Halloween Season :o)

My fall has been all over the place.

October started out pretty awesome... so many plans and getting along with everyone! Fall makes me so happy, and it was rubbing off on everyone. I had planned to go to the Poe Warehouse, Renaissance Faire, Where the Wild Things Are, Linvilla Orchards, of course The Bates Motel, and any other scary haunted house type places I could think of! I had originally planned for me and Pete to be two of the Wild Things, but I would have had to start making those costumes in the summer! So we decided on Mother Nature and Friar Tuck :o) which I loved!

Linvilla Orchards was a great time! Pete, me, Ant & Liz went together... and it was so much fun! We went through a cornstalk maze, and we tried the apple sling... the cornstalk maze was fun... we never really got lost, suprisingly lol and the apple sling was exactly how it sounds... a giant sling shot for apples... and I can't believe not one of us hit the targets lol Then we went to eat some yummy butterfly chips (SO GOOD!) After that, we visited the animals which was some craziness. Crazy haired chickens, funny noises and greedy goats! We brought home some goodies and then came home to play some Beatles Rock Band :o)

Then came the weekend of Where the Wild Things Are, Cosi and Poe Warehouse... Where the Wild Things Are, I loved loved loved <3 it reminded me of being a kid again... and I just love that. Cosi was amazing! Haven't been there in years, and it was exactly as good as I remembered... don't you love that? Then Poe Warehouse in the city... I thought this was awesome! Alittle bit haunted house, alittle bit performance... it was really good. I'm so glad I made it to that!

Then after that everything sort of went downhill... I should've known better than to be so relying on people. People are generally unreliable. Atleast I know where I stand, you know. I know I do not fit in with my family, I get this, I understand this... I accept this and I'll move on. I still love them though.

After some family woes, there was rain rain rain followed by one thing going wrong after the other. My bed fiasco being one. Bates Motel wound up being horrible due to said family issues. Due to rain, we couldn't really go to any other haunted houses. And then I had to start making me and Pete's costumes. Pete looked great as Friar Tuck :o) he was so cute (Snuggie Monster) lmao. I liked the way my costume came out... I felt good and confident and pretty :o) despite being a big girl.

The Renaissance Faire was pretty much a wash, but we did our best to enjoy what we could and we did :o) We went to one show, shopped around, bought some souvies and then it started raining so we decided it was time to head home. We got home for Halloween night, had some yummy junk lol but of course what would my favorite holiday be without coming home to the family who can't stand me?! So we actually went to bed around 10:30... bleh.

Next day, I thought I could make up for the movies I didn't watch on Halloween. It was our family Halloween party. I bought these reddish clay animal ears from the Ren Faire so I decided to be a fox for the party and not get all done up in the Mother Nature costume again. So went to store, bought some fabric and fluff and made myself a fox tail. LoL I liked the way that costume came out too lol. Party was actually pretty good! Alot of people came, but of course as always the highlights of the party to me were the little ones... Brian, Lily and Ben. They are such cutie pies. I really wish I could see them more often. I love them so much <3 Brian was dressed up as Batman, a costume Colleen made, and it looked great! Lily was a witch, and she looked so cute. And Ben was Joker... I saw him in his purple courduroy suit which was adorable. But haven't seen him in his Joker make up yet!





After everyone left, Pete & I and my Mom watched The Changeling (the old one with George C Scott which is not the same as the new one). I forgot how much I liked that movie.

To sum up my Halloween season, I decided that by next Halloween... Pete and I will be living in our own place. The bullsh, hurt and hypocrisy that exists in this house and family are too much to handle this close to heart. It has taken me so long to feel like myself again after the past couple of years, and my family doesn't care in the least that they are pushing me back there again. Right now, I am tense, my chest hurts, and I feel like I'm about to snap. I honestly don't know how much my family and I will be talking after I move out for the last time. It sort of feels like we will be washing our hands of each other. And if thats the way it has to be then it will be.

But for today, the sky is absolutely beautiful, the weather is amazing, I am listening to amazing music, fall is all around me... and I am going to try to enjoy it as much as I can while it lasts <3