Living with a Horror Junkie: The Ghoul, The Bad, and The Undead

This is what my nightmares are made of! The first four (l to r) are Ant's favorites. Thanks to Tlokireviews for this lovely collage.

I am married to a horror junkie.  Anthony loves scary movies, true crime novels and shows, ghost and haunting stories, eerie music, and haunted house rides at theme parks. While he grew up feasting on slasher flicks, Dracula’s Castle on the Wildwood boardwalk, and creepy Addams family cartoons, I was all Strawberry Shortcake dolls, Sweet [...]

Repurposing the Guest Room

My work in progress...I still need art, lighting, and window treatments.

For our first seven years in this house, one of the bedrooms was designated as a ‘guest bedroom’.  During those years, the room featured electric blue carpeting (came with the house), and a white wicker bedroom set with two twin beds.  We never had guests, and the room slowly morphed into a catch-all. In 2007, [...]

The Hunger Games: Big Screen Version

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**This post is spoiler-FREE** As the final bell rang at school last Thursday, I practically mowed down students and staff as I barreled through the corridor to the front door. Burning a hole in my pocket was a red plastic bracelet–my golden ticket–to an early screening of The Hunger Games movie, and no one was [...]

It’s In the Mail!

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Recently, I read about some fellow book bloggers taking up month-long (or longer) letter writing campaigns and was inspired to find my own pen pals.  I didn’t need to look much further than my own family! As a kid, I had a pen pal from another grammar school in our district and it was the [...]

A Special Invitation

Here are my Hunger Games action figures...

Look who dropped by Book, Line, and Sinker to extend a special invitation to an advanced screening of The Hunger Games movie to yours truly! Thanks to a wonderful connection, I’ll be joining some other lucky folks at an advanced screening on 3/22/12 and cannot wait!  I hope this book-to-movie translation is everything I’ve been [...]