it seems I'm the red haired stepchild
I need to vent and you can skip this if you want....
I heard mid last year that my father..the egotistical bastard he is...is battling emphysema and was at the time he was diagnosed given about 5 years...at about the same time I was told he also had lead poisoning..a result of too many years of reloading his own ammo etc etc ..keep in mind..I heard...wasn't officially told..I heard via the grapevine
I saw him at christmas but he didn't say a word about it....and I mean not a word..he barely spoke a dozen words to me the entire day..he spoke more to G on the phone than he did to me
A few weeks ago I wrote to him and asked for help...cash help...he's helped my sister before I know this..I've never yet asked him and now I had to...ok...I asked for a fair bit..ten thousand to be exact...but that's what my estimate was..shipping stuff out of here...finalising bills and getting rid of stuff..cleaning it out after we go means getting someone in...none of it comes cheap and I just don't have it..nor do I have a way of getting it
Today my aunt calls...I love her to death but she's scatterbrained..she thought she was calling dad when she got me.....she accidently let slip something she shouldn't have and I put together a piece of the puzzle
Tomorrow my father goes in for surgery for throat cancer...my aunt is upset that she was the one to tell me...but she's just as upset that I hadn't been told..
So I rang dads place and got my stepmum Jeanette who I had been slowly building some sort of rapport with in recent months...who tells me dad has written a reply...essentially a no...they don't have the money and need to be sure of every cent with dad and the surgery..now see I can understand that if not for two things...one...I've always been led to believe the business they run isn't just successful it's very much so..I'm talking contracts into the millions...and two...they have always without hesitation helped my sister and her family (I might add her yuppy husband with the 100k a year job and the two ugly mutt kids)
A lot of her "concerns" were about the fact I'd "lopped off her olive branches" by not calling and saying thanks a week or so after we last saw her..I'm like excuse me?...I didn't call coz I've had a few things happen...it slipped my mind....we had parted with the idea of catching up in a few weeks but my sister had a wedding and Jeanette was going overseas (again)...there was nothing stopping either of them from calling...nothing stopping either from grabbing me in msn and saying hey...but I've proven it time and again if I don't call people they don't stay in touch..and if this is the shit I get when I stay in contact?...thanks I think I preferred out of the loop
So there we have it...one rant...
I heard mid last year that my father..the egotistical bastard he is...is battling emphysema and was at the time he was diagnosed given about 5 years...at about the same time I was told he also had lead poisoning..a result of too many years of reloading his own ammo etc etc ..keep in mind..I heard...wasn't officially told..I heard via the grapevine
I saw him at christmas but he didn't say a word about it....and I mean not a word..he barely spoke a dozen words to me the entire day..he spoke more to G on the phone than he did to me
A few weeks ago I wrote to him and asked for help...cash help...he's helped my sister before I know this..I've never yet asked him and now I had to...ok...I asked for a fair bit..ten thousand to be exact...but that's what my estimate was..shipping stuff out of here...finalising bills and getting rid of stuff..cleaning it out after we go means getting someone in...none of it comes cheap and I just don't have it..nor do I have a way of getting it
Today my aunt calls...I love her to death but she's scatterbrained..she thought she was calling dad when she got me.....she accidently let slip something she shouldn't have and I put together a piece of the puzzle
Tomorrow my father goes in for surgery for throat cancer...my aunt is upset that she was the one to tell me...but she's just as upset that I hadn't been told..
So I rang dads place and got my stepmum Jeanette who I had been slowly building some sort of rapport with in recent months...who tells me dad has written a reply...essentially a no...they don't have the money and need to be sure of every cent with dad and the surgery..now see I can understand that if not for two things...one...I've always been led to believe the business they run isn't just successful it's very much so..I'm talking contracts into the millions...and two...they have always without hesitation helped my sister and her family (I might add her yuppy husband with the 100k a year job and the two ugly mutt kids)
A lot of her "concerns" were about the fact I'd "lopped off her olive branches" by not calling and saying thanks a week or so after we last saw her..I'm like excuse me?...I didn't call coz I've had a few things happen...it slipped my mind....we had parted with the idea of catching up in a few weeks but my sister had a wedding and Jeanette was going overseas (again)...there was nothing stopping either of them from calling...nothing stopping either from grabbing me in msn and saying hey...but I've proven it time and again if I don't call people they don't stay in touch..and if this is the shit I get when I stay in contact?...thanks I think I preferred out of the loop
So there we have it...one rant...