Halloween... and doing nothing

Today is Halloween and I would love to say that I'm trick or treating and having fun dressing up and actually being sociable. And to some extent, I am: I've eaten quite a few chocolates, I've been absolutely exhausted this past week which has turned me into a zombie and it counts being sociable when I'm writing a blog while I'm sitting by myself... right?

Okay, it's Halloween and I'm doing nothing to acknowledge the fact, which is pretty upsetting because Halloween seems like one of the most genius ideas ever. I know that the origin of this particular celebration has nothing to do with what it has been turned into in the present day, but I'm all for embracing Halloween for what it is and keep on wishing that I could be a part of it. When I was in junior school I did go trick or treating with friends which was one of the highlighting events of the year because ever since I can remember, I have loved the idea of the supernatural. When I was little I really wanted to be a witch, in fact, when people used to ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up- and lots of girls my age would say something like a hairdresser- I used to say I wanted to be a "viking-witch-healer" because I am weird. Why would I want to cut peoples' hair if I could have powers by carving on stones for gigantic warrior guys? 

Okay, I was a very weird five year old

I'm definitely going off topic (as I said, I'm utterly exhausted and my attention span, which is short at best, is even worse than normal), but the point I'm trying to get across is: I've always loved the idea of witches, vampires (OHMYGOSH! I love vampires- I think I have to write a separate post about that- not Twilight), spirits and so on. And because I'm such a nerd when it comes to the 'fantastical' and romantic gothic genre, I really wanted to write a post about something to do with that category, but I have so many ideas that I couldn't even think of just one and ended up unable to write anything at all. Sorry about that. But instead, I found this really interesting Ted Talk about the legend of vampires around the world- it is a cartoon and really short, but it is actually quite informative:

And maybe next year I might actually do something for Halloween. I guess that can be my next years resolution. But in the meantime, Happy Halloween to all of you who celebrate it!