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I love my mother. xD Okay, so my great-grandmother apparently used to make this coconut-type cake that only my mother liked. EVery year for her birthday, without fail, Grammy would make the cake for her. But the thing was, she was the only one who knew the recipe, and refused to share it with anyone else, and hid it. So, when she died, the recipe was lost. Apparently, today my mom found what appears to be that recipe, and Meme promised to bake it for her birthday this year.

Mom: >D HA! I'll bet the old hag is rolling in her grave!
Me: xD;; Good for you, Mom.

10 minutes later

Mom: MY EYE!
Me: O.O What, what's wrong?
Mom: It won't stop WATERING, no matter what I do! It's been doing this for 10 minutes! Your grandmother's ghost is hovering over my head, constantly jabbing me in the eye for daring to take her recipe! SHE'S HAUNTING MEEEEEEEE! T^T
Me:........L. O. L.

x3 Just thought I'd share with y'all.

Two more bits of life from today:

1. Dad bought Bram Stoker's Dracula, and is going to let me borrow it.
2. I have the Glee soundtrack volume 1! \^0^/

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/2009-11-20-shocker-new-moon-beats-dark-knight-s-midnight-record

*screams in rage and goes to smash something*

I AM SO SICK OF THIS LITERARY ABORTION GETTING TREATED LIKE IT'S THE MESSIAH IN NOVEL FORM. The ONLY thing this idiocy is good for is instructing people how to write disgusting, abusive, shove-your-religion-down-our-throats, Mary Sue ridden TRASH! And I'm sorry if someone on my f-list happens to actually LIKE this, this, God I can't find words for it, but yeah, I'm sorry, but I have to rage over this. Twilight is OVER HYPED, ridiculous, poorly written, gag worthy on a hundred different levels, AND I AM SO SICK OF SEEING IT BEING PRACTICALLY WORSHIPED.

And yes, I have actually tried to read the damn thing, just to see what was so great about it. I couldn't even finish the first book, it literally had me CRINGING while I read.

It's not even because it's BATMAN they're beating - okay, just a little - it's the fact that they're getting enough money TO beat it, that once again prepubescent, idiot girls, and the even more hopeless and idiot adults are wetting their pants over a book where the girl (I refuse to call her a heroine) thinks it's okay to try and kill herself to get her boyfriend back, accepts it when her bf does crap like taking the engine out of her car because OH HE WUVS ME, and oh yes, THE VAMPIRE EFFING SPARKLES.

*looks at the article again* AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH. DX

(Normally I don't outright bash like this, but something about this...series...(because it's not a saga, saga implies something GOOD), makes my blood boil like nothing else I can remember. Just...what the hell, y'all. What the hell.)

YOU GUYS. THE LATEST COVER OF BATMAN AND ROBIN.


(Guys, seriously, do yourselves a favor and click to enlarge this. Its epic can only be appreciated in full size)

Batman's GREATEST ENEMY: THE FLAMINGO.

Pfffffftbwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh my God, I love him. Even if he turns out to be completely lame, any guy who can look that awesomely ridiculous in pink deserves heaps of love. Oh. Oh my GOD.

*goes off to laugh in the corner and Wiki this guy*

EDIT: Not a whole lot on him, considering how new the issue is, but apparently the whip causes explosions, he may or may not have tied Robin and Damian (dunno who he is) naked to chairs, only speaks in grunts and sounds, and they promote him with this: “If you think you’ve met Batman’s most dangerous, psychopathic, murderous foe…think again. Meet the ‘new crime’ in Gotham City—the FLAMINGO!”

....Yeeeeah, sorry Joker. Purple is just SO 1940s. XD

EDIT TWO: WHAT?!

" Flamingo turns around and is attacked by Batman. Batman and Flamingo start fighting. As they fight Flamingo is able to side step Batman's strike and makes him fall off a ledge.

This leaves only Robin and Scarletts the only ones to fight Flamingo and they are both easily taken care of. He then shoots Robin in the back a few times. Scarlett uses this time to attack Flamingo from behind and stands him in the eye. After that Jason comes in with some construction equipment to sweep Flamingo up and dump him over a ledge with a bunch of rocks falling on top of him. "

HE'S ALREADY DEAD!

" Still to abide by the Revolution's Rule of Positivity there was one good thing in this issue and that was the one and done villain Flamingo. Though the way Flamingo went out was a bitch move Morrison did do a good job making Flamingo into a credible threat as he was able to takedown Robin, Jason, and Scarlett by himself. It makes me wish he would have stuck around then have been killed off as he was a good original villain. "

(Source: http://blog.comicbookrevolution.net/2009/11/comic-book-review-batman-and-robin-6.html)

ALKSJLKASFKAFKLADF WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT. DX Uuuuuuugh, that's not fair!

