beetiger

Last year, I had the most awesomest candle someone gave me as part of a Halloween swap. I was a ghost shaped thing made out of paraffin that had a heat-sensitive electrical gadget inside, so that when you lit the candle, it glowed in a cycling rainbow of colors on the inside. I loved it, and burned it down to where the ghost head was all gone, so that it was just this weird vaguely chalicey looking thing of the two arms upraised over a wide base. Then it was November, and I figured I wouldn't light it again until the season came around. It sat on my bedroom dresser all year, waiting patiently.

So now it's the first of October, which is good enough for "the season" as far as I'm concerned. So I lit it, all excited, and...nothing. Apparently whatever battery was driving the rainbow light gadget ran out of battery over the year. Now it's just a hunk of paraffin with a wick in it, not a particularly pretty candle really. I think I'll enjoy the candlelight for the evening, but after I blow it out this time, I'm going to dissect the thing and look at the insides.

I need some new Halloween treats. I'm not doing the BPAL thing actively enough to be Switch Witching or anything, so I might have to shop for myself.