Attack of the Thin Mints

I had great momentum working on Sea Hags this past week, but everything came to a grinding halt last night when I had to deal with a Girl Scout Cookie fiasco my daughter's troop has been enduring for the last few weeks. This is the suburban side of Suburban Vampire, and sometimes it can be much scarier than the vampire side. Let's just say that cookie money is due today, and because of a huge problem involving sales gone terribly wrong when a parent took pre-orders at work, our troop still has about fifty more boxes to sell.

Anyway...on a much lighter note, Van Helsing topped the favorite vampire hunter poll with 43% of the votes. I'm curious if Van Helsing fans came to love him because of Stoker's novel, the Hugh Jackman film, or other movies. Perhaps that shall be another poll.

This week's poll asks, "What's your favorite non-vampire supernatural being?" It was pretty much a way to get leprechauns into a poll, seeing as St. Patrick's Day is Monday. My 8-year-old is obsessed with St. Patrick's Days and Ireland. She watched Riverdance on PBS when she was 1 1/2, and she's been hooked on Celtic music and Irish culture ever since. Each March she erects a leprechaun hotel in her room so they'll stop by and visit (she's going to love it if she ever reads this post years from now and learns I'm revealing this). She's also a die hard Harry Potter fan (she started the series this past January and is almost done with book 5), so wizards also made it on the poll. I've also listed ghosts, werewolves, fairies, etc.

I'll discuss my personal favorite, ghosts, another time, but I need to run and get ready for the in-laws' visit.