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Oct. 28th, 2016 05:29 pmSo. I am going to Blackpool tomorrow, and I did not do another training shift. I ended up going to that same pumpkin patch/farm sop with my MN yesterday, and while I was out, at like 3 o'clock, my new boss called me. I didn't get to call him back till about 5, at which point he said they still didn't have my access codes, he had had assurances that they'd have them by today (but he also had assurances he'd have them by yesterday), I didn't really need to come in, but if I wanted to just to see if my access codes had arrived and to go through some stuff if they did, I could. I declined.
And before that I called the Hospice to say I wouldn't be going in for my last shift because I was going to Blackpool. I could have gone today, really, but I was still hanging on to see if this training shift would magically appear, and I asked my mum if she wanted to come with me, and she said yes, but she had a funeral to go to today. All in all, it's made me feel like I'm not the most helpful I could be this week. But you can't help other people all your life and never yourself.
I am really happy to be going and doing something for Halloween though. And going to Blackpool. We always used to go to Blackpool in the autumn when I was little - we'd spent the morning in the town, then the afternoon in Blackpool Pleasure Beach, then we'd drive home past all the illuminations in the dark. It's going to be 6 hours on the train there and back, and the last train leaves at 19:11 from Blackpool, so we won't be able to spend much time looking at the illuminations in the dark. But I'm looking forward to it. Mica Burton, who is a recent hire by the Let's Players I watch, who is Lavarr Burton/Geordie from Star Trek's daughter, and who is lovely, was talking about Halloween being her favourite holiday lately, and she - or someone - pointed out that during all the big family holidays, you have to deal with your family. You have to make sure they're okay, you usually have to buy presents, you have to put up with them and try not to fight. And I think that's it - I love weird, spooky stuff anyway, but also Halloween is just sort of an atmosphere, and you can just enjoy it, watch horror films and eat chocolate shaped like skulls, or just be amused by everyone's weird Halloween decorations, or just do none of that, if you don't want to. I really love Halloween. I'm happy to be doing something for it, for once. Usually I get to October 30th and realise I haven't planned anything, and just buy some Halloween sweets and give up. I'm happy.
But - one other thing I was planning to do for Halloween was get a new horror game for my Playstation Vita (which doesn't get very many horror games), Yomawari. They're releasing it as a physical game, rather than just making you buy it digitally, which they don't always do and does save a lot of space on the Vita's memory. But apparent there's been some screw up with the physical copies getting delivered, and neither of my local games' shops are getting them anytime soon. OF ALL THE TIMES FOR A GAME TO BE LATE. A scary game not coming out till AFTER Halloween is sort of ridiculous. And I had this last year, when I tried to buy a scary Wii U game the day before Halloween, and the shop I pre-ordered it at just seemed to have no concept that it existed. Until they finally found it. Anyway. I'm going to look for it in Game in Blackpool, and if not I'll be going to Leeds for my new job (!!) on Monday, so I can try to pick it up then. If it's even out. The fact I have a £10 Game gift card from my boss at the Hospice, as a leaving gift, doesn't hurt. But still. Having to run around so much to find it is annoying. JUST RELEASE SCARY GAMES AT HALLOWEEN, JEEBUS.
And before that I called the Hospice to say I wouldn't be going in for my last shift because I was going to Blackpool. I could have gone today, really, but I was still hanging on to see if this training shift would magically appear, and I asked my mum if she wanted to come with me, and she said yes, but she had a funeral to go to today. All in all, it's made me feel like I'm not the most helpful I could be this week. But you can't help other people all your life and never yourself.
I am really happy to be going and doing something for Halloween though. And going to Blackpool. We always used to go to Blackpool in the autumn when I was little - we'd spent the morning in the town, then the afternoon in Blackpool Pleasure Beach, then we'd drive home past all the illuminations in the dark. It's going to be 6 hours on the train there and back, and the last train leaves at 19:11 from Blackpool, so we won't be able to spend much time looking at the illuminations in the dark. But I'm looking forward to it. Mica Burton, who is a recent hire by the Let's Players I watch, who is Lavarr Burton/Geordie from Star Trek's daughter, and who is lovely, was talking about Halloween being her favourite holiday lately, and she - or someone - pointed out that during all the big family holidays, you have to deal with your family. You have to make sure they're okay, you usually have to buy presents, you have to put up with them and try not to fight. And I think that's it - I love weird, spooky stuff anyway, but also Halloween is just sort of an atmosphere, and you can just enjoy it, watch horror films and eat chocolate shaped like skulls, or just be amused by everyone's weird Halloween decorations, or just do none of that, if you don't want to. I really love Halloween. I'm happy to be doing something for it, for once. Usually I get to October 30th and realise I haven't planned anything, and just buy some Halloween sweets and give up. I'm happy.
But - one other thing I was planning to do for Halloween was get a new horror game for my Playstation Vita (which doesn't get very many horror games), Yomawari. They're releasing it as a physical game, rather than just making you buy it digitally, which they don't always do and does save a lot of space on the Vita's memory. But apparent there's been some screw up with the physical copies getting delivered, and neither of my local games' shops are getting them anytime soon. OF ALL THE TIMES FOR A GAME TO BE LATE. A scary game not coming out till AFTER Halloween is sort of ridiculous. And I had this last year, when I tried to buy a scary Wii U game the day before Halloween, and the shop I pre-ordered it at just seemed to have no concept that it existed. Until they finally found it. Anyway. I'm going to look for it in Game in Blackpool, and if not I'll be going to Leeds for my new job (!!) on Monday, so I can try to pick it up then. If it's even out. The fact I have a £10 Game gift card from my boss at the Hospice, as a leaving gift, doesn't hurt. But still. Having to run around so much to find it is annoying. JUST RELEASE SCARY GAMES AT HALLOWEEN, JEEBUS.
