's motd Sunday, Oct 31, 2010 - Halloween

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IT'S

RICHARD SIMMONS!

Sunday, 31 October 2010

When I first

opened my exercise studio, Slimmons, in Beverly

Hills, there was a husband and wife team who

began attending class from the very beginning. They

had five of the most amazing children I'd ever met.

Sometimes, they'd even bring the kids to class with

them. The nice thing is I've known them for so

long that I've gotten to watch their kids grow up

into adulthood. I often had dinner with their

family or sometimes we'd attend a movie together.

We always had such a fun time with each other.

Well one

year, the kids asked if I would take them all

trick-or-treating. (Okay, so they begged me! LOL.) I got really excited

at the idea of taking the kids out for Halloween.

But the only problem was that it was so late, I

didn't have time to go pick out a Halloween costume. But

I did have a fabulous tank top with crystal spider

webs on it and, in the middle of the tank top was a

crystal, orange and black spider. Perfect

Halloween outfit for me! So I put it on,

along with a pair of my black-and-white

striped Dolfin shorts and drove over to pick up the

kids.

Oh, they all looked so adorable in their Halloween

costumes. And they each had one of those big

plastic pumpkin pails to collect their Halloween

treats. They lived right around the corner from

Slimmons and it's a very residential neighborhood.

So there would be plenty of houses for us to visit.

Now can you imagine me taking five kids door-to-door

trick-or-treating? We'd go up to each house, ring

the doorbell and I would be standing there with the

kids as we all hollered together..."trick-or-treat!"

The person who opened the door would be standing

there with a big-old bowl of Halloween candy ready

to hand out their treats. But they would first look

at the kids then look at me, stop in their

tracks and shout..."It's !"

A few

times, this "guilty look" would cross their faces as

they stood there with that bowl filled

with fattening, sugary Halloween treats for the

kids. One lady even invited us into her house and

she ran to the kitchen and brought me back an

apple. LOL! The kids thought it was funny and I

remember laughing so hard with the lady who pulled

that cute little stunt!

After visiting about thirty houses, I was

exhausted. And on top of that, I'd just about lost

my voice from yelling trick-or-treat with

the kids for well over an hour. When I dropped them

off at home, their parents asked if they all had a

good time. Their seven year-old daughter, Kim, said

"I'm never going trick-or-treating again unless

comes with us!" Oh, now just look

what I'd started! LOL.

Trick-or-treating is fun. It's great to walk up to

a house, not knowing anyone there and getting big

smiles from them as they open their doors. And, on

top of that, they give you treats! Oh, such a

deal!

Every year,

during my Halloween trick-or-treating back in New

Orleans, after I visited my very last house in the

French Quarter, I'd go to my bedroom with my

trick-or-treat bag, now filled with sweet loot. I'd

spread all of my candy across the bed and just look

at my treasure before diving into it. And finally,

I'd eaten so many of my treats that I just about

ended up in a sugar shock!

Someone E-mailed the other day and asked I if were

going to eat candy on Halloween. And my honest

answer was...yes! See, I have two mini

Kit-Kat bars in my fridge for the special occasion

this evening. And tonight, when the moon is full,

I'll go out into my back yard and howl at the

moon before enjoying my mini Kit-Kat bars.

And now, you be sure and behave yourself

with all of that candy around your house tonight,

will ya? And consider this, when you step on the

scale tomorrow morning, will see a trick or...a

treat?

BOO!

Love,