Halloween Night, 2013

Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote "And out of the darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, molding men."

Happy Halloween everyone!!

So, what are your plans?  Are you taking the little ones out trick or treating, have a costume party to go to, going to a haunted house?  Maybe you're like us, we're just going to stay in tonight.  We're turning out all the lights, making some oh, so bad for you food for dinner and we're going to watch the Exorcist!  

We live out in the middle of nowhere so we won't have any knocks on the door but if we do, I'm pretty sure it will scare the hell out of both of us! LOL

I hope everyone gets a good scare tonight, enjoy the night!

Just for fun:

Bought only $13.89 worth of food and household items, but after coupons and sales: Spent only $7.89 out of pocket.  

Friday, October 25th, 2013

Benjamin Franklin "Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead."

This Friday night in Winslow, we're continuing our 2 weeks of Halloween with movie night, every night.

We've decided on a Scream marathon for tonight and since there's four of the damn things, we've got to get on it so I'll make this short and sweet.

The Scream movies, assuming you've seen them, aren't the scariest movies in the world, I'll admit, but they have become a classic in there own right.  Plus, I'm pretty sure we haven't even seen the last two, as horror movies tend to lose whatever they had going for them after the first sequel BUT, we thought we'd go ahead and watch them all.  

In the coming week, we've got Dead Again, Audrey Rose, The Awakening, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (remake with Jessica Biel), and the Conjuring (I believe it's based on Ed and Lorraine Warren).

Next week is Halloween people, turn the lights off, put on your favorite horror movie, and get scared!!

Just for fun:

Bought only $13.68 worth of food and household items, but after coupons and sales: Spent only $7.68 out of pocket.  

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Eleanor Roosevelt said, "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face;  You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

This Friday night, though not in Winslow, we're kicking off our two weeks of Halloween.  We're in Tulsa visiting family and celebrating Damon's Dad's birthday, but it's still a Friday night and we brought horror movies to kick things off.

Last year, we watched all the classic Halloween movies but this year we decided to do things a little different and do some more rare horror movies and throw in some ghostly suspense/thrillers.  

Sadly, we started our first night off with a bad choice.  The original Evil Dead.  Sorry if you're a die hard fan of these movies but this was just stupid and not at all scary.  We've got the remake on the list for a later night just because anything has to be better than the original (in this case anyway) but I'm having my doubts after watching this crap!

Next, we went with What Lies Beneath (Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer), you may not think this a good pick for a Halloween celebration but I needed something I knew would at least not be a crap movie.

Tomorrow we'll watch Identity (John Cusack and Ray Liotta) and Frailty (Mathew McConaughey and Bill Paxton).  Again, you're probably thinking not good flicks for Halloween but there just aren't many new movies out that are truly scary so we're going with things we've never seen or at least haven't seen in a really long time.  This is in the hopes of us feeling a real sense of suspense or "whodunit" versus knowing every little thing that's going to happen because all Hollywood does these days is remakes and rip offs!

In the coming week, we'll do The Return (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Prom Night (remake with I have no clue who), The Last House on the Left (remake), the Evil Dead (remake, hoping it's much better than the original), and The Poltergeist (the first one!).

Get in the spirit of Halloween folks!!!

Just for fun:

Bought only $18.11 worth of food and household items, but after coupons and sales: Spent only $13.11 out of pocket.