Showdown at Herald Square
I have a great relationship with my family. I have a great relationship with The Girl. I have a great relationship with my friends. I do not have a great relationship with The Girl's family. There are two things going on here: 1) The Girl is the middle child they write all those YA books about 2) even though it's been four and a half years they still don't accept our Gay relationship. So part of the problem lies in The Girl's family need to control her, and the other part lies in the fact that no amount of squinting is going to make me male or her heterosexual. During the summer, I told The Girl that at some point in time I foresaw her family making her choose between me and her. I then stipulated that I would never make her choose b/c that's just some tomfoolery.
Many of you know that I'm still seeking career employment, but I have a customer service type job. I put in for time off for Christmas back in September b/c I realize that with the type of job I have, I just can't take time off willy nilly. I don't get paid sick or vacation time, and the schedule is drawn up a week before it happens, and not earlier than that. So I don't really feel comfortable trying to jockey for time off for Thanksgiving, and I need to grab extra hours when possible for the two weeks I'll miss for Christmas. We are on a fixed income. This year The Girl's parents visited here instead of everyone going to Ohio. The plan was to go to the Macy's Parade. They got hotel rooms in NYC for Wednesday. We got a bonelesspuppy who had to be picked up on Wednesday evening. I had to work so The Girl volunteered to pick her up from the airport. This meant we wouldn't be going to NYC on Wednesday. Clearly, we were out to ruin Thanksgiving for everyone involved. We were supposed to take the train into NY on Thanksgiving, and meet up with everyone for the parade.
Cut back to I have a customer service job in which I work with the unwashed masses and their dirty money (I have no idea what stripper those dollars have been in). So I've been getting colds and I had the flu earlier. I've been fighting a cold since last weekend, and it finally caught up with me big time yesterday. I didn't feel good Wednesday night, but we went ahead with coordinating which train to take on the chance that I did feel better. I woke up yesterday feeling like hell. My throat was really sore, I was light headed, and my sinuses were full of some sort of dense matter that doesn't usually abide within my nasal passages (not to Robert Jordan the symptoms). I told The Girl and bonelesspuppy to go to the parade without me, but they decided to stay with me. It was Thanksgiving, and they didn't want me to be alone on a day about being together with family. Which made me feel all loved and appreciated.
Apparently, that was the decision that ruined Thanksgiving 2009, and it's all my fault. I would blame my shoddy immune system, but I like to take responsibility for my actions. The Girl got into it with her sister today. Apparently, I've ruined Thanksgiving b/c I didn't ask off on Wednesday to pick up bonelesspuppy from the airport, I was too sick to go to the parade yesterday, and I didn't get off for their Thanksgiving dinner today. So yes I am the bringer of turkey doom. And for the record, I didn't get off work today b/c of the aforementioned two weeks vacation. Also, I was okay with not being there for dinner, and I didn't want them to rearrange their Thanksgiving for me. I know I'm not a part of their family, and I never really will be. I'm okay with that b/c I have great family with my girlfriend, my own mom, my big brother, my very awesome friends, and my two adopted cats. Around that list of people I don't have to remain silent. Bringing it back to the point, most of the fight between The Girl and her sister was really anger about The Girl choosing to be with me versus her family. I will never make her choose.
Many of you know that I'm still seeking career employment, but I have a customer service type job. I put in for time off for Christmas back in September b/c I realize that with the type of job I have, I just can't take time off willy nilly. I don't get paid sick or vacation time, and the schedule is drawn up a week before it happens, and not earlier than that. So I don't really feel comfortable trying to jockey for time off for Thanksgiving, and I need to grab extra hours when possible for the two weeks I'll miss for Christmas. We are on a fixed income. This year The Girl's parents visited here instead of everyone going to Ohio. The plan was to go to the Macy's Parade. They got hotel rooms in NYC for Wednesday. We got a bonelesspuppy who had to be picked up on Wednesday evening. I had to work so The Girl volunteered to pick her up from the airport. This meant we wouldn't be going to NYC on Wednesday. Clearly, we were out to ruin Thanksgiving for everyone involved. We were supposed to take the train into NY on Thanksgiving, and meet up with everyone for the parade.
Cut back to I have a customer service job in which I work with the unwashed masses and their dirty money (I have no idea what stripper those dollars have been in). So I've been getting colds and I had the flu earlier. I've been fighting a cold since last weekend, and it finally caught up with me big time yesterday. I didn't feel good Wednesday night, but we went ahead with coordinating which train to take on the chance that I did feel better. I woke up yesterday feeling like hell. My throat was really sore, I was light headed, and my sinuses were full of some sort of dense matter that doesn't usually abide within my nasal passages (not to Robert Jordan the symptoms). I told The Girl and bonelesspuppy to go to the parade without me, but they decided to stay with me. It was Thanksgiving, and they didn't want me to be alone on a day about being together with family. Which made me feel all loved and appreciated.
Apparently, that was the decision that ruined Thanksgiving 2009, and it's all my fault. I would blame my shoddy immune system, but I like to take responsibility for my actions. The Girl got into it with her sister today. Apparently, I've ruined Thanksgiving b/c I didn't ask off on Wednesday to pick up bonelesspuppy from the airport, I was too sick to go to the parade yesterday, and I didn't get off for their Thanksgiving dinner today. So yes I am the bringer of turkey doom. And for the record, I didn't get off work today b/c of the aforementioned two weeks vacation. Also, I was okay with not being there for dinner, and I didn't want them to rearrange their Thanksgiving for me. I know I'm not a part of their family, and I never really will be. I'm okay with that b/c I have great family with my girlfriend, my own mom, my big brother, my very awesome friends, and my two adopted cats. Around that list of people I don't have to remain silent. Bringing it back to the point, most of the fight between The Girl and her sister was really anger about The Girl choosing to be with me versus her family. I will never make her choose.