Well the shop looks great, all decked out in cobwebs, orange and black streamers, balloons and bats. We even got a pumpkin and sweeties for the customers.
Coldhurst Fort was great fun, a long line to get in and only £5 admitance when they could have gotten away with charging much, much more. Now I'm cuddled up at home, after decending into the forts dark tunnles and being hounded by ghouls of all descriptions, and honestly I'd still like to be out. Unfortunatly I'm a bit old for Trick or Treating and I'm probably too old in any case, or I'd slip on last years halloween costume and head on out. But next year? On their website the fort advertises for people to come and volenteer as ghosts, ghouls and all manner of things, I'd like to volenteer and spent the night spooking the general public.
Until then I'll snuggle up in my nice warm home, watch some scary movies (maybe even watch that Lexx boxset my friend lent me) and stuff my face with sweeties before the trick or treaters can get hold of it.
Bliss.
Happy Halloween everyone!
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Pink balloons and white ribbons
I spent the whole evening at work decorating the shop for Wear Pink day tomorow. THE WHOLE EVENING! And damn it looks good! I'm actualy proud of myself, but tomorow night I'll have to take it all down and put up the Halloween stuffs. And I'm determined to make that look awsome too! Until then I'll just bask in our shops pink and white glory. With all the pink balloons and white bunting the shop looks like a wedding cake.
Of course, even though we have breast cancer awaireness posters and badges and balloons EVERYWHERE, we will have to put up with customers asking who's birthday it is. Maybe if I tell them its mine they'll buy me chocolate or something?
Really excited about Saturday now, I'm going to the Creepshow at Coldhurst Fort with my friends.
Of course, even though we have breast cancer awaireness posters and badges and balloons EVERYWHERE, we will have to put up with customers asking who's birthday it is. Maybe if I tell them its mine they'll buy me chocolate or something?
Really excited about Saturday now, I'm going to the Creepshow at Coldhurst Fort with my friends.
Monday, 26 October 2009
Ugh...I'm knackered! No point in going to bed yet though, I won't sleep. I'll just end up tossing and turning and wishing I was asleep. I normaly don't get to sleep til atleast 3:00 in the morning, but have to get up about 7:30 for work. This means I get by on at least four and a half hours of sleep a night? I'm supposed to get eight! I'm cursed with the sleep paturns of a night owls, it wouldn't be as bad if I didn't have the social life of a hermit! Never mind, thats up to me to remidy. Anyway, if I did spend every night out with friends where would I go? Clubbings normal, but I feel too awkward in clubs and I like to be able to hear what my friends are saying to me.
Speaking of clubs, roleplay night went...ok. Actualy it went crazy again. Due to some awful dice rolls Mike nearly killed Ade and Dave nearly sliced a goat herder in half. Why is is whenever we play fantasy RPG's it usualy ends in a cross country rampage? Anyways, edging away from the game, Nick came up with a great idea. The group of as meet up...AT A CAFE, BAR OR SOME OTHER FOOD PLACE AND DO SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE ORCS!!! For once everyone seemed to like the idea. It would be nice (healthy!) for us all to meet up and just chat! Talk! Make conversation! I mean, we do that anyway, but its often quite game related. Nick has been told to set a date and I'll have to facebook him to find out whats going on because his phone has been cut off again.
In other news I have been informed that I shall have to wear something pink this friday because its Wear It Pink day at work. This is in aid of Breast Cancer Awaireness and we're spending the whole week raining money for the charity, as someone with a pair of breasts I can guarentee you this is a good thing. But the only peice of pink clothing I own is a pair of pink knickers. So it looks like I'm going clothes shopping.
*sighs* At least its a worthy cause.
Speaking of clubs, roleplay night went...ok. Actualy it went crazy again. Due to some awful dice rolls Mike nearly killed Ade and Dave nearly sliced a goat herder in half. Why is is whenever we play fantasy RPG's it usualy ends in a cross country rampage? Anyways, edging away from the game, Nick came up with a great idea. The group of as meet up...AT A CAFE, BAR OR SOME OTHER FOOD PLACE AND DO SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE ORCS!!! For once everyone seemed to like the idea. It would be nice (healthy!) for us all to meet up and just chat! Talk! Make conversation! I mean, we do that anyway, but its often quite game related. Nick has been told to set a date and I'll have to facebook him to find out whats going on because his phone has been cut off again.
In other news I have been informed that I shall have to wear something pink this friday because its Wear It Pink day at work. This is in aid of Breast Cancer Awaireness and we're spending the whole week raining money for the charity, as someone with a pair of breasts I can guarentee you this is a good thing. But the only peice of pink clothing I own is a pair of pink knickers. So it looks like I'm going clothes shopping.
