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| "My son and his Ghoul Friends" |
As many of us prepare for the upcoming
Halloween traditions, I find myself being pulling in several directions which
often leads me to leave things incomplete; take my blogging for example. I am
doing the best to write every day, but my weekends are not forgiving when it
comes to needing my time to write. As
you know, my family and I have been volunteers for our local Halloween Haunt for
the past ten years. But something happened this year that none of the haunted barn and
hay ride ghouls ever expect - This year we all got the green light to change
our scene's 100%. So here is my question
of the day - What happens when you tell about two dozen very creative extreme Halloween
lovers they can change their scare tactics?
You get a house that is guaranteed to completely scare all those who
dare to enter through its doors. Four about six years I had always obtained the
back portion of our haunted house. I would always make the Meat Locker scene
and a maze that resembled walking through very dimly lit catacombs that
would take you past most people’s worst nightmare - Clowns. Another year I
added a huge spiders den and a huge mystery box into the maze and locker scene.
I just kept adding to what I had already created, never changing the original
design that I had started with. I guess you could say I was becoming very
complacent in where and what my scenes would be. The best way to describe my
thinking - I wished for change, but at the same time, feared it as the set up
each year was easy because I knew it very well. It would usually take about
four days and I would be done and then wait for opening night.
This year, our Queen of Haunt did something
like non-other. Her exact words were, "I WANT THIS HAUNTED BARN AND
HAUNTED HAY RIDE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THIS YEAR -MAKE IT HAPPEN!" What made me think that I was exempt from
this change is beyond me. It was a phone call from a very close friend that
snapped my complacency into a huge reality check. All I remember hearing was
myself repeating what she had told me, but with sheer fear wrapped tightly
around my words - "They moved my maze to the front of the building!?"
Immediately my brain began to shake rattle and roll with crazed thoughts
slamming back and forth in my head. How could I do it? I have no place to
attach the walls too! I'm going to have to build it free standing!? It won't
work! It won't look right! I am certain that my friend heard the panic in my
voice, but she had enough on her mind and with great ease simply said to me,
"You'll figure it out, I know you will."
Usually that helps calm my mind down, but not
this time. I was in for a massive change and feared that I would let the Queen
of the Halloween Happening down. After having three days to ponder in my head
what my scene would look like, I was still unable to envision it in my mind
without going there in person to take measurements and make myself begin to
think outside the box I was hiding in. It was only then, and the endless help
from my husband, did my inner creative self-slap the negative Nelly out of
my thinking for good. Today, after two days
of working diligently on my new creations, I am able to stand back and honestly
feel that this may be the best creation I have thought up, that includes a
whole new maze, unknown scares have been incorporated, and the best part, this
will require a new tour guide costume for me. WAA WHOO!!!! You will not only be taken into the biggest Halloween thrill
in Annapolis - You'll be entering the best Anne Arundel County Fair Halloween Happening event, you'll be entering;
"ADAM'S NIGHTMARE"
One can only hope that the nightmare won't haunt you in your dreams.
So I know that I had said that my hopes were
to have my blog written every day for the month of October and that it would be
Halloween Themed. Well I guess I can say I have kept part of my promise. I may
have missed both the Saturdays so far in October, but everything I have put
together for you, my loyal readers and new readers that may have just discovered my writing, the main goal continues to remain – Halloween themed. I have
been working very hard on two very special original writings that my editors have been very
happy with thus far. My plans were to post a spooky story called “The Harvest
Moon” last week, but have been asked to keep it for Halloween week to really shake things up. I love that people are writing to me about my stories all asking for me to write more. Well, I am pleased to announce I will continue to post stories I receive and that I will have another one of my original scary stories posted this week
that is titled; “The Sister’s Curse”. So until tomorrow,
I will let your eyes leave my page so that your mind can begin to wonder – “Is this blogger crazy or
what?” I’ll answer that question tomorrow.
Goodnight All – Blog ya later. Hey and if I haven't said it lately. Thanks for reading my writings. It means so much me to see all the different countries that are seeing my words. I am truly grateful.
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