Spooky Season, Card Games, and Fake Sick

Spooky season is officially upon us. As always, it never comes fast enough and never lasts long enough. So, I think we should all resolve to extend spooky season for as long as possible—to a minimum of 365.2422 days a year. For the other seasons and holidays, we can just overlay them on top of our new, neverending, spooky season.

For example, Christmas decorations should always include Krampus and maybe cobwebbed mistletoe; Valentine's Day could feature bleeding, blackened heart chocolates, and roses bundled with tattered lace and sprinkled with graveyard dust; and spring season could include tulips sprouting from skulls and grim reaper garden gnomes.

To help support neverending spooky season, grab something spooky you can use any time of the year. Once you have it, never...and I mean never—put it away. Kind of like this:

Tae and I got a few card games recently, and the artwork on this one is a prime example of something you can use throughout the year that just exudes "spooky." We haven't actually tried playing it yet, but the aesthetic is certainly there.

I've been a bit thrown off recently, and I had an interruption in the usual flow of things after getting some vaccinations. The side effects hit pretty hard, and one of the only things I could do successfully while recovering was sleep. I kept telling Cap'n Hammy Pants that I was "fake sick" so she wouldn't worry, but she wasn't convinced.

What's New?

• I'm now fully recovered from "fake sick"!
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