phew

I remembered what the third thing was.

I got my website back! Or rather, I was finally able to pay for the new site and now have everything uploaded. WOW that took a long time. Uploaded stuff every night since Monday, and just finished a couple hours ago. You may view the site here:

http://www.dementedstuff.com

Change your links! Now I've just got to change all my info at bravenet, notify everyone I know about the url change, fix all the links on my free server spaces to reflect this change, change all the info on my net rings, notify my sister sites, and then die.

I've been out of the loop all week while I worked on that, but I'm catching up now. Didn't do anything out of the house for Halloween; the holiday sort of loses its meaning when you're an adult. I mean, I like giving out candy when I can have fun with it, but no one is ever available or willing to come over and get scary with me. My dream Halloween scenario is to decorate my house all scary, play a "scary sounds" tape out the window, and get dressed up to scare the kiddies. This just isn't as fun to do alone. Like, I remember when I was still young enough to trick or treat, there was this one house where two teen boys were in charge of giving out the candy, so one would open the door and then pretend to shoot the other one with an arrow. The guy would scream and pretend to die. Then killer guy would give out the candy and say, "I'll give you this candy if you promise not to tell anyone," and shut the door. I LOVED that. I wanna do that! Or something like it. But no one I know is any damn fun when it comes to Halloween.

When my sister still lived at home, she'd get into the Halloween spirit with me, but our dad would always get irritated with the noise we were making and spoil the whole thing. Now that there's a wall (literally) between my dad and the front door, it probably wouldn't bug him so much.

I could get into Halloween again when my brother's kids were young because they'd let me take them trick or treating. That was really fun. I even brought a third container for Halloween candy and would just hold it up with the kids' bags; most people would just toss candy in there without a second thought, but I always thought it was funny that some adults would give me a dirty look, mwahaha. Hey, I shared the candy with my niece and nephew! (and ate a lot too, shh) It was fun seeing what people would do for Halloween, like the house where someone dressed as Ghost Face hid in the bushes, and as you turned around to leave, there he'd be, waiting for you! Cool, hehheh. But my neice and nephew are too old for all that now.

I need to adopt me a little sister, so holidays like this will mean something again. Either that or get more demented friends, hehheh.

I did, however, have a lot of fun Halloween night because I hosted a costume Rent n' Riff chat of "The Ring." As you know (from reading my journal), I love this movie, but it's one of those movies that people either love or hate, so I knew it would be riffable. We had a really good time! It was more successful and more riffable than I could have hoped for. ^_^ It amuses me how hard the writer of the American remake tried to get certain concepts across without ruining the flow of the story, and people still didn't understand what the hell was going on. XD Like, the thoughtography thing is a good example. Most people have no idea that a psychic power like thoughtography exists (if you believe in psychic powers at all). Samara and Sadako (from "Ringu") both had this power. This is how she made the cursed tape. After death, her ghostly energy hung around the well, and Katie and her friends stayed in the cabin that was right above it. When they tried to record the football game, the reception was bad, so instead, they picked up Samara's ghostly thought waves, and recorded her cursed message. People just don't get that from the movie; you have to watch it more than once, or read stuff on the net to know how the heck the tape was made. The writer could have gotten that across better by having someone actually bring up thoughtography, but perhaps he thought it would be overkill, I dunno. It certainly wouldn't have hurt that movie at all to cut out some of the superfluous stuff, like the lighthouse. The lighthouse wasn't needed at all; something else in the tape could have lead them to its origins. Or rather, the lighthouse could be used, but why have the whole time-wasting drama of not being able to see the lighthouse on the tape until Rachel was able to stretch the tracking until the lighthouse appeared? I just didn't think that was necessary. Just have the damn lighthouse be there, plain to see. It just wasn't cool enough to spend so much time on it, IMO.

Hey, why not have the mental hospital doc who interviewed Samara bring up this psychic power? I could see him trying to convince the child that she didn't have it, so that would be a good way to bring it up.

Anywho, that was fun.

Oh, I had another funny Halloween memory I wanted to share. The last time I took my bro's kids trick or treating, which was '97 or '98, we got home and my bro was there to pick them up. He left from the garage, which has windows that face the street. As he's leaving, some kids come up the front walk, thinking that they can see people home (lights on in the garage with a car leaving and everything). I go back in the house just as they reach the front door and ring the bell. We weren't giving out candy that year (my dad is a total Halloween-pooper), so I didn't answer it. A few seconds later, the kids knock and go, "Trick or treat!" Still I don't answer. Then I hear, "We know you're in there!" XD That story cracks me up everytime I tell it.

And now, this!

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
sailorhathor goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as a sweet, cute little girl with curly hair and a huge sucker.
chibigir gives you 9 orange passionfruit-flavoured gummies.
crniveroussmurf gives you 6 dark blue watermelon-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
lots42 gives you 16 purple banana-flavoured hard candies.
meridius gives you 6 light orange peach-flavoured jelly beans.
mooserat tricks you! You get a block of wood.
mynda gives you 3 teal spearmint-flavoured gumdrops.
saccarineayako tricks you! You get a broken balloon.
songbird79 gives you 14 green banana-flavoured gummy bears.
tvsgrady tricks you! You get a dead frog.
vorok gives you 17 light yellow licorice-flavoured gummy worms.
sailorhathor ends up with 71 pieces of candy, a block of wood, a broken balloon, and a dead frog.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

LOL! Joe got me back for giving him a frog.