What would YOU do?

We are going to Disneyland for Molly's 6th Birthday this year (third year running WOO!) because things have happened to make it irresponsible of us to NOT go there. Namely, a FREE WEEK AT THE GRAND CALIFORNIAN thanks to my Brother and his time share! So here's the information you need to know:

• Molly's Birthday is on January 29th, an absolute PERFECT time to go to the park because all the attractions are just coming off of their refurbishment and holiday season overlay removal, plus it's the week before the official "Spring Break" season so the park is extremely under-crowded. Last year we were able to WALK ON TO SPACE MOUNTAIN, I kid you not!
  
• The week of January 29th is not available to us for the free week of Grand Californian. We can have either January 21st till January 27th, or the week of February 11 to February 17th.
  
• If we go the week in January, we get to have the room all to ourselves
  
• If we go in February, we share the room with my Brother and his family (wife and two teenage daughters)
  
• We love my Brother and his family and we'd love to spend the week with them, but our natural preference is to be alone
  
• If we go in January, there's a very good chance that many attractions will still be closed in order to remove the holiday overlay (last year we missed one day of Haunted Mansion and 3 days of It's A Small World to holiday overlay removal)
  
• If we go in February we risk running in to the first wave of "Spring Break" crowds as well as any crowds brought in by Valentine's Day
  
• If we go in February, we get to be in Disneyland on a HOLIDAY!!!
  
• If we go in February, Molly's Spring Break becomes TWO WEEKS instead of just one (Spring Break for her school is the week after Valentine's Day)
  
• If we go in February, Molly can have a regular Birthday Party with all her little friends!

I think I'm pretty much set on February as our week to go, but for some reason I'm still torn... when would YOU choose to go?

Crossed

Was heading to bed about 3 hours ago, picked up the "Crossed" trade paperback (written by Garth Ennis) on my way there thinking I'd read a few pages before rolling over and falling asleep.

I am now done with the book. I... I can't...

I'm pretty jaded, pretty numb to sex and violence and evil and... and you know, just, like, all the stuff that we've been warned that we'd be desensitized to if we listened to rock-and-roll music or watched horror movies or played video games. My favorite movie of all time features a scene where the hero cuts off his own hand with a chainsaw, and I'm an avid fan of films where dead people eat living people. I *delight* in this stuff! The gorrier the better!

With "Crossed", Garth Ennis has written a story that has left me... shaken. No, that's not strong enough. Garth Ennis has written a story that has scared the SHIT out of me.

(If you read these posts often enough or know me IRL, you know that I RARELY EVER curse).

I'm sitting here, SHAKING, afraid to go to sleep because I fear the nightmares that are going to come. The artwork conveyed the visuals of the horror in a way that was less graphic than my beloved horror films, but the way it was presented... it was... I think it was just the story itself that was so...

Three times. While reading the book there were THREE TIMES when I dropped the book because I was so shocked/horrified by what had just happened. THREE TIMES where I almost stopped reading the book because I didn't want to know what happened next yet picked the book back up and kept reading because I NEEDED to know what happened next.

And in the end I felt good about that, because of the message in the book. It's... I can't really explain it.

All I can say is DON'T READ THIS BOOK. It'll give you nightmares, or at the very least question your own humanity.