Simple mistakes

I'm not having a great day today.

Two of the paper delivery customers that I deliver to called. One because of accidental paper deliveries when they were meant to be on stop, and the other because I forgot to mark off that she'd paid last week and she was billed for two weeks this week because of this.

It was two simple mistakes, but because Sean answer the phone for both of the calls, I've been getting lectures and bitched at about it all. Apparently, the two customers complained that if it happened again, they'd stop getting papers delivered and just go to the store to buy it themselves. For some reason, I don't believe they'd have actually said that. But, just to be safe, I think I'll knock on their doors at some time tomorrow and apologize for the mistakes. Surely they're not heartless enough not to forgive me for a simple mistake. It's not like I do it all on purpose now, is it?

It's understandable because of all of this why his kid wouldn't want anything to do with him. On the 24th December, I heard from one of the paper customers that the kid is apparently 13 years old now. He apparently dated this customer's daughter in the past, and he apparently abused her. That doesn't surprise me at all.

Thought provoking games...

I recently came across a couple of Flash games that are very thought provoking. If anyone is interested, these two games are definitely worth looking at.

SPENT - This game is all about choices. As the intro tells you, over 14 million Americans are unemployed. Now, you may be one of them, or you may not. If you are unemployed, then you'll understand the game very, very well.
You've got to try to make it through 30 days of choices with as much money as you possibly can manage. I'm sure you'll discover how good...or how bad you are with money as you play through it. Personally, I am not doing too well with money in the game (or in real life for that matter).

How well will you do? If you play, please leave a comment and let me know how much money you have left at the end of the month.

The second Flash game I have for you guys is One Chance. Now, this truly is an extremely sad and thought provoking game. In it, you play a scientist who has come up with a cure for cancers. Only you find out that it doesn't just kill cancers, it kills everything. With six days before the world ends, how will you spend your time?

I've played through One Chance a few times (you'll need to clear your browser cookies and all if you want to play through the game more than once) and discovered that there is only really one "good ending". However, if you see that ending, it's not all that good. I won't spoil any of the endings, but damn...I think the "good ending" is actually worse than all of the bad endings to the game.

Definitely check these two games out, and let me know how you get on with them. :)

Just what I need...more stress...

This week just doesn't seem to be going well at all. Firstly having to bury Rachel, and now even more worry about ending up homeless.

I had my brother come up to my room not too long ago to tell me that Sean, Mom's boyfriend, told Mom that she should kick me out of the house because I won't talk to him. He's not given me any reason to WANT to talk to him. All he's ever done since he moved in here is boss me around instead of letting me decide shit on my own, and belittled me when I won't do what he wants. Why is he so surprised that I won't talk to him after all that shit?

So currently, I'm really stressed out, angry, and scared that I have no idea how long I'll have a roof over my head. It seems like I'm going to have to take the advice I got from an old lady last Saturday and call Social Services cuz I'm seriously scared due to the fact that Mom just agrees with Sean, and after so many different reasons as to why I should be banished from the house, I've no idea how long I've got left at all and calling Social Services may be my only salvation.

This definitely is becoming one of the lousiest weeks I've had in a while. Depression over the death of a dog, and now stress and worry from a possible...or probable loss of shelter. With Mom constantly taking his side over family, I'm not sure what's gonna happen at all...