You Vote, America
So, my sister's birthday is coming up, and like all family gatherings, it's fraught with stress. You see, next week is unusually full of commitments for me. And I would like to add, all commitments, not made by me, but nonetheless all highly appreciated and/or inescapable. So, without boring you with all the details, here are the options for Family Birthday Dinner as I believe them to stand. Consider all other options of days and times to be non-working options, as they have already been discussed and determined to be such.
a) FBD on Tuesday night, two days prior to the actual BD. the con being, my mother says it will make the actual BD anti-climactic.
b)FBD on Friday night (day after actual BD), and I skip Kris's very important, everyone on the planet needs to be there and most of them are actually coming, second gig ever with his new band. I really want and kind of need to be there, but ultimately family is more important.
c) FBD on Friday night, following Kris's show. NOTE: only if my sister is at all interested in, having dinner in the city, waiting until 8 pm to do so, and attending Kris's show. It would be a nightmare becuase my parents do not do the city well, but if it's what my sister and I want, they will have to deal.
d) That Sunday (3 days after actual BD), sis has "plans earlier in the day" that she doesn't know what time they will end. I hope and pray that my sis's bf has had a mixup of a football game the 3 of us plan to watch together, so that he has actually told her that she will be busy watching that game on Sunday, when in fact said game is actually to be played on a different day. IF (God Willing) that is the case, FBD early on Sunday night and I eventually have to beg out to go to my goddamn store's (annual mandatory completely unmissable and yet totally irrelevant to my position in the store and therefore completely unnecessary for me to be there) holiday store meeting. (If not and she actually has other plans falling under the umbrella of "plans earlier in the day" there will not be enough time between her plans and my meeting to do a proper dinner as my sister deserves)
None are ideal, of course, but the ones that would be ideal have already been deterined as days/times that would not work. And any later and I feel we are ripping my sister off for what is a pretty big birthday.
Ultimately, I will try and hook up with her for happy hour tomorrow and talk it over and whatever she wants most is what we will do because she is my sister and it is her birthday. But you tell me america. If you were as screwed as I am in this situation, what would you do?
a) FBD on Tuesday night, two days prior to the actual BD. the con being, my mother says it will make the actual BD anti-climactic.
b)FBD on Friday night (day after actual BD), and I skip Kris's very important, everyone on the planet needs to be there and most of them are actually coming, second gig ever with his new band. I really want and kind of need to be there, but ultimately family is more important.
c) FBD on Friday night, following Kris's show. NOTE: only if my sister is at all interested in, having dinner in the city, waiting until 8 pm to do so, and attending Kris's show. It would be a nightmare becuase my parents do not do the city well, but if it's what my sister and I want, they will have to deal.
d) That Sunday (3 days after actual BD), sis has "plans earlier in the day" that she doesn't know what time they will end. I hope and pray that my sis's bf has had a mixup of a football game the 3 of us plan to watch together, so that he has actually told her that she will be busy watching that game on Sunday, when in fact said game is actually to be played on a different day. IF (God Willing) that is the case, FBD early on Sunday night and I eventually have to beg out to go to my goddamn store's (annual mandatory completely unmissable and yet totally irrelevant to my position in the store and therefore completely unnecessary for me to be there) holiday store meeting. (If not and she actually has other plans falling under the umbrella of "plans earlier in the day" there will not be enough time between her plans and my meeting to do a proper dinner as my sister deserves)
None are ideal, of course, but the ones that would be ideal have already been deterined as days/times that would not work. And any later and I feel we are ripping my sister off for what is a pretty big birthday.
Ultimately, I will try and hook up with her for happy hour tomorrow and talk it over and whatever she wants most is what we will do because she is my sister and it is her birthday. But you tell me america. If you were as screwed as I am in this situation, what would you do?