Writing It Randomly

A perpetual cycle of finding myself, only to lose myself again, devoured most of my free time last year. I did not write or read nearly as much as I aimed for and there's no way of reliably predicting that 2019 will be any different. Right now, my self-confidence is on the upswing, and it looks like my niche is being carved out. Past behaviour, however, is the best predictor of future behaviour, so I won't be too surprised to find myself over-thinking and screwing myself over more than once before this New Year is through. This is why I decided to ride out this high and instead of bothering too much with resolutions, I worked through my 1000+ unread personal emails. One of them was a recent newsletter from  The What , and now I cannot stop listening to The Hu. No. Not 'The Who'. The HU:

Yes, I am one of those terribly annoying people who get a kick out of these silly almost-every-day celebrations, and tomorrow it's  Face Your Fears Day  (2nd Tuesday of October each year). Don't fight it. Shhhh...

It's been 20 years.  I forget just how ridiculous those boy bands were. (And how much we were into them.) Poor Kurt Cobain would have risen from the dead only to die from embarrassment knowing his face graced my bedroom wall at the same time as a Backstreet Boys poster. The horror! A lot has changed for me since the 1990's. Pinks and feminine florals no longer repulse me, my taste in music is now much more inclusive, and I've even quit smoking. The bad taste in my past is something I'm quite comfortable admitting to now, but SMH. Why, oh why, was I ever into this  other  'N Sync guy?

More importantly: What is a Floppotron?

Valentine's Week is here! What do you have planned? Do you even celebrate it? We've never been really big on it. We'll give each other a little something, I guess, but for the most part, it's just another day. (Perhaps we would've been bigger fans if we received Valentine's gifts in high school. I wouldn't know.) Declaring your love whenever you feel it is a way better idea than hoarding it for one day a year, but I am a sucker for the silly celebrations, so to start our own tradition, we'll be doing something different for Valentine's Day. We're getting tested for HIV! I know that seems odd, but did you know that - even if you only have one sexual partner, you can contract the disease by accident ? And if you do, but never get tested, you can infect the love of your life without even knowing about it, becoming part of the vicious cycle? When you know your status (and check it regularly) it is less stressful & kind to others. ...

And, having listened to the entire song, I think that light sometimes feel like oncoming traffic. The Smiths - weird, sad and beautiful.

We're fortunate enough to still have the Cheriffic First Lady of Pop (despite the fact that she's no longer touring), but for a Bowie fix, we rely on recordings. Like this one from 1975:

Accurately hearing song lyrics is not my forte. (On an unrelated note, neither is skillful driving. Or science). I'm always envious of those of you who pick up on the words so quickly. I'd also like to be singing along and that's almost impossible to do when you're mumbling through 90% of every verse. No, guys. It's really bad. For most of the nineties I thought Def Leppard was singing about Lesbian Rock . Ok, fine. All of the nineties - as well as some of the naughties. No wonder I never caught onto the whole  electrical bananas  reference.

I have sore muscles this morning, but a smile on my face. We had a great time with our JC Le Roux buckets at PiP's Haunted Forest on Saturday. I was just a little disappointed that some of their stands along the Forest Walk was empty*. What did you get up to? Or do you have actual 'Trick or Treat'ing planned for tomorrow? Just remember: They come out at night. *The same thing happened at their Picnic Paradisio event earlier this year.

I don't even know where to begin. Eating your postman seems a bit extreme.

Scream is one of my favourite scary movies. All four of them really. The film series is also the reason for this week's gloomy tune, because I fell in love with it when I watched the first installment at Kimberley's drive-in theatre in 1997. It is still one of my favourite "scary" songs.

Oh, the month of Halloween! Indecision's haunting me this year. Other than adding some ghoulish decor to our little Garden of the Dead (and wanting to dress up, of course), I'm not sure which event to pick this year. What are you guys all up to? Any cool ideas? Whatever we do, one of my favourite things to do is to stretch out the suspense for as long as I can, so to start off our 'Mexican Wave' of chills, here's a creepy little story wrapped up inside a weird music video.

Yesterday was International Country Music Day, so I think 'Possessed' is the perfect weird song for the week. It comes from one of my all time favourite horror comedies,  Dead & Breakfast . If you like this, you'll also enjoy Comin' to Kill Ya (from the same film).

Stalking's no joke. Neither is my love for Franscois . This weird music video on the other hand...

After all the repairs we've had to endure over the past month, it feels like my zeal for home renovations has sunk into my briefs. I, too, am now poor and weird.

Money might buy happiness for some, but it can't buy everything. Think spiritual contentment, class, personality, emotional depth, empathy, morals, a sense of responsibility. The list goes on.

You may be weird. That does not mean you're a loser. It makes you Number One in my book. Dr. Seuss' as well.

Hope you spent some time with your Dad yesterday. You have to love them - quirks and all. You'll miss it when he's gone.

Llama, Llama, Llama