Halloween
Halloween was yesterday and it was the first time in a long while that we didn't go out to the movies on Halloween, although we intended to. We were going to see Venom: The Last Dance, however we didn't have the best options for the showtimes. We wanted to have dinner too, but the best way to do that to not to have Eva at home for too long is to go to Cinepolis to have dinner with our movie. The movie was showing at 5:30 pm, which would have been cutting it very close because I had my trivia game I do, which usually ends around 5:15 pm. I didn't think we'd have enough time to make it to the movie. I did tell my mom this before. Everything seemed up in the air and my mom seemed uncommitted to any specific time to see the movie (She didn't tell me she was unwilling to see it anywhere else besides Cinepolis).
I did something I don't normally like to do because I like to be in control. I didn't say anything and let the time tick by until my mom announced what the plan would be. It caused me quite a lot of anxiety not to ask what the plan was lol. This resulted in my parents coming up to my room right as my trivia game started, and wondering why I wasn't getting ready to go. Oh, so they decided on the 5:30 showing then? My game had already started though and I was unwilling to give it up because number one: I earn money from it, and number two: It was a fun Halloween themed game. My dad had muttered something like, “so the plans are changing now?” There was no established plan that I was aware of. My parents retreated away and let me do my game. I told them it would be fifteen minutes.
After the game, I quickly got my stuff together. I already had my costume on. I went as a witch. I was inspired by Agatha All Along (great series btw, one of Marvel's best IMO). Maybe we'd still have enough time to get to the movie. When I came downstairs my mom said we would just go out to dinner. I said, “No movie?” And she said no because she didn't want to be leaving Eva alone for so long, if we went out to dinner, and went to a later showing at a different theater. It's ironic then what we decided to do to spend that time instead. I'll explain why in a bit. So, the question became where would we go out to eat? It was still early and we did need to kill enough time, so we could get back home after the trick-or-treaters were done. We ultimately decided to go down to the Spectrum to have dinner and walk around, but first my mom and I checked out the Halloween decorations on a couple of the houses on our street, which have been winners of Halloween contests. They've got all these creepy figures and spooky noises and growls. They're pretty cool.
There weren't too many people there surprisingly. We decided to go to The Cheesecake Factory because that's the only restaurant that exists there to my mom. I ordered the Chicken Littles, which is just chicken tenders with corn and mashed potatoes. It was way too much food. My parents had ordered appetizers to share. I should have got an appetizer too. Then while they would have gotten a cheesecake, I got the idea to get candy at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory because how can I not have candy on Halloween? I thought we'd eat our candy at the Starbucks Cafe in Barnes and Noble. Before that though we poked around in The Game Chest store. As for the candy, I got myself the Rocky Road cluster, which was just chocolate covered almonds and marshmallows in a cluster. It was yummy, but my stomach was not thrilled lol. After that we browsed around the bookstore a bit before going home to watch the Golden Bachelorette.
Halloween turned out all right even though it didn't exactly go as planned. We still might see the movie tomorrow, and I think we spent the same amount of time out as we would have if we had dinner and seen the movie. Eva was fine, so I don't know what my mom was worried about. I've learned from this though I think it's better if I'm in control and communicative. Next year if I look at the showtimes for Cinepolis and they're not good, I'll suggest we eat some dinner at home, and then we can see a movie elsewhere. Because my mom can't do plans or rather whatever plan she has is unspoken to me. And I can't deal with that.
I did something I don't normally like to do because I like to be in control. I didn't say anything and let the time tick by until my mom announced what the plan would be. It caused me quite a lot of anxiety not to ask what the plan was lol. This resulted in my parents coming up to my room right as my trivia game started, and wondering why I wasn't getting ready to go. Oh, so they decided on the 5:30 showing then? My game had already started though and I was unwilling to give it up because number one: I earn money from it, and number two: It was a fun Halloween themed game. My dad had muttered something like, “so the plans are changing now?” There was no established plan that I was aware of. My parents retreated away and let me do my game. I told them it would be fifteen minutes.
After the game, I quickly got my stuff together. I already had my costume on. I went as a witch. I was inspired by Agatha All Along (great series btw, one of Marvel's best IMO). Maybe we'd still have enough time to get to the movie. When I came downstairs my mom said we would just go out to dinner. I said, “No movie?” And she said no because she didn't want to be leaving Eva alone for so long, if we went out to dinner, and went to a later showing at a different theater. It's ironic then what we decided to do to spend that time instead. I'll explain why in a bit. So, the question became where would we go out to eat? It was still early and we did need to kill enough time, so we could get back home after the trick-or-treaters were done. We ultimately decided to go down to the Spectrum to have dinner and walk around, but first my mom and I checked out the Halloween decorations on a couple of the houses on our street, which have been winners of Halloween contests. They've got all these creepy figures and spooky noises and growls. They're pretty cool.
There weren't too many people there surprisingly. We decided to go to The Cheesecake Factory because that's the only restaurant that exists there to my mom. I ordered the Chicken Littles, which is just chicken tenders with corn and mashed potatoes. It was way too much food. My parents had ordered appetizers to share. I should have got an appetizer too. Then while they would have gotten a cheesecake, I got the idea to get candy at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory because how can I not have candy on Halloween? I thought we'd eat our candy at the Starbucks Cafe in Barnes and Noble. Before that though we poked around in The Game Chest store. As for the candy, I got myself the Rocky Road cluster, which was just chocolate covered almonds and marshmallows in a cluster. It was yummy, but my stomach was not thrilled lol. After that we browsed around the bookstore a bit before going home to watch the Golden Bachelorette.
Halloween turned out all right even though it didn't exactly go as planned. We still might see the movie tomorrow, and I think we spent the same amount of time out as we would have if we had dinner and seen the movie. Eva was fine, so I don't know what my mom was worried about. I've learned from this though I think it's better if I'm in control and communicative. Next year if I look at the showtimes for Cinepolis and they're not good, I'll suggest we eat some dinner at home, and then we can see a movie elsewhere. Because my mom can't do plans or rather whatever plan she has is unspoken to me. And I can't deal with that.