I'm really bad with titles. xD;;;

Another fic. This time written in 5th period, which is my computer class. I only wish LJ wasn't blocked, so I could have posted this sooner.

A second Arlen fic, this time the one with Lynch that I mentioned before. I absolutely adore Lynch, he's the first OC I've made in a long time, and was the first one I took so seriously. The thing you've gotta know with me is, while I have written original stuff before, I mostly stick to fanfiction and the like. So having OCs (Lynch, Arlen, the Snarklings) I care enough about to dedicate entire fics to makes me happy. ^_^

This is set after Arlen attacks Mercey Manor, told in Lynch's POV. Again, didn't quite come out how I expected. This was originally supposed to be right before the attack, and Lynch was a bit more...forward, with Arlen, though like Family, I like the end result.

On a completely different note: Glee has made me cry more times than I can ever remember regarding a television show. Seriously, Quinn's talk with her parents last night made me cry then, and made me cry today rewatching it. Gaaaaah. *sniffs and applauds Glee for actually getting a reaction from her besides entertainment/shock*

Again, dedicated to Mel.

( His family was different from the Keenys, trapped in a sort of limbo that not only granted them immunity from the evil surrounding the land, but also a chilling sanity, a disturbing amoral mindset that only allowed them to love Arlen and her family as much as a servant (or in some cases, accomplice) could. )

Guys. Save me. I want to like psychology. I really, REALLY want to like psychology. At the moment I want to burn every piece of psychological text in my house. Which is a lot. Why did I choose an AP class. Why. Senior year sucks so far. Never been so worried about grades. I hate stress. Hate. Writing helped. No more time to write. My psych teacher is to blame for this. She backed be into a corner. I can't tell her I don't feel comfortable taking my make up test tomorrow. She'll sneer at me for not being prepared in that patronizing, condenscending way. You know, the sugary sweet, "Oh I'm so disappointed" tone. Where you know she's thinking I'm a lazy incompetent idiot. She's backed me into a corner. I hate her for it.

I wrote something! 8D Yaaaaaay! This is based off of a fabulous RP Mel and I are doing, which is allowing me to take a wonderful spin on Jonathan's back story. Basically certain houses (Arkham Asylum, Wayne Manor) are alive, that is, they have souls. One of these houses is Keeny Manor, Jonathan's home back in Georgia. Now Arlen herself is a delightfully crazy woman, very devoted to her family in a quite twisted way, and like Scarecrow she is childish (though not as much) and quite quick to anger. And as she's quite fun to write, my brain started playing with different scenes with her, kind of set in between the rest of the RP. One was with her and Lynch, but that's another story. Then this little ditty popped up, and I figured I'd write it down. For me, it lets me write Arlen a bit more, and try to form a bit of a back story for her and discover how she ended up as this insane manor atop a hill.

It didn't turn out quite as I expected - her relationship with her first Master, for one - but I like it.

Dedicated to Mel, for making my life since last summer much more fun, and honestly for getting me back into RPing and even writing. Love ya, babe. <333

( In southern Georgia, there is a little world completely set apart from our own. )

Just so you all know, the dragon I won in Animal Kingdom has a name.




Sylvester Henri Melichor the Third

^_____________^

I'm just taking this post to say how much I love, love, LOVE Kurt Hummel. Oh my God. Like, I loved him before, but now? NOW HE HAS MADE ME CRY. And believe it or not that's a good thing because I DON'T CRY EASILY AND HE MADE ME DO IT. T^T All right, I actually only teared up because I only really cry when I'm stressed, but this is my first time since I started watching Glee and considering some of the moments they've had (Quinn in Keep Holding On, anyone?), that's saying something.

I already knew Kurt was going to blow Defying Gravity on purpose because of the phone call (I'm a spoiler whore, yes, I know), but it's one thing to read the line and see the screen caps and another to actually watch the actors perform it. And Kurt, when he sang the intentionally sour note after being so proud of himself for hitting the - what was it, high F? - note perfectly when he practiced, the look on his face...it killed me. And then, oh Jesus, and then the talk with his FATHER?

When I saw you right after you got the call and you were so hurt and so upset...it just killed me. I'm not saying I'm going to hide in the closet. I'm proud of who I am. I'm just saying that I love you more than I love being a star.

I teared up. Chris Colfer delivered that line beautifully. And actually, I'm surprised that I love his father so much. At the beginning he seems like the stereotypical Truck Loving Manly Man Mechanic, but you saw it in Preggers and you saw it here. The man is a good, understanding and SUPPORTIVE father. Maybe he's not yet ready to talk to Kurt about guys, but when he marched into Figgins' office to chew Schue out for denying Kurt the solo, I fell in love with the guy right there. And the phone call, afterward ALL he cared about was Kurt, and how he didn't want him to get hurt but by God, son, you get up there and beat Rachel Berry because "no one pushes the Hummel's around".

