Yeah, it does suck.
I'm also just having a bleh day. My family seems to have forgotten that I've been doing this production of A Christmas Carol during Thanksgiving week for the past 5 years, so I've gotten a few phone calls asking if there's any way I can make it down. I wasn't able to. They didn't start asking until this past weekend. No one informed me that my sister actually few out for it, and her husband, and my niece. So I'm pretty much feeling like I suck. I'm going down there for Christmas, but I have a trip to Toronto for work that doesn't get me back to LA until late on the 22nd, so I won't be heading down there until the 23rd. I know I can't deal with them for much longer than a few days, but I'm still left feeling like I really suck and I really don't care about my family.
I guess the fact that I'll be out of town and very busy from the 27th to the 1st is going to be a good thing.
Sorry to be such a downer during the holidays.
We have no leftovers. We could have brought some home, but S and Bro-in-Law have three kids, and we figured the endless hungry maw which is teenagers trumps our needs.
can the kin come up from SD and see the show? Do dinner up here? Just an idea.
Mom can't really do trips like that. She's in a wheelchair and can't really sit through shows. She also couldn't do the trip up and back in one day, so they'd have to do a hotel, and that's not a minor thing with her any more.
Sorry to be such a downer during the holidays.
Dude, I'm with you on that crappy feeling of being the one who can't come home for Thanksgiving. I haven't been home for T-Day in at least 4 years, probably more. And this year, all of my six siblings and three siblings-in-law gathered at my parents house yesterday...
Yeah, the thing is, I don't really WANT to go home.
I was much happier with the Thanksgiving with friends yesterday. That's the thing that makes me feel like I totally suck.
Haven't been home for Thanksgiving since freshman year of college, so...11 years?
In undergrad it was fairly easy to get home, as home was only 100-ish miles away. In grad school it got harder, but I made it home most years, despite the 700+ mile drive home from MO. Then came A Christmas Carol in Kansas City. And then Into The Woods in Palo Alto, and now, my second year of ACC here in SoCal. Such is a life in the arts: we work while everyone else is playing.
I prefer not going home to see my family at Thanksgiving, it's part of the reason I took this design. I'm just tired of the guilt trip calls and feeling like I'm letting them down.
When I go home for holidays I'm miserable, but when I don't go I get the guilt trip and feeling useless because I'm supposed to want to see my family. I just feel like there is something wrong with me for not really having a desire to spend time with them.
