After a talk with my Spook Sister, I have decided to just let it all just roll off and ignore the childish immaturity of others and concentrate on making my yard haunt more impressive this year. I have even started to decorate a little inside, which is something I rarely do. Of course, the candy dishes set around the rooms may not be able to keep their contents for long, but that is okay. The Spook Sister is having a Halloween Party (primarily for the kids) and a Halloween Dinner so we have decided that most of our energies will go into our yards and those two events. Not that we are not going to work the maze, we just are not going to let it eat up our October. I just feel bad for my youngest, he is not a blood and gore kind of person and has a very distinct idea of right and wrong, so he doesn't really want to do the maze this year. Hopefully I can convince him to "bite the bullet" and do it anyway. If for no other reason than to listen to the patrons and find out what worked and what didn't.
Now to finish getting the annual Halloween stuff for my nieces together and sent, the rest of my Secret Ghoul-friend presents together and plan my yard! Gee, I suddenly feel relaxed and happy.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Changes
Okay, so yell at me, I know it has been a long time since my last post. But in my defense a lot of drama has happened in the last 2 weeks. Of course most all of it is centered around the corn maze.
To kind of get you up to speed, I was asked to be the manager of the corn maze this year by the oldest son of the owners of the land. I was told that I would be in charge of planning, designing and staffing the maze. They would help with construction, the cutting of the maze and anything else I needed. So I said yes. The wheels started flying! I started organizing everything. By the end of July we had our first meeting and even started building some props. Here is where I should have known I was in for it. I never could get them to commit to another planning meeting. Finally in late August we called another meeting. Fewer people showed up this time (to be expected since there was such a long time between meetings) and he and his wife seemed totally uninterested. Now during this time I have been working on finding just the right props, costumes, lights, and anything else I could come up with to pull this off. Then I get a phone call to come help build the back drops for the scenes. I got excited because finally some real work was gonna happen.
When I got out there he was so excited about showing me what we were going to be building for the "backdrops". It was a ROOM! Sixteen feet long, eight and a half feet tall and who knows how wide. I about fell over. This is supposed to be a corn maze, not a haunted house. He couldn't understand why I just stood there looking stunned. Then he proceeded to tell me that he and his wife had went shopping and got all of the props that we were going to need. I really got concerned then. Everything was bloody, gory and cheap looking. Totally the opposite way we were wanting to go. They had movie monster costumes, electronic zombies, head spinning babies and so much more. The whole time I just sat there thinking about the hours of work that we had already put in designing scenes to look more realistic, more organic to the area. We were going to use local lore to fill the maze to go along with what the owners were wanting, now all of that is out the window.
Then to top it all off they still expect me to staff the whole thing and come up with more people. I don't even know how many scenes they are putting in the maze. I just know that it was cut ridiculously long and there is no way some of the people that I got to do this are going to want to be any part of it now.
To kind of get you up to speed, I was asked to be the manager of the corn maze this year by the oldest son of the owners of the land. I was told that I would be in charge of planning, designing and staffing the maze. They would help with construction, the cutting of the maze and anything else I needed. So I said yes. The wheels started flying! I started organizing everything. By the end of July we had our first meeting and even started building some props. Here is where I should have known I was in for it. I never could get them to commit to another planning meeting. Finally in late August we called another meeting. Fewer people showed up this time (to be expected since there was such a long time between meetings) and he and his wife seemed totally uninterested. Now during this time I have been working on finding just the right props, costumes, lights, and anything else I could come up with to pull this off. Then I get a phone call to come help build the back drops for the scenes. I got excited because finally some real work was gonna happen.
When I got out there he was so excited about showing me what we were going to be building for the "backdrops". It was a ROOM! Sixteen feet long, eight and a half feet tall and who knows how wide. I about fell over. This is supposed to be a corn maze, not a haunted house. He couldn't understand why I just stood there looking stunned. Then he proceeded to tell me that he and his wife had went shopping and got all of the props that we were going to need. I really got concerned then. Everything was bloody, gory and cheap looking. Totally the opposite way we were wanting to go. They had movie monster costumes, electronic zombies, head spinning babies and so much more. The whole time I just sat there thinking about the hours of work that we had already put in designing scenes to look more realistic, more organic to the area. We were going to use local lore to fill the maze to go along with what the owners were wanting, now all of that is out the window.
Then to top it all off they still expect me to staff the whole thing and come up with more people. I don't even know how many scenes they are putting in the maze. I just know that it was cut ridiculously long and there is no way some of the people that I got to do this are going to want to be any part of it now.
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