“So what are you going to do with your time off?” my Mom asked.

“What time off?”

You see, everyone in my family has gone their own way right now.  I am alone.  I am alone and cannot go with them. Why? Work. Yay! Not really – it fucking sucks.  Another summer. Another set of adventures. Another time where I cannot join my family on any of them.  ANY of them.  I am home to work, be pet watcher, and house sitter.

While I will not have the family to deal with at home – a break from them – it isn’t the same.  I am once again the one who has to stay behind – with work obligations taking priority.  And, it makes me sad.

It makes me sad because in order for everyone to do their thing, I get to miss the things I do love (because they are happening when I’m running everyone around to the right places.)  And it’s not like I’ll get any more time with Daddy because I have work the next day – and pets to deal with – and the like.  So no matter what I hope happens there, it isn’t going to likely happen – not from a lack of wanting, but from a lack of being able to have the time I’d like with him.

I’m trying to make the best of it. I’m sure I will.  But there are sometimes when the price of being the breadwinner sucks ass.

And this is one of them.