Halloween Funky Foods

          Why do we celebrate Halloween? Why do we like eating things that are scary looking? You would think that if it looked scary and we didn't know what it was, that we wouldn't want to eat it, but there is something about this day. Halloween takes our fears away and makes us do things we normally wouldn't. For instance, this....

 How gross is that? It actually looks like this persons skin was burnt off, and those teeth? Come on now? Now we know that this is actually ham wrapped around a fake skull but it looks completely real! Personally i would not eat this because it looks too real but there are many people out there that would not mind.




 
Dont worry, for those out there that are like me and you see something like that above you get sick to your stomach, there are actually some Halloween foods out there that we can tell what they are and they do look edible.

Thats much better. I can actually tell what these foods are made of and they are just so cute that i need to eat them anyway. Obviously the top ones are little piggies in a blanket except they are made into little mummies. The ones below are little taco monsters, and come on, who doesn't like tacos? Then on the bottom, there are little gravestone pudding cups. The tombstone is a sugar cookie, the dirt is Oreo crumbs, and the mud is the chocolate pudding. Not only do these look cute, they look delicious, and because we know what they are made of we are okay with eating them.

But what makes us want to eat things that are so cute and fit with the theme?

My theory is that we eat this stuff simply because everyone else is doing it. It is a fun way to eat also. By making our foods into something that they usually are, more people are going to want to eat it because it is out of the norm for food. It gives us something fun to do in our normal boring lives.


Other Halloween things to ponder......

Why?

• Why do we feel the need to scare people?
• Why does scaring people give us so much satisfaction and why is it humorous?
• Why do we eat the foods that we do on Halloween
• Why do we eat things that do not look appetizing on Halloween?

How?

• How much Halloween food do you eat on the holiday?
• How do you scare people?
• How much does it take for you to get scared?

What?

• What kind of Halloween foods have you made on the holiday before?
• Whats the weirdest Halloween food you have ever eaten?
• Whats the best thing you have ever been for Halloween?
• What is the best way you have ever scared someone? 
• What is the scariest thing you have ever been for Halloween?

 Here is a fun Halloween video to watch! But seriously, watch it. Enjoy :)

•  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz_htyaQQkQ&safe=active

Bittersweet

Whats Halloween really about??? Well ask me now and you will get a completely different answer from when i was 5.
          Princesses, disney characters, withces, and crayons? That was the premature stage of my life. I have now moved on to animals. The past few years, i dont know what it is, but the feeling of transforming myself into the most beautiful creatures has captured my inner being. Maybe its what i am meant to be. Maybe in another lifetime i will enter the world as an amazingly graceful bald eagle spreading my wings for all to see. Who knows, maybe i will be a skunk. Either way, i will feel complete.
           Every year I would wait for that one day, when I would get to dress up as someone else and get buckets upon buckets full of sweet treats for it. Fine with me! Picking out my costume was always so easy for me. It was simple. Just match my brother! He was Darth Mal, I was princess leah, he was a wearwolf, i was a witch, he was the beast, and i was the beauty. Perfect, no work involved and we were a hit every year. As shown below, supposedly being inatimate objects was the thing? We thought being a crayon was the most original idea yet! Little did we know that 2 other groups were crayons in the neighborhood we went trick-or-treating in. Talk about crushed hopes and dreams.

    Halloween now? Its like a whole new world. You dont pick out your comstume until you find out what everyone else is being. If your caught with the same costume as someone else, your in deep do do, and of course everyone is trying to have the most original yet. Trick or treating is not even in the picture anymore. Its all about the parties. Whose going where, who was invited to that one? One big party is definitly in our favor and of course we can have our own candy at the party!
          This year all of my friends went as the pink ladies from grease, with their lips blood red, their hair pushed up to the sky and their boobs sprung up to their noses! :p Me, being the outcast that i am (nah just kidding) was a peacock. I thought, why not, its senior year, and i am going to go all out. My hair is probably the best part and it only took me, what, 2 hours? I didnt want to be a pink lady, so i mixed it up a bit and made my own peacock costume. Everyone loved it except the fact that i kept hitting their faces with my tail feathers. It was so worth it. Mwahahaha!