*sighs* At least its a worthy cause.
Saturday, 24 October 2009
To some Halloween comes early.
So my Mum bought some Halloween Candy for the trick or treaters. Sorry kids, I've got first dibs. I'm currently staying round my folks place and they've headed out for the night. To be honest I would have liked to have gone with them, but its a dinner and dance thing. I didn't think to ask soon enough! Doh! So I'm sitting at their house, using their internet connection and trying to find something spooky and worth wasting time on on youtube. Oh, and I'm eatting my Mum's Halloween candy. Not all of it. Just a few choise morsals. Omnomnom! Theres no way theres enough here for the amount of greedy little horrors that'll show up anyway...not now at least! I'll buy her some more when I get paid on Friday, I already owe her a large mozzarella ball (yeah I ate that!) anyways.
So okay, so far my weekend hasn't been a laugh a minute, not exactly exciting. But today I remembered I'm due round my friend Adrien's tomorow! We (me, him and some other friends) get together once a fourtnight to play roleplay games! Not D&D, thats too...restrictive. We either go by GURPS or Rune Quest. With D&D you've pretty much got a quest to compleat and thats it - head south to the magicle tower or yarg, avoid the killer bunnys and killer the evil spider litch or whatever. With Rune Quest your aim is to become as powerful as possible and become either a rune mage or a rune lord. With GURPS you can do anything - scifi, horror, fantasy, superheros. Anything. With GURPS its all fun and games until you blow up half a caravan park and end up on the run from the police. ROFL! That was fun though! Other than roleplaying like the pack of rabit geeks that we are we catch up on stuff and eat pizza. Ade's started working at Spoons again, hopefully he'll head back to uni soon. Mike's back from a holiday in vegas, he went jumped out of a plane with a parashute. Dave wants to be a bodyguard instead of a bouncer, I wonder how thats going? Nick just got Final Fantasy online, hopefully he'll remember to turn up. And Michael is probably still job hunting, the place where he works at the mo doesn't always remember to pay him.
As for my other friends? Fee is in China currently, teaching English, though I haven't heard from her for a while now. She blogs and facebooks, but the school she's at had been quarentined because of a swineflu outbreak. Fee lives on campus so I guess she's stuck there for the time being, her lack of updated really worrys me, I just hope she's well. Kerry and Phill used to come to RPG club, but their busy being loved up newlyweds (awww! their a cute couple) and looking after baby Aron (Aw! He's a cute baby!) Denise I haven't seen for yonks, better get in touch and arrainge a pub meet! I can't wait to see her, Tucker and Steve again, maybe we can arrainge a ghost hunt for sometime soon. Wilfy I haven't seen for a while either, but hopefully I might see her on Tuesday, if not then Saturday. I can't remember the last time I didn't spend Halloween at Wilfy's house. Horror movies, horror twister and a halloween pinyata: I always look forward to her partys. Actualy that reminds me. Wilfy's said she'll take me to this redoubt fort she's found. If its anything like the abandoned hospital she found lately then I wonder if we'll be sneaking in. I've always wanted to do a bit of urban exploring.
I found this on youtube. Fewdo normaly do REALLY scary online minimovies (Bedfellows still makes me hide behind my hands when I watch it.) but this is actualy a funny one. Oddly that creept clown doesn't show up in this film at all - wierd.
So okay, so far my weekend hasn't been a laugh a minute, not exactly exciting. But today I remembered I'm due round my friend Adrien's tomorow! We (me, him and some other friends) get together once a fourtnight to play roleplay games! Not D&D, thats too...restrictive. We either go by GURPS or Rune Quest. With D&D you've pretty much got a quest to compleat and thats it - head south to the magicle tower or yarg, avoid the killer bunnys and killer the evil spider litch or whatever. With Rune Quest your aim is to become as powerful as possible and become either a rune mage or a rune lord. With GURPS you can do anything - scifi, horror, fantasy, superheros. Anything. With GURPS its all fun and games until you blow up half a caravan park and end up on the run from the police. ROFL! That was fun though! Other than roleplaying like the pack of rabit geeks that we are we catch up on stuff and eat pizza. Ade's started working at Spoons again, hopefully he'll head back to uni soon. Mike's back from a holiday in vegas, he went jumped out of a plane with a parashute. Dave wants to be a bodyguard instead of a bouncer, I wonder how thats going? Nick just got Final Fantasy online, hopefully he'll remember to turn up. And Michael is probably still job hunting, the place where he works at the mo doesn't always remember to pay him.
