Yeah, Yeah, I'm not Writing Much Lately

So we're down to less than a week before Halloween. I was all, "I'm gonna write everyday until Halloween", but I lied. I lied to you all. I'm sorry. I'm not sorry for not writing, but I'm sorry I lied to you. But I'm here today to make amends. Here are some things that have been going on in my life, in no particular order, with no transitions between thoughts. You want smooth transitions and chronological order, you go read someone else's blog. Ok, sorry, I've got a real surly tone that I don't mean to have. Anyway, here's what's been going on:

• I went to a writing seminar put on by the Graduate College yesterday. It was good. The speaker was funny and inspiring and I am making a plan for writing more, which is the goal. So that's exciting. I didn't think that I would enjoy the seminar quite as much as I did. I like pleasant surprises like that.
  
• Also yesterday was "horror movie camp out day". Zach and I rented 3 movies at the low, low price of 99 cents each. We rented two that one of us had seen and one that neither of us had seen. I chose Lake Placid. Because I like that movie. In fact, I kinda love that movie. It's super funny and it's just scary enough without being gory and uber violent. It was just as awesome as I remember it. Zach liked it too. We had a fun time watching. Then we watched Tremors (Zach's pick). I had never seen Tremors before, but again, it was funny, it was scary, but the nice kind of scary. Good picks! Fun times! So imagine my horror (ha ha, see what I did there) when we put on The Hills Have Eyes (no, you do not get a link because I hate this movie). Ok, so I guess I'm just not meant for real horror, but c'mon! This movie was super gory, super gross, super depressing, super everything bad. We started it first last night, but about 20 minutes in I said, "You know what, Zach? I'm gonna pass on this." But we just finished it up today. Mistake. I did not like it. I must say that I am the best at reviewing movies that ever existed. I really captured all of them. Lake Placid and Tremors = GOOD. Hills Have Eyes = REALLY BAD
• You may or may not have noticed that I mentioned it was "horror movie camp out" day. You might be saying to yourself, "huh, I get the horror movie part, but I'm confused on the camp out part." Well, we ate chili and cornbread and watched the movies in....our tent. A tent set up in the bedroom in front of the TV. It was just like camping if your version of camping involves, indoor plumbing, electricity and central heating. I think we all know how well I do with camping as I've told that story before and again and again. Anyway, camping last night was much more fun. We camped, and ate and watched appropriately horrifying films. A good time was had by all.
• I've been busy not buying candy for Halloween and not planning a Halloween Party. Oh sure, it'd be nice to do, but alas, I'm not that popular and I don't have the will power to resist candy in my home.
• I've been working, that's never that exciting to describe, is it?
• I can go pick up another movie today at the library, that movie, The Birds. I'm sooooo excited. I started watching it on TCM and it is awesome! It's totally scary and yet not gory and gross and stupid like another movie I could name (yeah, I'm looking at you, Hills Have Eyes). But I didn't get to finish it and Zach didn't get to see it all either. But now we'll have it on DVD from the library. Libraries are the best because they give you things for free. What an awesome system.
• I leave you with these pictures of "Halloween costumes" that a certain awesome person sent me. They border on the super cute and super creepy. I'm leaning toward creepy, but it's hard to decide. I wonder if these are even legitimate costumes or just a sick, sick fantasy.
  

11 Days 'Til Halloween: Aging Edition

I'm getting older. True, I'm still at the age where I can be trusted (I'll let you figure that out on your own, think of it as homework), but I'm apparently getting up there. The thing that really seems to frighten me lately is that I'm considered older by all the clues in the environment. Last night while I watching "Chuck" one of the main characters was going to her high school reunion. The year she graduated? 1998. I graduated in 1998. I'm the same age as the character I'm watching on television who has a real job, a life, etc. It's just mind-boggling. I think part of the problem is that I'm still in school, so I don't quite feel like an adult yet. But I'm there. I'm an adult. It's crazy. And it scares me.

The fact that there are 18 year olds out there who were born in 1990 is scary to me. Seriously? What happened to time? Where does it go?

I had more on the subject, but I'm getting up there and things slip my mind pretty easily these days. Instead I bring you this website which also has random comics on it. Enjoy!

12 Days of Halloween

So I figured out how to make myself post each day. For the upcoming 12 days of Halloween I will talk about things that I fear. Because Halloween often equals fear. I'm sure there are those of you who can't imagine how I will fill 12 days with things I fear, but surprisingly I have a lot of material.

So, without further ado, here is today's topic o' fear:

Spiders.

I do not like spiders. I fear them. Except for those little teeny tiny ones that jump. Those ones are cute. I don't know if it's the jumping or the tinniness but I just think they are super cute and I refuse to fear them. But all the other ones. The ones that are only slightly larger than teeny tiny and about as upwardly mobile as...fill in your own simile here. I have a couple, but they all seem wrong.

Anywho, I fear spiders. So imagine my dismay the other day when I got in the car at night to go home from grocery shopping and a spider was in the car. On the dashboard. About 2 feet from me. The spider seemed to be upset that I was in its domain. It decided to build a web on the dashboard while I drove. I was not a fan of this because it meant that the spider was in motion. Unfortunately for me, I was also in motion. I had to operate a death machine, I mean, car. In the dark. At night. So a lot of time it was too dark to see what the spider had in mind for me. Every so often I would pass under some source of light and see where the spider had ended up. It was sort of a scary death ride. And, perhaps most frightening, I have no idea what happened to the spider. So every time I get into the car I might be attacked. I imagine it inching its way up the driver's seat...closer...closer to my neck...until...wham....vampire spider bite. Oh...it's so chilling.

And for anyone who is wondering, no, no killing spiders. I let them be. I used to make Zach take them outside, but then I heard that inside spiders often die outside. So now, I just try not to notice them. Although we did have these crazy human-hungry spiders that built webs in the doorways of the house (the outside doors) and I did have to move them away from the house. They are huge spiders and apparently they only want to eat humans because they only make webs in our doorways. I cannot blame them. Zach and I would make quite a meal, but still, not cool.

If you want to be totally freaked out, you can check out some spiders here. Especially the one in the bottom right hand corner. I actually just jumped in my seat and kinda screamed a little bit.

Empty Promises

It's been awhile. I think it's time to post again. Apparently, I really can only write if I have a theme and have made a public promise. I think for me the only real joy in life comes from crossing something off a "to do" list. I don't think the quotes were necessary there, but I'm going to stick by them. Anyway, I'm going to figure out what it will take to get me posting again. Last time it was the alphabet so this time, maybe the number system? Real numbers, not those integers, we'll be here forever.

In the meantime, check out some of the random things that I have been using to fill my time:

Check out this "comic" (is one panel a comic? who am I to judge?) on the internet. This chick is pretty funny and also super random. But a lot of her stuff reminds me of me....not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Make sure you look at the archives. Delightful.

Internet television. I'm not going to apologize for watching TV. I love it. TV is like crack to me and most 4 year-olds. It's so great.

Working. I'd rather not say on what, let's just say it involves a plan for world domination. Oh, you know what? That's really saying too much already.

Worrying. It's really what I do best. But I'm getting in a 12 step program for that, so fingers crossed.

Making excuses. Let's face it. It's what I'm best at.

Ok, I've decided from now on, I'm going to post everyday until Halloween. It will be a Halloween Countdown Extravaganza! Hold on to your horses and hats and whatever else you've got handy.