Halloweeeeen

I used to love Halloween when I was a kid. Trick-or-Treating was the best and dressing up was fun. I haven't done anything for Halloween in years though, I kind of hate fancy-dress now, I'm not really sure why. Tonight I shall be at work anyway so no Halloween plans. 

Last night I made a cake. Well, kind of. I cheated, thank you very much Betty Crocker. But man is it good.

I wanted to make it Halloween themed but then I realised all I had to decorate it with were chocolate buttons. But it is scarily unhealthy so I guess that counts. The amount of frosting on it is ridiculous. It's so yummy though.

Also, I bought Empire magazine the other day because of this cover:

It's 3D which I guess doesn't really translate in a photograph but it's so cool! I'm going to stick it on my wall, it'll probably really freak me out if I wake up in the middle of the night though. They've got 5 different covers of different characters from The Hobbit and I really want them all but at a fiver a piece I think it's a bit much.

Finally, here's a link to the best celebrity Halloween costumes (apparently, some of them are a bit rubbish). I think Heidi Klum and Seal officially have all the best costumes though!

Happy Halloween everyone!

Song of the Day: Jack's Lament (from The Nightmare Before Christmas) by Danny Elfman

Current'y reading: We Need To Talk About Kevin

Halloweeny...kind of

Because it's Halloween tomorrow, I thought I'd wear the most Halloweeny thing in my wardrobe and curl my hair, as you do. I can't decide if I love or hate the hair, but I haven't straightened it all out yet so that must be a good sign.

I never usually like tops like this one but I saw it on play.com a couple of years ago and had to buy it, it's kind of creepy in a good way I think. Plus it's Alice in Wonderland and that makes it cool.

Top: Criminal Damage (from play.com) I don't think they sell it anymore though!

Skirt: New Look

Tights: BHS

Shoes: New Look

I hope everyone has more exciting plans than I do tomorrow night, I will be at work unfortunately. No Halloween fun for me, sad times.

Apocalypse

Morning. I hope everyone enjoyed their extra hour in bed yesterday morning. I definitely did. I have a delivery coming today, I don't know what time except that it will be before 3pm, so I got up at 8 and I'm currently snuggled on the sofa with a cup of coffee and watching Frasier. Bliss.

What I wanted to talk about today is that Derren Brown Apocalypse show that's been on channel 4. I missed it on Friday because I was at work but when I got home last night I watched it because I was genuinely curious to see how it would go. If you're not sure what I'm talking about, Derren Brown (that hypnotist guy) basically selected someone who he thought was the right candidate and convinced him that he was living in a zombie apocalypse caused by a meteor collision. The whole premise of this is obviously completely ridiculous, not to mention a pretty horrific thing to put someone through. I can't quite make my mind up over how legitimate I think it is, because to be honest I'm a massive skeptic when it comes to hypnotism, but at certain times I definitely felt convinced just by how genuinely terrified this poor guy seemed to be. The jury's still out at the moment though. I'm such a cynic.

My main problem with the whole thing is how Derren Brown thinks that by doing this to the poor lad he's somehow helping him live a better life and learn to not take his friends and family for granted, because he's decided that this guy is selfish and lazy and not making the most out of his life. It's so self-righteous. OK, fair enough in the few clips we were shown of him being secretly filmed at home, he did seem lazy and selfish, and I did feel a bit sorry for his mum because she said she wanted him to love her a bit more, but he certainly didn't seem like a terrible human being who deserved to actually be forced to live through what's shaping up to be an amalgamation of every zombie movie ever made. Also, he's only 21 years old, and who's honestly got their life together by the time they're 21? I just wanted to give him a hug and tell him everything was going to be alright through most of it, I felt so sorry for him.

Anyway, it concludes on Friday when I'm at work again, but I think I'll definitely have to watch it afterwards, maybe I'll be able to decide if I think it's real or whether I think this guy is just an actor (albeit a pretty good one). 

Song of the Day: Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Currently reading: We Need To Talk About Kevin

Photo Friday

It's Autumn, therefore it's really pretty outside.

