Squeaky’s Blog

I remember the book from growing up and I have to say that even over the years I still hate it.  It’s another one of those things that gives me the creeps.  I think it’s got to be because of Halloween right around the corner all the dark and gloomy things are coming out and I keep remembering a new thing from my childhood I hate.  I don’t know what it is about the book that I dislike and a part of me thinks I should go back and read it.  I just don’t see that happening though.  I honestly am wondering if it’s just the pictures because that’s what I always see.  I was talking to DP about this the other night and he thinks I am kind of crazy.  I can’t blame him though.  I told him that if he wanted to take WC to see it to go ahead and take him but I wouldn’t be going.  I hate that book so much that I told DP I don’t want the book or the movie in the house!  I am going to tell the family that I would appreciate it if no one bought it for him since he will not be allowed to watch it when I am home.  How sad is that?  It’s like the Nutcrackers, or the Dark Crystal to me.  They are both movies I hate.  I can’t stand Nutcrackers so much that I refuse to own any!  I don’t even like to look at them on display anywhere.  My mom says that when I was really little maybe 4 or 5 that I was forced to watch the Nutcracker and have hated it ever since.  I can understand that, since the part I remember even now is where the mice were running around all evil like terrorizing people.  That’s all I see when I think of that movie or see a Nutcracker.  So, it’s weird because I love Christmas so much but at the same time I know that there will be Nutcrackers out their terrorizing me.  As for the Dark Crystal I am not sure what happened.  I remember watching the movie a lot as a child even though it scared me at times, I would watch it again.  I think there was even a point when I loved the movie.  Somewhere though I became to hate it.  I think one thing it shares with the other two is the dark characters.  I am not sure though because I love the movie The Labyrinth.  It’s a little dark too but I love David Bowie.  I mean who doesn’t love that man!  That must be why I am okay with that movie after all dark and scary things are always better when it’s someone you have a childhood crush on right!?

There is this commercial that comes on down here and I swear it freaks me out!  Well there are a few of them.  This one is for Blue Man Group.  I had never heard of them until we moved here.  I guess they are some big attraction at Disney or Universal.  They are men dressed all in black with blue paint all over their face/skin everything that’s not in black is blue.  It’s the freakiest thing I have ever seen.  I know some people are afraid of clowns and for me I have never been bothered by them.  This group of guys though!  Wow they are strange and maybe the show they perform is cool but you won’t catch me watching.  I can’t stand the commercial so much that I have to turn away.  I wonder am I the only one?  I mean they are some big thing down here.  I don’t get it.  Someone explain this craziness to me please.