You know how sometimes you write something and it's perfect but then the Gremlins that live in the internet eat it and you can't recreate it no matter how hard you try?
THAT.
I had a pretty darn good summary of Crazy Scary written but then those damn Gremlins destroyed it and took the brain cells I need to rewrite it with them. I think it's karma getting back at me for paying this guy to follow Ginny around all night freaking her out:
I think he's adorable. Ginny thinks he's the opposite of adorable and he needs to stay WAY OVER THERE. I guess I shouldn't have laughed as much as I did each time he suddenly appeared in her face and she screamed. But it was funny, so . . . y'know.
That pretty much Crazy Scary right there, though. Ginny screamed a lot. I laughed a lot. I didn't have to do anything miserable, so SUCCESS! WOOOO! LET'S DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN!
A few notable highlights from the evening:
1) Scott Harbaugh of WPXI and Tall Cathy from 96.1 KISS did a fantastic job of rolling with the punches when they had to compete in a challenge of sorts. We didn't actually warn them that they would have to do anything miserable because we're evil, but they didn't seem to mind. Well, OK, a blindfolded Tall Cathy minded when she realized she was holding a soaking wet Huggabunch in her hands, but she was a good sport about it once she was done screaming. Tall Cathy likes Huggabunches about as much as Ginny likes my zombie friend up there, so that was fun. For us.
For the record, though, if I had known that Scott was completely serious when he said we may see snow in October, it would have been him who was forced to suffer for the cause.
Anybody have his address?
2) THE FOOD. You guys, our food sponsors went above and beyond this year. Las Velas sent some over some amazing burritos. Cafe Solstice knocked it out of the park with some adorable little finger sandwiches. Spaghetti Warehouse made my day with some fantastic pasta. Clique Vodka served up some super fun zombie-tinis. And then there's the stuff that Mindy delivered.
Her "assignment" was to show up with a couple dozen cupcakes. She showed up with a couple dozen Nutella-filled cupcakes from heaven, a couple dozen peanut butter-infused dreams, several hot and spicy cupcakes that delivered just the right amount of pain, little cheesecakes that I couldn't stop eating, and so much more.
Have I ever mentioned that I love cupcakes? I LOVE CUPCAKES. I'd still be standing in ScareHouse eating cupcakes if the zombie hadn't kicked me out.
Mindy needs to start selling her magic. Make that happen, internet.
3) The folks who bought tickets to attend Crazy Scary are some funny, funny people. Seriously, I adore you all. Thanks so much for your help and for keeping me entertained all night. Just keep your damn hugs to yourself, please.
4) New to ScareHouse this year is a haunt called Pittsburgh Zombies. You guys, I could spend days wandering around in there checking out all of the details. Each time I go through, I notice completely different things. Some highlights include the skyline of Pittsburgh, an incline, a little awesomeness around a certain evil corporate entity, a perfect recreation of the inside of Primanti Brothers, and so much more.
Alexis says that zombie looks, and this is a direct quote, "really pretty!"
She's so definitely my kid.
5) Worthy of it's own bullety point--the Primanti's wall within Pittsburgh Zombies. There is so much going on with that wall.
I could spend forever staring and figuring out who is who and all of that fun stuff.
For the record, it's possible that I groped Troy's beard when Ginny and I squeezed back in that corner to take a photograph of ourselves with ourselves. It was either grope Troy or grope the intestines of the dead thing that was lying on a table right in front of us. I figured I can grope intestines any time. I have to wait for the restraining order to be lifted before I grope Troy.
Wait.
What?
6) Laura Kelly and Margee Kerr did an AMAZING job of organizing the event. Little known secret, Ginny and I suck to work with on events. We do stuff like send group emails saying, "WDVE wants to interview someone about Crazy Scary and you know it's not going to be me" and replies like "NOT IT! Have fun, Scott!"
We also pretty much offered up nothing in the way of suggestions for challenges because OBVIOUSLY. Helping the diabolical organizers figure out ways to torture us isn't really a common sense approach to self-preservation.
Laura and Margee are magicians.
7) A huge, huge, huge thank you to Scott, Barb, and Wayne Simmons for offering to let us invade ScareHouse and for donating the proceeds from the night to Make Room for Kids and Christmas Crazy. It's an insanely generous thing for them to do. We don't have a total for the night just yet, but I can tell you that money will go a long way in making a whole bunch of kids a little bit happier. I'll share a total once I have it, of course.
8) Anybody have my zombie friend's phone number? I want to invite him to go trick-or-treating. In Ginny's neighborhood. I promise to videotape the screaming!
9) This post was so much better the first time I wrote it. Damn Gremlins.