This is what it's about, people. This is what it's a-BLOODY-bout! *flails with love for the entire Hummel family*

And guys, the version where he did hit the high note? It was very good! Chris has got a lovely soprano voice, it could be mistaken for a girl (if she had a bit deeper voice than normal). You can really tell how the lyrics speak to Kurt. Rachel's just 'singing' it, and I think trying too hard (of course, that's the character, especially considering how she was so sure everyone would pick Kurt because he's more popular), but Kurt's living it. I loved how he looked at Rachel and Schue when he sang, "I'm through accepting limits 'cause someone says they're so".

The rest of the episode was nice, especially for the focus on Artie (and Tina, to an extent), and it's always fantastic to see Sue Sylvester in any way, shape or form. And the food fight with Puck and Quinn? THE CUTENESS SCALES BROKE. I love them so much. I'm so happy Glee has taken what could have been stereotypical antagonists (the bitchy cheerleader, the punk bully, the macho father) and made them lovable, wonderful characters you look forward to seeing no matter how big their scene is.

Next episode I'm not so crazy about. As hilarious as it is to see Rachel crushing on Schue, I'm pretty lukewarm about her. I don't hate her as a character, and I think her voice is beautiful, but she's that personality type that just grates on me. I need her in small doses. But Emma's back, so yay!

Anyway, I just needed to squee over this episode - over Kurt. Aaaah, I love having new fandom loves. Especially when they're not villains! I don't think you guys realize just how RARE that is for me. Hee hee.

EDIT: YOU GUYS. YOU GUYS.

" Chris Colfer, who plays the sharp-tongued and high-pitched Kurt on Glee, may not have had to do much research to identify with his character’s story this week.

“When I was in high school, every year we would have a talent show,” explains Colfer. “Every year I would beg the teachers to let me sing “Defying Gravity” from [the musical] Wicked. And every year they turned me down because I’m a boy and it was ‘a girl’s song.’” Sound familiar? If you watched Wednesday’s show, it probably does. After Chris shared his story with Glee creator Ryan Murphy, the tale was incorporated into the story for the episode. "

Rest of the article is here. http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/11/12/glees-chris-colfer-reveals-real-life-story-behind-kurts-diva-moment/

I think I'm starting to love Chris just as much as I love Kurt. Considering the role was written for him because he's THAT AWESOME, it's understandable.

Okay. Seriously done now. *goes to finish psych homework*

PS - I need a Kurt icon. Now. Wave bye bye to the crazy schedule icon, kids! Minute I find the perfect icon of soprano notes, superior fashion and ultimate awesome, it's going down.

PPS - I have one~!

OKAY. I HAD a whole post typed out, but because my dad's laptop sucks (even he admits it; there's a reason we only bring this thing out when we have to) it ate the post up. Ugh. So I'm putting the highlights in bullet form.

* Epcot was on Friday. Much more crowded than before, but still bearable. I love Japan. Got a giant box of pocky in their gift store. Morocco was beautiful, zomg. Mom loved France and its pastries (I just loved hearing them talk) and Dad was nuts over Germany. Stayed for the fireworks show on the water. Very pretty.

* MGM (I STILL CALL IT THIS, SCREW THIS "HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS") was last yesterday. I think this is my least favorite. Went on Rock 'n Roller Coaster for the first time. I kept expecting a drop, but there was none. I really enjoyed it because of this, though I think I was the only one. The stunt show bored me. I dunno, I think anything related to cars bores me. Not good for motivating me to drive. We left early.

* And went to Downtown Disney for dinner at Rainforest Cafe. Very good, I love that place. Chocolate Volcano was ordered. Devoured. Conquered.

So now I'm back home, and am very happy to be so. As amazing as Disney is, it's nice to be back in my own room with a working computer. I now have a huge pile of make up work to tackle, but hey, it's the price you pay.

Buuuut....first I'm watching that Glee episode I missed. Defying Gravity! X3

You guys.

YOU GUYS.

It happened again.

NO LINES.

Everest, Expedition FREAKIN' Everest, had a wait time of LESS THAN 5 MINUTES.

People, I rode that ride eight times. You heard me! EIGHT TIMES IN ONE DAY. Four times straight when I got in, and four times straight right before I left. My sister did the last four with me, and Dad made it three times. But dude. This ride. I wasn't even that crazy about it before there was NO WAIT TIME. AAAAHHHHHH!

The rest of the day was pretty cool, but that was the highlight. Oh yeah, and they've got these carnival type games in Dinosuar USA (or something) and there must have been aliens interfering with the lunar waves or something because I won the extra large prize. So now I've got this nearly six feet long (if stretched) green serpent-dragon thingie on my bed. I need to think of a name...

....EIGHT TIMES.

