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So... my mother calls me last night.
Jul. 9th, 2004 06:39 amMy mom called me last night. Apparently, due to hospitilization, Josh is ending up the lead in the summer musical he's a part of, playing Tevye (possibly his dream part. He's always loved this musical.) The musical is semi-professional (as in he gets paid some). Mom would be willing to put plane tickets on the credit card so I could go down and see him.
Here's the problem... the musical is the last two weekends of the month (read: The Weekend of the Softball Finals/Carbon Leaf concert and the weekend of the TMBG concert.). Mom would lend me (and only me) money to come up for the weekend. I want to make this point clear.. lend as in I'd have to pay her back. Not lend as in I don't. So I'm still, in the end, the one paying the $150 or whatever for the ticket.
But I really don't want to. I don't want to establish the precedent where I run up to Buffalo every time somemy mom tells me too. I just LEFT that house and those conditions and I'd like to reach some actual level of freedom and independence. It's one thing if someone gets hospitalized or something serious happens, but I feel like running up every time Josh gets a good roll in a musical is going to mean blowing a lot of cash in plane tickets or such.
On the other hand, I'm sure Josh would really like me up there to see him. He may be more reasonable in terms of trying to get me a tape or something if I explain how difficult it would be to run up there at the drop of a hat, but I dunno.
On one hand I, personally, don't want to run up. On the same hand, I don't want to run up every time my mom tells me to. On the other, this is probably important to Joshua and while he may be understanding... I dunno.
So I'm looking for an unbiased opinion (Kristen is decidedly not unbiased. More on stuff going on there later, perhaps.) and am going to set a poll.
Do you think I should
[Poll #318447]
Thanks in advance
EDIT: After think about it, I've decided I'll go to Buffalo to see Josh perform. If the shoe was on the other foot, I'd want him to come see me. On the other hand, I plan to do whatever I can to make this MY weekend too, and would like a chance to meet up with a couple of my friends, perhaps for lunch.
Here's the problem... the musical is the last two weekends of the month (read: The Weekend of the Softball Finals/Carbon Leaf concert and the weekend of the TMBG concert.). Mom would lend me (and only me) money to come up for the weekend. I want to make this point clear.. lend as in I'd have to pay her back. Not lend as in I don't. So I'm still, in the end, the one paying the $150 or whatever for the ticket.
But I really don't want to. I don't want to establish the precedent where I run up to Buffalo every time somemy mom tells me too. I just LEFT that house and those conditions and I'd like to reach some actual level of freedom and independence. It's one thing if someone gets hospitalized or something serious happens, but I feel like running up every time Josh gets a good roll in a musical is going to mean blowing a lot of cash in plane tickets or such.
On the other hand, I'm sure Josh would really like me up there to see him. He may be more reasonable in terms of trying to get me a tape or something if I explain how difficult it would be to run up there at the drop of a hat, but I dunno.
On one hand I, personally, don't want to run up. On the same hand, I don't want to run up every time my mom tells me to. On the other, this is probably important to Joshua and while he may be understanding... I dunno.
So I'm looking for an unbiased opinion (Kristen is decidedly not unbiased. More on stuff going on there later, perhaps.) and am going to set a poll.
Do you think I should
[Poll #318447]
Thanks in advance
EDIT: After think about it, I've decided I'll go to Buffalo to see Josh perform. If the shoe was on the other foot, I'd want him to come see me. On the other hand, I plan to do whatever I can to make this MY weekend too, and would like a chance to meet up with a couple of my friends, perhaps for lunch.
