my favorite halloween costume ever.

halloween is my favorite holiday, along with the fourth of july and bonfire night. it's atmospheric and creepy and awesome. one of the reasons i love it so much is the chance to dress up and pretend you're someone--or something--else. (i haven't been very good at this in recent years, honestly.) my favorite costume i've had was when i was in third grade. i as a witch. but that year i carried around my family's black kitten, Black Jack (or jackie-O for short. don't ask) as part of my costume. a witch isn't complete without her black cat, right? the best part was, during the parade of costumes where we all line up, as elementary kids and the Brits do (queuing up is a national pastime there), and walk around the school for the parents to take pictures and ooh and aah and compare their kids with other kids, i carried jackie and got to hear everyone gasp in amazement at my awesomeness and how cute my kitty was. yeah, i was kind of a big deal for thirty minutes. what makes that costume even more special for me is that just a few hours later on that same halloween, jackie was run over and we had to bury her in our backyard. i was pretty devastated. she was my first kitty. (we had yet to save dinter and his brother from the dumpster.) despite this sadness, i still love halloween and i look forward to many more to come. happy halloween!

the wanderer returned/ second stanza/ pablo neruda.

Time then does exist, I realize it.
I know it exists, but I cannot understand
how that city which had warm blood,
which had sky enough for all,
and whose midmorning smile
spread like a basketful of plums,
those houses with a forest smell,
wood newly cut at dawn with the saw,
the city that always sang at the water's edge
of sawmills in the mountains,
all that was yours and mine
of the city and its clarity
wrapped itself up in love, secretly,
and let itself fall into forgetfulness.

frak yeah.

I love this website: we heart it. These pictures (especially the ones under the "vintage" tag) always make me happy. And I want to model my fall look around this one I found on there:



I'll have my gray contacts and black hair and it'll be fantastic.

I also received a really nice compliment from a young man I may or may not think is pretty amazing. I told him thanks for being awesome and he said, "You enable awesomeness." Aw geez. We'll refer to him as Lovey in Las Vegas, herein after "LLV."

p.s. october, the best month of the year, is finally here! <3