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seldearYou know, someday I'll win the lottery, be published, fall in love with a guy who thinks I'm the best thing on earth (*snerk*), and have gorgeous babies. And when I do, you'll get to hear all about it!
Until then, however, I'm afraid you're stuck listening to my bad news.
Dad just got out of the hospital. Swelling of the body and rashes on the skin possibly caused by food. Something about liver failure? It's hard to hear him over the phone, he tends to be quiet when he's relating bad news: it's either quiet, or cagey. When it's both then things are bad. And he was both.
He's worried enough that he wants to sign over directorship of one of his companies to me. Solar lighting for outdoors, made in China, shipped to the US.
I'm worried about this, because Dad's business ventures are usually black holes when it comes to money, and because Dad's looking at this as a kind of 'hand it over to the children' - largely represented by me since I'm the one most like him so far (a little more adventurous and willing to take a chance than the twins). Which is also scary for me because Dad hasn't really been very successful at any of his ventures.
I'm going to visit him in July, and I hope this is just a passing phase and nothing to worry about. He's pushing sixty, but my grandfather lived to be eighty-eight and my grandmother's still alive (and chirpy, too).
Okay, now I'm feeling old.
Until then, however, I'm afraid you're stuck listening to my bad news.
Dad just got out of the hospital. Swelling of the body and rashes on the skin possibly caused by food. Something about liver failure? It's hard to hear him over the phone, he tends to be quiet when he's relating bad news: it's either quiet, or cagey. When it's both then things are bad. And he was both.
He's worried enough that he wants to sign over directorship of one of his companies to me. Solar lighting for outdoors, made in China, shipped to the US.
I'm worried about this, because Dad's business ventures are usually black holes when it comes to money, and because Dad's looking at this as a kind of 'hand it over to the children' - largely represented by me since I'm the one most like him so far (a little more adventurous and willing to take a chance than the twins). Which is also scary for me because Dad hasn't really been very successful at any of his ventures.
I'm going to visit him in July, and I hope this is just a passing phase and nothing to worry about. He's pushing sixty, but my grandfather lived to be eighty-eight and my grandmother's still alive (and chirpy, too).
Okay, now I'm feeling old.
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Date: 2005-05-05 10:55 am (UTC)Ruralstar
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Date: 2005-05-05 09:50 pm (UTC)I had a conversation with my mum shortly after, and said something to the effect of: "I'm not supposed to worry about him! He's supposed to worry about me! I feel gypped!" My mum laughed.