I Just Can't Walk Away

Spooky story is day 6. Y'know, for living in one of those cities that's forever boasting about how many ghosts they have running around, I'm lacking terribly in the spooky story department. I've missed out on most of the ~ghost hunting~ adventures and the two I did go on had mixed results. The ghost deer were freaky as hell though.

But there is one that I've probably mentioned before. The house I grew up in had a garage that wasn't attached to the house. It was off to the side and about as far back on our property as you could go before hitting the neighbors in the back and the neighbors to the right. But there was just enough room to walk around the side/back, especially if you were a kid. The boy and I weren't really supposed to go back behind the garage because a) my parents couldn't see us and b) snakes could be a thing because this is the south. Truthfully, the other end of the back yard was probably more dangerous considering it's where Dad threw the dead leaves we got the joy of raking up but hey. Kid!me enjoyed the adventuring back there so whatever.

Couldn't tell you the time of year or how old we were, but I do remember following my brother behind the garage during some game where we were pretending to be spies and I was chasing him. Imagine my surprise when I look down and see blood and not just a drop or two but enough that the boy really should have noticed before racing on ahead of me. I shrieked or froze or something and he circled back and then he took one look at what he'd originally missed and he definitely freaked out. He ran to get Mom and I decided I didn't want to stick around alone back there, so I went to the back porch and waited. I didn't have to wait too long because you mention blood to a mother and she's going to get the lead out. We took her around the easier way for the adults (so approaching it backwards from the way we had) and... nothing. And I don't mean the blood had dried and thus gotten harder to see, I mean it was all gone. Like it had never been there. She thought we'd made the whole thing up and was NOT pleased. We were ordered to stay away from the garage (well, the outside anyway) and probably got in trouble for lying.

Sometimes I wonder if my brother remembers any of this.



Also, I feel like I'm forgetting a very obvious scary story but frick if I know what it is.

Pardon me while I just crawl into this picture and live here forever.



( Vintage? )

Tired. So very.

Day 2: Favorite Spooky movie
( The Others. )

Mums and I went out on our travels yesterday and once more I failed to find my Toil and Trouble witchy kitty with cauldron. I did, however, pick up a nifty mug that I'll share later, and a couple of things from Target. I also fell in love with these nice greeting cards at World Market but they didn't have any prices and I didn't feel like going back out to the car, grabbing my wallet, and then coming back only to find out they were something stupid like 9.99. And you might ask, why not just inquire before leaving the store. Because I'd feel obligated to buy it anyway. I don't make up the rules in my head, ok?

Anyway, Target had two of the Marvel Rising dolls, but I'd promised myself I could only buy certain characters (America!) and Quake and whichever dude is in that assortment were not on that list. I did seriously debate breaking my rule but then this obnoxious woman with her equally obnoxious kids turned the corner and I had to escape before I lost my damn mind. Alas, they followed me to Halloween and her voice set my teeth on edge. I'd say it was like nails on a chalkboard but that has never actually bothered me. However you get the idea.

Gonna go paint my nails and then head to bed.

You win, Torrid. You win. Normally I don't bother with my haute cash because well, I just don't. But for some reason this go round I rustled mine up at the last minute and went to see if anything other than the really awesome Villains cloak/coat that's too much was calling my name. Just as I'd given up on anything being worth the hassle, I ran across a Daria shirt. Fine. You win. Threw in another shirt to wear under my NBC shirt and called it an order. Should've done this Friday when they had free shipping, but I think you had to hit $75 and I most definitely didn't so I guess it doesn't matter.


Read the third Gabby book and it was really good except ( Spoilers. )

Which makes it sound like I didn't like the book. I did. I teared up a bit because I'm a sucker. Also, the day I read it, we wound up with enchiladas for dinner and I cackled to myself because there's a minor plot point involving the Enchilada Princess.

No, I will never tire of various gifs of this because few fictional characters make me happier than Oz. Y'know, til Seth Green wanted to do other things and bad things happened but it's okay because I like Tara, though Willow/Oz is a better ship than Tara/Willow, but I'm not here to be kindling for the flamewars of Buffy.

Few things are sadder than getting a salad and having a good chunk of it being the gross bits of lettuce. Sigh. On the other hand, this is why you sometimes start a meal with dessert and I did. I had Blue Bell's Bride's Cake and it was every bit as good as the various obsessive articles about it would have you believe. Could've done with more of the cream cheese icing, however.

