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The food of the spirits (Spirited Away) and all other foodie scenes from Miyazaki movies, The grey stuff (Beauty and the Beast), Fizzy Lifting Drinks (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), Ratatouille (from Ratatouille), Pizza (All Dogs go to Heaven), And, dang it, that McDonald's burger in Weathering With You is just too beautiful to ignore. Okay, some of these aren't fictional, but I DON'T CARE!

I looked up whether or not certain mental conditions could block telepathy. Just a bit of research for a story.

I finally wrapped up my Halloween viewing schedule. Beauty and the Beast (1991) One of my favorites of all time. 100/10 M3GAN: Unrated Edition (2023) I was in a really crappy mood when I put this dvd in, and it really picked me up. Great fun. 9/10 Monster House (2006) One of my favorite Halloween movies. 9/10 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) A great movie based on one of the better HP books. 9/10 The Monster (1925) One hundred years old this year. And still super entertaining. 8/10

I ended up with two different ones; one suitable for the Oogie Boogie Bash at Disneyland, and one for later on at home. Both are variations of Madame Liota from the Haunted Mansion.

My crappy school never had a shop with fun or interesting stuff. Whatever I had I bought from a regular store. No fun allowed at my school, and that included buying neat stuff.

I bought a pair of door stoppers. I’m going to have to customize them so they don’t grip too much to my carpet; I want them to hold the door, but still be movable with a nudge from my foot.

The same rank I am right now; Unicorn. I’m nowhere near making the next rank by January so as long as I don’t mysteriously go down a rank, I’m fine where I am.

I wore a Blue Harvest: Horror Beyond Imagination t-shirt with black denim pants and black socks with little ghosts in them. And of course, I wore two variations of my Halloween costume. I'm a night owl, so technically Halloween was yesterday for me.

I took a shower, sorted through some Halloween candy for my little ones, brought in my Jasmine plant so it doesn’t get too cold, took out the trash, checked the mail and did some minor tasks on the computer.

My mom finished a very beautiful painting and seeing it really made my whole day. I love great art, and my mom is a great artist.

Most of the year was pretty mundane to be honest; wake up, work, play, sleep, repeat. There was one great moment back in May, when a relative of mine got out from under some really bad problems. The summer was average and I worked on some art. The last two months were pretty horrendous, with some bad health issues, two surgeries, multiple trips to the ER and one of them in an ambulance. So overall, with the year still having the most important months left (Christmas and all that), was less than glorious, but I’m hoping it’ll finish off on a happy note.

I'd love to try it, but I'm on a No-Dew diet. But Halloween was quite nice!

@Ishmael Thanks! I can see this is a subject you’ve given a lot of thought to and I appreciate your insights. I agree with you completely and you’ve given me some good points to ponder.

Since this is the night when we return to Standard Time, in ten minutes (Pacific Time) we’ll fall back an hour. So in ten minutes it’ll be an hour ago. I’ll be passing myself coming this way, or there will be a time paradox threatening to unravel the space/time continuum and destroy the entire universe. Or, most likely I’ll be writing what I’ll be doing in one hour and ten minutes from now (or rather, then). Does any of this make sense? If it does, please explain it to me cuz I have no idea what I just said.

A Couple of Cuckoos, Season 2. It picks up seamlessly from the first season and remains just as entertaining. Lots of good characters and fun to watch.

Felix the Cat (the Wonderful, Wonderful Cat), Aslan, Jiji (Kiki’s Delivery Service), Shere Khan, Cheshire Cat, Hobbs, Tigger, Penelope, Fuli, (Lion Guard) Danny (Cats Don’t Dance), Felicia (Great Mouse Detective), Yzma (transformed into a nasty little cat), Jonesy (Alien).

The original Tweety (in his early days when he was still pink, featherless and absolutely crazy), Sweetie (the Tiny Toons version, which brought back Tweety’s original wackiness), Woody Woodpecker (early versions, when he too was still crazy), Plucky Duck, Donald and Daisy, Huey, Dewey and Louie, Roadrunner, Scuttle (Little Mermaid), Iago (Aladdin), Orville (The Rescuers), Wilbur (The Rescuers Down Under), Jeremy (Secret of NIMH), The Great Owl (Secret of NIMH), Prince Azul Vasu Morantha IV (Barbie as the Island Princess).

Zombieland (2009) My favorite zombie movie because it has a sense of humor to bring the absurdity into perspective. Inspired and adroitly written and directed. 9/10 Young Frankenstein (1974) A classic, and probably my favorite Mel Brooks movie. Written by Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks, and directed by the latter. It always delivers the laughs, no matter how many time I see it. 8.5/10 Orphan (2009) Just creepy, messed up fun. I love the idea of a little girl being the antagonist, even though there's a twist involved. The idea is good. The execution was okay. 7/10 Goosebumps (2015) Not bad for a Goosebumps story. The Goosebumps franchise isn’t exactly brilliant or original, but this movie has good characters and just enough of a twist to make it worthwhile. 7.5/10 Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018) Less inspired, but nonetheless an entertaining sequel. Much goes unexplained in terms of the abilities of the main villain, but I can live with it. 7/10 R. L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead (2025) Yeah, a lot of overkill here with the Goosebumps universe, and this one doesn’t really deliver. It has a minor twist at the end to give it a whisper of originality but I’m not sure that’s enough to put it over the top. 5.5/10

My last viewing was The Little Flower with Fr. Jaques Daley. It’s a 14-part series on the life of St. Therese of Lisieux, my patron saint.

Sure, it’s good to live in the moment and savor everything as much as possible, as long as one doesn’t obsess over it, thinking ‘this will be the last time for this or that.’ Getting too tightly focused on anything, especially the mundane, can cause bad things (in my case radical OCD). I don’t want to make a mountain out of a molehill here and I’m not trying to be all gloom and doom, but life is full of comings and goings, both miniscule and monumental, so enjoy them while you have them but don’t waste one moment trying to savor another. Otherwise, each passing thing is just another cue to grieve something that may never happen again. Life may not always seem eventful, but keep in mind that many things are fleeting by nature, and don’t have to mean a lot in the long run. In terms of goals and achievements, our hopes, dreams and plans aren’t always up to us, so live, hope and don’t worry about the small stuff. We’re here on this earth to learn because knowledge is all we can take with us when we die. So make plans and enjoy them if you can, but don’t lament what does or doesn’t pan out because it’s not necessarily about our own chosen path but a bigger picture we can’t even imagine yet. When I was younger I had certain dreams, then I forgot them until later in my life when they came back and found me, so to speak. Life will course-correct if need be, so don’t worry; let life do its work and be content in what it teaches, no matter what that may be. Most of all don’t get lost trying to live every moment to the hilt; that leads to a slippery slope and you’ll never be satisfied. Only time will show true perspective.

Not struggling lately. I’ve been sleeping pretty hard thanks to my good friend Melatonin, or in some cases one third of an Advil PM (never more than two nights in a row). That puts me in another world.

To be honest I still don’t know what I’ll be dressing up as. I’ll be going out with my non-sister, who’ll be going as M3GAN (I’m jealous) but I need to come up with something that compliments that theme.

I mowed my parents’ lawn, took the trash out, went shopping and did some Christmas projects. So far that’s about it. But I have all night to catch up…with some nice non-constructive down time.