Hi there! You are listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 180, a pandemic-friendly Halloween. How do we get one of those?

We're less than two weeks out from Halloween and of course my kids are already asking what we're going to do.

It is uncertain times y'all and it's tough to know how to do this Halloween thing in these times.

So today in a fairly short episode let's just do a quick check-in on what matters and some ideas for people staying in on Halloween and for people going out.

First what matters? That's up to you of course. But when you really think about Halloween especially if you have kids, although I'm truly psyched if you don't have kids and are still listening

because you just love Halloween as much. But if you have kids the things that likely are the most important are these four things.

Candy. Candy, costumes, connection and adventure. The candy is obvious. You know getting a lot of it is what we love about Halloween.

Costumes. Again that's kind of obvious. We all love picking something special to dress up in.

Fun fact my daughter Annie is going to go as a rainbow. Ben, my almost nine-year-old wants to be Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chief's quarterback.

And Sam is going to be Christian McCaffrey, an injured running back for the Carolina Panthers. So we will have two football players in a rainbow walking around. It would be great.

Actually inside now just because my favorite costume I ever wore it was a few years ago as a grown lady when I dressed up as the mayor of Munchkin City from the Wizard of Oz.

I made a hat like a big tall green hat and I bought the whole outfit at Goodwill. That year I had hosted a Wizard of Oz costume party which was part of the reason for choosing that particular character.

I was very worried about her daughter like why would you pick? Why would you pick to dress up as the mayor of Munchkin City for no reason.

Unless you're throwing a Wizard of Oz costume party. But I ended up wearing that costume to a fall festival.

And I also worked trick or treating outside like after the party you know. And I will never love another costume better.

One of the my favorite parts about it was I had a pillow in my shirt to mimic you know the big enormous belly from the mayor.

Cost to a picture of me literally asleep with my head like drooped forward on the pillow belly because I was tired. It's good times. Okay costume costume corner over.

So candy and costumes. They're kind of no brainers right we will talk about a couple of specifics for those in a second. But the last two things that matter are likely connection and adventure some form in there.

There is connection in seeing neighbors in trick or treating with friends or family in being part of something collective even kids feel that it's just really special to be out with everyone else connecting in all these ways.

And then adventure okay this can include being scared which some people really love about Halloween I personally do not put that's okay.

But the going out like the walking the streets turning corners and wondering what you're going to find seeing friends and costumes and like wondering if it's really them you know there's this huge element of discovery and anticipation in in that adventure right we're anticipating what we'll get in our candy bucket and what costumes will see and what decorations will scare us and who will see on the street or at the festival or whatever that's usually what is true about Halloween right there's a lot of adventuring in Halloween.

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