Well it’s over.

Halloween has come and gone. And just like a werewolf after a full-moon blood bath…the site has officially been turned back to normal.

It looks so boring now without all the ghosts and gravestones though. I really just wish we could leave up those decorations all year long. But sadly, we can’t.

I won’t.

Once something is over, it’s over. But that’s the way I like it honestly. It makes that one spooky night out of the year that much more special when you know it’s going to be gone tomorrow. Sure it sucks for it to be over because it was such a GREAT season, but it makes it a little easier to say good-bye when I can look back and see all the great stuff we talked about over the last month.

Which is the whole point of doing the Boozinga each year.

Speaking of Boozinga, I still can’t believe we made it to the end and didn’t just give up one week into Halloween like last year! We started to show symptoms of all-hallows-fatique during week 2, but we rallied and wrote about our favorite things about Halloween for 31 straight days. 54 things to be exact.

Yeah…we rocked it.

Here are some of my favorites from Halloween 2011. We tried to talk about these on Sunday’s “Monster Mash” show, but went brain dead from sheer holiday exhaustion when the time came. So lets try this one again…

1 ) Finding The Scariest Toy in the CVS Halloween Aisle. It’s still sitting on my desk and I’m scared to move it.

2 ) Re-discovering my love for The Halloween Tree. This was probably the strangest part of my Halloween this year too. I wrote about this pretty early on in the month and had no idea then that I would actually get sick on Halloween once again this year! So what did I do all day (besides sleep)? I watched the Halloween Tree marathon all day on ABC Family. It was awesome.

3 ) Fat Guy’s post about the Zombie in a Penguin Suit short.

4 ) The ‘Trick ‘r Treat’ Shorts the Junk posted. God I loved those. I might just watch those all over again today.

5 ) The Many Costume of One-Sheet featuring the now infamous Steve Urkel costume.

6 ) Junk’s post about the 7 Real Horror Houses You Can Trick R’ Treat. Though you know they probably all give out shitty candy or pennies.

7 ) Finding randomly all those crazy haunted houses for my A Few Of This Year’s BEST Haunted Attractions post. And especially getting to go to Thrillvania this year. Man that was fun. And kind of sketchy. Which made it all the more fun.

8 ) And last but not least…being inspired by McDonald’s boo-pale resurrection (which a few trick ‘r treaters were rocking last night) to dig up my favorite happy meal toy of all time. The Halloween McNugget Buddies. I’m serious McDonald’s…bring those toys back!

So what’s next? Well now begins the long process of packing up all the house and office decorations and trying not to contract adult on-set diabetes from eating all the left over candy.

Oh, that reminds me!

To the kid last night dressed as a “stealth ninja” who took TWO full sized candy bars AND a big handful of smaller candy even though we clearly told you the rule that you only got to choose ONE full sized candy bar OR a handful of smaller candy…I’m watching for you next year buddy.

It would be one thing if you were just really into your character like that Harry Potter trick or treater who tried to conjure up candy from our bowl with a “Candicus!” spell. We gave him two full sized bars because he was awesome and had some showmanship. But you were just greedy and took the candy and ran.

That’s one thing I learned from our first year of actually having trick or treaters that I haven’t had a chance to right about.

You can tell a lot about how a kid is deep down by seeing what they do when you put candy in front of them. Some would yell our “Trick or Treat!!” before we even got the door open and would only take a few pieces and run off happy skipping down the steps. While others just said, “…hey…” and would grab as much as they could.

Breaking the coveted Halloween candy contract that all kids know and must abide by.

So if you’re going to take more candy than you’re supposed to, at least put some pageantry into Halloween kids! That’s all I’m saying.

Greedy little Ninja’s aside though, Halloween 2011 was a pretty great one. They even played The Simpon’s Treehouse of Horror BEFORE Halloween! Thankfully it was just as disappointing as it always has been, so my mind wasn’t completely blown.

Ugg, I’m rambling now. I think I just need more candy because what I’m trying to say is…every year Boozinga gets bigger. And next year will be no different. Why am I so confident? It’s because Boozinga has only gotten to be this big of thing because of all of YOU.

Thank you for reading all of the posts and listening to all the podcasts through out the last 31 days. It really helped to keep us in the mood by writing all of those posts, so I hope you enjoyed reading them and that they kept your spook-o-meter filled.

After seeing just how many people were reading the site during the month (we spiked just below 3,000 a day on Halloween night!) it really makes me want to do something similar for Christmas now.

Maybe a Christmas Burr-zinga? 25 days of holiday cheer? It could happen. But no promises right now because we’re all pretty exhausted from October. Though it’s nothing a little ho-ho-ho can’t fix. So we’ll see.

Anyways, until next year everybody…thank you again for being the eyes and ears to the second annual Boozinga! The body isn’t even cool in the grave yet and already I can’t wait for next year.

“364 days till Halloween…Halloween…364 days till Halloween…Hall…o…weeeennnn…”

(just watch the commercial, you’ll get what I’m trying to sing/type)