Unannounced visitors...

Everyone thinks that his/her family is weird, and I'm no different. Although they're a bit predictable, for how unpredictable they can be.

This weekend I frustrated at least 3 of the girls that I'm dating due to my parents coming into town. Last week I got a call from my older sister, who lives in Hawaii, to just talk about things. I mentioned that our father was down on the ranch, and that I thought he was either just getting back from a trip to Alaska with my mother, or was down on the ranch. But I was wrong.

She informed me that in fact my father was going to be in town on Thursday, dropping my little sister off at her apartment here near town, and that he'd be up here for the long weekend picking my mom up from the airport. The plan was then to go through our two storage sheds up here to see what they want to move down to the ranch or ship out to Hawaii. Hrm, let me think. They'll probably want/need my help. Great of them to let me know this ahead of time.

So of course LF wanted to meet up with me and do something this weekend, but I had other plans. Friday I had a half day, just wanted to get home and clean it up as my dad also had plans to put the home I'm in up on the market and he wanted to show it to the the Realtor that would be handling the sale. Ugh, another unplanned inconvenience.

Saturday I just wanted to hang out with the guys, but my dad needed my help again while he was in town. He needed me to run over and help him fix my little sisters car. She had gotten into a wreck, so we were replacing the fender for it. I really wish that my parents would let me know ahead of time about these things, because even though I'm not, I feel obligated to help them. Saturday turned into that, plus watching football for a long time over at my friends place.

Also on Saturday morning, I went and helped a friend move from Beaverton to Portland, only took a few hours because she had like 10 people helping and not a lot of stuff to move. We accomplished it all in about 3 hours, which was great. During the move, AL was there and we spoke for a bit. Later that night I got a text from her asking if I wanted to go out with her on Sunday or Monday. I let her know that my parents were in town and I'd probably be having to help them, which turned out to be correct.

All during the weekend, LF was constantly badgering me to go out and do something with her, anything. But I told her I was occupied. She actually ended up sending me a random email talking about how it seemed that I didn't like her, that she was too emotionally tied up in me, that it didn't seem it'd work out, yadda yadda yadda. I just responded with: "You expect me to not be with my parents, who are here from out of town, and only be with you? I don't think so."

If she can't understand the importance of spending time with family who's in town from afar... then her priorities are skewed. I really think that her neediness is becoming grinding on me... This week is going to be a lot of relationship maintenance as I haven't even interacted with Sum since she's gotten back from her trip, nor have I spent time recently with SR. Ugh, sometimes dating can be a chore.