Awesome day was awesome. We went to Magic Kingdom first, which was great because that's my favorite park. The weather was gorgeous. Very gray skies because of Ida, but it miraculously didn't rain and so it was only shady, windy, and cool all day. *squees* Oh my God, and the lines.

THE LINES.

There were none.

I don't know whether it was the weather or the day or both, but the longest line I waited in was thirty minutes. Everything else? 5 minute wait. 10 minute wait. 20 minute wait that was really only around 14. We got to the park a little after 8. By 3 p.m. we'd done EVERYTHING. And then there was even time to do Thunder Mountain, Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean and Buzz Lightyear a second time. With the same wait times! 'Cept for the second Thunder, that was my 30 minute wait. But so worth it, I love that ride.

So remember how I said Space Mountain's closed for renovations? Well the People Mover/Tram-thingie was still going. For those who don't know it's just this little train that takes you around Tomorrowland to show you all the stuff you can do. Really great if you want to rest your legs. Well, it always goes inside Space Mountain. Usually the place is dark and you watch flashes of light as the people ride the thing. This time, because of the construction, it was brightly lit, and I got to see Space Mountain actually lit up. Oh my God, it was WEIRD. It just looks like a bunch of metal twisted all over and into itself. Madness! XD

Zomg, though, the drive UP. Because of where we are and the time change, we drove the entire way at night, and it WOULD NOT STOP RAINING. which isn't so bad, but we're on the freeway, right? So we're driving along and suddenly my mom lets out this horrified, drawn out gasp, like she's bracing herself. It was too dark for me to see, but my dad made a similar noise a few seconds later. Turns out a car lost control on the wet road, spun out, and was heading right for us. The guard rail between the lanes stopped him.

Fast forward only 15 minutes later.

ANOTHER CAR spins out of control, heading in our direction. This time I HEAR it hide the guard rail and slide down, spinning wildly. Even my dad got a bit spooked, because seriously, FIFTEEN MINUTES had gone by since the first car. Yikes.

Animal Kingdom tomorrow, and then my sister and I come back to the condo (which is free, *squee* I love my dad) while Mom and Dad go have their anniversary dinner at the Gaylord Palms resort. Guys, I was in there for dinner on Tuesday, you WILL NOT find a more beautiful hotel. Nope. Never. I know you're thinking of a pretty one you've gone to. Trash it. It's NOTHING compared to this. This thing is a live ATRIUM. And decorated for the holidays. So uh uh. Sorry. Our hotel beats yours. XP (Well, technically not OURS, we only ate there, but still.)

Hope you all are enjoying your day. <3

I'm off tomorrow! X3 Hee, I go through school as normal and then I come home, help my dad pack the car, and then we all head up to Disney World for FIVE DAYS. *flails* I haven't been in years, I'm so excited. Still sad that Space Mountain will be down the entire time (okay, secretly bawling eyes out, but sssshh!), and Mom's worried because Ida's making the forecast look rainy/stormy, but come on. DISNEY WORLD. It'll be worth all the make up work due when I get back.

Like in Pensacola, Dad's bringin' the laptop, so I'll keep y'all posted while I'm there, and still hop on Meebo to chat and RP.

So excited! *squee*

My TMJ's acting up for the first time in a while. My jaw feels tense and sore, especially high up by my ears, and I keep opening and flexing my jaw to try and relieve it, even though I know I'm not supposed to. And to make things worse, I've lost the cream I put in my ears, so now they are messing with me too, itching and stinging.

TT^TT

I SURVIVED!

XD Shameless excuse to use pretty font aside...last night went better than I was expecting. By which I mean, I did not go on any big roller coasters (one tiny one, but that was fun) and did not have a paranoid night of insomnia from what I saw. Lol We got there right as it opened, so there were no lines for the houses yet. Actually, save for one or two, there weren't very long lines for any of them. I was surprised, since it was Halloween, but I guess everyone's out Trick or Treating or partying or whatnot. This event's been open for over a month now, I think.

So here's the houses in the order we went to them. A bit of warning; as good as these houses were, by the end of the night I only remembered the gist of them. Everything else blended together in a mix of darkness, loud noises, screaming, fake blood, strobe lights and messed up hallways. So I can only describe the general idea of the house. I'll do my best, though.

Entrance: Immediately upon walking in we see this big fashion show going on. For those who don't know, this year's icons were Ms. Vayne and her models. They're all vampires. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv0x2yEWxbM Here's the commercial for 'em. Just so you get an idea.) So her vampire models are walkin' up the catwalk, showing off designs I...guess are meant to be gothic, but I dunno, I didn't like how metallic and zipper-friendly some of the dresses were. Then Vayne herself came out, and her vampires are all posing around her, and then she snaps her fingers and the lights turn red. The models and photographers all start baring fangs and hissing, and then they drag some random guy on stage and start biting into him. It was amusing how much blood they had squirting everywhere. Vayne claps her hands, licks her lips, and walks back down the catwalk. She pauses, and this announcer guy goes, "VAAAAAAAAAAAYNE." Which I kept mocking the entire night. Seriously, it was like a constipated moan. LOL

Here is the fashion show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reaCy3slhXI&feature=player_embedded

13: Each October, the underground members of The Messengers come out of hiding to seek out 13 unlucky victims, who are tracked down and tortured before the gang feasts on their flesh. This year, they have already claimed 12 lives so far...will 13 be your unlucky number?

