Summer Plans
So, here's the deal guys: I am not coming home for the summer. I will be working at Lake Tahoe as a cocktail waitress until the end of June. My decision making process was difficult and tear-filled. What it comes down to is that my parents allowed my sister to move in to my room, tear me down from the walls and rip me out of the floor boards. I don
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The selfish side of me says it's okay, as long as you're back in August when I can see you. But truly, I think it would be best for you to be at home, and I think the vengence kick will wear off and you'll only be even longer away from people you know. Is getting back at your parents really worth missing the last summer at home with your friends in Seattle? Who knows where we'll be this time next year? After a long time abroad, you need to be around people and places that are familiar. And no, maybe your room won't be the same, but hanging in your basement, or cooking in your own kitchen, or taking in the view from your deck, or opening up the front door with Ginger running out as your friends come to visit-- won't you miss that? And going to Queen Anne Ave for Thai food and the bookstore, or complaining loudly that you have to drive to Ravenna for mock-trial coffees at Third Place with McCarthy et al? I don't think you'll return to normalcy from Russia if you immediately move to Tahoe, and it's not just because I'll miss you that I urge you to come home.
With love love love,
Renee
(PS: and my selfish side is rearing its head-- when would you return from Tahoe in August, if that is the plan?)
pps: if you don't want to live in your sister's room, then live in the guest room. That's what Mallahan does, it's probably what a lot of non-only-children do when returning from school.
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Thank you for the thoughtful response. Circumstances have arisen and I may be in Seatle after all, although grudgingly. I really want to go home...very badly actually. I am really livid, however. I don't think that you can compare my situation with Mallahan's, since Ellen moved into MY room AND SHE HAS HER OWN! Nobody replaced Mallahan. I like some things to be the same. That was one of them. I really resent my mother and my sister (my dad is off the hook on this one.)
We should talk.
Love,
Kira
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