I got 9 hours of sleep last night and I'm still exhausted. I woke up and my alarm played "Let's Stay Together" by Al Green and it just made me wish that it was a weekend that I have off and I could spend with people I want to be with. I don't want to call doctors and go to work. I don't want to work on my resume today. I just want to take a nap. And I hate that its going to be so long before I can spend time with people I want to spend time with. Its kind of depressing that my days seem to be filled with things I don't like. And now my dad is pestering me for one of my days off. My coveted days off that I spend updating my resume, wandering around Grandview, and with Tom. He wants me to go to his house and listen to him bitch about his job. Like I don't have to listen to my own thoughts bitch about my job. I don't want to listen to it on my days off! If he could just come down and go to dinner and have pleasant conversation that would be one thing. But he comes down and tries to commandeer my life because he has failed to create a life outside of his kids.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate that I have parents that are there for me when I need them. I love that. But I wish that for once, he would want to spend his day off going out and doing something fun with his own peers. And I wish that I wasn't made to feel guilty that I want to spend my days off doing the same.
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Meh. Don't feel guilty. You just spent the last 24 years living with him or your Mom. I think he can handle a little time apart from you.
ReplyDeleteAnd man... I hope we have lives outside kids when we are his age too. Hobbies are good... and... social.. networks...
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Haha true story. I think its really healthy for parents to have something to do that doesn't relate at all to work or kids...thats not all life should be at his age!
ReplyDeleteMaybe he's supposed to be playing with his..... grandkids! Haha.
ReplyDeleteHahaha that would be my mom's life. She calls Steve's grandkids her adopted grandkids. She even listed them on her reunion what-are-they-up-to sheet.
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