Halloween 2017: What I Watched

A little late, but bear with me.

American Horror Story: Murder House
I watched Seasons 3 and 4, then started 2 and abandoned ship. I think this was the end of my AHS experience though. Ryan Murphy's tendency to give up on his projects halfway though, while extremely relatable,  really gets on my nerves.

Corpse Bride
Actually my first time watching this. I was always a little too creeped out as a child to ever give it a chance. But I do believe whole-heatedly that this is superior to Nightmare Before Christmas. Yeah, I said it.

Young Frankenstein
One of the best comedies films of all time. Mel Brooks is an absolute genius.

Clue
Seriously, so underrated. And also, the best movie ever adapted from a board game.

Addams Family Values
Never cared too much for the TV show, but I do genuinely like and appreciate both of these movies.

Death Becomes Her
Not too impressed, but I can definitely see why it has a cult following.

Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Only the early ones. We don't speak of the college years...

The Office: Halloween Episodes
Classic every time. Also, the post-Michael Scott years have not held up as well as I remembered.

Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
It's hard to think that this ever got a theatrical release. My mom never showed us this as kids because she thought The Wind and the Willows was "too weird." While I necessarily wouldn't call it weird, it definitely wasn't what I expected. All this is forgiven with the money shot of the Headless Horseman in the Ichabod Crane segment though. Damn. No wonder he struck fear into the minds of children everywhere.

February

It's February. Which means it's still cold as hell in the morning when I leave for work, but almost all the snow has melted. It was a really frigid winter. My dad claimed that it disproved that "global warming nonsense," so that's fun.

This winter was uneventful. Black Friday was rough, but it seemed less chaotic than last year. Probably because it was my second time around, ya know? Christmas seemed to come and go. Uncle Dan and Aunt BB were out of town so there were only five of us. Mom and Dad enjoyed having a smaller group, but I didn't. Christmas to me means being surrounded by a lot of people. We don't do anything with the Paradis' anymore, and the Gaudette family group seems to dwindle every year. It's sad, driving around after Christmas and seeing all the lights up. For a brief second I got all excited until I remembered that it had already come and passed.

I got "promoted" (kind of, not really) at work last month. The new position has its ups and downs. It's sort of stressful at times because it is all independent work and if I screw up, there's nobody to fall back on. Luckily, there's a couple people I can ask questions to. Everyone seems really excited for me. I just hope I made the right decision. I don't want to let anyone down.