I'm so ridiculously happy!!

I just told my dad today that I'm moving to Philadelphia with John and all he said was good things!!

He didnt know anything about John until today. He didnt even know I had a boyfriend. He has NEVER known I've had a boyfriend and my dad is crazy and very conservative and Dominican, so I was like what? is this really my dad speaking? Maybe he's possesed.

I wrote him an email with pictures. He HATES when I say important things over email, so only because of that I thought he was going to be angry and he wasnt.

He was all like "All I want for you is to take care of yourself, be as happy as you can be. It seems like you've reasoned it well enough and you think this is the best decision for this moment in your life. I love you and good luck".

My brother and my mom were already expecting calls of "did you know about this?!!?!! Is Iliana trying to give me a heart attack?!", but apparently the universe is with me.

 

I'm insanely happy too

Anyways that is wonderful YAYYY

 

good on you...

 

Of course he's happy. He want's the best for his girl.

You guys rock. All the best.

 

Yay!

I feel like celebrating! haha

Too bad Im not in Philly right now

 

That's awesome.

Must have taken some balls to write to him too. You must have sent some really nice and proper pictures.

 

Yeah and I have no balls, being a girl and all.

I sent very nice pictures, we almost look proper in them :tongue:

Also I sent cute pictures of Jack to melt his icy heart.

 

I wonder what he thinks about the whole "John already has a kid" thing.

He better not be laying his hands on my perfect and virginal daughter!

 

congrats.

 

You should have shown some pictures of him smoking cigars. That seems like the way to a conservative Dominican mans heart.

 

That was the most scary thing to tell him, but I was EXTREMELY honest in the email. I said John has a kid and he's 2 1/2 and I dont know if you see that wrong, but things happen and John is a great dad and I love Jack and Jack loves me, so it's all good.

Though I think I burst his bubble of me being the perfect and virginal daughter 2 years ago when he saw I got a tattoo. He yelled at me, called my mom and started yelling at her and saying how could you let our LITTLE girl do that? " and stopped talking to me for like 2 months. Since then I'm not perfect, which is good, because I've never been

 

A tattoo? Oh no! The horror!

Good job on being honest though, that's by far the best approach.

 

My dad has never smoke. My dad has never drank

I've seen him in all of my life, in the many dinners, maybe twice drink a beer or wine.

My dad rarely even laughs. He's like a boring robot obsessed with his job, but he's a good dad in his own way, just kinda absent. I always wished we were closer, but things happen.

I think there has been always some kind of silent understanding between us. It was proved to me one day that I gave him a short story I wrote and he was the ONLY person to understand it. Everybody else was why is it so dark? My mom got sad that I had THOSE kind of things in my mind and whatever, but he got exactly what I meant. I think that has been the best moment that I ever had with my dad, because I've always felt like he didnt know who I was (my parents got divorce when I was 4 and we RARELY spent anytime together), but that day it was like wow, he gets it.

 

Yeah, everybody was telling me to not tell him and just say I was moving to Philly because Im an US citizen and I can work there blah blah blah and THEN I met John, but that just didnt felt right to me.

 

My mom was always like that with my writing. "Why's it so dark?"

That's a cute story. Your dad does sorta seem like a stick in the mud.

I hope he's not at your next big party. Which I assume I'm invited to.

 

Of course you are!

I cant be at a party with my dad, unless is a boring party, then I wouldnt feel bad of sitting down and acting serious.

I get very serious around my dad. I talk the most perfect Spanish. I sit up straight and act like I know things :tongue:

 

ha thats funny. my family cant say shit, thay all went all whorey long ago. moving in with a dude is nothing to them. I dont have a dad, so it would be a piece of cake. Im happy for you!!

 

Gracias

My parents are way too proper. They did get married really young, I think they were 19 or 20 and they were married for 20 years.

 

YAY!!! my dad doesn't like dave in any sort of obvious way. bet he's not trying to run him off, which is approval so far as i've ever been able to tell.

 

Yeah, he doesnt have to like him. As long as I dont get any BS, things will remain peaceful. If not, I go back to being a rebel, it's one of my specialties