I was understandably nervous going in, since this would be my first haunted house in nearly a decade and you could hear banging and chainsaws all the way from the entrance. As I said, we were one of the first people there, so Kate and I linked arms with Geoff (the only reason I survived these things, I think) and just walked in. The gang's supposed to be a motorcycle club I guess, because there were trucks and bikes and all that roaring full blast through fog machines. You got the usual banging on the walls, nutso cannibals jumping out to scare us, the works.

What freaked me out a bit was near the end, it got really dark. No, that's not what freaked me out, but you know how in the houses there's always some rags or fake blood/snakes hanging from the door or hallway you have to push through? Well, I couldn't see a thing, and then I ran into something hard. One little shriek later, and I realize it's a fake, bloody carcass of some huge animal, and there are four of them I now have to push my way through. Oh. Goody. Btw, because of the way the three of us were linked, and how narrow the houses were, we had to go in a semi-vertical line. I was the front person in every single house. FUN TIMES.

At the end were were walking through a maze outside, and the chainsaw men were jumping out everywhere. One stayed in front of me for a minute, not letting me walk forward, and another brushed against Kate's skirt. She really got the short end of the stick, because a lot of the time there weren't a lot of people behind us, so the monsters would follow her and touch her - yeah, they're apparently allowed to, you'll see why later - and just give her a hard time. I could at least follow the people in front of us, see them freak out, and know what was coming. And I could cower by Geoff. Poor boy, during one house (I forget) he had to tell me to slow down because I was pulling hard on his wrist trying to hurry out. He didn't complain, though, the entire night. Such a sweetie.

VERDICT: The house was a good one, and I was proud of myself for making it through. I did like it, mostly because I do love my chainsaw men, and the bloody meat hall really caught me off guard. Of course, it prepared me for similar hallways later on.

Delta Epsilon Delta: Pledge Week: For decades, the most mysterious sorority house on campus has invited only select girls from the top families to join. But this year, it's open rush, and the sisters are welcoming new members with open arms. Can you escape before you fall victim to the sinister secrets of the twisted sisterhood? No one does it like a DED girl...

This one I didn't like. Not because it was scary, no, quite the opposite. It was more weird/interesting to look at than scary. HOS advertised this one a lot, even showing the first half of the house online, since this is one of their new houses. So I knew what to expect, but honestly, even if I hadn't known anything, it was obvious what they were going to do before they did it. Just a bunch of psycho, scantily dressed sorority girls torturing guys and jumping out at us asking if we wanted to play or pledge. At one point we got stuck in a room as the line got held up, and one girl blew on my neck. A bit irritated, I blew back, and Kate said she looked pissed. I dunno if that was the character or if I genuinely ticked her off, but honestly, it's not like I touched her.

VERDICT: Probably my least favorite house, as far as entertainment and fear goes. Still, it was amusing to look at.

INTERMISSION: Before that house, everybody went on Sheikra. Somehow between my last post and then I worked up the guts to stand my ground and say, "NO," because honestly, I did not want to ride that thing. It wasn't fear, I just don't like coasters. They were cool with it, though I think part of this goes to my mom. As I was waiting for them to get here to pick me up I confided my worries to her, and when Kate got there my mom gave her this dead serious, scary look and said, "If you make my daughter do anything she doesn't want to do, I will be very angry." XD I love my mom. So does Kate, but she says Mom scares her. Pfft, she was being NICE. Anyway, I held Kate's mom's purse (you had to pay to take it on the ride) and sat near the exit, listening to the music from a live DJ a few feet away. He played Welcome to the Jungle and Paralyzed, two songs that I love. I sang along to Paralyzed.

After DED we drifted towards the DJ and spent anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes dancing there. It was very fun, and Geoff kept saying guys were staring at him 'cause he had these two girls dancing with him. Weird thing was, this one chick came up to me and started doing that thing where you rub up against someone while you dance. Um....what. xD;; So random. We went on the water ride next to the dancing twice, because, HELLO FLORIDA HEAT/HUMIDITY. It was extremely fun. Of course with ate up our time, and we only had two hours ;eft to finish off 5 more houses.

Taste of Blood: Once revered as royalty, hordes of undead vampires have now been forced underground into the subways and sewers to avoid the sunlight. By day, they feed on rats to survive. But as night falls, these fanged fiends take to the streets to seduce fresh blood.

