365 Days of Bliss: Frightful
Happy Friday Sweet Shoppers, Keely here today. We’re still wearing shorts around here but we have Halloween like the rest of the USA, and that’s what really signifies Fall to me. I’ve been noticing some bucket lists around the interwebs and this weekend I’m planning on marking one or two off my own list. I love Halloween, it’s so much fun, I love the decorations, pumpkins and carving jack o’lanterns, the dressing up and yes, the creep factor too. So, we’ll be camped out in the dark watching a scary movie or two.
I really like a good scare. In a completely safe and harmless way, of course. When I was little I found The Twilight Zone, Wait Until Dark, The Watcher In The Woods, Tales From The Darkside. I read through V.C. Andrews, Edgar Allen Poe,and Stephen King books. It, is still one of the scariest books I’ve read, still one of my faves. Suspense, twists and turns, things that you keep thinking afterwards, that’s what I like. I’m more of a Seven vs Friday The 13th. But I’d be lying if I said there weren’t a few pretty good Nightmare On Elm Street movies. Oh and Scream too. TV’s been pretty good to me too, I’m excited about the return of The Walking Dead and the new American Horror Story, looks promising too.
My oldest daughter came across R.L.Stine and she passed that down to her sister.They both went through their own Goosebumps creep streak. Aside from Goosebumps my youngest is only eight and isn’t interested (exposed) to most things scary. She has Destination Truth, the kid loves that show and thinks it has just the right heebyjeeby factor. My oldest daughter thinks Jurassic Park was one of the scariest movies she’s seen. She likes to be a little scared but she does not like anything even remotely gross, she thought Paranormal Activity 2 was just right. “So scary, not icky.”
Seems that scary is very subjective.
My husband is game for anything, he watches it all. He mostly likes to instigate and ask “Are you scared yet?”, “Did you jump?”. He gets creeped out too. I’m convinced.
I’m off to prep some fake Chex mix, and start narrowing down some choices for our Family Fright Fest. It may take a while. Until next time, Boo and Happy Scrapping.
