This is just a bit of a whinge and pity-party, I don't expect anyone to make me feel better or anything, it's just come at a slightly shit time for me and made me feel rubbish.
My team at work is based mostly in London, except me and a few others who are based at other offices around the country - I'm more than 200 miles way, so I do occasionally feel slightly remote from my colleagues. About a month ago, we were discussing having a Christmas lunch in London, which wasn't ideal for me but I accepted that it's what works for the majority of people and I was looking into trains etc. Then no invitation went around, so I assumed that it wasn't happening after all.
I have now found out that there was an invitation, but that I wasn't sent it. It wasn't just to do with my location, as all the other non-London people were invited. It's a bit late now for me to make travel arrangements, because I went and put other things in my calendar on the assumption that the lunch wasn't happening!
I am sure that it was an oversight rather than a deliberate exclusion, but I'm not sure that helps, really. I feel like I'm not even significant enough for people to remember about, or notice that I wasn't on the invitation. I am struggling at the moment with depression and the meds for that (side effects which aren't much more fun than the actual depression), as well as the fact that I live alone and am always short of money, so I am sometimes having to keep the heating off to try and save on fuel. I don't know whether I should say anything to my manager or if that would be oversharing my personal life at work.