As for my other friends? Fee is in China currently, teaching English, though I haven't heard from her for a while now. She blogs and facebooks, but the school she's at had been quarentined because of a swineflu outbreak. Fee lives on campus so I guess she's stuck there for the time being, her lack of updated really worrys me, I just hope she's well. Kerry and Phill used to come to RPG club, but their busy being loved up newlyweds (awww! their a cute couple) and looking after baby Aron (Aw! He's a cute baby!) Denise I haven't seen for yonks, better get in touch and arrainge a pub meet! I can't wait to see her, Tucker and Steve again, maybe we can arrainge a ghost hunt for sometime soon. Wilfy I haven't seen for a while either, but hopefully I might see her on Tuesday, if not then Saturday. I can't remember the last time I didn't spend Halloween at Wilfy's house. Horror movies, horror twister and a halloween pinyata: I always look forward to her partys. Actualy that reminds me. Wilfy's said she'll take me to this redoubt fort she's found. If its anything like the abandoned hospital she found lately then I wonder if we'll be sneaking in. I've always wanted to do a bit of urban exploring.
I found this on youtube. Fewdo normaly do REALLY scary online minimovies (Bedfellows still makes me hide behind my hands when I watch it.) but this is actualy a funny one. Oddly that creept clown doesn't show up in this film at all - wierd.
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Must sleeeeeep...
I’m still awake and, yes, I know I should crawl into bed and catch some Z’s. But I’m still awake and I’m not sure weather its because of that Dr Pepper’s I drank (sweet, sweet caffeine!) or because that damn skills test is sitting in my bag behind me somewhere, still all neat and snug in its little plastic wrapper. I know I should open it and check it out, but you know what? I really can’t be arsed right now. :D We did Health and Safety stuff at college (yesterday), the most boring thing ever because its all mostly common sense anyway. My brain still feels and numb and fuzzy as a result. I just can’t cope with possibly more health and safety in test for right now.
And its 12:17am, I’ve just finished scoffing my way through a 3 pack of Gu mini chocolate tortes and I’m halfway Ring 2...actually I’m feeling slightly let down by it. Anyone else here seen it? Is that little boy not the most annoying thing ever? I’m sure he’s the nicest, sweetest little boy in real life. In fact I don’t doubt he is, but the character he’s playing pisses me off. Just get on with being possessed already! If you haven’t seen the Ring films WATCH THE ORIGINALS FIRST! Nothing compares to the original films, Sadako is so much more frightening than Samara. Think about it, what would scare you most: lanky, staggering, long haired Sadako or stumbling, knee-high Samara?
And its 12:17am, I’ve just finished scoffing my way through a 3 pack of Gu mini chocolate tortes and I’m halfway Ring 2...actually I’m feeling slightly let down by it. Anyone else here seen it? Is that little boy not the most annoying thing ever? I’m sure he’s the nicest, sweetest little boy in real life. In fact I don’t doubt he is, but the character he’s playing pisses me off. Just get on with being possessed already! If you haven’t seen the Ring films WATCH THE ORIGINALS FIRST! Nothing compares to the original films, Sadako is so much more frightening than Samara. Think about it, what would scare you most: lanky, staggering, long haired Sadako or stumbling, knee-high Samara?
Hello, my name is Louise Walsh.
At least it is according to my college. Damn, how many forms did I fill it? How many times did I write my name for them? And they still get it wrong!
"I'm sorry I took the micky out of you for wearing your name badge now," says James, referring to the time I went to college straight from work "Its obviously needed."
I'm sorry I removed it from my bag before I headed to college in the first case, even when corrected my tutor still called me Louise for half the lesson before another student put him right. I couldn't. I was too busy suppressing a fit of giggles. Amusement or identity crisis induced hysteria I really couldn't tell you. But that was yesterday and today we received our first skills test. Our tutor assures us that there is no pass or fail, merely competent or not competent, which is basically just a nice way of saying incompetent. Anyways this test lasts for 4 weeks, kinda like a project. I smell doom. Doom and incompetence.
To be honest I’m really having trouble drumming up the energy to go to college recently. Actually I’m having trouble drumming up the energy to go anywhere recently, work included. I have trouble getting out of bed in the mornings, I have difficulty getting there in the first place. My Facebook status being updated at 2:00 in the morning isn’t unknown. There’s nothing wrong with me - I’m not depressed, I have fun, eat good, get exercise, I don’t smoke or drink. But I am incredibly lazy. Its something I hope to improve on once I’ve moved back into my parents place, can’t go to bed to late or I’ll wake them up, if I don’t get up early enough I’ll miss my ride to work and will have to make the half hour hike there instead. Not that walking is a problem, I like walking, I can walk for miles providing its through woodland or a coastal path, not at 8:00 on a cold winters morning.
