Hitchhike

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Ah! There you are! And just in time... There's a little matter I forgot to mention: Beware of hitchhiking ghosts!

 

These are the three ghosts from my favorite ride at Disney World--the Haunted Mansion. I've recently fallen even more in love with this trio after discovering that there is a pin set that features them (yes, I am one of those poor unfortunate souls [see what I did there?] that is absolutely obsessed with Disney pin trading). I managed to find two out of the three during my honeymoon in August but I am still missing the short hairy guy! So if you find yourself at Disney any time soon and happen upon him, remember me?

 

 

These three ghosts appear at the end of the ride and their names are Phineas (the traveler), Ezra (the skeleton), and Gus (the prisoner)... Phineas is my favorite. They're scary and spooky but at the same time so gosh darn lovable!

 

I decided to take my love of Disney and my love for Halloween and create a Haunted Mansion doodle today. I hope it gets you in the Halloween spirit, makes your spine tingle and skin crawl, and makes you think back to the first time you rode through the Haunted Mansion, terrified only to have it become your absolute favorite.

 

Only 20 days until Halloween!

 

a.r.w.

 

PS: Now a ghost will follow you home... Hahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!



Grow

i will not grow up

without dreams or adventure…

i will simply grow.

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My grandfather used to have this saying: I will never grow up... I will simply grow.

 

I loved that saying. As I child, I was obsessed (and in love) with Peter Pan and the idea of staying a carefree child forever. I cried the eve of my 13th birthday and even more the day before I turned 18. I was terrified with the idea of growing up and getting old; no longer being the person I knew I was... always changing, with forced responsibilities, and clipped wings.

 

In the early years of my adulthood (which I know many of you will still say I'm in. For the sake of my post, let's say 19-22), I found myself trapped in the contemporary idea of what it means to be an adult. I had a job, responsibilities, I had to go to the doctor by myself, and I was becoming more and more cynical. It was after I worked at Disney World, that I realized that (as Walt says), imagination has no age and my imagination is one of the biggest and strongest parts of me. So I decided to embrace that and run with it!

 

If I want to wear my hair in pigtails, I do. Wear crazy colored tights? I'm on it. Doodle in my notebook? Yup. Watch a Disney movie? You bet! I still try to go through life believing in magic and the best in people...

 

Life is far to short to fit into the cookie cutter mold of what the world expects of you. It's exhausting and later in life you realize it was a waste of time! I'm glad I realized I can be me and still have people enjoy me as I am without matching up to what others want... I will never grow up! I will simply grow!

 

a.r.w.