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Your head hurts. Your stomach is sore. You feel hungover.
If you're a GeekDad, then Halloween is one of your favorite holidays and you overindulged. But you're a parent and Halloween was school night, so it wasn't excessive drinking. It was overindulgence in the things you love about Halloween.
The first step is to acknowledge that you have a problem.
You inhaled fumes from painting the witty gravestones planted in your yard. Flakes of the cobweb decorations sprinkled down on you. There were vapors from the dozens of burning candles and the smoke machine. Did you really need all of those yard decorations?
You inhaled bits of pumpkin from carving your jack-o-lanterns. Maybe you even broke out the dremel tool to do the fine carving. Did you need so many pumpkins to decorate your house?
You ate too much candy. With all of the decorations the neighborhood kids flocked to your house, but didn't manage to deplete your sugary stockpile. Did you need to buy all that candy?
The second step is to restore yourself to sanity.
Next year, you'll avoid so many excesses. You'll be more restrained: Less candy, fewer decorations, less pumpkin carving. You're not going to let Halloween take over your house and your life.
But you love those decorations. The neighbors need to know which house to come to on Halloween. You can't just leave a pumpkin undecorated and plain.
It's not like you can save the candy for next year. It would just go bad. Your kids didn't like all of the candy they brought home. It would be a shame to just throw it out.
Sanity?!? No way. I'm feeling better already. Start the countdown for Halloween 2011.
