Things I am looking forward to in the near future:

• Eating an excessive amount of quinoa
• Scissoring
• Laughing a shitload every single day
• Forcing myself to like Trader Joe’s
• Listening to an awesome mix of “Le Club,” “Sledgehammer,” and Cartman singing “Poker Face”
• Trying fancier grilled cheeses’
• Catching up on every movie made in the 90′s
• Driving across the country
• Spinach for breakfast
• Living
• Loving

Pet Peeve of the Day: Personal life posts. 

Quote of the Day: “Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye / That’s all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die / I lift my glass to my mouth, I look at you and I sigh.” –W. B. Yeats (A Drinking Song)

Another favorite fall holiday of mine is Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.  It is celebrated in Mexico every year on November 1st in order to honor the dead.  A few weeks ago I found these awesome paper-mâché skulls– perfect for celebrating Dia de los Muertos!  They were extremely easy to make and a perfect outlet for creativity.  So if you need some decor for this holiday, head to your nearest Michael’s asap!

They look kinda menacing even plain!

Klinker was excited too!

It took way more white paint to cover the brown than I thought it would...

Finished product!

Things I Live For: Decaf coffee; getting cards in the mail

Quote of the Day:“Zazen isn’t about blissing out or going into an alpha brainwave trance. It’s about facing who and what you really are, in every single goddamn moment.” –Brad Warner

Ahhh the day has finally arrived.  The day I force myself to watch The Shining.  It is one of my all time favorite movies (in the top 5 along with Tommy Boy, Old School, Jackie Brown, and Field of Dreams) and I watch it every year around Halloween.  I absolutely HATE scary movies so it’s pretty crazy that this is one of my favorite movies.

Whenever I tell people I don’t like scary movies but I watch The Shining  and it is my fave, they’re like what that is the scariest movie ever.  I have never understood this.  It is psychologically scary, yes I will give you that.  But it is nothing like Texas Chainsaw Massacre (which I almost died watching I was so scared).  And, I think the Blair Witch Project is WAY scarier than The Shining, although actually a little less than I previously thought because I just discovered a few years ago that it wasn’t real and that those people are actors… 

Anyway, The Shining!  Shelley Duvall!  Legendary.  Scatman Crothers!  His name is SCATMAN!  And I need not mention the legend himself Jack Nicholson.  Oh I cannot wait to watch!   

This trailer is pretty clever/hilarious (please note: if you have not seen the movie do not see it based on this trailer.  You will be like WTF). 

Now compare that with this:

Oooooh gives me shivers!  I cannot wait to watch!!

Also check this link out: The Shining in 30-Seconds with Bunnies.

Pet Peeve of the Day: Brian Urlacher’s broken wrist

Quote of the Day: “How could you have such horrible instincts and survive this long.” –Black Sheep

A very special Halloween edition!!

1) What was the first Jack O’Lantern carved out of?

2) Sabrina the Teenage Witch debuted in 1962 as a cartoon spinoff from what popular comic?

3) What horror movie caused some theaters to suggest that patrons prone to motion sickness sit in the aisle seats?

4) What was used as “blood” in the shower scene of the 1960 film “Psycho?”

5) What was the name of the hotel in “The Shining?”

6) What children’s book series features a story about “Sam’s New Pet,” a stray dog brought back from Mexico?

7) What are male witches called?

8 ) What is the name of the monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?

9) What animal is said to be the only kind that can live with ghosts?

10) What percent of a pumpkin is water?

11) What state grows the most pumpkins?

12) How many people were hung during the Salem Witch Trials?

13) What was the name of the killer clown in Stephen King’s “IT?”

Things I Live For: Calling my hands paws; taffy apples

Quote of the Day: “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” –Henry Ford

The most hilarious thing I have seen in a long time; thanks Ronnie!!  (It’s even awesomer that this clip features one of Chicago’s very own actors from the Improv Olympic!)

Stoned meat-heads or hippies– two of the worst groups of people on the planet!!  Haha too true!!

Pet Peeve of the Day: Calling people of the same age ”kids”

Quote of the Day: “Just for that I’m gonna spend my whole childhood eating what I want and doing drugs when I want.  Whateva, I do what I want!” –Cartman