The days are getting shorter and dark comes too soon... and I'm afraid of the dark.

SO WHAT... Yeah it's true. I'm afraid of the dark. Not so much the dark but what lurks in it. Bumps, thuds, creaking floor boards... all of it! I hate it! I'm a huge wimp... I admit it freely and openly. I should own a large, intimidating guard dog but instead I have Mollie and Riley, chihuahuas whose combined body weight is less then just the head of a normal dog! What was I thinking when I made that choice, anyway??

Unless you couldn't have guessed by now with the confession I just made, horror films... not my favorite! I can't watch Friday the 13th, Chucky, Saw and I don't like gore or blood. Not even a little like in Jaws. The whole thing freaks me out. Puts ideas in my tiny little head. I can't watch someone else be tortured physically or psychologically. I'm not wired that way for some reason. Funny that I say that as if it's a bad thing. I am kind of of the mindset that if you are one who enjoys that sort of thing... maybe there's a wire with a short inside you but that's beside the point. In fact, cartoons are great! Yes, Wile E. Coyote is taunted by the Road Runner, run over by trains, smashes into giant rocks while strapped to a rocket he sent away for from ACME but the sounds of terror and blood puddles never make it into the scene somehow! If Looney Tunes were being made now the fun would come to a screeching halt when Wile E. calls his lawyer and sues ACME for selling him something that makes it possible to maim himself while using the product and they will pay up and either go bankrupt or be forced to print some foolish disclaimer about not using the device to hunt down a Road Runner as if any of the rest of us would do such a thing as this. Ludicrous isn't it? It happens everyday in the world we live in, sadly.

Oh well, I digress... my favorite movies are ones filled with slap-stick, laughter, love and sarcasm. When the entire population of a town breaks out in song and somehow knows every step to a dance and perform it flawlessly at just the right moment that makes me want to live in that town and magically possess talent just like all my neighbors. Wow, that would be great! Sexual tension also adds to the fun even though I know full well that the guy will get his gal in the end. Never happens in real life for me but I enjoy it on screen just the same. I guess predictability isn't all bad. I am pretty predictable in many ways myself. Like many of you the routine is what I follow and life becomes a series of mundane days that blend together to form boring weeks that meld and make dreary month after month until we look up and see the calender somehow reads an entire year later. I for one am opposed to this practice and I say we unite and form a front against the "usual" and the "blah". We don't have to live like this, we deserve to chuckle when we think of something our friend said last week when we spontaneously got together for dinner and spirited "bitchfest" just to get a few things off our chests!

So go out for ice cream, a glass of wine or buy some cheese cake and put on your pj's like the Golden Girls. Relax and have fun with a friend, sister, mother or a great movie you haven't watched in a long time. You might just wake up happier the next day and that would be a "good thing" if I may borrow a catch phrase from our crafty hag friend Martha Stewart. That will be the first and only time I borrow anything from her, I promise! Her daughter, Alexis is way more like my personality. Her and I could be friends, heck sisters even. Let's do it, watch a cartoon again or read a Junie B. Jones book like we did in 4th grade and let's get back to sneaking a little bit of frivolous fun into our busy grown- up lives! It will be worth it... if you do one of these things, drop a line and let me know what you did and if it brought back some spring in your step. A little fun never hurt anyone... not even the Coyote! Let's share stories of singing along to Mary Poppins and dancing around the living room like a kid who has no worries... except what may be hiding under our beds waiting to eat my toes after I turn out the lights!!! AHHHHHHH!