This is the whole other rant...


Now that the uni thing is mostly sorted out (planning done, execution would be the next step...), the date of the wedding has been tentatively set for around November 2003. However, I haven't been able to tell my parents about pretty much anything wedding/engagement/etc related because the last few times I have tried, one particular parental unit will chuck a fit and kill the whole conversation ...


Last night's conversation was about how a misplaced invitation ended up at my cousins' place, and how I thought it was a funny coincidence that the surname on the misplaced invitation was the same as the surname of the people who live across the road from my cousins... so my aunt decided that the invitation might be for the tenants across the road ... which it wasn't but no big deal ... what started off as a light-hearted conversation about misplaced invitations turned into dad getting all angry that I'd invited my cousins to the engagement party at all ... Um... hello, they're my friends ... I'm not inviting them just because they're relatives -- they're the only relatives I've invited on my side, besides the parentals and the brother, to the engagement party -- I'm inviting them because they're my friends ... Before we started sending out the invitations, I was told that (because of events prior to the planning of this engagement party) we weren't to invite any of my relatives, or my parents' friends to the engagement party. This goes back to *yet another rant* about the belief or otherwise in the whole engagement thing. Instead, my parents would wait until the wedding to invite the 200 or so people (the next rant), most of whom I don't know, and don't particularly want there. Nevermind the whole relative thing, I still wanted to ask my cousins because I consider them my friends more than anything else. I'm pretending not to know about whatever family politics is trying to rear its ugly head. If they want to have issues with the engagement, who I'm marrying, who was invited to the engagement party, who *wasn't* invited to the engagement party, I would like for them to come directly to ME and talk to me about it. I am SICK to DEATH of all this CRAP going on behind the scenes, which I hear about second-hand when parental units blow up at me for gossip/hearsay I shouldn't have anything to do with.


I think that's enough ranting for today. Although, all it's done is reminded me that I'm not done ranting yet... damn.