What "Family Traditions"??

Happy Thanksgiving, 2011!!

So, I am stuck in my room today. Why? Because our family tradition of sitting down together as a family (even while dinner is cooking) is ruined. Why? Because my mom is watching football. I just knew that I would be in my room today. I told Dad that only stupid families watch football and that we are not a stupid family. The thing is is that stupid families watch football rather than sit down together as a family and watch holiday movies together. And here my "family" is. Being a stupid family.

So, here I am, sitting on my bed, listening to Disturbed's Hell, and, okay, plain and simple, on the Internet. Yesterday, I figured that I would stay in my room all day unless it was necessary (such as getting something to eat or drink or whatever). Once again, I just knew that we wouldn't sit down together as a family.

Watch. At Christmas, we'll open our presents together and go our separate ways. No family time.

Great! I am on the verge of crying because we're not a family anymore. I bet everyone else in the family is sitting down together and doing things as a family.

Why is it that I am trying to preserve us as being a family? I mean, even during the normal year, I try to get us (at least Mom, Dad, and me) to sit down and enjoy a movie night together once in a while. But that has never happened. Amazingly, the only time the three of us will probably act as a normal family is when we go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra next weekend. All I want is for us to be a family rather than four individuals who happen to be living in the same house!

If I ever have a family of my own, there will absolutely be no football, no regular television, no computer access, no ANYTHING!! If we want to watch TV, we do it as a family and we watch holiday movies.

Why can't I have a family that has people who actually want to sit down together as a family and enjoy the holidays?