Maybe it’s the weather that has gotten me this way but I feel the need to vent and be bitchy. Therefore, you are forewarned.
I want to go and do something. I will be twenty in a month and I haven’t really done much all summer long. Now, some of that is my fault, and the rest was kind of out of my hands. I’m not blaming others for this. Or at least I shouldn’t. But, right now, I want to just get away. I want to go somewhere that isn’t right here in Oregon and I want to spend a few nights without family and just with friends. Only problem is, I’m the only one that can afford to do that. None of my friends work so they really can’t go anywhere. So, vacation for me is going to have to either be with family, or by myself. Now, with family, that wouldn’t be so bad, I suppose, but I still wouldn’t really feel like it’s a vacation, and being by myself in a strange city would just be a let down because I have no one to share it with. So, this seems to me, that I am left with no other choice than to not go on vacation this summer.
I should have gone to the Berkshire Theater Festival. I shouldn’t have let the fact that no one could go with me dictate me not going. I should have bought a ticket anyway and just got on a plane and gone. I didn’t however and my opportunity is up. I can’t think of a single thing that I would want to go do for a few days now either. This whole thing just seems fucked and I guess I’m just bitching because the whole point of me having a job and having money was so I could go and do more things without relying on my parents. I have done less though because the things I can go do are usually done while I’m working and then when I want to go and do something, it costs money that the people I want to share it with don’t have.
Part of me just wants to look at ticket prices today and schedule a trip for myself. I’m just worried about how much of a waste of money that will be seeing as I’ll be alone, and I’m worried that will do nothing but get me down because it’s not something I can share with my friends. That and I have no idea where to go. Either way, I need to go and do something because I don’t want to sit here at work. I don’t mind work, it’s just that I would also like to get away for a girl’s weekend, someplace that’s not Oregon. I guess I just need to get over this and be determined to go someplace. Yeah, I’m going to deal with the comments of “are you sure you want to do this,” or “that’s sad going all by yourself”, but, I don’t want other people’s money situations to dictate my time. I work hard and I need to reward myself. I just hate the fact that I’m always going to have to reward myself by my own. It just doesn’t seem fair to me.