Ivy Tied Up |

The downtime after holidays are always so exhausting. Its not exactly down time. Its the house is wrecked, I feel the need to strongly declutter, i’m too tired to chat it up with friends or family no matter how much I want to. The holiday down time is just exhausting. One thing though. I’m so thankful for my dad.

I’ve got the best dad in the world.

My computer crashed awhile back. Its been a good while back. While I know he didnt want to he knew that I couldnt stay offline long and he knew I didnt have the money to play “guess whats wrong” with my computer trying to fix it. So he let me use his laptop. He REALLY didnt want to. I can’t stress enough what it took for him to let me use his laptop. Anyhow. The laptop while its a wonderful back up was extremely slow, has no hard drive space and very little memory in it for the programs I wanted to run. i had it for alot longer than we had originally planned on me having it.

He decided to buy him another one. He had been tlaking about it for a few years but he went ahead and bought him another one. That broke my worrying about returning his to him. Well then he says he will sell it to me. I said okay just please give me until mid Jan to pay for it. He said fine. Then he went and upgraded his computer. He had also talked about doing that for awhile but hadnt planned on it anytime soon that I knew of anyhow. I heard through the grapevine that he did it because he knew I didnt have the money to fix my pc. So what he did was upgrade his and give me all his parts that was in his computer. So basically I’ve got my dads pc in my case. He spent a ton of money in a matter of 2 weeks all for me. Its not about the money.Its about he did it for me.

Well then he tells me that He can’t ask me to pay for the laptop. He feels bad. I dont understand why of course. Well he says its because the laptop needs new memory and a new hard drive. I had planned to buy those things and we’d call it even. He calls me Christmas eve asking me the specs on the laptop. I told him Christmas morning and he calls me Christmas night after I had already left his house and tells me he ordered a new hard drive for it and new memory for it.. WOO HOO! It’s my birthday present. (My bday coming Jan 31st..)

See anytime anything has gone wrong with my pc. My dad has been there to bail me out when I cant fix it myself. He has taught me so much in such a short time. Whats funny though. Is that when he first started out with a pc. I remember going to best buy with him to look at pcs and buy one. When he first bought it. he couldnt type worth a shit and he hen pecked the key board. I showed him alot of things and now he is teaching me things. I think at this point we teach each other. I still find there is a ton of things he knows that I dont and there are some things I know that he doesnt.

He has always been my hero. Even at the lowest times in our relationship and there have been some really bad times. I’ve always known I could turn to my dad. I try to be honest with him about everything but of course there are things every daughter doesnt tell her parents. My dad has been there. I know he thinks at some points I hated him. And for awhile I tried to convince myself that I did. But I co uldnt turn away from him. Even when my parents split and got back together and split again and got back together. I never hated him no matter what the circumstances were. We’ve just had our ups and downs like any family.

I really have the best dad..