Work kind of kicked my ass and kind of didn't? It's hard to explain. My ankle wasn't thrilled the entire shift (it basically just never stopped hurting after I got off yesterday) but the shift didn't drag on either.

Just ordered two dolloween costumes from Amazon. I may regret this or they may be relatively awesome. We shall see, I suppose. Obviously I will let you know how it shakes out, if only so no one else is misled. But I'm cautiously optimistic.

Lesse, lesse. I don't really feel up to any major chatterings about anything important (what else is new, yes?) because tis my short day (get off late, go in early) and I'm still trying to decide if I want to watch Riverdale today or wait til tomorrow. Should probably decide like... now.

Flyby on my way back to bed before work. Tried the pumpkin spice Lindt truffles because a lady at work bought a bag and shared two. They weren't awful but I think I can safely say I am not really a pumpkin spice kind of girl.

Behold, one of those endless lists of questions but for Halloween.


( So many questions. )

Should've been asleep hours ago.

Not my picture, obviously, but I do actually have this. It's from one of the dollar stores and I covered mine in black and orange glitter because OF COURSE I did. It's got to be from 2012 at the latest and it's still holding up really well considering it's cardboard. From a dollar store.


Onward. Today has indeed been a mixed bag, from the Vegas fuckery to Tom Petty's Not Dead Yet (but almost?) saga, and my venturing out into the world in between. I don't have much to say about the shooting because I can't wrap my head around that kind of senseless violence and the way people hear about that and immediately cling to their guns and act like this is an isolated incident. We'll save the Tom Petty anecdote for if and when we go from kinda-sorta-maybe-probably-but-wish-not to confirmed.

I will say that as I tried to make heads or tails of the Tom Petty situation, I stumbled across my brother's ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend being dragged to hell and back on FB and deservedly so. I gather he started shit talking someone on some FB community that I would dearly love to forget exists and they clapped back and then he went and got super nasty. Like threatening to do things that would get you put on a list and repeatedly telling someone (more than one person? I dunno, I lost track) to kill themselves. I could be wrong and they could've started it but there are lines we do not cross, dude, and you not only crossed those lines but you set them on fire. Anyway, the gf was less than pleased and instead of publicly saying WTF, dude, she also attempted to fuss at the asshats in this comm and it did not go well. There are things you do not stand by your man saying and he pretty much said all of them. So the people of the comm went in on both of them and I'd like to say I feel bad but the stuff he said was pretty awful so... eh?



And we shall end on the fluffy note. Went to Target this morning with Mums. The curse of Target still rings true in that it's pretty much impossible to leave without spending $50. To be fair, some of that was cat litter and other stuff I actually went in for. Glue dots to hang my army of bats! And one of those command strip hooks for my new shower head. Oh, and Mom found her pumpkin spice cereal there so we got that. Sadly, in the two weeks, if that, since I went in looking for Halloween before, they went from nothing out besides creepy unicorn heads to picked over selection. :/ I sort of played with a couple of things but nothing I'd want to buy aside from a couple of really awesome lights (one looks like a flickering flame). I think I bought maybe four Halloween things, and one of those was a bag of chocolate. :P

While Mums was putting the stuff in the car, I ventured into the mall and headed down to BBW to use my free fun size item coupon. Which is clearly a sham because they had like 12 fun size things and not a single one of them was fall goodness. Because fall was 50 cents too expensive. :/ I wound up with their stupid aromatherapy stress relief lotion that I think they had awhile ago. I dunno. I did buy a tiny little candle (if you've got it, haunt it) and candle magnet witch's hat to use my 20% off coupon as well.

Then we went to Joann's where I realized Cass was not kidding when she said ours sucks compared to Summerville's. Nothing spoke to me enough to buy so I went down to Kohl's to look for the special snowflake dress they've got for the Wellies. This one. If you see it, let me know? It's one of the few WW things I actually want. Naturally since I want it, we didn't have it. Hell, we didn't seem to have much of anything in the way of Wellie Wisher stuff. A sea of Tenney and a display with Tenney and Logan but like three WW dolls and that was it. Fell in love with one of their Big One blankets but not enough to buy it yet.

Next stop: Walmart. Where it literally went from no Halloween at all to picked over insanity and nothing in between. I found only one thing I wanted or even liked enough to buy and of course it was pretty pricey all things considered. But it's awesome. Fine, I also bought some glow sticks because I love me some glow sticks. But other than that, it was all food and normal stuff.

Basically, this year disappointed me with the Halloween selection everywhere. That said, it meant that the stuff I bought, I really, really liked.