Halloween Preparations

I need to get in the mood of Halloween, so I decided to man-up and watch some scary movies. Not "Fatboy Scary," but "Kif Scary." You see, if someone is watching The Haunting, I can't be under the same roof and I need to go watch Sound of Music for ten years before I can function normally again.

I have logged my attempts up to this point:

1. Ghostbusters: I couldn't watch the beginning, then a little after that and then I had to fast forward from the dog scene to when the Marshmallow Man came to town. I can't believe I got through that alone.


2. Halloween H2O: I watched the t.v. version and made sure that all the lights were on and I didn't watch most of it because I was reading some stuff for school. It still scared the badoobers out of me.


3. The Haunting: I recalled how scary it was.


4. The Ring: I talked about it for a few seconds with my sister, Jenn, and we quickly changed the subject. Those few seconds were spooky.


5. Scream: I saw it on YouTube. I thought it wouldn't be so bad since it was blurry and a quarter the size of my laptop screen. I had nightmares that night.


6. I saw The Hugga Bunch movie because I remember being scared as a little girl when the witch showed up. It took me 23 years, but I got through it. Barely.


7. I went through a corn maze at night, in the dark. There were two choices: to go through the haunted part of the maze or the non. We took the non-haunted and, with all the other people around, it was horrifying--they would come into view and scare the bugeezis out of me. My voice got hoarse from screaming so much.

Just a few more days until Halloween and I think I have given myself a good spirit this year. Is eating a lot of candy corn a bonus?

Every time the corn monster moved, I kept screaming and tried to run away several times while they were trying to take the picture. The corn monster kept telling me in a normal voice, "It's fine. You're awesome. You'll be okay." Apparently, Nate thought it was pretty funny.

Enlightenment Hour

Betcha didn't know that I have an 'Enlightenment Hour' in my blog. These kind of hours only come once always never, so count your lucky stars you caught this one. Anyhoo, the topic of this Hour is about a site that shows beautiful landscapes whilst a record of a person's dream is being given. This is a well-known site that many have gone to for inspiration and it's been passed around like crazy but, whenever I see this, I have a few questions:

1. Was the dreamer writing this all down while dreaming or was he using one of those dream recorders ('cause that was a long conversation)?
2. Was it verbatim or was he just paraphrasing because of the lack of dream recorders?
3. Did he really dream it or is he just super passionate to have everyone know what his pet peeves are?
4. If He was really speaking, would His language be that simple or would it be more of a "thee," "thou" thing?
5. Why do they sometimes use the Feather Song from Forrest Gump? Shouldn't it be a better tune so that my mind's eye isn't watching Forrest's mom talk about her son's IQ to the perverted teacher ('cause I am every time... and then my mind wanders to the next scene and, welp, you know how that goes.)?

Really, readers, enlighten me this hour. And, if you have questions as well, let me know. This is the Hour of Enlightenment and must be taken advantage of, for we know not when such an hour will come again. I have more questions but I don't want to offend anyone who feels passionate about this, so I'll just leave you the link:

http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/popup-frame.html

Knock yourselves out!

When Dating, Use Caution

There are so many stages, personalities, definitions and rules to dating (for those of you now married, I know you envy this (sarcasm)). It's almost impossible to give a concise definition to anything anymore. Sure, people have that usual conversation about how they don't play games, that they are open-minded and good communication is very important to them. The next thing you know, you're further in the dating process and you're wondering, "Whadu...?" to everything they ever claimed to have been.

I'm not one who believes in 'first impressions' because that leaves too much room to put your best (a.k.a. rare, bullcrap, only the best five minutes of your life) foot forward. Rather, I believe in the 'real impression' and I think it would be easier to tell if everyone in the dating world had some sort of caution tape and then the messes and misleading wouldn't occur unless you were illiterate. For example, caution tape that read, "Suspicious," "Insecure," "Secretly Gay," and stuff like that would be so helpful. That way, if I came across a cute guy and he started hitting on me, I could just look at the caution tape around his wrist that read, "Fake" and I would know that the flirting would go no further.

You see, folks, dating requires caution. Just like a construction site, you can't just walk into it. You may slip, fall and get hurt. You can't just start dating anyone, either. You may realize you just made out with a guy who is trying to pretend he's not gay and then you'll look like an idiot when you're done with that mess. Or, after dating someone for so long, you realize that he's been faking it this entire time and he doesn't work for the CIA, he doesn't have his own jets or that mansion on the top of the hill--he's a used car salesman who still lives with his mom. I hate that...

Don't ask me what my caution tape would be--it makes me uncomfortable. Okay, it would say, "Running Late" on one wrist and "Impulsive" on the other. Ironic, eh. Yes, I need caution tape every dang place. Otherwise, I will walk right into the mess and wonder why my leg just fell off and why I'm upside down, bleeding. I dunno. I mean, HEY!, it makes for a great story but sometimes it's good to use caution and date the safe, sane ones (whatever your definition of that is).

28

I'm not much of a creative person so, when it comes to going out and doing something beyond 'Dinner & a Movie,' I'm plum clueless. And, welp, my twenty-eighth brithday is coming up on the 28th of December! That is so cool and I wanna do sup'm extraordinary and fun!

I looked forward to this year so much when I was younger. Would I be married with kids? Graduated? Would I have my dream job? Hmmm. Nope! So I've gotta celebrate The Great 28 by being a single, dream-jobless student. The possibilities are limitless but all I can come up with is the usual: dinner & a movie, followed by Latin dancing in Salt Lake City.


I looked up the greatness of 28 and, thanks to Wikipedia, I found that this birthday had bes' be perfec' 'cause 'Twenty-eight is classed as a perfect number because it is the sum of all it's divisors, and the sum of the totient function for the first nine integers" (that was so much better than, "Twenty-eight is the natural number following 27 and preceding 29"). Here are s'more examples:

• There are twenty-eight convex uniform honeycombs
• Twenty-eight is a number referring to CRACK... CRACK IS WHACK!
• Twenty-eight is the ninth and last number in early Indian magic square of order 3
• Twenty-eight is a harmonic divisor number, a happy number
• The lunar month is about twenty-eight days
• Twenty-eight corresponds to the word koakh, meaning "power," "energy."

So my birthday should have 28 crackless Indians, happily & harmonically singing in a square formation while making honey under the moon with a lot of energy? Is this perfect and... totient?

I dunno. That will take a lot to put together. I don't think I know 28 Indians who know how to make honey. Not only that, but I don't want bees at my birthday. I mean, c'mon! December 28th is the day that the construction of Yonge Street, the longest street in the world, began in Toronto, Canada. Surely, this must go down in history.

Help me out, My Dear Friends. I need some ideas. Something out of this world that 28 would be proud of (Oh my goodness! Sienna Miller, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, Khalid Boulahrouz, and Mika Väyrynen, are going through the same issues I'm going through. I should invite them).

Some historical December 28th Events:

Galileo Galilei became the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune in 1612








The Lumière brothers performed for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema.












Elvis got married