Too much crap happening lately first the change with the ad platform and now the Entrecard forum which at first I thought was good to keep out the non members that were causing havoc, but which could have been rectified by the owner disproving the accusations. He decided to stay quiet instead. I have no clue what will happen next, is it only a matter of time till Entrecard folds? With all the good bloggers getting disgusted and leaving what will be left? The new users are now disgusted also because they can’t join without having bought 400 ads with credits.

Last night my database went down, but they were doing maintenance at Bluehost so I went to bed. This morning I still couldn’t reach my sites or blogs and I started to panic. I did the live chat thing at Bluehost and they said they saw my site, well I certainly couldn’t and I no way in hell could reach my blog. Can you tell I’m ticked off? They told me that my ISP was the culprit so I got in touch with them and they ran a screen session and said it wasn’t them and told me to wait 24 hours to see if it would right itself. When I went to my blogs it kept telling me to reinstall and I certainly didn’t want to start all over again and lose over a years worth of posts on this blog.

I don’t know what they did or which side did it, but the next time I checked everything was back except the last 3 posts and I managed to retrieve them from my feed and just copy them in the post below I didn’t even bother to separate them because I was so disgusted. I lost the comments however and I still don’t know what happened. Maybe I should just take a week off since it’s nice outside and then see how I feel then. I’m not sure myself what I want to do and I’ve even been thinking about shutting down all my sites because it’s all getting frustrating. I need a coffee break so this post is done.

Linkwithin Widget
I read about the linkwithin widget on Karens’ blog Karen And Gerard so I added it a few days ago to this WordPress blog to see how it works. Apparently I don’t have any related posts on this blog because nothing shows up except the widget itself. I sent an e-mail to linkwithin support yesterday, but haven’t heard back from them so I guess they’re very busy. I will give it till Monday then I’ll just deactivate it, I know sometimes widgets can clash so I was hoping to hear from their support. If anyone knows of another type widget that shows related posts I would appreciate you letting me know, thanks.

DIL/Ethan
I must have been concentrating very hard on my DIL and Ethan yesterday because she finally called after a month to catch me up on what is going on. They will finally get Social Security survivor benefits from my Son starting in May, now that’s good news because we’ve been very worried about her down in Kentucky by herself. She’s a nurse, but hasn’t gone back to work yet and since being certified she was doing the traveling nurse thing for the past 5 years until Ethan was born 9 months ago.

She’s considering going back to that and applying for a job around here because Ethan needs to be around family and that way I can babysit him, I’m so excited and hope she doesn’t change her mind. At any rate they’ll be coming up in August for Ethan’s 1st birthday and hopefully she’ll have everything in order on her end, we can’t wait to see the little guy. He started crawling forward yesterday and she was excited to let me know and I was delighted to hear from them finally and he was jabbering away.

Can someone let me know if the video posted in the last post is slowing down loading time for this blog? I sure would appreciate it, thanks.

Music is very powerful and it affects all of us in different ways. I know everyone has their favorite songs and when you hear certain ones they can bring back so many memories. There is one song that affects me deeply and it is the one I have posted below. I’m sure you’ll enjoy listening and I also posted the words. When my Son died Chris took her assortment of pictures to the funeral home, but they were of her wedding and her life with Eric.

Thankfully she did choose a couple of Eric’s younger pictures that I had taken down with me, but she chose not to include any of me and Eric although she did include one of Eric and his stepfather. The funeral home made a DVD of all those pictures and used the song below as the background music. I find myself watching that video over and over and I simply can’t hold back the tears. I posted one of the pictures from the DVD below.

Remember that old saying “A son is a son until he takes a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all of her life”? Well, it really is true when our sons get married we lose them we become the second most important woman in their life which was fine with me I could deal with that, but I always hated that shut out feeling. If you have a daughter-in-law that treats you as good as her own Mother and calls you all the time and asks for advice then cherish it because your very lucky.

Chris/Eric

The Kingsmen/”Wish You Were Here”

“Wish You Were Here”

I can just see them

walking on the shores of heaven

praising the lord

and watching the tide roll in

friends that have gone on

oh,how i miss you so

and somehow I know if you could

that you’d let me know

that you’re doing fine

and it doesn’t hurt anymore

things couldn’t be better

that heaven is worth waiting for

that you miss me to and til then

you’ll be praying for me

and i know if you could

talk to me now

than here’s what you’d say to me

chorus:

wish you were here

it’s such a beautiful place

wish you were here

nothing but clear sunny days

well it never rains

and no one complains

and we haven’t seen a tear

we’re having a great time

wish you were here…

I can just see them

walking on the shores together

their talking with Jesus

safe and secure in his love

friends and loved ones

walking in heavenly peace

and I know if they could

talk to me now

then here’s what they’d say to me

chorus:

wish you were here

it’s such a beautiful place

wish you were here

nothing but clear sunny days

well it never rains

and no one complains

and we haven’t seen a tear

we’re having a great time

wish you were here…

well it never rains

and no one complains

and we haven’t seen a tear

oh, we’re having a great time

and we wish you were here