Do Unto Others…

Everybody knows that graduating finally is a big deal for me.  I have been waiting a long time, there was a time when I didn’t think I was going to even get the chance to go back.  I am thrilled that I am getting the chance.  And for most of my family it is a big deal too.  Even though I paid for my own school, my family has been a big support. 

Last year Amber graduated, and even though her graduation was in the evening and I had to work at 5 in the morning the following morning, I went.  I brought her a present, I sat there with the family and I went to work exhausted the next morning.  When we found that I was going to graduate for sure, I told everybody the date and time, and wanted to see who all would go.  I was getting four tickets and was allowed to ask for up to four more.  Dad can’t go, his health isn’t good enough for it, but Mom is coming.  Of course my husband will be there.  I asked Wen and Jim, and of course Amber.  Wen and Jim I was unsure, because with two very active teenage girls there are all kinds of holiday things that come up on the weekends.  I was surprised when they both said yes.  Amber told me that if I asked for a 5th ticket she would ask off that Saturday.  I got the 5th ticket and told her and she said she didn’t know if she was working, she never asked for it off like she said.  That annoyed me, but today put me over the edge.  I told her I needed to know if she was coming or not, because if not I had another ticket to figure out what to do with.  She tells me she isn’t coming because she is going to Clarion that weekend and won’t be around.  It is more important for her to go get piss ass drunk with "friends" (a lot of them aren’t friends at all) then it is for her to be there for a graduation she PROMISED me she would go to.  I am walking in the beginning, within the first 60 or so people, she could leave after it.  I cleared my damn schedule for her graduation, but she can’t even put off leaving for Clarion for a couple of hours to go to mine.  She is once again being a selfish little bitch.  She does this all the time.  If she wasn’t family I would have told her where she could shove herself years ago.  But that would kill my parents.  I am so mad at her!  I am so sick of this.