I'm not happy that you are going to be unavailable for longer than usual for Christmas this year. I'm a tiny bit irrationally angry, but mostly just unhappy that you won't be available. I'm also worried that this is a harbinger of you taking more vacation generally. Last year you didn't even take all of Christmas week off. I don't think you did the year before that, either. So I felt rather shocked and blind-sided when you said you'd be taking several weeks off instead of 2-3 days. Although - at least you told me ahead of time. Sometimes you forget to tell me.

I can't even stay back home and visit with family the whole time. You know I have the stray cat which you refused to adopt to consider.