Today begins the official start to the 2009 eating season. We start the season with candy and chocolates and wrap it up with drinking ourselves into a stuper only to swear off calories a few hours later when 2010 kicks in. Personally I love this mad dash that pretty much starts now and doesn't let up until after the three wise men have came and left. The downside of this time of year is that I end up keeping too much of the season with me when it is gone. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Holiday Parties, Christmas Feast, and New Year's eve all involve eating and drinking of some sort. If that isn't enough there are birthdays and anniversaries sprinkled throughout. Basically today is the first caloric battle in a 3 month caloric war on our bodies, and we wouldn't change it if we could.

At the start, you should be in pretty good shape because you have been working on a beach body all summer long. This is good because the spartan from 300 costume, and its slutty relatives like the slutty nurse, slutty angel, etc., are much more appealing now than after the eating season ends. In fact, I think my love of adult costumes would be much less if the holiday fell sometime in January. I am particluarly mad at the crazy people that scared away the trick or treaters with razors in candy and abuduction stories (I am now positive neither of which ever happened unitl after the corresponding story was invented). Now I have buckets of candy for trick or treaters that never come. We don't get the crap candy either, it is kit kat, reese's cups, milk duds, and the works. Can't let that go to waste, and can't feed it to the dogs. The weather isn't on our side either. It is starting to get cold now so we wear more clothing and that gut and its cousin from the other side of the tracks, the bubble butt can sneak up on you. Gone are the days when we needed this fat to survive the cold, and the subsequent famine when we ran out of food until spring, yet the fat packing ceremnoies thrive. The feasts of the season always involve the best food of the year too, no point in skimping and inviting your friends over to anything less than the decadent.

With all of this in mind, it is hard to fathom that we are just 200 days from swimsuit season. Good luck, and you are going to have a lot of exercising to do. So it is a good idea to start now for the Church's 2010 Halloween Party. I already have my costume picked out, I am going as Adam (pre apple if the wife lets me). If that isn't a Trick or Treat I don't know what is.