redrum! redrum!

so i finally did it. i watched "the shining." i know to some it may sound trivial, but i have been trying to watch this movie for a good 3 years and haven't managed to do so until this evening. for some reason (probably because everything i've heard from those who have seen it say the movie is creepy as hell) i've been holding out on watching this particular film. it has been my personal demon to watch this movie alone. i think i was simply waiting to have someone to watch it with. a friend would have been great, a hot guy i could cling to during the many scary parts would have been excellent. in absentia of both, i decided to suck it up, sit down with a bottle of wine, give myself a french manicure and watch. jack nicholson would cringe if he realized someone was french manicuring their nails during his horror flick, but oh well.

having just watched it in non-weenie fashion - home alone with all but one dim, little light off and phone put away on silent - i'm quite glad i watched it by myself. i mean, after watching this movie, who the fuck would want to go to bed with their signif other, for fear that you awake in the middle of the night to an impersonation of jack's "heeeeeere's johnny!" or the fear that your honey has gone crazy and now wants to kill you? no thank you. i'm quite happy going to bed on my own, in my locked apartment, feeling warm and fuzzy from my bottle of red and looking forward to passing out cold, void of all nightmares involving my boyfriend slaying me with an axe in the middle of the night.

happy halloween kids. i guess this is the time of year for facing all of those demons, even the ones that make you realize you can do lots of things on your own - even if it's as trivial as having scary movie night with self.