This was the house with the longest wait. I guess because it was because Ms. Vayne was in this house. I honestly don't remember too much. I know Kate freaked because there was a sign that said GIVE BLOOD and she hates doing that. There weren't a lot of vampires in this house, which confused me. It seemed like the others - creepy darkness, strobe lights, things jumping out at you, etc. One thing that DID startle me though was another screwy hallway. Only this time, two black...foam thingies, I don't know what they're called, were on either side, leaving you only a VERY narrow opening to squeeze through as thick black material pressed in on you from all sides. Very creepy.

Vayne showed up near the end, but I wasn't impressed. She just stood there talking about how she was going to torture us. People - corpses? - at her feet randomly lunged at guests, and one yelled, "SHOOOE!" and grabbed Kate's. xD;;; Poor girl.

VERDICT: Since it didn't leave a huge imprint on me to remember...just an okay house. That freaky hallway saved it.

Trapped in the Walls: The gruesome fate of an innocent family made headlines when it happened. Years later, evil still lingers in the rooms where the tragedies happened. It has seeped into the walls, trapping dark demons and infesting a house that can't let go of its horrible history.

I was WORRIED going into this one. Simply because I do not like confined spaces (though I'm not claustrophobic) and was nervous about whatever was going to be lunging out of the walls for me. A weird thing going in was that this disembodied hand kept giving us Pixie Stix. Geoff said it was to keep your hands occupied. Screw that, my hand was already squeezing the life out of his. Immediately upon walking in, the walls are distorted mirrors. FUN. The beginning started off kind of anti-climatic, but near the end things got nuts with strobe lights and ceiling scares and snakes hanging from the ceiling. Fake, of course, but they sure felt real. I gave a little shriek at the feel of them.

VERDICT: Thankfully not as bad as I was expecting, but still rather good. I hate strobe lights in houses. They freak me out SO much.

SCARY STORY TIME: While waiting in line for the small coaster after this house, I checked my phone for the time. And on the front, it said Car Kit. O_O People, my phone was in my pocket the entire time, and I gave it to NONE of my friends for safekeeping or anything. I have NO IDEA how this got on my phone, because I certainly didn't do it. Kate deleted it for me, but I'm still a bit paranoid. O_O

Death Row Vengeance: The inmates at Grey Echo Penitentiary are slated for execution, and they blame you. With their last breath, they curse those who did nothing to save them from the electric chair or lethal injection and vow to haunt those who watched them suffer. Will you make it out alive when they come back to make good on their dying promise?

THIS WAS FREAKY. Do you know why?

We were the only ones there.

I don't know why, but when we walked in and saw NO ONE ahead of us (ahead of me) that was it. I was freaked long before they did anything to me. And boy did they do stuff. You walked through the lethal injection room, the electrocution room, and all manor of cell blocks and nasty places. They kept saying, "THE GUILTY SHALL NEVER LEAVE!" and I kept saying, "I'm innocent, so I'm out of here!" while Kate said, "I'm guilty! I'm guilty!" Way to send mixed messages.

Thankfully we found people about halfway through the house, and I made sure we DIDN'T LOSE THEM. xD

VERDICT: A very good house. So far, this was the house I screamed the most on.

Nightshade Toys: By day, the old Nightshade Toy Factory appears abandoned. But as night falls, the mysterious manufacturing plant glows and hums as it creates diabolical dolls, terrible teddy bears, and possessed playthings of your childhood nightmares. These twisted toys are alive...and are coming after the adults who have forgotten them.

I knew this was going to be a freaky house. I have dolls and stuffed animals at home. I KNEW this would be bad. But you know what? This was my favorite house. It was creepy, yes, but I wasn't scared as much as I was having fun.

This one hallway was COVERED with shelves of naked dolls with glowing eyes. That was freaky enough, but what was worse? They peed on us. XD I had to laugh. Later I found out these dolls were all named "Tina Tinkle". We went through the assembly line of evil dolls, and a hallway full of posters for wicked toys. But the best part?



THIS HALLWAY RIGHT HERE. As you can see, it's only a narrow walkway, with the walls like this spinning wildly. I thought I was only going to get dizzy, but no, I swear to God I could FEEL the floor tilting on its side, threatening to drop me off the edge if I let go of the railing. And I was clinging to it very hard, lemme tell you. As fun as this was, it was too short. But this was the best part of the house. Apparently this is an old trick at HOS, since Kate warned us about it right before we walked in on it, but I can see why they brought it back. It's so freaky, and so fun.

VERDICT: I could honestly go in this house again, if only for that spinning room. A very good and creative house, even if I'm now scared of the bear I won in a game at the park. Hee.

Reconstruction (The Doctor Is In): Dr. Edger VonAngst has the skill and technology to make you over...but what will you become? This mad reconstructive surgeon has set up shop, putting human parts back together with mechanical pieces and combining flesh, bone and steel in the most hideous ways. Nip/Tuck has never been like this!

