Words & Other Strangeness

 Last night I finished reading Hell House by Richard Matheson. It's not the first time I've read the book, but for whatever reason this time just seemed to be more enjoyable than previous read throughs. Maybe it's because I'm working on my own haunted house novel? Maybe. If you've never read Hell House, I highly recommend it if you're a fan of the Old Dark House genre - it definitely lives up to its name! The basic plot of the book goes something like this: A eccentric millionaire hires a parapsychologist to determine the facts if life after death is real or not, and is sent to an old mansion in the middle of Maine called the Belasco House a.k.a. Hell House due to its sinister reputation. The parapsychologist, Dr. Barrett, is joined by his wife, Edith, along with a Spiritualist medium called Florence Tanner, and Benjamin Franklin Fischer, who was the most gifted physical medium in America in his prime, and the only survivor of the previous attempt to "find ...

 Hey all. It's been a bit, hasn't it? Sorry my updates have been so scarce; I've had a lot going on over the last few months and honestly haven't felt like sitting down to write anything. That being said, here are the two major things that I feel are worth writing about: Yesterday I filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. My lawyer assured me that my case looks pretty textbook and everything should go smoothly in the courts. Honestly I was a little scared to do this at first, but after contacting said lawyer at the beginning of last month and talking everything through, he eased my concerns and made me feel not so bad for having to file. Something like 400,000 Americans file for bankruptcy every year, so while I'm not super proud to be part of that statistic, I am happy that I will be getting a fresh start and actually have hope to one day be a home owner, or at leaser someone with good credit, or both. Shit....why not both? My second tidbit is that yesterday(after the meet...