we are (not) family

I'm so upset with my family right now. Mainly Mama and Daddy. The whole family went yesterday to the beach and spent a fun day together. Everyone except me, that is. Why, you ask? It all started a few weeks ago.

The first time Paul and I went to my sister's house (she's who we bought our house from) to talk to her and her husband about the house, Mandy (my sister) asked us were we going to the "Family Fun Day" Daddy had planned. I told her I hadn't heard anything about a family fun day. She said Daddy wanted us to "bond" as a family and wanted to have a whole day together to do something fun. Apparently he was talking about going to Kings Dominion sometime in August. Paul said "well I hope it's not the first weekend in August because that's when my brother's getting married." So that was the last we heard about it, until this week.

Tuesday night Mama says to me, "are you goin with us Friday?" I said "where are we goin?" And she was like "the family fun day your daddy planned, Nikki!!" Like I've been told about it. I told her no one had said anything to me other than that night at Mandy's, and even then there were no concrete plans. She tried to argue with me, saying that yes they had told me. I told her there was no way we could go now because, a) it was too late to ask for the day off from work, and b) Paul's brother's rehearsal and dinner were that night. We had to be there at 6, so going anywhere far away that day would be a waste because we'd have to leave super early. Mama of course didn't care and said "well, we're all goin."

Later in the week, Mama asked me again were we going. Again, I reminded her about David's wedding. So off they went yesterday to the beach - my parents, both my sisters and their children, and my brother and his girlfriend (who is Paul's cousin). Everyone but me and Paul. Man, I was in a bad mood about it yesterday. I was pretty much over it until this morning.

Mama gets up and wants to show me the pictures she took of the dogs yesterday on the beach. I forgot that everyone else was there, so there I was looking at pictures of my WHOLE family having so much fun. Like I'm not even a part of the family. I'm so pissed. And now Mama's tellin Grandma about how I knew all about it as soon as everyone else did, and it's my own fault I couldn't go!!! Oh I gotta get out of here.