Halloween @ MindSay

Halloween Halloween Halloween, what does the name mean to you!!  As a child it was one of my personal favourites on top of the list next to Christmas!  A spooky time of the year where anything goes.  We walked the streets unattended, dressed up as monsters, demons, ghosts you name it we wore it from bin bags down to fangs and fake blood, oh yes Halloween! And the good ole days where we could truly express our fantasies and trick or treat used to mean exactly that and not your car window being put through if you didn’t oblige.  So what happened to the community over the years, what happened to the true spirit of Halloween connecting to those in your local village or town, staying out late par taking in a home cookie, toffee apple and the bag of goodies, your reward for the night.

In today’s times there are even those misguided souls wishing to get Halloween banned completely as they can’t understand the distinction between Halloween and its origins celebrations such as Samhain or All Souls Day.  If we take away Halloween we will soon be left with very little, while the spiritual elements of Halloween are worth looking at those who cower under their beds during this time as what they believe to be evil, miss the point entirely. 

While there are valid reasons NOT to celebrate the secular or spiritual side to Halloween there is no justification to assume your six year old constructing a witches hat is in fact “serving the devil”.  So whatever your views or religion, remember what this time of the year means to the children and some of us adults who still love Halloween.  Make it a celebration, dress up, play some games, trick or treat and share your fun with others. 

From the whole team at www.costumefinder.co.uk this Halloween stay safe and stay happy.

I couldn't have planned it any better... Mr. Snuggles posed perfectly with me while I contemplated being a zombie. He's the quintessential black Halloween cat, isn't he? I didn't need much more than him for my costume!



I went through a lot of different ideas to come up with a practical costume for Halloween. My first idea was to be a vampire but then I wanted to be a zombie. That evolved into wanting to be a sorceress with orange-red hair. Next I played with being a sexy fat fairy queen, but that would've been too cold considering that I'd be in little more than underwear! I then picked up some horns and tried to be a silly "cow girl" or demon whore. Then I almost settled into being a whore, but the bra I wore really pushed up my boobs too high and I could see myself not breathing very well because of that. Then I fell in love with a wide brimmed black ribbon hat that I could drape lace and sheer chiffon over and be a mourner. This was the look I eventually did because it was simple and practical for trick or treating. The rest of the images are me just playing around with all the make-up. It relieved my boredom!



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I typically just dress up for Halloween, and am never anything in particular, but I think I kinda looked like a show girl so I guess we can say that's what I was.

















Bree was a cat, but I cut off her ears in this picture =/


Blurry<3 but Mikey Dish was Shaggy haha


Jill stopped by to visit (she had dressed up on Hallow's Eve and had no desire to dress up again)




Jill tried to take these next two pictures, lol. I had to adjust my outfit to proper working conditions ;)




And no photo editing I promise; I love these pictures because I look like I have no body:






And then Lou:




I stole these from Autumn but I just wanted to show you guys a drunk Lou ;)

I'm still recovering from all the fun I had visiting with Rebekah and Josh last weekend. Looking over the photos I took, I still can't believe it's a week later. In my mind I still feel like I'm back there with them in Janesville! Or like I could just walk next door and there's their house. If I ever wanted to have the super ability to teleport, I'd love to have it now. Words... not even song lyrics can describe clearly how wonderful our visit was. All I can say is wish you were there! And here's the closest thing I can get to teleporting you there... but first we're going to jump into the mountain of leaves Rebekah's daughter Savannah and her friend Ricky created the afternoon just before I left for home! With us is Rebekah's sister Rachael (jeez, hope I spelled your name right! Reply to me and let me know what your mindsay blog is again, Rachael!) who was an absolute gem to hang out with. You all gave me such fond memories, it makes me weep with joy!!!













Before I went go bye-bye, I couldn't resist playing in Rebekah's houseplants:





I want to write more, but the computer labs at the university close in five minutes and I've been sleeping in late (or is that staying up late? BOTH) for the last couple days. More to come! I love sharing. Yay!

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For the majority of the day, I've not felt the best. I've been slightly lapsed for a while now - but Shelly did manage to cheer me up slightly. We played Canis Canem Edit together and Guitar Hero 5.
Shelly came at about 3 in the afternoon because she was spending the night after coming with us to Ian's Halloween party.
Mam had bought mini bags of Haribo Starmix for the brats who knock on the door and she said I couldn't have any - but I snaffled some when she wasn't looking. :P

Although the party was pretty good - I had a laugh with Christine, talked with Laura about film-making, talked with Mark about games - had a laugh with Lisa and her friend in the kitchen - drank a few bottles of iron brew WKD and cuddled up with Shelly on the sofa for a while - it was dad who had to go and ruin it.

And he didn't just ruin the party for me - he ruined the whole of tonight. He's SUCH a fucking ARSEHOLE.
He's starting to make me hate him again. A while back I disliked mam for being bitchy all the time, but she's settled down, she's just a knob when it suits her - but dad's a total fucking prick all the time.
And this is tripled, maybe even quadrupled when he's drunk.

He ALWAYS, without fail - will upset me when I'm drunk - but apparently he upset Christine as well - he upset Shelly by being a general arsehole, touching her up - and not just her, Lisa and Amy as well - and I know that mam wasn't best pleased with him either.

Not only this - but when we got home - Shelly and I were cuddled up on the floor and duvet pile together - some chavs had set fire to a car outside, so we had mam mooching about being generally nosey - all these fire engines and police cars going by at two in the morning with their lights and sirens going - then this inflamed car decided to start randomly EXPLODING. Shelly and I were just like SERIOUSLY WTF.

After this drama, we all settled down and tried to get back to what we were doing - dad decides to blunder about naked on the landing, throwing up all over the carpet and the suitcase by the ottoman. So he's being noisy, as well as flashing everything to Shelly who was unfortunate enough to catch a glimpse when she was going to the toilet.
And as a result of him throwing up everywhere - he kept mam awake as well as us - he was pissing about mopping everywhere up with toilet roll for about 45 minutes - then there was the racket of mam getting the mop bucket out.

It was like the first time in ages I was in a reasonable mood, I wasn't TOO depressed - thus rendering my sex drive reasonably okay - and he just had to go and turn me RIGHT off. Vomit is one of my phobias, for a start - but I couldn't feel at all comfortable knowing he was falling about like a twat on the landing outside the door and mam was dragged away to clean up after him.
I felt really sorry for her actually - I'm just glad she didn't have work on Sunday and dad did - ha, the twat, that'll fucking teach him.

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Party photos:



Me, as an evil deranged jester - and Ian as The Crow. :D



Shelly and I. :D



Mam, myself, Shelly and dad - as Yoda. :S



Amy, Dan, Ian, Mark and Laura. :D



Christine and Roger. :D