What?!?

Went to a haunted house thingie out at an old farm last night. As usual, I went as Shaun of the Dead, cricket bat and all, and as usual, I had to check in my bat at the entrance, since they don't want you bonking the actors on the head. They like to wander the line, hassling people to get you all nervous before you go in, and this year they decided to pick on a friend of mine who was dressed as Jesse from Toy Story, and they simply wouldn't leave her alone. This taaallll zombie dude in a corset really wanted her hat, and kept trying to snatch it from her head - he and his cohorts surrounded her and pestered her in the line for a good ten minutes, only leaving her alone when we entered the house. The rest of us figured that being hassled by creepy people with large knives is simply part of the experience, so we just put up with it - I mean, these weren't random whackos - they were actual employees working at the place.

The farm was creepy, but not really scary, and we made it through just fine - after exiting, I went to claim my bat, and Mister Creepypants ran past me shouting, "I'll get it!" So, he brings it over, then holds it behind his back, demanding my friend's hat in exchange. Once again, we play along, figuring this harassment is all part of the experience...but it goes on and on, and his associates come back, ganging up around her. She plays along, trading her hat for my bat, handing it to me, before trying to get her hat back...but the guy keeps saying "FAAAIIIR TRAAAADE!!" and walks off with it. We run after, and there is a long (another good 10 minutes) discussion about us wanting ALL of our property back, but he and his pals begin pointing their knives at us and telling us that if we try anything, we'll be missing our hands. Did I mention that this whole time, a security guard has been standing right there, just laughing his head off? She's near crying, so I trade my bat back for the hat and I tell her that it's time to go - it's obvious that security isn't going to help, and I'm not taking on three whackos with knives just to get back a $5 bat.

So yeah, last night we paid $75 to get mildly creeped out and robbed by knife-wielding crazy people. Gotta love Halloween.

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1. What would make you actually happy right now?

Gobs and gobs of cash - everything else would flow from that.

2. Planning for a big trip one day, where is the very first place that you'd want to go?

Hawaii - tooo many people to pester there, and I'm tired of everyone else I know telling me how awesome it is.

3. Have you ever realized how pessimistic you are sometimes? If there's a such thing as a "can't do" attitude, I think sometimes that you've got it.

I do realize that, yepyep. Funny thing is, everyone else calls me an optimist.
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4. What do you think of this? :D

Firstly, I wonder how in the world you happened across such a thing *squints*
Secondly, it's amusing how the author automatically assumes that "marriage" and "monogamy" are interchangeable terms. You can most definitely have one without the other.

5. I already know the answer to the bug question, so instead I'm going to ask you what your most favorite memory is.

That trip we took down past Big Sur - I don't think I've ever felt better.
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How long has it been?? Sad thing is, I only have a video to share.
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Isn't that nuts? It's like several aspects of my childhood, all rolled into one big ol' ball of awesome.
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In case anyone didn't already know (I didn't until a few minutes ago), they are releasing new Inuyasha episodes! I guess they finally caved into fan pressure due to the aaaaawful letdown of an ending they gave us, so every Saturday there will be new Inuyasha!

The cool thing is, we won't have to wait for fansubs and licensing and all that - they are being made with subtitles available, and have an arrangement with Hulu so that mere hours after a new episode airs in Japan, an English subtitled version of the very same episode will be available on Hulu!

Here's the home page!
http://www.hulu.com/inuyasha-the-f…

The only problem is trying to remember exactly how things were left at the old ending - I've blocked it from memory, so I may have to go back and watch the "last" dozen or so again.
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Personal update: No changes - still unemployed, no real prospects, but now I'm drawing stuff and enjoying it, even though I need better equipment.
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My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
tunafshsandwich goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Catboy.
apandaepidemic tricks you! You get a block of wood.
atomic_girl_1 tricks you! You get a piece of paper.
jillz gives you 19 green evil-flavoured jawbreakers.
kalina_ki tricks you! You lose 13 pieces of candy!
mad_migy_9 tricks you! You lose 4 pieces of candy!
morluna tricks you! You get a clothespin.
thelunarfox tricks you! You get a block of wood.
wulfae gives you 18 light blue spearmint-flavoured pieces of taffy.
tunafshsandwich ends up with 20 pieces of candy, a block of wood, a piece of paper, a clothespin, and a block of wood.
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Only two people gave me candy, and one of them gave me evil candy??

I DUN LIKE THIS GAME!!
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I just applied to work at a water treatment plant...

Hopefully they will be impressed with all of my years studying literature.

Desperation, anyone?
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Which American accent do you have? Western Western is kind of neutral, but not quite since it's still possible to tell where you`re from. So you might not actually be from the West (but you probably are). If you really want to sound "neutral," learn how to say "stock" and "stalk" differently.

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Cripes...I've been assimilated!
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After 30+ years of no problems - leaving my cars unlocked, windows down sometimes (I actively encouraged theft of my old wagon XD), living in some seriously low-income areas...now that I'm in a quiet neighborhood in a quiet beach town, my car gets broken into TWICE IN THREE MONTHS.

Seriously.

WTF?

Seriously.

They didn't steal anything except my change and a few packs of gum, since the replacement radio isn't worth anything, and there isn't anything else in the car due to the last break-in.

THEY BROKE INTO MY CAR...AGAIN...TO STEAL MY CHEWING GUM.

I haven't been driving it because it has developed an odd, loud click whenever I steer, so the fact that the battery is dead because they left the door open doesn't really bother me. I'm not even going to bother giving it a jump - at least this way, when they break in next time, at least they will have to do it in the dark without interior lights, and they won't be able to even think about driving it away. 'Sides, why do I need a working car? It's not like I have anywhere to GO.

Whatever. They can have it.

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- Well, I have a wallpaper randomizer, so this just happened to be having its 30 seconds of fame when I took the screenshot.
- It's Hana Neko, and she's awesome.
- She's from the now-hiatused webcomic, Tea Club, which was awesome.
- Uhm...she's a catgirl?
- Did I mention that she's awesome?
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Nothing new to report, life-wise....my last paycheck was $110...for two weeks...I'm pretty sure I worked four days out of that, so not only are they not giving me many hours, they're short-changing me on the few I'm getting! Yay work!
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...and they wonder why I "seem to lack motivation".
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Well, at least I can play a mean guitar solo while skydiving...
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