Happy Easter to everyone that celebrates this holiday. The Grandbabies look forward to finding candy and eggs, but not meeting the Easter Bunny. I personally never looked forward to meeting some giant rabbit either, just isn’t natural. The kids always have so much that Bill and I simply get those plastic eggs and put  some candy eggs and a 5 dollar bill in each one.

We normally make a meal and they all come over, but this year we were invited to Jodi and Brian’s and all we have to do is the potato salad and red beet eggs. Where we live if you shop at Giants after you get so many points you receive a ham for free. Our grocery store does a lot of cool things to keep their customers happy, like buy one roast get another free and Bill loves all those 2 for 1 deals and the money off gas is good.

I was busy yesterday so I wasn’t on here very much, but the night before I found out about entrecard.com and went around surfing sites and dropping cards. As soon as I figure it out I’ll be sure to post about it and let you know how it’s going. It’s good to get traffic for your blog, but it doesn’t seem like they really look at anything. I think I like the idea of the card changing daily or at least I think that’s what it’s suppose to do. I need to find out if it’s working right in Firefox.

I have to find out about advertising and other things, but I think I am going to like it. I wont be able to really study it till next week so be sure to check back and see if it’s something you might want to do to get better exposure for your blog and rack up credits to use for other things. You get 1 point when you visit someones site and drop your card. Next week I’ll really work on it.

Have you ever heard of Reiki ? It’s a Japanese type of spiritual practice also used for stress reduction and relaxation. It is a technique that helps promote healing either for self or for other people. It is characterized as a practice of “laying on of hands .”Getting to know what Reiki is may help people not only become a healing channel but also a tool to promote peace among other people.

The healing powers of the technique are based on the idea that there is an unseen “life force energy” that flows through each person. This life force is said to be the reason why people are alive. When one’s life force energy is low, then people are likely to get sick or feel weak. If the life force is high, people fell healthy and happy.

Reiki is also a form of meditation used as a type of therapy for treating physical, emotional, and mental diseases. The name Reiki is taken from two Japanese characters that describe energy itself. The word “rei”, which means “unseen” or “spiritual” and “ki” which means “energy” or “life force” is combined to become Reiki. In English, its meaning is usually given as “universal life energy”.

It was Mikao Usui who was known to have developed Reiki in 20th century Japan.  Story has it that Usui received the ability of healing after going through three weeks of fasting and meditating on top of Mount Kurama. Practitioners of Reiki use a technique similar to that of the laying on of hands.

This action is said to promote the channeling of “healing energy” to another person. The energy flows through the palms and brings along with it healing powers that can be used for self-treatment as well as for treating others.

Reiki is a simple, natural as well as safe method of dispensing spiritual healing and self-improvement. It is said to be effective in providing alternative treatment for virtually every known illness and malady. Not only that, Reiki also helps create an added beneficial effect, that of spiritual healing. This method is also said to work well when combined with other medical or therapeutic techniques to help relieve side effects and promote recovery.

Reiki, although seen as a very powerful healing technique, is reported to be amazingly simple to learn. Reiki and the ability to use it effectively cannot be taught in the usual sense. The skill is said to be “transferred” to the student during a Reiki class.

This ability is not merely learned but is passed on by a Reiki master to the student during a gathering known as “attunement”. After the skill has been passed on, it allows the student to tap into an unlimited supply of “life force energy” that can then be used to improve one’s health and enhance the one’s quality of life.

Although the practice of Reiki may be spiritual in nature, it is not considered as a religion. There are no set of beliefs that one should learn about before learning to practice the technique known as Reiki. The practice does not depend on any form of dogma.

It will work whether the student believes it or not. But it is said that the practice of Reiki helps people to keep in touch of their spiritual selves rather than the intellectual concept that it provides.

The practice of Reiki also aims to develop and promote living in harmony with others. Aside from practicing Reiki and its principles, the founder of the Reiki system, Mikao Usui also recommends the practice of simple ethical ideals that can lead to peace and harmony among people.

My son Eric lives in Kentucky and he and Chris are pregnant. He called me today to let me know that he is going to be Daddy to a Son and that tickles me because I just know he is going to be just like his Father. Hey, what goes around comes around so I think that should be very fair.

Eric will be 38 this year and he hasn’t been very lucky with his dream of having children. He has lost 4 babies so I’m thrilled for him and I know he will be a good Father. He use to play Santa Clause when he was young at the mall and he loved it. He was always a big boy so he didn’t ever need padding and he was really good with the kids.

They are headed to California and they both like to travel so I’m sure that will be a fun trip for them. Chris is a traveling nurse and she got a position out there and of course Eric has a legal problem to take care of so they will be there for awhile. I had planned to go to Kentucky for the birth, but I can’t make it to California so I hope they are back in time for the birth.

I don’t know how long his legal case will be, it might be years, if they decide to stay out there they will have to consider schools, location, pediatricians and if they will keep their Kentucky home for a get away. Hopefully the little boy will have perfect teeth when he gets permanent ones, but if not children’s orthodontics in San Diego CA would be a good place to check out, my ex boss is from there and she recommended it.

So now he will experience a lot of things I went through being a parent and maybe he will understand things better as a parent, but I doubt it. He always had a problem with authority and I’m quite sure he still does. We are not as close as I would like, but I survived and so did he and this should be quite the experience.

I feel really bad because I didn’t even wish any one a Happy St. Paddy Day yesterday. I guess I was more concerned with Bill’s doctor visit and finding out more information about Diverticulitis. The Dr. put him on antibiotics to clear up the inflammation.

Last year he had a colonoscopy and except for the diverticulosis everything came back normal and we were happy about that and when he told us about the divericulosis he said it was a normal aging thing, he didn’t make it sound serious, so Bill has steadily been eating his corn and nuts up until a few weeks ago.

He went to his doctor yesterday because of all the pain and he pulled up the report that the other doctor had sent him and he had put severe diverticulosis in there, now correct me if I’m wrong, but that doctor could have let him know how serious and life threatening that could be so he would really pay attention instead of making it sound so unimportant, I was there so I know it wasn’t emphasized.

He started feeling very tender and was in a lot of pain and he had been eating lots of peanuts so he did his own deducing and decided he felt horrible everytime he ate nuts. I had already stopped eating corn and nuts and things that had seeds in them because I have always had stomach problems and he has always thought I was nuts because I always play Dr. for myself.

No one knows your body better than you yourself and only you know how you feel after you do  certain things or eat certain things and where you might hurt and as we get older we need to start writing things down so we have a list that we can tell our doctor about our symptoms so he will be better able to diagnose our problems.

Doctors are not Gods they do not know everything about everything. I always advise anyone to get a second opinion or third on any major decision you are going to make in your life.

We are only human and we are all subject to make mistakes so always get a life changing opinion seconded and thirded. Yes I know that’s not proper English, but who cares unless it’s someone really anal.

This computer is starting to act up so I think I will have to shut it down for awhile and give it a rest. I just recently was able to totally remove the Mcafee virus protection that has really been messing everything up.

It’s not easy for older people to learn all the new things that they need to know about keeping everything going, but just because I’m older doesn’t mean I’m stupid and can’t learn because I can and anyone else can also.