reintroduction

i haven't posted on this blog since 2019, and i haven't had an original thought since before even then. so what am i hoping to accomplish here? that's honestly a great question.

to start: over the past couple years i have gotten back into reading, which was one of my favorite past times until i discovered social media. somehow now that's the reason i am reading more, and thank god for it. turning into a kindle girl helped out quite a bit (if old sara could see me now). and when i was in college, reading and writing was all i did. it's all i wanted to do. i haven't written anything new, fiction or otherwise, in god knows how long.

i think at some point i decided i didn't have anything new or worthwhile to contribute to society, but i am also incredibly lazy and have no drive to do much of anything. i am also realizing in this moment that i don't even know how to right-click on my 2013 macbook pro, so there's a few things arguably wrong with me.

lately i have wanted to pick this back up and i have found myself...here. 

so here's to a start.

sara

listening: chillhop music playlist on youtube
drinking: water out of my mean girls (2024) tumbler
reading: twilight (audiobook narrated by ilyana kadushin - i do not recommend)

Grow Some Claws: How to do Halloween Horror Nights if You're a Scaredy Cat

One of my favorite things in the entire world is Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando Resort. The event usually runs from September to November and starts as the park hits dusk. The Minions fade away, the alcohol comes out, and the lighting gets a lot darker as some of the best and some of the hopefuls in entertainment break out into costumes. Also, there's a lot of fog. 

When I first went to HHN in 2013 (#HHN23, for those keeping count at home), I was absolutely terrified. I had just gotten into horror movies, thanks to the persistence by my then-boyfriend, but I sucked it up and we went with two of my best friends from the Disney College Program. My first haunted house (or, maze) we went into was based off of the movie The Cabin in the Woods, a film I loved, but a house I hated due to the F*CKING ELEVATOR SCENE. I came out emotionally scarred beyond belief, and even though I didn't know it at the time, that night was the first of many for me throughout the next couple years.

So you're reading this going, "Sara, no thanks, I'm never going to HHN even if you write a really cool blog post about how I should totally suck it up and go." Well then, you're irrational and I hope you don't go to HHN anyway. But anyway here's Wonderwall a blog post with some tips about surviving HHN to your fullest potential, even if you're a lil' scaredy cat.* (You will also find pictures so I'm sorry if it's an overload.**)