grandmother, we would make the comment, ‘Fact or Fiction?’ She didn’t have any dementia. She just lied!

Some of the stories were hysterical! Some were ridiculous! Some were incredibly rude!
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