The inane mirror pic

Unless you are living the internet-free Quaker lifestyle and you are busy with your neighborhood barn raising, you are probably on Facebook.  If so, you have seen the exorbitant amount of mirror pics out there.  Mirror pics?  You are blogging on mirror pics?  Well, yes...I am.
  Mirror pics are usually taken by people in their teens or twenties, but that is not a hard and fast rule.  An occasional adult posts one out there, usually with a sexy pout in a too-tight outfit stolen from their daughter's closet.  Here is what ensues:  A person takes their cell phone into their dirty bathroom, where usually a toilet or sink is quite obvious in the photo, and snaps a picture of themselves in the mirror.  Sometimes they bring a friend into said bathroom and they take the photo together. 
  Call me old fashioned, but what happened to asking someone to take a picture for you?  It really isn't that much of an imposition, and then we won't see the toothpaste smears on your sink or the dirty magazines in the corner of your room.  Or, perhaps, use a tripod if you don't have any friends who exist off of the internet.  Since when did the bathroom become an acceptable place to take a picture?  When I was a young girl, I had a camera with film.  I am only 28, but I remember cherishing each shot- never knowing which ones would turn out- and taking pictures of importance.  As the digital age came upon us, we started deleting photos, taking thousands of pictures and storing them with ease.  If we have such a great ability today to Photoshop our pictures and our technological advances astound previous generations, why are the young people today resorting to taking mirror pictures in their bathrooms?

Halloween brings out the tramp in us all

As October has come upon us, so has the mass amounts of Halloween paraphernalia.  Candy galore stocks the aisles, and mocks us next to costumes that barely cover our backsides.  Oh yes, indulge in that bag of candy pumpkins and have a few caramel apples...but, be prepared to go as Mrs. Potato Head this Halloween. 
  It always amuses me to see people shop for costumes.  Every year, little girls flock to the princess costumes, while boys want to be anything that allows them to carry multiple weapons (in order to impale all princesses with).  The funniest thing is to see the costumes directed at tweens and adult women.  As I perused the Spirit Halloween website, I saw they have made everything sexy.

• Sexy Ghostbusters
• Sexy Bumblebee
• Sexy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
• Sexy Nun

It used to be that if you wanted to be "sexy" at Halloween, you went as a French maid.  Perhaps a flapper.  Now, they have turned EVERY costume into something sexy.  I do not remember Leonardo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wearing stilettos and fishnets.  I have never looked at a bee in my garden and thought "wow, that bee is looking gooood today!".  The one that made me laugh out loud was this:
http://www.spirithalloween.com/product/la-risky-raccoon-m-l-10-14/
  Risky Raccoon!  OK, so a heavy, lumbering, nocturnal animal who invades garbage cans is now a sex symbol?  What is next?  The promiscuous possom?  Come ON!  This is ridiculous!
   You have the option of going as something that completely covers your insecurities (Angry Birds, Big Bird, Cereal Box, etc), or letting it ALLL hang out for all friends and neighbors to see. 
  And, of course, they sell it because people are buying it!!!!  There is someone out there who sees that risky raccoon and cannot wait to show it off at their Halloween party.  There is something about Halloween that makes carpool driving mothers of three abandon their usual ways and morph into Wonder Woman or Lady Gaga.  The more leg, bust, and butt you show, the better.
  Will I partake in this nonsense?  Will I stoop into buying an outfit that is deemed "sexy"?  You bet, but nocturnal animals are definitely not on my list of possibilities.