Ramblings Yada Yada Yada

I’ve  been a little absent from the blogging over the last couple weeks.  It’s not because I want to be.  We just have a ton going on right now.  The most significant event over the past few days is that my dad is in the hospital.  He’s been in there since last Thursday.  Just when the prognosis seems to get better, something else happens and he has a bit of a setback.  I’m still a little in the dark as to whether he’s at the brink of death, or just in the middle of a complicated hassle.

Before my dad ended up in the hospital he bought a boat.  (Last Monday).  He has been messing around with a 1965 Larson and it has pretty much broken down every time he takes it out on the lake.  I’ve personally towed it back to the dock twice.  He has always wanted a boat and this old clunker wasn’t filling his desires.  So, he finally got frustrated, cashed in $10K from his 401k and bought this boat.  Needless to say, I wasn’t thrilled to hear that he cashed in his paltry 401k to buy it.  He’s 67 so he didn’t pay a penalty, but he will pay the std taxes on it.

It’s kind of funny how your perspective can change overnight.  One night I was thinking how I wished he hadn’t bought the boat, and the next day I was just hoping that he would be able to drive it on the lake at least once.  He had big plans to take the boat out to the lake and try it out this weekend.  That was before he ended up at the hospital on Thursday.  Suddenly I find myself hoping that he’ll get the chance to drive his boat.  How ironic would it be that he finally gets the boat that he has been wanting for MANY years and he never actually gets to drive it.  I told him that once he gets home he can sit in the drivers seat, we’ll start the engine and I’ll stand in front of the boat in the driveway and splash water over the windshield.  Too bad we can’t figure out a way to rock the boat back and forth in the driveway.  I’m sure that would enhance the experience……….