Missing out...

So, friends, I am sitting in my apartment feeling a bit melancholy. My family is heading on a vacation this weekend, and I'm missing out. My sister, her boyfriend, my parents and two of their friends are heading down south for a week at the lake. Alas, my job and lack of finances are keeping me here in LA. During my high school and college years, the family made an annual trek up to a small channel of lakes in Minnesota. Man, those were the days. It is my hope that in a couple of years the family vacation will include yours truly once again.