Ghosts of Halloweens Past

Since the beginning of time, I've always been a huge fan of dressing up. For the past couple years however, I've hit a little bit of a rough patch with the whole creativity thing. Maybe it's because I'm awful at making decisions and always wait until the last minute to decide what to be, or maybe I had just hit a bit of a plateau with it. Whatever it was, it's a sad little journey when Halloween rolls around and you have to Google search "funny Halloween costumes" to come up with something mediocre for parties. The picture below is one of those unfortunate costumes that my friend Google came up with for me. Don't judge me.

I'm a Blackeyed Pea. Get it? Thanks for nothin' Google

After horribly bad pun outfits and being an indian for two different years, I made a promise to myself that this year I'd redeem myself. Well ladies and gents, I'm pleased to announce that after weeks of playing around with multiple ideas, I finally settled on a costume that is definitely one of my favorites that I've done in a while. After a few runs to the fabric store and a couple golden finds at the DI, I managed to come up with this little number.

I'll go ahead and brag and tell you BOTH our costumes are homemade. Praise us.

Thank the heavens my bad streak is finally over. And for added pleasure, here are more pictures from my family's Halloween party we enjoyed this evening. Only the finest costumes for the Hanks fam. 

 Me and my niece Addison as Minnie Mouse. She's adorable.

 Annual cousin picture. Toothbrush and toothpaste, Mad Hatter, and Rainbow Brite. So much creativity in one picture

 And again because I love these people

 Mom and Dad as Amazing Racers. (really just wanted excuses to wear sweats)

 My brother is "God's Gift to Women." With a face like that, who could resist right?

 Full body shot. No, we don't ever really smile.

Trevin was my Uncle Curt this year. The resemblance is scary

Coolest. Family. Ever.

Stranger Danger

Today a stranger on the shuttle started a conversation with me.  It went like this:
Stranger: "Are you done for the day?"
Kylie: "No unfortunately I'm not. I have work until 1 and then classes again until 5:30. Are you done?"
S: "Yeah I am! That's too bad you have to come back. Where do you work?"
K: "I do the financing in a soils lab."
S: "Oh so you're a dirty girl?" *cue creepy half smile*
K: "Ha...ha...." *blank stare*
Ok before I go on here, I'm going to go ahead and give you a visual of what said smile looked like. Ready? Here it is.

Mmmm...Mommy like

And that's where I stopped talking and found my phone to be incredibly interesting. Now, you might be thinking that I'm an awfully harsh person who's overreacting and that this man was merely trying to have a nice conversation with someone instead of staring blankly out of the window for the whole bus ride, and maybe you're right. Maybe this guy is my future spouse and I should track him down and get his number and woo the crap out of him. Maybe he just gave me his normal smile...HAHA who am I kidding? That guy was a creep.

Zombies, Nick Cage, and Sharks..Oh My!

Guess what I just remembered? The Walking Dead season 3 starts in a mere four days. FOUR DAYS!! Do you understand the words that are coming out of  my mouth?! The Walking Dead--one of the best post apocalyptic zombie shows ever made (Zombieland is of course up there, but that's a subject for another day)--is finally back after it made us stew over Andrea's mystery guardian as well as revealing the craziest freaking news there is about the zombie infection (Shane's a zombie? WHAAAAAAT??). Who cares you ask? Ah, my dear friend....it's clear that you haven't yet discovered the incredibly graphic, incredibly suspenseful, incredibly thrilling TV show that is The Walking Dead. Either that or you're one of those annoying people that doesn't watch grade A television purely to say they are in some way different from the rest of the world. If that's the case, then you might as well go jump off a cliff because this show is awesome. But don't just take my word for it. See for yourself. 

Now who's excited?! Oh man...just four more days kids. We can do it. 

In other news, Halloween is right around the corner and I've been trying to decide what I should be. So far the top picks are Nick Cage or a shark, but I'm open to any and all suggestions. (Leaning toward the shark though. Especially these ones http://geekcrafts.com/?s=shark+costume )