Hey blogging world.
1. IT'S HALLOWEEN, and I'm really excited because (brace yourself for a letdown) this will finally be the year I watch 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'. TNBC is pretty high up there on my list of things I awkwardly pretend I've seen, so this is going to be a life-changer.
Things I pretend I've Seen:
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- the last episode of LOST
- The Little Rascals
- The Goonies
- The Brave Little Toaster
- Rocko's Modern Life
Growing up, my mom had a thing against anything that had to do with Tim Burton (why mami? whyyyy?) so all of my contributions to most of the The Nightmare Before Christmas-related conversations (there were more of them than you'd expect. There were enough of them to make me feel like a big fat weirdo for being the only kid in my class who hadn't seen the movie) were based on the 30 second movie previews that came before the feature film on my Thumbelina VHS. Mostly, the conversations went like this:
Friends: Blah blah blah.. like that one part in 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'! Have you seen that movie?
Me: (stammers) (sweats a lot) Uh, y-yeah! Haha! Duh. Ha. Who hasn't? Haha. What a great movie. Ha. That guy's white pumpkin head is so cool!
Friends: You mean Jack? He's not a pumpkin. He's a skeleton.
Me: (stammers more) (on the verge of tears) What? Haha. Oh yeah! I absolutely know who Jack is! Ha. And that he's a skeleton! I just love this movie so much and sometimes it's hard to talk about things you love and I think I hear my brother calling me so bye! (runs far away before they realize what a fraud I am and refuse to go trick-or-treating with the loser who hasn't seen The Nightmare Before Christmas)
My childhood Halloweens in a nutshell, people! Enough nervous laughter and lying to last a lifetime.
2. Taking a break to talk about non-seasonal items of business: I'm still ginuwinely (wait for it) upset that I dropped 400 SongPop points on the so-called Modern R&B playlist (geddit?!) (but seriously, I'm upset). I thought it would be all Craig David and Ashanti and Blu Cantrell (those three make up 95% of what I listened to during all of 6th grade, so there was a lot of emotional baggage going into this playlist), but the playlist doesn't have any of them. I don't know who it has. Obviously. Given my abysmal scores every time I play the stupid playlist.
3. I've been doing a really good job of meal-planning for the past two weeks so that my next grocery trip won't be until after Halloween is over so that I can stock up on clearance Count Chocula and fun-sized Kit Kat bars. My. Glamorous. Life.
4. Halloween is all about choosing to be terrified for fun, which is a great segway for me to mention that NaNoWriMo starts in 6ish hours and I still don't have a main character. Any volunteers?