Let me just say, they have saved the best for last. And by best I mean the scariest. Walking in I made a little joke to myself that I should really pay attention to this house, to get some ideas for Jonathan. The other two didn't get it, of course, but all humor evaporated when we got in.

WE WERE THE ONLY ONES IN THE HOUSE AGAIN.

Kate started freaking out with me, because she's scared of hospitals, and now everyone in this house will be gunning for us. Oh my God, I jumped so much in this house and shrieked as these people kept jumping out RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY FACE. There were blood and guts, of course, and needles up the wazoo, and evil dentists, and MORE STROBE LIGHTS. I hate strobe lights. One blink you're staring at nothing, and the next a bloody, grinning corpse is inches away from you. DX And then? A maze of PURE. DARKNESS. Only with blinding flashes of yellow light every 7 seconds or so. Oooh, I couldn't get out of that house fast enough.

Remember how I said they could touch you? Yeah, well, near the end, both Kate and her mom felt something thin and furry wrap against their necks for a few seconds before disappearing. *shudders* I'm so glad that didn't happen to me. Of course, I didn't give them a chance, hunched over as I was.

VERDICT: The scariest house, and for that, I applaud it. Still would not go in there again.

After that we grabbed some ice cream and candy. But of course, a horde of roaming clowns had to come in and stare at us with these freaky smiles. But by that point I was so tired I only waved at them.

We stayed way later than expected, and I didn't get home until 2:40. Ugh. So tired. But this was the most eventful and fun Halloween I've had in a long time. I'm so glad I went. ^__^



Ms. Vayne and her models hope you all had a FANGtastic (*runs from the booing*) Halloween. *showers you with candy*

Btw, NaNoWriMo starts today, right? GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE DOING IT! \^0^/

So it looks like there's a pretty good chance I CAN go to Howl-O-Scream after all (there was a lot of speculation for a while, whether we would or wouldn't), and I'm looking forward to it. And praying I don't walk away scarred. Lol But Kate's pretty much told me that I'm riding Sheikra when we get there. *cowers* Is it wrong I'm more worried about THAT than the houses? I'm trying to tell her since it's Halloween, the place will be swamped and we won't have time for both, but she's insistent.

....Save me. TT^TT

I've also got a bunch of movies taping (I love DVRs) for when I get home. Or for when I spend a lonely Halloween alone at home. Silence of the Lambs, Night of the Living Dead, Ghost Busters...and Batman Forever. IT'S A MORBID CURIOSITY, ALL RIGHT? XD;;;

*pretends her palms aren't hot from imagining Sheikra. T^T*

I hope you all have a fantastic Halloween. <3

You know, despite how many characters I love in all fandoms, I honestly had a hard time thinking of one I'd like to go on a date with. Not only was it because, despite thinking some are hot as all get out and pairing them with EVERYONE (*cough*EnvyandJonny*cough*), I'm not attracted to any of 'em, but also because a lot of the characters I like...aren't date material. Envy'd kill me, Jonny'd probably see me as a test subject if he even said yes, I can't see any chemistry with any HP guys, etc.

Then it hit me. Even if he's not my favorite character in the series:

Touta Matsuda from Death Note.

The guy is SUCH A SWEETHEART. Completely kind, innocent, very sincere, and while he's definitely not the smartest guy on the task force, and up until the end everyone sees him as a bit of a joke, Matsuda's the only one in Death Note who I think would genuinely care about me, without having some ulterior motive he cares more about, like Light or L or Soichiro or the Wammy boys. I think Matsuda would be a great catch for any girl, and I can see myself having a very good time if I went on a date with him. I can definitely picture him as the romantic type. Hee.

I don't know. I really don't know.

singingrain5's Halloween party:

