Halloween week part 1

It's been a fun week of outfits for me!  Also, the weather has also been amazing and there are still some really pretty flowers holding on here.  So let's start with those.  :)

This one was near the bus stop when I was coming back from Costco.

This one was on my way to the hospital (thyroid, nothing big, the doc lowered my med again and said I may no longer need it in a few months - AKA they tested and found out it's not an autoimmune issue).

This was on my way to work, it's so pretty!  

Now for the leaves!

Korea is a really, really pretty country.  

Now for the fun Halloween stuffs!!!

I re-did my nails.  I needed to supplement the stickers with some 'blood.'

The kids love them.

Monday's outfit and how I taught the kids the difference between skulls and skeletons.  Thanks to AL for the over shirt.  I love it.  Also, please disregard the state of the mirror - I was lazy and it's a little dusty.  I also tried a different pose for this pic.  Thoughts?!  LOL,

I haven't actually worn the mask to work yet, but I thought it gave a fun vamp-y vibe.  Also went back to the tried-and-tested pose.  The dress is a little loose on me these days (humble-brag I know, but I'm at the last 10 lbs).

Tuesday's outfit.  My kids now know that I am the Queen of Spiders, so I had to wear my spider earrings again.  

A closer look.  I was really feeling my look that day - my hair looked great, tho it doesn't always photograph well.

A close-up of the leggings that Cake sent me (she's my friend's dog).  It cracks me up how often I hear "I knew they were cute and Halloweeny but I didn't realize those were DOGS in costumes!!  How fun!"  Hehe.

Today's outfit.  I was going for a more diva-esque vibe on this one.  Or you know, a grown-up Wednesday Addams.  If you are wondering about the lack of make-up it's because I'm wearing a mask all day so I don't see the point in wasting the lipstick.  The necklace is one I don't get to wear NEARLY often enough, but it's super fun.  

The Korean staff at work seem to be getting a kick out of my outfits this week, and they asked what I will be on Thurs and Fri because we are ACTUALLY having Halloween parties on those days.  I told them I'll be a witch and a devil, like last year.  I'm super excited.  

My only real musings and wonderments have been of the 'how easy it is NOT to be a crap human' variety.  For example, I really was going to learn Korean but I never have.  However, I know to say 'thank you,' 'hello' and 'goodbye' which has gotten me thru.  Every time I say 'thank you' in Korean to someone, they literally light up.  It's the bare minimum I can do, and yet it means so much to people here.  Also, it's amazing to me how just a little bit of consideration can lighten someone's load.  Bringing in treats, including someone in convo, trying to see something from another's point of view - things that seem so small to one can mean so much to another.  I don't know, I guess because there is so much negativity and horribleness online these days, I'm trying to focus on making things a little less crap for the people around me.  It's stressful being so far away and it's about to be 10x worse because it's the holiday season and that's when the homesickness can really hit.  

The dating musings have been about how different it is in the days of texting.  I know that E has been busy at work and getting settled in and stuff so I'm trying to curb my usual method of texting which could be described as 'constant' to more 'once a day.'  It's like when I texted Mo in the states - we could literally text all day and I'm used to that.  It's different with someone who may in fact have to be away from his phone due to security stuffs.  Hehe... ah, military dudes.  

Otherwise, life just continues as normal.  Life is good, the weather has been amazing, my classes are really quite good, outside of one or 2 students, they all at least try and seem to like me.  I'll be sharing more of their sketches later.  There are some artistic kids in Korea!  Love and miss all of you and can't wait to see you again.  MUAH! :*