Exciting stuff...

...For a change!! It's been a busy week, and not with work based things, which is fantastic. Spent Monday with my sister, her husband and their two boys. We went to the Reptile Village outside Kilkenny and had an absolute blast! Well, the adults did. Not so sure about the kids. I however was in my element. I came home and realised I had picked up lots of tit-bits of information about the animals. More of those useless things that will stay lodged in my head for eternity, taking up space that could be used on more important things. But instead, I will forever know that if a spider is dropped from a height the abdomen can burst, causing the spider to die. However, sometimes if the spider is preparing to shed her skin (I say her cause I'm sexist with spiders, blame E.B.White) she has already started healing herself from the inside out, so she could possibly survive the drop. Why do I know this? Cause I heard it from the handler at the Village. How long will I remember this? Longer than I'll remember my conversational Irish phrases probably.

Yesterday and today were work filled. But tomorrow is concert filled! After work I am clambering into my sisters car to go to Dublin to see the Indigo Girls in concert. There's four of us going - hopefully, one is currently on the brink of being out of action - and it should be a really good night out. I haven't seen them since I was in Secondary School, which is quite a while ago. And I don't even know the last time the four of us did something together, so very excited now.

And then, and THEN, it's Hallowe'en!! I am spending the day of Hallowe'en in the Indoor Market facepainting, all dressed up in my gothic fairy costume!! Then hopefully I get to wear the costume out and about on Saturday night.

And then! It gets better! I get to go back to Edinburgh on Monday!!! So excited about that one. I haven't been in two years. Its such a fantastic place. I'm going with two friends, one of whom has never been before. I hope she likes it as much as I do. After all, I'm the one that suggested it!

Hallowe'en Is Here

It's that time of year again - the Holiday that gets passed over more and more as the years go by. It's Hallowe'en! One thing I love about Hull is that even though the Christmas stuff is in the shops, the window displays are all still Hallowe'en based - It's great. In recent years I've noticed shops skimming over Hallowe'en in favour of getting the Christmas stock out sooner, but it can't be Christmas until we've celebrated Hallowe'en - don't they see that?

Anywho, my hallowe'en celebrations are many this year. On Saturday just gone I went to Spiders with Nick and some friends of his. They all dressed up, and put a lot of effort into the costumes, as did quite a few people at the club. I felt a little out of place in my pirate costume but it went down a treat anyway! Tonight {Tuesday} a few people are coming over to watch horror movies. Yeah I know, not really my thing but I figured I could put aside my distaste for them for one night. And tomorrow night I'm attending the Monster Mash Bash at Asylum with a few others, should be entertaining. The people I'm going with {Namely Tom and Roland} seem to have their hearts set on dressing up so I guess I will be too. Should be fun though! Promise pictures will follow soon. I have a couple from Saturday and intend to take plenty tomorrow....especially in the getting ready process since we have a devil and the hulk getting ready! Could be funny!