2lilies1 dressed as Anna Nicole Smith.
arcen_cielle dressed as a disturbing self-made character called "Zsa-Zsa Chucklekisser", and it suited them all too well.
atoasterstrudel dressed as Ivan the Terrible of Russia.
averred dressed as blues legend Old Mama White.
bakurabox dressed as a quarterback for the Eagles.
bodyline dressed as Yu-Gi-Oh.
carrotizer dressed as a turkey.
crystal_aingeal dressed as a outfielder for the Red Sox.
cyberenvy dressed as Mde. Lachienne Foutue d'Enfer -- you don't wanna know.
danybel dressed as Guy Fawkes but the exploding barrel of dynamite didn't go down too well.
deadlylettuce dressed as the love child of Elvis Presley and Hillary Clinton.
fonsetorigo dressed as Tom Cruise.
gallimimusgecko dressed as the main character of "To Kill a Mockingbird", though it looked more like a adjacent bruise.
hikaridaeron dressed as Sybil - except that Sybil didn't show but the other 31 personalities did.
iamashamed dressed as a mummy.
insomniacures dressed as Nosferatu the Supreme Vampire.
inu_kaiba dressed as the resurrected dead -- complete with the most convincing coffin.
justj0sh1ng dressed as a brave ceremony.
kitsunesan dressed as Sigfried in need of testosterone.
ladyofpride dressed as a character from a Resident Evil game.
lilkittyangel dressed as Connie Chung.
magicsfiend dressed as the Vicomte des Boules-Velues.
mellifluous_ink dressed as Adam-the-first-man but the fig-leaf was far too big.
mich_molls dressed as Monica Lewinsky - tarred and feathered.
miweo dressed as Josephine Baker but the banana "skirt" didn't survive the night.
mogimogi dressed as Camilla Parker-Bowles when she becomes Queen.
muhnemma dressed as a bottle of Valudremovance.
nawarii dressed as Jack the Ripper in a time machine, complete with gory knives.
novemberangel28 dressed as the Duke of Hickoryton.
otaku_attack dressed as your brother.
penny_fig dressed as legendary space hero Fist Johnson, and it suited them all too well.
precioussonja dressed as Mr. Spock from "Star Trek".
pumpkin_queen24 dressed as a walking Guillotine.
reality0junkie dressed as the spirit of their dead grandmother Ariane.
risco dressed as the Governor of Washington.
roojii dressed as a dog.
seuhhrah dressed as Vanna White.
shadow_of_egypt gets drunk, strips naked, and somehow emerges dressed as Optimus Prime.
shiroandfubuki dressed as the Duke of Trirata.
shoebox_addict dressed as a advice.
singingrain5 dressed as a Pettus-Deringer United employee.
siriusgirl9 dressed as a executive corporate spy department head honcho.
starryeyedstara dressed as Kim Possible.
tarakitty didn't dress up, spoilsport.
teagues_veil dressed as a angel.
thrivingemery dressed as a cigarette box.
totodiles dressed as a Level 4 thief, and it suited them all too well.
tsuzuki13 dressed as Mary Queen of Scots ... without her head. Most convincing.
tuesdayfic dressed as a 1960's hippie child.
violet_light_ dressed as Monica Bellucci.
xxkaorichanxx dressed as Ichabod Crane, the schoolmaster from Sleepy Hollow.
zakai_ dressed as a character from Harry Potter and the King of Mustang.

Throw your own party at the Hallomeme!
Created by sigma7: More info here.

I love you, bodyline. Same for you, Kate, though you won't understand why.

HUSBY I LOVE YOU. SRSLY. YOU'RE OPTIMUS PRIME UNDER YOUR CLOTHES. THIS IS WHY I MARRIED YOU.

I am truly afraid to know what a lovechild of Elvis and Hillary would be like.

Okay, so I'm not tired anymore. But I am bored. So.

First of all, none of my friends would make a remark like that. I've got plenty who are bi or gay, and at least friend to cover most races. We all know each other, and we all love each other, or at the very least are open minded enough to not care if someone's half black/half white, or a lesbian, or whatever.

That being said; if someone did make a remark like that? You better believe it I'd confront them about it. I wouldn't be all, "ZOMG YOU RACIST/HOMOPHOBIC PISSANT HOW DARE U", but I'd definitely point out the flawed logic existing in any sort of narrow-minded remark like that, and defend the other side. If they insisted on being pigs, I'd drop the subject and over time proceed to wean them out of my life, or at least out of a vast majority of my time. I have no patience for people like that.

Y'know, a few days ago my Mom and I bought bags of Halloween candy for the trick-or-treaters. TWO WHOLE BAGS are already gone. xD;; Wow, my family has major sweet teeth. A second trip to the candy asile may be in our future. Heh heh.

Hey, I have a random question for you all. What's your favorite Disney movie? It's been kind of a Disney day for me (understandable, I leave for a week's vacation in it come early November) and am curious to hear your favorites. Mine's Beauty and the Beast. Hands down, it's so beautiful. I love the characters so much (yes, even Gaston. He's hilarious), the animation's gorgeous and the STORY. Just my favorite Disney romance of all time. You guys?

Also: Have a Life Meme. Taken from danybel.

STEP ONE:
Spell your name out in songs.

Secret - The Pierces
If I Only Were A Goth - ThouShaltNot
Night Surgeon - Repo! The Genetic Opera
God's Gonna Cut You Down - Johnny Cash
I Can't Decide - Scissor Sisters
No One Lives Forever - Oingo Boingo
Grounds for Divorce - Elbow
Rare Entertainment - Timothy Bracy
As Long As You're Mine - Idina Menzel and Leo Norbert Butz
I'll Make a Man Out of You - Mulan (and TeamFourStar xD)
Never Had a Dream Come True - S Club 7

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