DAYS TO HALLOWEEN: 365
WEEKS TO OCTOBER: 47
WEEKS TO HALLOWEEN: 52
Good Evening Halloween Friends! The NEW Halloween 2023 Countdown Thread is now up and running!
Halloween here for the most part is over, and when we wake up tomorrow, It's Christmas everywhere.
Veterans of this thread know the routine, but I like to include a few things for anyone who may be new to the thread or just joining us.
Our Countdowns are now live and up at the top of this post. Every Monday, I will update the "Weeks" count. The daily counts are updated every day.
Over the next few weeks, we will see additional counts get added to the main countdowns at the top of every post. These coincide with our special days and special seasons, which I will get into briefly below:
We acknowledge "milestone days" every 50 days when counting down through our main counts. I find that dealing with the time in little chunks seems to fit the mood better than looking at one giant slog of a countdown.
:Special Days:
JACK O LANTERN DAYS
Beginning in January, each month that has a 31st, we celebrate "Jack O Lantern Day". I get out the electric Jack O Lantern, burn some fall/ pumpkin wax warmers / candles, and listen to my "Halloween Playlist" that day, before settling in for a mini horror movie marathon to wrap up the day. Some days when the weather cooperates, I even have a small fire in my outside fire pit. This is just my way of adding a little bit of Fall / Halloween to my life, during times in the year where I am really missing Fall. And it really helps. I think some of us here keep the same routine. We do this in January, March, May, July, and August, before yielding to "Halloween Season" in September, having safely reached our destination.
SPOOKY SPRING: (New For 2023!)
Folks - Spooky Spring was a grand addition to last year's festivities. April is essentially the mirror image of October, and Spooky Spring is celebrated the entire month of April. Basically it is October in April. Scary movie marathons, pumpkin spice everything - Halloween decorations. The cool weather really sets the tone for the month and it leads us right into Halfoween, the grand celebration of reaching the half way point to Halloween.
HALFOWEEN:
The grand celebration of being Halfway to Halloween, reached after the entire month-long celebration of "Spooky Spring". It's like a Jack O Lantern day on steroids. Or Halloween in April, whatever suits your fancy! April 30th! Mark your calendars!
FRIDAY the 13th:
We have TWO Friday the 13ths this coming year. The first one is on January 13th, and the second one is October 13th. It is basically like a Jack O Lantern Day "cheat day", and I usually treat the day as an extra JOL Day and will exclusively watch the Friday the 13th movies!
"Halloween Season"
The first day of Fall this coming year is on September 23rd, which is a Saturday. I really doubt that anyone wants to wait that long to officially kick off "Halloween Season", so I propose officially starting "Halloween season" on Monday the 18th. Who says Mondays are no fun?
And that's it! We can get into more specifics as the thread unfolds, but I want to continue the interactive content and sort of psuedo-discussions that we have in here. I want to borrow from the awesome Thanksgiving thread where we weekly discuss at least one Thanksgiving thought / topic. This year, Halloween is on a Tuesday, so I think beginning on Tuesday, January 2nd, we will start up with our weekly Halloween thought every Tuesday! This thread is sort of on "easy mode" the next few weeks because I never want to do anything to "cut into" Christmas season, so I won't really be chasing the Halloween milestones "hardcore" until after Christmas has passed!
Once again, no leap year this year, so Halloween 2023 is already on its way. Thank you all for being here and happy counting!
WEEKS TO OCTOBER: 47
WEEKS TO HALLOWEEN: 52
Good Evening Halloween Friends! The NEW Halloween 2023 Countdown Thread is now up and running!
Halloween here for the most part is over, and when we wake up tomorrow, It's Christmas everywhere.
Veterans of this thread know the routine, but I like to include a few things for anyone who may be new to the thread or just joining us.
Our Countdowns are now live and up at the top of this post. Every Monday, I will update the "Weeks" count. The daily counts are updated every day.
Over the next few weeks, we will see additional counts get added to the main countdowns at the top of every post. These coincide with our special days and special seasons, which I will get into briefly below:
We acknowledge "milestone days" every 50 days when counting down through our main counts. I find that dealing with the time in little chunks seems to fit the mood better than looking at one giant slog of a countdown.
:Special Days:
JACK O LANTERN DAYS
Beginning in January, each month that has a 31st, we celebrate "Jack O Lantern Day". I get out the electric Jack O Lantern, burn some fall/ pumpkin wax warmers / candles, and listen to my "Halloween Playlist" that day, before settling in for a mini horror movie marathon to wrap up the day. Some days when the weather cooperates, I even have a small fire in my outside fire pit. This is just my way of adding a little bit of Fall / Halloween to my life, during times in the year where I am really missing Fall. And it really helps. I think some of us here keep the same routine. We do this in January, March, May, July, and August, before yielding to "Halloween Season" in September, having safely reached our destination.
SPOOKY SPRING: (New For 2023!)
Folks - Spooky Spring was a grand addition to last year's festivities. April is essentially the mirror image of October, and Spooky Spring is celebrated the entire month of April. Basically it is October in April. Scary movie marathons, pumpkin spice everything - Halloween decorations. The cool weather really sets the tone for the month and it leads us right into Halfoween, the grand celebration of reaching the half way point to Halloween.
HALFOWEEN:
The grand celebration of being Halfway to Halloween, reached after the entire month-long celebration of "Spooky Spring". It's like a Jack O Lantern day on steroids. Or Halloween in April, whatever suits your fancy! April 30th! Mark your calendars!
FRIDAY the 13th:
We have TWO Friday the 13ths this coming year. The first one is on January 13th, and the second one is October 13th. It is basically like a Jack O Lantern Day "cheat day", and I usually treat the day as an extra JOL Day and will exclusively watch the Friday the 13th movies!
"Halloween Season"
The first day of Fall this coming year is on September 23rd, which is a Saturday. I really doubt that anyone wants to wait that long to officially kick off "Halloween Season", so I propose officially starting "Halloween season" on Monday the 18th. Who says Mondays are no fun?
And that's it! We can get into more specifics as the thread unfolds, but I want to continue the interactive content and sort of psuedo-discussions that we have in here. I want to borrow from the awesome Thanksgiving thread where we weekly discuss at least one Thanksgiving thought / topic. This year, Halloween is on a Tuesday, so I think beginning on Tuesday, January 2nd, we will start up with our weekly Halloween thought every Tuesday! This thread is sort of on "easy mode" the next few weeks because I never want to do anything to "cut into" Christmas season, so I won't really be chasing the Halloween milestones "hardcore" until after Christmas has passed!
Once again, no leap year this year, so Halloween 2023 is already on its way. Thank you all for being here and happy counting!
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