Happy Halloween, creeps!

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October 31st.

When I lived at home, every Halloween morning of my childhood started out the same way. My mom would play The Monster Mash loud enough to wake my brothers and I up and when we would walk downstairs, she'd be in the kitchen dancing while wearing wax fangs. Our toaster strudels would be sweetly adorned with iced on Jack o' Lantern faces or "Trick or Treat?" After school, we would come home and start gathering up our costume pieces. Around five or six, we would start get ready and by 7 or 8 we would be out the door and cruising neighborhoods searching for candy. There is nothing like the feeling of sitting in the floor after a long night of trick or treating and pouring your candy out. I would always separate mine out into piles to examine my treasure more thoroughly. For the next couple months, anyone with a sweet tooth was satisfied.

Previous Halloween costumes:

Bunny

Ghost

Madeline

Fairy

Movie Star

Glamourous Witch

Belly Dancer

Pirate

Tinker Bell

Baseball Player

Now that I'm older, my Halloweens have gone downhill. I no longer wake up to The Monster Mash. Instead, I listen to it on my walk to class. I am typically not able to dress up. Instead, I wear Halloween socks or earrings.  Oh well, I'm perfectly content with my batty socks and bug earrings. And... even though someone smashed my Jack Skellington pumpkin...my Halloween spirit has not been dampened. 

Happy Halloween!

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Halloween is one of my top three favorite holidays. 

#1 is Christmas

#2 is Thanksgiving

and

#3 is Halloween.

My birthday isn't included because I don't like loads of attention and that's what a birthday is all about. 

Sadly, the past three Halloweens haven't been that fantastic. 

This year:

 I wont be able to dress up.

Halloween is on a Monday.

My mom called dibs on tonight which means I am babysitting.

Oh well, I get to spend time with the most incredible boy in the world. While some girls will be out tonight in skimpy taxi driver costumes ready to take a boy for a wild ride, or other girls in fire fighter costumes prepared to tame someone's wild burning fire of desire...I will be sitting at home with a sweet 16 year old angel carving pumpkins and watching Just Dance videos online. 

I love my life and everyone in it.

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Happy Halloween weekend, you ghouls and goblins!

"When witches go riding,

and black cats are seen,

the moon laughs and whispers, 'tis near Halloween.' "

-Author Unknown

Life is good. The weather is delightful. My friends are incredible. My family is supportive and loving. I'm happy to say that at this moment, I am perfectly content.

A cardigan, a comfy button-down, jeans, knee socks, and a Tiny Tim radio station on Pandora make this moment completely perfect. Well, the only thing that could make it better is if Jon Christian was sitting on my bed tossing his Mario figurines into the air, hoping to get an overly enthusiastic cheer or amazement from me. But this is still just fine.

Today is my beautiful roommate, Abbey Crain's twentieth birthday. We met our freshman year of college and through a strange course of events...we became great friends. We had many dorm room slumber parties and bonded over inappropriate conversations, psycho roommates, and our hopes for the future. We went through pretty much everything together: influenza, deadly tornadoes, and breakups. Now, we're in the middle of our sophomore year and living together in a cozy historic house close to downtown Tuscaloosa. We have built a friendship that I have the deepest appreciation for and I hope to have many more years with this incredible girl. Happy birthday, Abigail Crain!

Design

By: Robert Frost

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,

On a white heal-all, holding up a moth

Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth—

Assorted characters of death and blight

Mixed ready to begin the morning right,

Like the ingredients of a witches' broth—

A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,

And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,

The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?

What brought the kindred spider to that height,

Then steered the white moth thither in the night?

What but design of darkness to appall?—

If design govern in a thing so small.

And they danced by the light of the moon.

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The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea

In a beautiful pea-green boat,

They took some honey, and plenty of money,

Wrapped up in a five pound note.

The Owl looked up to the stars above,

And sang to a small guitar,

"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,

What a beautiful Pussy you are, you are, you are,

What a beautiful Pussy you are."

Pussy said to the Owl "You elegant fowl, 

How charmingly sweet you sing.

O let us be married, too long we have tarried;

But what shall we do for a ring?"

They sailed away, for a year and a day,

To the land where the Bong-tree grows,

And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood

With a ring at the end of his nose, his nose, his nose,

With a ring at the end of his nose.

"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling your ring?"

 Said the Piggy, "I will"

So they took it away, and were married next day

By the Turkey who lives on the hill.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince,

Which they ate with a runcible spoon.

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand.

They danced by the light of the moon, the moon, the moon,

They danced by the light of the moon.

Delicious autumn!  My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. - George Eliot

 Since the weather has turned from being unbelievably brutal to being mild and fair...I've wanted to spend all of my time outside. Unfortunately, I'm not able to because of classes and studying. However, I have plans to go to the arboretum on Friday and enjoy the blessings of mother nature.

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Nature makes my whole body feel clean and refreshed.

On days like today...the only thing that makes sense is Panera.

Things that went wrong:

1. Woke up on time. Turned off alarm so I could start my day. Turned over to read text messages. Fell asleep. Woke up an hour and a half later. Missed my class.

2. Realized that I didn't understand the Geology that was due today. Not prepared for my test on Friday.

3. I don't have the things I need for my NC class today. Drove across town to go to Michael's to buy the things I needed. Realized that they moved Michael's somewhere else. Hobby Lobby was flattened by the tornados. Oops.

4. Huge Human Development test on Thursday- not ready for it.

5. My plan was to go to Panera to study... got here and realized I forgot half the things I meant to bring.

Things that went right:

1. I didn't die in my sleep.

2. I didn't wake up with any unsightly deformities. 

3. My roasted turkey artichoke panini with chicken noodle soup and an iced green tea hit the spot.

So right now, the bad things are outweighing the good.

Sometimes I have everything together and I feel like I can take on the world. Other times, not so much.

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school.

They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous.

They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor.  They don't teach you how to walk

away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't

teach you anything worth knowing." 

Neil Gaiman.