Ugh. That's bullshit. I mean, I think it is his fault (not that it's not her fault too). When she "re-decided" she wanted to go, he should've been like, "Well, mom, you said you didn't want to, so I already asked Marybeth. I'll ask her about it, but it's really up to her since you already said once that you didn't want to go." and then he could've came to you and apologized and been like, "My mom changed her mind about wanting to go to the baseball game, but I already asked you, so if you want to go, I'll go with you, but if you'd rather I'd go with my mom, then that's fine to. It's up to you." and then you could've said, "Oh, that's ok. You and I will catch a different game. Go ahead and go with your (fickle) mother." and everything would've been happy and civilized. Instead, he blatantly disregarded you for her.

It's not so much that he "picked her" over you. He ~bailed~ on you for her, and that's completely different/worse. Picking his mom over you would be, getting the ticket and deciding on who to ask first, her or you. In that situation, it's not ~really~ a big deal (or at least it shouldn't be) who he picks. If William had two tickets to something he liked (can't say baseball, because if he had two baseball tickets, he'd probably just give them away) and he asked his mom, I wouldn't be offended, and I doubt she'd be offended if he asked me. I ~would~ however, be quite offended if he asked me after she had said no, and then later told me that she changed her mind and he was going to take her, because at that point I have made plans/arrangements to go with him. It's complete disrespect/disregard for your time and effort. It doesn't matter whether you had to request off work, cancel other plans, or really had nothing else going on that day anyway. The point of the matter is that you now have no plans, and no time to make plans, and you may have even turned down a different opportunity all because he made you believe you would be at a ballgame with him at that time.

I've decided that next summer I will be getting my TEOFL certification, or something similar, and whisking off to another country to teach english for a while. I really truly want to do that, and I'll regret it if I don't. So I'm going to. I'm sure my parents will say no, but... uh... news flash to them, it's not really their choice.

I was going to go on a month long tour of Europe with William (can't because I realized I have no way to afford it) and I was telling my parents about it, and my dad was like, "No, you're not doing that. It's too dangerous. I should've never let you go to Ireland either." Let me? You did not "let me" go to Ireland. You didn't pay for it, I did. You didn't sign any permission forms, I did. So... that's nice that you think it was your decision, but it wasn't.

So, I'm going to emerse myself in another country's culture for a year or two. I'm really looking forward to getting away from everything here.

Also, William and I are engaged to being engaged. We have a date set and everything. Personally, I think it's a little weird, but whatever.

I need a good color scheme for the Wedding. As much as I love red (I mean... I reeeeally love red), it's far too cliché. I wish it wasn't, but it is. Also, no pastels. That's William's request. I'm thinking that based on his color preferences, this is going to need to be a Fall wedding. Not that he gets every say in everything, but I'd like to incorporate his opinion as much as possible.