and the haunting...

almost four hours sleep, broken several conscious times by the pain, but i was still wired enough when i woke to head to work to not stop for caffeine as i've done on other very earlyu morning on little sleep... help arrived about an hour into setting up for the haunted house and from about seven thirty until nine thirty three of us worked diligently (with a little passing through help from others) and we had a good environment for a haunting...

though nobody actually mentioned it or seemed to openly notice, the only thing not as good as last year was the spider webbing across the ceiling and walls and that was cuz the pain kept me from doing more of that and nobody else had the patience to do the entire hallway, center room, and end room... it is a lot of work and strain on the arms, shoulders, and back...

the kids started coming through about nine-thirty and continued throughout the day... while the new activity therapy supervisor was not as coordinated as the last one (not giving us warning the kids were entering the hallway so we were caught unprepared a few times throughout the day so the kids did not get the full effect) and we had far fewer participants than we usually do (five key participants were not there for the afternoon at all and one was out sick for the whole day) and a few staff were all business party poopers (who were hustled out of the area fast), most staff said this was the best overall haunted house yet in all the years we've been doing it...

and my assistant stepped up to fill in for the key role of end room monster clown (yay data) for the afternoon when the original monster clown had to drive a kid to the airport... and the new cno added much scary energy of her own to the end room haunting, and we hijacked a passing therapist or two along the way to fill in so we at least had a skeleton crew (pun intended) to put on the show... so all in all, it was much fun and feedback was excellent from kids and staff who came through so everyone seemed to feel good...

some work even got done throughout the day as i returned phone messages and sent out requests from auditors, corporate, and investigators, so all in all it was a productive work day and a successful show... much yay all around...