Gross looking mushrooms growing in the garden

So I guess I just officially implemented Photo Friday which means so far so good with regards to my schedule. Autumn and Winter are my favourite seasons, not that I don't like Spring and Summer but I've never minded being cold, and I like layering and hot drinks and blankets and sitting in front of the fire. Not to mention Christmas. Also the colours of the leaves are so pretty this time of year. Unfortunately they're also falling off the trees pretty rapidly which means I'm going to have to rake them all up soon, I'm sure that will be a fun job for me.

Song of the Day: Daniel by Bat For Lashes

Currently reading: We Need To Talk About Kevin

Pink & Grey

My titles for these are so unimaginative, I'm going to have to think of a better system I think. But anyway, onto the outfit.

Haha I look so sad

Outside photos look so much better than ones taken indoors. It's a shame the weather doesn't always make it possible to do that, although I'm going to try and take them outside as much as I possibly can. I love this skirt but I've been finding it really hard to style, which is ridiculous really because it's grey and grey goes with lots of things. I was just wearing it with a white long sleeved top which looked nice but it was a bit boring. A quick root through my wardrobe to find this beauty of a jumper and voila, an instant pop to an otherwise pretty dull ensemble.

Jumper: H&M

Top: Dorothy Perkins

Skirt: Topshop

Boots: Peacocks

Lately...

My blog schedule is kind of coming together. I know that I'm going to be posting on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. Friday is going to be photograph based, and I'm going to call it Photo Friday because it's pretty much alliteration and therefore sounds good. I haven't thought of anything specific to do on Mondays and Wednesdays, but rest assured, I'll be delivering some sort of content on those days! But anyway, for today, here's a little, 'what I've been doing lately' to keep you going.

Reading: 
Honestly? Christmas magazines, recipe books, blogs, but not a lot else. Which is ridiculous because I am supposed to be doing a book challenge (that I set for myself, might I add). I don't know what it is but lately I just haven't really felt like reading which is a shame because I really do love to read. I think part of the reason is that there are books that I quite want to read which aren't on my list, and I know that reading them will make me feel guilty, and that's making me resent my list of books still to read. I think the first thing I need to do is finish We Need To Talk About Kevin and then I'll see how I feel after that. I'm stuck in a reading rut and I need to get out of it.

Watching:
Game of Thrones. I feel like I'm kind of late to the party with this one, but a friend got me onto it and I am hooked. I haven't read any of the books (now there's a surprise) and honestly I don't think I'll bother, I'm just enjoying watching it. I've also been watching Nigellissima, Nigella Lawson's current show on the BBC. I used to love Nigella, I love the hilarious phrases she uses to describe what she's doing and how things taste. Plus her hair is always so perfect. But on this latest series she suddenly seems so incredibly smug. Not that she hasn't always been smug because she has, but now she's even smuggier (that's totally a word). It still hasn't stopped me watching though, I'm a sucker for cookery shows. Oh, and last night the new series of Tool Academy started so I'll be watching that. It's so bad but I just can't look away.

Movie-wise, I've seen a couple of new to me films. I finally watched Princess Mononoke the whole way through. I love it, it's so fantastically weird. I also watched Leon: The Professional for the first time, that's pretty good. 

Listening to:
There's a song from one of the Google Chrome adverts which I'd been wanting to purchase for a while but didn't know what it was. Then I remembered I have Shazam on my iPhone and so that pretty much solved my problem. So anyway, the song was Velvet Elvis by Alex Winston, and it's awesome, but I bought the whole album (King Con) because it is so good. I've also been listening to The Civil Wars a lot.

Looking forward to:
Christmas. ChristmasChristmasChristmasChristmas.

Making:
Lists and plans and cookies.

Girly

Look, it's an actual outfit post, by me! I know, I was shocked too.

This outfit is super girly, although I feel like the shoe boots give it a little bit of an edge. Also I feel like I'm maybe too old to still be wearing hairbands. I do love them though. I've had to take this one off now as I'm pretty sure it was cutting off the circulation to my brain. Still, it's pretty.

Hairband: Matalan

Top: H&M

Cardigan: Matalan

Jeans: Matalan

Shoes: New Look

So my schedule so far for this blog is that I'm going to do outfit posts on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I'll do something on another day as well but I haven't really got that far yet. I'm happy to be doing outfit posts again though, I'd forgotten how fun it is :D