sunday, october 31, 2010

dear granny,
Today’s halloween! Hope yours is going well and that you’re actually getting trick-or-treaters brave enough to come up to your door. :] I sure wish I could have some of the leftover candy I know you’ll have… haha kidding (I actually have quite a bit between the candy mom got me to hand out and the candy Ian’s mom gave me).

This week was crazy. Lots of stress, lots of upset me, but I lived and I’m doing well after this weekend. Homework is getting the better of me, sometimes, and the fact that I didn’t get that quad I was trying to pick up had me on meltdown mode on Wednesday evening. Mostly I was just tired all week, which had me getting set off by little things every night. But since I got more sleep this weekend, I’m doing much better.

I had to be CPR trained on Wednesday, too, and that was super high stress because I panicked about not being able to do it (rest assured, I’m actually not bad at it now, I was just unfamiliar/unpracticed at the time and felt WAY too much pressure in front of a room of all the other RAs and our bosses)

Anyway, moving on to the weekend. Halloween means I dressed up. Aaaaand I’m a power ranger! :] The Red Ranger! No girls are ever the red power ranger, and I’ve wanted to be that since I was a wee child watching power rangers with the other neighborhood kids.

This friday was Haunted Hall in St. Joe’s and the other power rangers and I went to it after the staff meeting. Basically, the first two floors (Ian’s being the first floor) set up their halls like a haunted house and tour people through them as a major staple event of Halloween on AQ’s campus. You start from the ground floor, on the back of the building. There’s a wee entryway with a bit of scariness (like three people) that you go upstairs to the main lobby by the desk (not scary) then you go down the first floor hallway.

I was already panicking in the entry thing. Then I made it upstairs to the light and the relative calm and everyone (the other power rangers) kept going toward the hallway. It was DARK. I physically could not make myself go down the hallway. Even when someone was pulling on my arm, I was holding the door and not going after them. Then someone who goes down the hall after each group to scare them from behind with a creepy mask and a squeaky bike horn came up behind me and about gave me a heart attack. Aaaaand that’s when I wussed out and sat in the lounge and painted mini pumpkins and did coloring pages until it was over and Ian and I could hang out. I mean, once the lights turned on he walked me through and told me what went on down the hall (which is apparently how I can handle scary things, hearing a summary) because he was a tour guide for it.

Well, that was an eventful night, but I was glad it was over. And then it was Saturday, which was fun, too. We went to take books back to a library, walked to a Biggby’s (not for coffee, for a nintendo wifi download because AQ’s internet won’t let us do it here), and got jimmy john’s and watched Star Wars and all kinds of other fun stuff. :]

Today I got up and biked to a donut place, but then it was closed so I had to go get it from family fare. Then I played video games with people, and then did homework and such. Now I’m working on art and a bulletin board (they’re due at the beginning of each month) so at least it’s work I WANT to do.

Mmm. and now I can smell the pizza we ordered. I’m gonna go now, so have a good week and I’ll write again next sunday!

in the meantime, here’s a picture of my halloween costume, complete with the other 4 power rangers!

love,
marah

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