I'm so sick of this

This post is a long, rambling vent about why I should be spending less time with my family.

My mom is insane. Since my cousins are visiting (they live in Anchorage), she been taking time off to spend with my aunt, her sister.

She views everything as a task. She's even less content than I am to just sit back and let stuff happen. She is way way conservative. Today we went to the beach, and she seemed completely unable to enjoy herself.

Every ten seconds:
"Let's take a walk." Um, no. I want to relax and read my trashy novel. Leave me alone.
"Stay between point x and point y" Um, the current. Hello. It's like impossible.
"if the current is pulling you. you're in too deep! And you shouldn't be swimming then!" Swimming is one of the points of the beach. Also, the idea of the ocean is that it has currents. That's kind of the point.
"Time for lunch!" I'm not hungry now!
"Too bad, the sandwiches will get cold!" Who cares? It's peanut butter! Which is good warm!

At the boardwalk later, she was going pretty crazy while we were ordering food. She was trying to micromanage EVERYONE.

Argh. I'm just sick of this. And in the car on the way back, she was going on and on about how "outrageous" things were. Never mind that nobody actually cares because they're never going to change. And never mind that they don't actually bother the people who are affected.

And then there's my cousin. Her parents can micromanage even more than my mom, so I definitely feel bad, but it's weird to be with someone like her who's not as academically motivated as just about anyone else I know. It's hard. I don't know why it bothers me, but it does.

My sister doesn't respect me at all. She thinks I'm there to amuse her. She'll start a game on the nintendo and then get offended when I don't want to play, even when I'm in the middle of something and I was never asked if I would play. She bosses me around and acts superior ALL the TIME. Seriously. She's younger than me. She should at least be nice occasionally. And yet, it scares me how much I love her. I mean, I would do just about anything for her.

My dad's awesome, but he plays a lot of tennis, so he's not home that often.

I miss my friends. I miss having time alone. I miss having time with my dad. I miss having some freedom. I honestly just want to be left alone.

*I'm almost certain this post will go poof very very soon. I just needed to get it out there.*