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dramaturgy) wrote2006-05-06 02:24 pm
dramaturgy) wrote2006-05-06 02:24 pm
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A lot of things are bothering me right now that probably shouldn't. Read: unformed vacation plans and What Not To Wear.
Last year my family, minus me, went on a canoeing trip to the boundary water with the adventure group. Me, I stayed home because all of us knew I would not enjoy it. Sleeping in a tent does terrible things for my asthma, and honestly, taking hard phsyical labor to move around is not my idea of a good time. I'll be frank, when I exercise it's because I know that I should, not because I want to. Additionally, when I'm that miserable, I make sure everyone else is as well in the form of being snarky and just terrible. I admit it. So it was in everyone's best interest that I stay at home. So I did. Okay, so having the house to myself for ten days was kind of cool, but it got boring, and lonely.
So I hear my grandma and dad talking about yet another boundary waters trip, and my grandmother asked if the whole family was going and he answered they didn't know yet. Okay, it made me mad. Now I know, I know, I get to go to Europe next spring, but I'll be by myself, minus anyone of you over there who wants to show me a good time. I won't get to go to Rome and check out all the Angels and Demons sights (yes, my mother and I are geeks, shut up), my brother isn't going to get to hurdle over Hadrian's wall like we've joked about until my stomach hurts. It'll just be me and even though that's a little scary and exciting, it also makes me sort of sad. To go on another "family" vacation and leave me at home seems a little fucked up to me. I mean, I don't even want much. I don't have to go anywhere special. I'll take a day at Living History Farms or Adventureland over being left home for ten days while my family goes and does something without me.
What Not To Wear is just annoying because we have these hosts who are however many thousand a segment and making good money otherwise telling people they can't wear that. I swear, these are the people I hated in high school, why are there people paid to do this on television? For celebrities who are going to, I don't know, the Oscars or something it's a decent idea - because having an extra eye is a good idea. But to normal people who just wear this stuff around on the weekend? Why? And even then, why do they have to be jerks about it? Not all of us can afford or want to spend $117 or whatever on a pair of pants. That's outrageous. I don't care if three albino nuns sewed them with their hands while whistling The Star-Spangled Banner. 'Sides, half the stuff they shove at them is ugly as sin in my opinion.
Oh wait, sorry. Their opinion is the only one that counts.
Last year my family, minus me, went on a canoeing trip to the boundary water with the adventure group. Me, I stayed home because all of us knew I would not enjoy it. Sleeping in a tent does terrible things for my asthma, and honestly, taking hard phsyical labor to move around is not my idea of a good time. I'll be frank, when I exercise it's because I know that I should, not because I want to. Additionally, when I'm that miserable, I make sure everyone else is as well in the form of being snarky and just terrible. I admit it. So it was in everyone's best interest that I stay at home. So I did. Okay, so having the house to myself for ten days was kind of cool, but it got boring, and lonely.
So I hear my grandma and dad talking about yet another boundary waters trip, and my grandmother asked if the whole family was going and he answered they didn't know yet. Okay, it made me mad. Now I know, I know, I get to go to Europe next spring, but I'll be by myself, minus anyone of you over there who wants to show me a good time. I won't get to go to Rome and check out all the Angels and Demons sights (yes, my mother and I are geeks, shut up), my brother isn't going to get to hurdle over Hadrian's wall like we've joked about until my stomach hurts. It'll just be me and even though that's a little scary and exciting, it also makes me sort of sad. To go on another "family" vacation and leave me at home seems a little fucked up to me. I mean, I don't even want much. I don't have to go anywhere special. I'll take a day at Living History Farms or Adventureland over being left home for ten days while my family goes and does something without me.
What Not To Wear is just annoying because we have these hosts who are however many thousand a segment and making good money otherwise telling people they can't wear that. I swear, these are the people I hated in high school, why are there people paid to do this on television? For celebrities who are going to, I don't know, the Oscars or something it's a decent idea - because having an extra eye is a good idea. But to normal people who just wear this stuff around on the weekend? Why? And even then, why do they have to be jerks about it? Not all of us can afford or want to spend $117 or whatever on a pair of pants. That's outrageous. I don't care if three albino nuns sewed them with their hands while whistling The Star-Spangled Banner. 'Sides, half the stuff they shove at them is ugly as sin in my opinion.
Oh wait, sorry. Their opinion is the only one that counts.
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... holy run-on sentence, Batman. Um. Right, the actual point of this comment was to say, re: Europe trip, that if you're up here in Scotland, you're totally welcome to come crash on my spare mattress or something. :)
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