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 Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:51 am
Do you guys celebrate Halloween? If so, what are your plans? And who has a costume they'd like to show us? whee
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 5:47 pm
I only celebrate it here O.o here's my outfit ninja
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 5:04 am
Mrs.Vixen I only celebrate it here O.o here's my outfit ninja
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 9:38 am
We "celebrate" by buying candy to give away. We make sure our porch light is on during the proper hours, but we never get any Trick or Treaters. Good thing we only buy the candy we like and not too much of it!
I haven't worn a costume for Halloween since... Hmm... I really can't even remember when. It has been an awfully long time.
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 7:52 am
I m p y We "celebrate" by buying candy to give away. We make sure our porch light is on during the proper hours, but we never get any Trick or Treaters. Good thing we only buy the candy we like and not too much of it! I haven't worn a costume for Halloween since... Hmm... I really can't even remember when. It has been an awfully long time.
I guess it is a good way to justify buying all your favorite candy though wink
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 7:04 am
There aren't many people left in our neighbourhood. We have a bingo hall and a prosthetics company across the street from us, and the parking lot for the bingo hall is HUGE. There are three bars, 3 car lots, a dentist, a drug store, two churches, a fire station, a drive-thru (convenience store) and muffler shop in our neighbourhood. And several houses have been abandoned and boarded up by the city.
Yeah, it is nice to have an excuse to buy our candy! Something better than just the fact that we want it, at any rate.
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 11:10 am
Oh. That's different than what I'm used to! I guess I'm kind of a city goer xp
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:26 am
I like the neighbourhood where my grandmother used to live! It was nice and large with a group of people who all knew each other. It was nice to know we could go out without an adult and that we wouldn't have to wait to get home and have our candy checked, because everyone in the neighbourhood trusted everyone else. It was also nice when we could get 12 ounce cans of pop, full size candy bars, popcorn balls... Or when we could go into someone's house for a slice of pie and/or a cup of cider or hot chocolate! Those were the good old days!
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:10 am
That does sound nice! As a child I lived in a quiet suburb where things were pretty much like that too 3nodding Good for kids, but I'm glad that by the time I was a teenager we moved to a place that had more to do! And then when I turned 18 I moved to an even bigger city xp Not that it's huge or anything. But I like all the activity. I certainly would not let a child wander around alone though!
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:12 am
There are very few places where I would let a child wander around alone. Well, I suppose that would depend on the child... I am not so proud of it, but there is definitely one I would encourage to play in traffic. sad
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:07 pm
I went to a Halloween party. There really aren't any "kids" left as they've all grown. I think the youngest person was maybe 15. We mostly eat food, talk, or play games.
Anyway, I went as a hobbit. I don't have any pics because they're on a friend's camera though.
I had a real scare though. I was curling my hair and it was taking a really long time (they were tiny curls because I wanted to look hobbit-ish). My friend was helping me with the back of my hair and I felt really strange suddenly. Then my ears started ringing and I could barely hear, and I started going blind and I felt really sick. I almost fell over and my friend asked if I was okay. I ended up sitting down and I broke out in a cold sweat. I thought I was dying!
Eventually my hearing came back and my vision came back. I found out that I had locked my knees for too long, standing there and I was blacking out from lack of blood! eek
I wasn't aware you could pass out from locking your knees, but apparently it's common in the military or in choirs where a person might stand still with their knees locked for a long period.
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:00 pm
Alpine I went to a Halloween party. There really aren't any "kids" left as they've all grown. I think the youngest person was maybe 15. We mostly eat food, talk, or play games. Anyway, I went as a hobbit. I don't have any pics because they're on a friend's camera though. I had a real scare though. I was curling my hair and it was taking a really long time (they were tiny curls because I wanted to look hobbit-ish). My friend was helping me with the back of my hair and I felt really strange suddenly. Then my ears started ringing and I could barely hear, and I started going blind and I felt really sick. I almost fell over and my friend asked if I was okay. I ended up sitting down and I broke out in a cold sweat. I thought I was dying! Eventually my hearing came back and my vision came back. I found out that I had locked my knees for too long, standing there and I was blacking out from lack of blood! eek I wasn't aware you could pass out from locking your knees, but apparently it's common in the military or in choirs where a person might stand still with their knees locked for a long period.
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 11:03 am
Wow, Alpine! That is a terrible thing to have happen! I am glad you are okay and that you know what caused it. Hopefully you will never encounter that again!
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 10:56 pm
I certainly hope it doesn't happen again either. I'm 99% sure of what caused the fainting spell though obviously there's not way to prove it. I found a list of common causes and I can see I probably did a few things wrong and I relaly should pay more attention. First, I was really hungry and hadn't eaten that day, save a few pieces of candy (bad idea) and the real food for the party wasn't ready yet. I'd had hardly a thing to drink while working outside. Then I stood for more than an hour, in one spot. Turns out, standing for a long time, dehydration, and hunger can all cause that kind of fainting. It may have been a combination of the three.
sad Well, I learned my lesson there.
On a lighter note, we made spiced walnuts and apple cider with mulling spices, both of which were a big hit. I was laughing because we left the drink heater and were going to pick it up later and my friend's dad kept brewing cider with the spices because he liked it so much. I guess I know what to buy them for Christmas now, more of those mulling spices!
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 11:09 pm
I m p y I like the neighbourhood where my grandmother used to live! It was nice and large with a group of people who all knew each other. It was nice to know we could go out without an adult and that we wouldn't have to wait to get home and have our candy checked, because everyone in the neighbourhood trusted everyone else. It was also nice when we could get 12 ounce cans of pop, full size candy bars, popcorn balls... Or when we could go into someone's house for a slice of pie and/or a cup of cider or hot chocolate! Those were the good old days! That sounds great! I wish things could be like that in most places today. I guess it may still happen in some of the smaller, tight-knit communities.
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