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I know this has been a common topic around here, but I guess I just need to vent a little bit. You guys are the only ones who understand.

My grandparents are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and we're having a party to celebrate it. Unfortunately, all the planning has sadly turned into chaos between all the kids.

I don't know the whole story but I guess there has been conflict between my mom and my Aunt Kate, who is currently going through a nasty divorce. For some reason, she decided that she needed to take the reins of this party and make all the decisions. Every idea my mom suggested was rejected, and so my mom decided just to step back and do what she was assigned.

The two big issues that are really making this hard for me is the powerpoint presentation that I was assigned to do and the catering. I spent a lot of hours working on this really nice and semi-funny powerpoint presentation that my grandpa would really like. He is really into humor and I figured that it would be a nice break from all the other stuffiness. Well, my Aunt Kate was supposed to get some old movies put onto a DVD so I could incorporate them into the presentation - but ended up putting the pictures I had scanned in on the DVD and decided we didn't need both a DVD and presentation!

So all my hardwork went down the drain.

The second issue concerns the food and my IBS. The event is being catered and my mom asked my other aunts last night what is being served for me. Everything that I can't eat will be there so when my mom asked if I could bring in food for me to eat, they replied that it would be too tacky.

What gets to me is that there is going to be ONLY family there! Same people that see my grandpa make me a baked potato and plain chicken for every family event. My poor mom is so mad about it, but doesn't want to say anything because the whole party is for my grandparents. Not sure what will happen afterwards, but I really don't want to be part of the reason that my mom starts fighting with her sisters.

I know this has been a problem with everybody and I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do yet about it. Just needed to vent because now I really don't want to go.

But will end up going anyways since its for my grandparents.

Thanks guys for listening. So much for my life starting to get unstressful.

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- Jennifer

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