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This book was #15. And guys when I tell you this book was frightening.. it had me SHOOK. I was literally more terrified reading the book than I was watching either film. I know, I know how does the original even qualify as a horror movie.

"He wanted to tell them that those dead boys who had lurched and shambled their way down the spiral staircase had done something worse than frighten him: they had offended him.

Offended, yes. It was the only word he could think of, and if he used it they would laugh -- they liked him, he knew that, and they had accepted him as one of them, but they would still laugh..
..You can live with fear, I think, Stan would have said if he could. Maybe not forever, but for a long, long time. It's offense you maybe can't live with, because it opens up a crack inside your thinking, and if you look down into it you see there are things that live down there, and they have little yellow eyes that don't blink, and there's a stink down in that dark, and after awhile you think maybe there's a whole other universe down there..."

This is one of the first (and unfortunately the only one I could easily find after losing my quote list) quotes that really made me go "whoa." Because I totally can totally relate when your mind starts to wander after you've seen a scary movie; that feeling when the hair on the back of your neck stands up or when you aren't quite sure if you really saw something out the corner of your eye.

I had more scary parts picked out and I planned on doing a big comparison between the book, the original movie, and the new movie but I'm like nah it's been done a million or more times already on the internet and I loved the book and movie in their own ways. Between this book and 11/22/63 I have really loved Stephen King and I think my reading list next year is going to be solely composed of his books.



You'll float too.
Leia

bargain books at barnes & noble

You know when you attempt to run to the book store and back on your 30 minute lunch break and end up back at work almost 15 minutes late because the bargain section was slamming with awesome material and you slowly browsed all the rows even when you didn't see the book you specifically went for but ended up coming out three books richer regardless?

Asking for a friend who is interested in keeping her job.

Leia

yleo 102: essential oils and the effect they've had on my life

Placebo, placebo, gazebo. If you still haven't seen IT you need to get to your local cinema STAT.

Essential oils. Do I hate them? No. Do I love them? Kinda. Do I think they work like the people who make money off them and anti-pharm people* insist they do? No, it's a placebo folks!

*I hate how big pharma has such a large hold on things in the world but we need them for some pretty major things and I cannot kick them in the nuts.

I desperately needed sleep and so did Piper so I finally broke down and bought the Young Living starter kit because of how many people (i.e. rich blogger moms and hippies) swear by them. Guys, almost to this day I can still count the number of times Piper has slept through the night. I refuse to comment how things are currently going because you all know how well the universe works. Did I think oils were going to fix the problem over night? No. I mean, deep down I hoped they would because of the miracles I kept hearing from others. Did I think that after a few days or maybe up to a few weeks we would see a change? ABSOILUTELY. Har har.

I'm telling you. People claim that you can rub oils on your belly to cure and aid in digestion. WHAT. Natural things like lavender that have been around forever are things that I was looking at. Peppermint oil for nausea? SURE, you're actually ingesting it and my tried and true BFF when it comes to an upset stomach is "spicy gum". Can you actually imagine how sick we would be all the time if our bodies absorbed everything that came into contact with our skin? Likely we'd be ill, and even more likely we'd be dead.

Who know who else is dead? The pilgrims and settlers that lived before us but died due to their diseases and other 'simple' illnesses that could not be cured by burning tree bark infused with patchouli in their living room. Don't even try to bring up Native American witch doctors because I know what they could be capable of but the pilgrims literally ruined that for them.

Could you guess by this point that the lavender and other mixes didn't work on Piper? We went through an entire bottle of lavender with no improvements.

So then I tried them for other things. Household cleaners are the other major use I see people boasting about. But at the end of the day coconut oil and a few drops of oil are not going to get rid of any nasty flu germs or salmonella off your counter top after preparing chicken fajitas for dinner. Same with carpet deodorizer. We had an unfortunate incident with one of our cats peeing in the house. The carpet has since been removed and replaced with hardwood, but all the mixtures I tried failed. And when you think about it, and no matter how many times Brendon said it, you are not breaking down what caused the odor but simply masking it. Yeeeeuck and it didn't even do that.

But you know what? They make the house smell great. I love having them simply for air fresheners. A damn expensive air freshener, but hey. I've already went and bought them and there is nothing I can do about it now. Will I be buying more? Yeah, an off brand version from Amazon if I feel so inclined.

A sad and oily tale.

Leia

this is us: season 2

As so many of you probably know, This Is Us started it's second season a few weeks ago.

Since I'm not a fan of spoilers it's hard to really talk about a show that is currently on air. So, all I can say is that I don't think anything they've alluded to this season is going to be the cause of Jack's death. Ultimately I think it's going to go back a few seasons and have something to do with a car accident. They've segued so many times and shown so many cliff hangers or serious moments in the car. AND his supposed 'personal effects' in the car with Rebecca are all in tact and not burnt. Can't tell if their cinematic story telling tricks have me hung up or not.

I don't know. When it was clear they weren't going to show anything in last night's episode Brendon simply said, "I hope they show his death before this show gets canceled." And I can totally see it being like that Pretty Little Liar's show where they keep pulling plot ideas and twists out of a hat and keep the show going and going. I mean I HOPE they don't because I enjoy this show and don't want it to get stupid.

*sits through 40 TJ Maxx commercials*
Leia