And she says she's selective about the things she buys...

dress: found in dumpster

tights: LL Bean

boots: Frye

necklace: thrifted

ring: ex engagement ring

earrings: gift from friend 10 years ago

Halloween Fun Facts! Happy Samhain!

The word has power, and its wielder is Tina Fey. It's to hard to try and figure out where the, "Slut rule" came from, but maybe it's prevalence came about by it's naming. Who doesn't remember that little light going off when LiLo makes reference to it in, "Mean Girls." Halloween is now synonymous with letting it all hang out, and i mean all. I was in Wal-mart the other day and I wanted to slap this woman's hand away from the slutty candy corn costume and not so gently remind her that for her, those days are long since gone. Here, take the Gumby costume, go on...green's your color. We all know, after all, that the real sluts take the night off snickering to themselves, "Amateurs..."

Fun Facts!

The earliest known reference to ritual begging on Halloween in English speaking North America occurs in 1911, when a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, near the border of upstate New York, reported that it was normal for the smaller children to go street guising on Halloween between 6 and 7 p.m., visiting shops and neighbors to be rewarded with nuts and candies for their rhymes and songs.

In the movie “Halloween” the mask worn by Michael Meyers is actually the mask of William Shatner painted white.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with “orange.”

Halloween 1948, members of the Madison Square Boys Club in New York City carried a parade banner that read "American Boys Don't Beg."

Picking up girls on Halloween is like finding Waldo in a world full of hacky whored-out Waldos.

Signs that your boyfriend/girlfriend/best friend might be a werewolf: a unibrow, hair palms, tattoos, and a long middle finger.

Halloween is one of the most commercially successful holidays, second only to Christmas with candy sales reaching the 2 billion dollar mark. Chocolate candy bars top the list as the most popular candy for trick-or-treaters with Snickers #1.

Christa Getz, the purchasing director for BuyCostumes.com said, "Probably over 90 to 95 percent of our female costumes have a flirty edge to them, adding that sexy costumes are so popular the company had to break its Sexy category into three subdivisions this year.

Bobbing for apples is thought to have originated from the roman harvest festival that honors Pamona, the goddess of fruit trees.

Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America.

So you wanna be a real witch? Samhain (Halloween) is also considered a witch's New Year's Eve.

Pick 13 leaves, one for each full moon, and put them in a small box.
Chant, "Goddess, I thank you for your bounty.
As the wheel turns, walk with me from season to season."
Place the box under your bed for love and prosperity for the coming year.

(No Altar needed, but this one's just pretty)

Karma Police

Is this really it? Am I falling into that white picket fence trap? I’m not a white picket fence kind of a girl. I was supposed to teach overseas and wander around Europe dating Michelangelo's and Niccolo’s with thick unruly hair, a wicked sense of style, “300 abs” and collect men with accents that could melt the thong off my perfectly toned ass. Why don’t I have the body of a goddess yet? And I don’t mean the fertility one. I wanted to walk the beaches of Greece with a bag filled only with contraband, a bottle of red wine and a bikini, visit that shoe museum in Amsterdam and couch surf for a while. What happened?

(Lol, see comment box.)

Sometimes I wonder why. Why did all these things happen to me? Is it a god thing? I’ve heard god only gives us as much as we can handle. I think that’s a load of bullshit because there are plenty of people who can’t deal and shut down or go crazy or many other things I’m not actually interested in getting into at the moment. I started thinking about Karma, the law of three, and energy. I believe in energy, everything just changes forms but it’s always a form of it. There are positive and negative people, and the negative ones are usually so depressing they naturally repel you, but then so can the positive ones when they have no ground to their thinking in reality. Think Pollyanna on crack. Still, it gives no meaning to anything.

The Law of Three is a Wiccan thang. Basically it means that what ever you put out comes back to you times three. Also another wheel-barrel full of manure next to that first one. It’s just a general principle coined by Raymond Buckland in 1968 and kind of got picked up by everybody. It reminds me of the Good Samaritan, the phrase “do unto others as they do unto you,” and you might want to rethink that curse spell work… a warning, the boogieman.

(Although if you want to get into a debate about different planes and levels of existence let me know. I’ve got a great story about quantum energy bananas.)

It all comes back to Karma. And the theory of Karma is a fundamental doctrine in Buddhism. Apparently it predated the Buddha, but he just explained it, how kind.

"“What is the cause of the inequality that exists among mankind?”

Either this inequality of mankind has a cause, or it is purely accidental. No sensible person would think of attributing this unevenness, this inequality, and this diversity to blind chance or pure accident."

Oh really? So if it’s not blind chance then it’s your actions from a previous life? Right.

""What is the cause, what is the reason, O Lord," questioned he, "that we find amongst mankind the short-lived and long-lived, the healthy and the diseased, the ugly and beautiful, those lacking influence and the powerful, the poor and the rich, the low-born and the high-born, and the ignorant and the wise?"

The Buddha’s reply was:

"All living beings have actions (Karma) as their own, their inheritance, their congenital cause, their kinsman, their refuge. It is Karma that differentiates beings into low and high states.""

I really feel the Cosmic Karma Past Lives Bank is a load of bull too. It does feel like official religious bull though. A story you can tell your kid at night that makes everything seem fair again in a weird way. Everything is cause and effect, action and result, Karma and Vipaka. This doesn’t mean you can’t change your life, it’s kind of all about changing it. How you view your circumstances and limitations. Limitations are self-imposed, even if other people impose them on us it is ultimately our decision to believe them or not. Are you just going to keep asking, “Why me? Why now? Why won’t it stop? Why again?” Or are you going to say, “Fuck it, it stops now.” I prefer the latter but am still struggling with the point. All those things I listed, they don’t bother me anymore. Actually I couldn’t care less, and I know what I want to be doing and am working towards that, but so what? So what indeed…