           It's a bittersweet feeling to know that halloween is changing as every year passes, knowing that we are not going to be with our close friends that we have now forever and knowing that our youth is passing us by. Moving on is a must and will help us grow, its part of the process that helps us become who we are.

Frying or Trying?

This weekend, MEA of course, has been pretty amazing I must say. Four days off of school? Sure i will take it! Although my favorite part about breaks is the sleeping, I still don't manage to get enough of it. I mean i am a teenager so I guess its normal right? Instead of sleeping I always find myself staying up late thinking, just laying in bed, but then i get tired of thinking, so I slither over to the computer so I can fry my brain a little. As if I haven't fried it enough from watching TV all day. Yeah I know this isn't really a good way to spend my free time, but I think that the senior slide is starting to kick in. It cant already, I need to work hard! I need to reach my high goals or else I will be extremely dissapointed in myself. I really should be doing homework or college apps, or reading a little for fun. Maybe my brain really is frying! Nah, I just need to get back into the game!

Speech Analysis

Awesome Funny High School Graduation Speech......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APdSHPBPLLY


I chose this speech to show because well, i thought it was just great. This reminds me of my school so much. First of all, there are a lot of kids at my school, many of them which are hilarious. The boy giving this speech in the video I feel is one of those kids who doesnt have to try hard to be funny. To me, thats the funniest person to get to know.

 I think that it is funny because the fact that he messes up a lot and always makes little filler noises makes it more entertaining. The fact that it is so informal is so awesome! He makes me feel like I could get up in front of people and give a graduation speech. He makes it look so easy! Even when he messes up, he admits to it. This kid must really know what he is doing becuase everything he says turns out to be funny, even though it may not be. He uses his facial expressions to his advantage a lot of the time.

Whenever he says something that is meant to be funny, he keeps such a straight face the whole time. For some reason, this is something that appeals to many people. Its very funny, but we dont really know why. It would be so hard for me to keep a straight face throughout the whole speech if I was telling jokes.

Today, at your local library... :P

Usually when people write based off of an observation they go to a fun, hoppin' busy place where they hope to find the most action. But me, i chose the library! Original Huh? ;) Not so hoppin' but pretty busy! Hope you find my blog post interesting! :)


Victim #1
      This poor mother. I cant believe what she has to go through. I cant even imagine what her kid is like at home if he acts like this in public. Kicking, screaming, scratching!
"Mom you said i could get a toy! You said i could get a toy," over and over like a broken robot. There was no end. His mother just stood there ignoring and taking in his hits as if she were his punching bag! She had no control over him.
       This troubled boy has had a rough day. It probably consisted of sugar on top of sugar which caused him to miss his afternoon nap. Thus, causing him to spiral into a out of control frenzy at the store. What has gotten into kids these days? Surely I wasn't like that at all! ;) After his mother told him that he could get a toy at the store just to get him to cooperate, he was thrilled. Little did he know, he wasn't going to be getting the new Lego he was promised.

Victim #2
      At the library everyday this little kid sits. Maybe 11, maybe 12 years old. Not even old enough to drive, yet he manages to make his way to the library everyday after school. Maybe he walks to school, or gets a ride from a friend. Either way it doesn't matter, this kid definitely eats his Wheaties for breakfast. First of all, he is quite the multitasker. He can read, be on the computer, listen to music, and do his homework all at the same time! Quite frankly I am jealous. I wonder what he would do if he was interupted.... is he the type of guy who needs his privacy and space? Or is he easy going and would like some company? Judging by the way he does his work, I feel like he doesn't want to be bothered at all.

Victim #3
       Run run run! I see a little kid with his mother at the library looking for books. He grabs a book and scampers off to see his mother. I can tell he is not much of a talker. Together the mother and son read the first page of the book. The little boy closes the book and goes to grab a new one. I guess one page is enough. This little boy, we will call him Will (he looks like a Will), seems to be very impatient with many things. If he cant sit down and read one whole story, i cant imagine what he can sit through during the day. I believe he can watch the first five minutes of bob the builder. The theme song in the beginning tends to bore him just as he was bored with the rest of the books he read. Its either he is impatient or he has a short attention span and needs to keep moving at all times.