Really must stop being so lazy.
"I'm sorry I took the micky out of you for wearing your name badge now," says James, referring to the time I went to college straight from work "Its obviously needed."
I'm sorry I removed it from my bag before I headed to college in the first case, even when corrected my tutor still called me Louise for half the lesson before another student put him right. I couldn't. I was too busy suppressing a fit of giggles. Amusement or identity crisis induced hysteria I really couldn't tell you. But that was yesterday and today we received our first skills test. Our tutor assures us that there is no pass or fail, merely competent or not competent, which is basically just a nice way of saying incompetent. Anyways this test lasts for 4 weeks, kinda like a project. I smell doom. Doom and incompetence.
To be honest I’m really having trouble drumming up the energy to go to college recently. Actually I’m having trouble drumming up the energy to go anywhere recently, work included. I have trouble getting out of bed in the mornings, I have difficulty getting there in the first place. My Facebook status being updated at 2:00 in the morning isn’t unknown. There’s nothing wrong with me - I’m not depressed, I have fun, eat good, get exercise, I don’t smoke or drink. But I am incredibly lazy. Its something I hope to improve on once I’ve moved back into my parents place, can’t go to bed to late or I’ll wake them up, if I don’t get up early enough I’ll miss my ride to work and will have to make the half hour hike there instead. Not that walking is a problem, I like walking, I can walk for miles providing its through woodland or a coastal path, not at 8:00 on a cold winters morning.
Really must stop being so lazy.
Send More Paramedics
I’ve been in the Town Shop for a while yet and the one thing I haven’t gotten used to is the early openings. Ok, so 9:00 is technically a perfectly normal time for a shop to open, but lets be honest here - who really wants to be up at such an unholy hour? Seriously? I’m just not a morning person. The thought of dragging my carcass out of bed at 7:00 fills me with dread. I have reached the stage where one cup of coffee is not enough to kick start me, if you can class it as kick starting. Herbert West might have more luck getting me going than a cup of joe, less kick starting and more like re-animating. Gimmie three cups of strong black coffee and a can of redbull and maybe then I’ll stop shambling around the shop like a stray zombie from Resident Evil (the game not those awful movies).
While we’re at it I demand a cooked breakfast! A full English with lashings of hash browns, black pud and buttered toast, the pancakes with maple syrup and bacon! Omnomnom!
While we’re at it I demand a cooked breakfast! A full English with lashings of hash browns, black pud and buttered toast, the pancakes with maple syrup and bacon! Omnomnom!
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
The First Post
This isn't my first Blog, I have a Livejournal aswell, but I can't even remember the last time I updated that. I just wanted to start again without having to delete that journal. And now I have no idea what to write. Really I don't have a lot going on in my life right now, other than work, which is more than a little bit sad really.
Never mind. :)
It'll pick up soon! Halloweens coming and I'm hoping to spend that with my friends Debbie and Darren, no dressing up this year though - I'm a little dissapointed. I'll have to find a way of dressing up without dressing up if you see what I mean. And after that? Let the packing begin!! When the contract on my rented flat runs out next year I'm moving back in with my folks for a while. I have my reasons:
- I'm sick of renting and plan to save for a morgage, but I can't if all my cash is going on rent and bills.
- I'd really like a social life, but...well...rent and bills.
- I'm doing a night course at college, my exams will cost me £40 a pop and I can't even do those till I've spent £135 on joining the AAT. Hmmmm...education vs rent and bills?
- I want to travel. Which is a really brave thing for me since I'm such a scardy little mouse really. Doesn't take a lot to get me all scared 'n' frazzled, but there are so many places I'd like to go! I have a friend working in China, I'd like to visit her but I can't afford the travel costs. I'd like to go to America, Canada, Japan, Australia, Iceland, tons of different places...I can't even afford a passport!
Thats only some of my reasons. It doesn't help that a vets bill (big vets bill) has resulted in me owing my Nan money, quite a lot of money. I'm really sick of worrying about money. When I'm back at my Mum's I'll be able to afford to do all those things that someone my age has already done. I started renting at about 19/20 years old and while it gives you freedom of sorts, its not always good. I've got two rooms over my Mums which I'm going to Ikea the hell out of and a lot of junk in my flat that I've got to get rid off. This may take me some time...
So now I'm blogging again I'll be able to cover all that in here.
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