What's everyone doing for Halloween?
I have the night off and I had plans to throw together a quick movie night for three of my nieces (one of my nieces and my two nephews are out of town), so naturally my brother's ex-wife "Betty", mother of "Peach", "Daisy" and baby "Link" is apparently doing her own thing with the kids. Meanwhile my mom's taking my oldest niece "Pauline" to trunk or treating at the school, iirc. Plus since it's a school night and the kids will be too tired to do anything.
Kind of wish I'd have known that BEFORE I requested Halloween night off, especially since I essentially lost a seven-hour shift this week.
And the worst part of all this? It seems like any time I try to bring everyone together for any kind of movie night, game night, Easter brunch, group project, et al, everyone' always "too busy" and if they're not we never do it the way I wanted to. Instead we just do things their own way.
And being able to spend time with my family was pretty much the only good part of postponing my move to NYC two years ago. That was a MAJOR mistake! Now it seems like everyone only comes together for Thanksgiving and Christmas and goes on a BS spiel on why they can't do anything together any other time. Between "Pauline" having dance cheer Monday through Thursday, her sister "Rosalina" and brothers "Mario and Luigi" going out of town Friday through Sunday, there's hardly any opportunity to do so.
But if I lived in NYC, I'd be gearing up to march in the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade
or any of the other excellent things going on in NYC. Now I'm just figuring out what horror movies, if any, I feel like watching and/or figuring out what horror games, if any, I feel like playing.
And the crazy thing? I was actually thinking of just skipping Halloween this year and plowing straight into my Christmas playlist, because God knows Food Lion, Dollar Tree and Wal-Mart didn't feel like waiting until Halloween was over.