An update on my entry

An update on my entry about my dad coming to visit. Well, last I heard he was coming on May 4th to visit. I called him once a day for everyday this week trying to confirm this fact. And I finally talked to him on Thursday and he said he would let me know first thing in the morning. I never heard from him and still haven’t. In between all of this, I had to work for 2 hours on Friday so when I got off around 10 a.m. I came home and decided I’d better call and cancel the reservation at the hotel for dad. They said sure we can cancel but you will be charged for the first night plus tax which would be around $100 total since I didnt call 24 hours in advance. Now this took the cake. Not only did Dad let me down again but my own stupidity led me to believe he’d come so I wait to cx his reservation and it costs me $100. I asked for the manager and was told they’d call me. Hours later still no news. So I called back and got news that the manager was busy. By this point I was so upset about paying for dad’s failure and knowing we really don’t have $100 to spend on nothing so I told Dean the deal and he called and was told someone would call him back. So later on Dean calls to tell me he got it taken care of and that we wouldnt be charged, but only because Dean told them my dad had a medical emergency and couldnt come. The funny thing is the first time I called the girl even told me that they didnt follow their policy and never told me about it because they never sent me a confirmaton letter and I was never given a confirmation number. So they knew they were wrong but it took Dean having to lie to them to get them to ease up even when they knew they’d messed up in the first place. The irony is, when I worked at the hotel we always let people cancel or didnt’ charge people if they called the next day cause they never showed up for their reservation. But no, the favor cant be returned, at least not that easily. So on top of trying not to be angry with Dad for not coming I had this to contend with, so to say the least I spent all of Friday vigorously keeping myself occupied with household chores so I wouldn’t have time to sit and ponder my true feeling about this most recent rejection from him. So then I made sure we had plans for Friday night, we went to a great couples seminar at church. And Saturday was filled with working, and then we went to visit this castle near us and took some great pictures. Well and we also went shopping, then we came home to take a nap which turned into other things which was interrupted by in laws calling to discuss dinner plans. But regardless, we still had a great day. And today I have planned to keep myself occupied as well. And if all goes as planned by Monday I will totally have forgot that dad was supposed to have been here and been leaving on Monday ,only to have the issue daunt me when my mom questions how the trip went, so hopefully she’ll forget that he was to come too.