{"id":891,"date":"2025-09-24T20:43:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pasioncondal.com\/blog\/?p=891"},"modified":"2025-11-16T23:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:05:29","slug":"lunas-coo-log-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasioncondal.com\/blog\/lunas-coo-log-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LUNA\u2019S COO LOG – Subject: Operation: Hall-o-no-sanity, Day 17 of Chaos and Cackles Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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LUNA\u2019S COO LOG<\/strong>
<\/em>Subject:<\/strong> Operation: Hall-o-no-sanity (or: When Karen Loses Her <\/em>Goddamn<\/em> mind <\/em>in Orange and Black) – Part 1<\/em><\/p>\n

Status: On the brink<\/strong>
<\/em>Filed by:<\/strong> Luna the Reluctant, Unpaid, Severely Overworked Chief Operating Officer.<\/em><\/p>\n

Filed under:<\/b><\/em> “Madness. Absolute madness.
<\/em>Time:<\/strong> Unknown. I\u2019ve lost all concept of it. There are pumpkins in the shower. <\/em>It must be s<\/em>ometime between the third box avalanche and the fog machine test that blinded Charlotte.<\/em><\/p>\n

Subject:<\/strong> Operation Hallowmageddon: Day 17 of Chaos and Cackles<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"We are once again under Orange Code Protocol and under siege. This occurs annually, beginning in early September and escalating into full-blown chaos by Halloween. Karen (a.k.a. “<\/em>The fog witch of New Jersey<\/em>“) has fully entered her annual descent into madness. Reason goes to die beneath a pile of plastic bones, LED pumpkins, and fog machines so dense the neighbor\u2019s chihuahua got lost and returned with PTSD. <\/em>The <\/em>porch is a battlefield<\/strong>, the <\/em>living room is a triage zone<\/strong>, and the <\/em>storage boxes have multiplied like cursed gremlins<\/strong>.<\/em> Every surface now hosts either a skeleton, a spider, or something that lights up and screams when I barely brush past it. Which I never do intentionally, for the record. I am the COO, not a test dummy. <\/em><\/p>\n

Decorations to Date:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    7 fog machines<\/b> (WHY??)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Visibility in hallway:<\/b><\/strong> Near zero. I just sneezed out cobwebs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    4 severed heads <\/b>(tasteful.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    2 possessed dolls<\/b> (which Tartiflette<\/strong> keeps licking???)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Pumpkin headcount:<\/strong> Charlotte swears there are 31 individual pumpkins<\/strong> in the house. She\u2019s currently muttering \u201cOne for each day of my suffering\u2026\u201d while sharpening a candy corn into a shiv. The number is actually 43 (not including the new ones.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Screaming animatronics in the kitchen:<\/strong> 2. One is a clown. I\u2019m suing.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    A life-sized vampire <\/strong>Nosferatu<\/strong> who keeps trying to steal my clipboard.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    And yes, <\/em>Charlotte’s giant <\/strong>dragon is back. <\/strong>She\u2019s had it roped off with caution tape and hisses at anyone who comes near it without a codeword. (The codeword is “dragon,” apparently. I used “pleeease?” and nearly lost an ear. <\/em>That\u2019s the calico for you.<\/em>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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    Box Count:<\/strong> We are now <\/em>36 boxes deep<\/strong> into what Karen refers to as “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” which is clearly code for domestic terror <\/em>in black and orange<\/em>. Boxes are everywhere\u2014on the stairs, under the chairs, inside the fridge (??)\u2014and every one of them contains something that eithe<\/em>r <\/em>screams, lights up, or makes fog. I\u2019m not ruling out demonic possession. Ziggy climbed into one and declared it the “Neutral Realm of Snax.” She hasn’t left in hours and now demands room service via sock puppet. Lilith floated above two crates, muttering in Latin. I don\u2019t know if she was hexing them or asking them to organize themselves. Either way, they\u2019re now suspiciously warm and humming. I\u2019m filing a maintenance request with the occult division.<\/em><\/p>\n

    This morning, I awoke to find the <\/em>living room fully possessed<\/strong> by a life-sized animatronic <\/em>werewolf<\/i><\/em>. It <\/em>growled<\/strong> at me when I passed by to get my kibble. <\/em>Growled.<\/strong> I hissed back, obviously, and <\/em>all this confused Ziggy. Like Ziggy needs any more confusion<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

    KEY INCIDENTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      Box Avalanche:<\/strong>
      <\/em>Tartiflette scaled Mount Pumpkin Crate at 6:42 AM and triggered a landslide. She now wears a skull garland and claims to be the Queen of Halloween. No one appointed her. I\u2019m filing an internal complaint.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      Werewolf Horror:<\/strong>
      Charlotte attempted diplomacy with the werewolf. It lunged. She screamed in Catal\u00e0. Now she refuses to enter the living room and has declared it \u201c<\/em>disbauxa, disbauxa\u201d. <\/em>I will Google when I can.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      Willow\u2019s Reaction:<\/strong>
      <\/em>She barked once, then curled up next to the fog machine and said, \u201cWake me when it\u2019s November.\u201d I respect her coping mechanisms.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      Lilith:<\/strong>
      Has not been seen in 36 hours. Last heard muttering spells in the laundry room. I think she\u2019s trying to summon whatever pagan spirit can stop Karen.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      Karen:<\/strong>
      <\/em>She opened a box, gasped, and whispered, <\/em>\u201cI forgot I bought this last year.\u201d<\/em> It was a 7-foot-tall <\/em>skeleton bride<\/strong> that sings. She cried with joy. She is too far gone. There\u2019s no bringing her back.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      Collateral Damage:<\/b><\/em> <\/b><\/p>\n

      The <\/em>poor <\/em>man can\u2019t wait for November. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      At this precise moment in my report\u2014while documenting the already untenable rise in cackling lawn d\u00e9cor and the suspicious disappearance of the fog machine remote\u2014this log had to be temporarily paused<\/strong> due to a loud, manic disturbance in the living room<\/p>\n

      Tartiflette, our resident chaos goblin, has gone rogue<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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