How Much Do We Know About Our Holidays?

Remind me to try this one day. It looks nice and cozy there. Artist: Shiira

So I've decided on a semi-permanent sorta timing for my posts. WEEKENDS ONLY. As you can see, I'm a student who doesn't like to do shit until it's due. Which leaves me panicking about finishing things on weekday nights. THUS! I shall carry on with weekend posts unless I'm dying to talk about something (WILL NEVER HAPPEN).

Here's my music intro that I really haven't done in the longest time EVAR.

Today's song is.. INDIE ROCK..!

 Sort of indie? I'll stop with the rock soon lol :P. Just, gimme some time to transition back into jazz LOLOL. The band is Ling Tosite Sigure (凛として時雨) and the song is called "A 7days Wonder". This band is one of my top 10 favourites. Seriously. GREAT STUFF!! From their melodic guitar solos to the bass and it's awesome orange tone to some of the most detailed drumming I've seen in a while, I can always count on these guys to release a great record. Not to mention the fact that they're a three-person band (sort of rare nowadays, eh?) with crazy shit vocals that break the LIMIT haha.


Now that I'm done with that and my lack of posts explanation. I'm gonna get on with other stuff that occupied me this week. By the time I finish this post and publish it, it WILL be Halloween! I have a lot of questions I'd like to ask wiki about Halloween, so I might as well share them with you. With my own interpreted answer that is..


First of all, WTF is Halloween?! 
From what I found. Some of Halloween was part of the Roman's feast for the harvest goddess, also of the festival of the dead, and a Celtic holiday celebrating the end of summer. Basically, Halloween has a lot less to do with the shit USA decides to pour into our brains. It was originally like a Thanksgiving holiday plus some dead people celebrations.Sort of like the mid-autumn festival us CHINESE have where we eat shit and be HAPPY (+THE DEAD PEOPLE THAT IS..)


So what does trick-or-treating have to do with this?
We go house to house just to beg for food. Ridiculous, but I've been doing it every year since I was 11 to this date... Trick-or-treating originally had a meaning similar to door-to-door Christmas caroling (Both are extremely one-sided if you ask me). Trick-or-treating's origins date back to this late-medieval practice where you made cakes to..celebrate for deceased souls. UM. LOL <insert bad pun about deathdate parties and cakes>. Basically poor people would go door to door receiving food in return of prayers for the dead.

PUMPKIN HOUSE via Google!

Hilarious enough, the name for Halloween comes from the night before All Hallows Day. WHAT'S WITH ALL THIS BLASPHEMY THEN?! Along the way with these traditions, little things like carved turnips for soulling has been changed to jack-o-lanterns (bastardization of tradition) and evil occult things and mythical monsters have made their way into this holiday. 


I'm going to stuff all the things I can here today because I know since I'm going trick-or-treating sunday night, I'll come home late and have no more energy to post pics or write walls of text like today lol. So I can't guarantee that I will post pictures of my Halloween adventures tomorrow night either. I shall fit in the stuff that I've been doing today here on:
So I've been making a paper mache mask for Halloween these past days. Here's my progress. If you wanna know where I got the main idea on how to make it here's a video. Please notice that I DIDN'T follow any of the rules..So I don't know why I'm linking it, it's just cool, watch it for mask ideas. It depends on the mask's shape afterall.

I have made my paste and applied a few layers of newspaper on a balloon. Anyone else tried this before? I remember doing this for some sort of school project..

Full..Shot.

More layers of that shit, horizontal this time. I think this was the last layer.

The next morning I put white paper on it! :D YAY

The coolest part about making a mask with a balloon:

Popping the balloon and watching it deflate in your paper mache bowl lol.

Finished base of my mask. After this I painted a coat of white paint and I'll leave the mask up to your imagination. Will eventually put up pics though :P.

After that I made custard with my sister. Yes, custard. After you work on paper mache you get hungry so you have to make sweet food. 

I got the recipe from this book I borrowed at the library. I LOVE LIBRARY COOK BOOKS, SO MANY PICS I SO HAPPY. ^O^

Cornstarch+milk. I really like those measuring spoons.

Nice colours :).

Melting BUTTA.

Added brown sugar.

+Milk & Cornstarch.

VOILA. Mix that shit up and you get custard. This was after the straining process and I didn't try eating it yet. I..I don't know if we did it right.

 This just about ends my post. A little bit of everything today. No rounded bits, or cut outs of lame school talks. I HATE POSTING ABOUT SCHOOL. No raging either :). Just a heads up about events to blog that are coming up. This Wednesday Canada is having it's national take your kids to work day. I will probably blog and post pics about that one if I have minimal amounts of homework. Well, with this, I bid farewell with my end pic.

GOODNIGHT WORLD!

A lot of the times I like to try to match up my opening picture with my ending picture or both of them to the current weather.
But this time I just want to screw everyone off. Artist: Ka92