Bill and I have been discussing people and how some seem to have more bad luck than others. My sister has always had trouble in her life and it seems to have extended to her kids. I know bad things happen to everyone at some time or another, but I mean the kind where horrible things happen constantly, always something.

That brings me back to the lady I mentioned in another post that fell on her 18 month old grandchild in a freak accident and he died. Numerous other things have also happened to this lady like being raped several times and her son being in prison twice. The son was the Father of the little boy and he even brought him over for us to meet.

The poor lady must be having such a horrible time and I feel so sorry for her. That is certainly not something I would be able to deal with and just this past weekend the same young man, the Father of the baby took a trip with his buddy to Philly on their bikes for some event and tragedy struck again for this poor kid.

On their way home they got separated and a young lady in a car stopped and told the friend that he was down the road standing by his bike. At any rate they didn’t find the young man until 8 hours later and he was 30 yards up in the woods with a broken neck and a severed spine, the young man will never walk again and this is on top of losing his baby a couple years ago.

His bike was fine and from all accounts they didn’t find much outer damage to his body and the young man doesn’t remember what happened. They are now considering the possibility that the young lady in the car may have hit him and was scared and stopped to tell this other biker encase he was seriously hurt.

None of this makes sense to me and I find all the situations that this lady is going through and has been through weird and freaky. How in the world does so much bad happen over and over to the same people? I still can’t believe all of the things that have happened to her and her son, I only mentioned a few things because you would never believe all the other stuff.

They say God will never put more on you than you can bear, but these situations are a bit much. I asked my son when he was in the hospital if he thought there was something worse than having cancer and he didn’t hesitate for a moment to let me know that he wouldn’t want to live if he was paralyzed. Now for myself I wouldn’t either, but with him he could at least watch his son grow.

I sometimes don’t understand anything.

When I was young I kept a diary like many other people, but I always kept it secret because I didn’t want anyone knowing how I actually felt about anything and some thoughts I didn’t even trust with a best friend because I found that even those best friends often used things against you especially when they got mad.

Now here I am writing a blog and revealing my thoughts to anyone that cares to read them. People like to share the experiences they have participated in during their life time and hope that others will relate and share in return, everyone has a story to tell and most are very interesting. I find it very therapeutic at times to just put parts of my life into words and get a better perspective about things.

I find myself writing about my son a lot and that helps. He wasn’t able to do his chemo last week because his blood count was too low and he was deathly sick because of the gallbladder and stones that should have been removed before starting the chemo. He was in the emergency room last night and they were forced to do a laparoscopic removal of the gallbladder and stone that was the size of a robins egg.

Hopefully he will now get some relief and be able to eat better. He has had to sleep in a recliner because he couldn’t lay down straight, at least now he will hopefully be able to rest better and keep up his strength. Like I said this problem should have been taken care of at the very start sometimes I simply don’t understand doctors and the decisions they make.

I think I mentioned before that I was 16 when Eric was born and Eric never knew his biological Father even though I tried several times over the years to arrange a meeting and they exchanged a few letters when Eric was younger, but it never happened. Eric asked me to contact the Father and let him know what was going on which I managed to do last night.

Eric thinks he is finally ready to meet with this person that didn’t want him or me way back then which is fine and I hope it wont prove to be too traumatic and stressful for him. I found out last night that cancer runs in that side of the family so at least that explains where it came from and so quickly because my side tends to be heart trouble.

At least now Eric can get a medical history and they will be prepared to watch out for certain things with Ethan. I need to close this down and get some other things done so happy blogging.

We all love our “Stuff”, but do we know where it comes from and what it takes to get all that stuff into our hands? Everyone has become more conscious of how badly we have treated the earth we live on and all of the natural resources that we have destroyed along the way. Most people now try to conserve more energy and have made their homes energy compliant.

The government wants us to spend, spend, spend but as consumers I think we need to learn more about why they want us to spend and we should learn how to be more conservative in our consumption. I recently ran across a site that is called “The Story Of Stuff” and they have an excellent interactive video that is truly an eyeopener and every consumer should definitely view it, come on what’s 20 minutes out of your life?

Everyone is going green and trying to do their part. We are now more concerned with trying to protect our environment, but is it to late? I certainly hope not because we have made huge strides to clean up our waterways from big corporation dumping toxins into it even though there have been some disastrous occurrences over the past few years.

We are trying to save our forest and rainforest’s, but are we doing enough? For years the deforestation has been devastating and still is in some countries like Brazil which has declared a national emergency. You can read more about deforestation at Wikipedia. Most of us have cut down on our paper product consumption because of this, but there is still a long way to go.

We need to find alternative safe sources for everything in our life that we have taken for granted over the years. I’m sure there are better ways to conserve and prosper and with all of those intelligent people out there working together I’m sure they will find them before it’s too late. The video link above will help you see the exact process of how all your stuff gets into your hands, please watch.

Where I live there has been a boom in scooter sales and I’m sure it’s that way across the country. You see all types of people using this economic way of transport to go back and forth to their jobs, even suits. The only problem will be when the weather turns cold and icy or when it’s raining or snowing. I know people will turn to their cars then, but at least by using their scooter most of the year they have been saving on gas.

I must not understand all the ramifications that may occur if we drill for oil in Alaska. I have always understood that there was plenty of oil right in our own backyard so why do we persist in buying it from other countries when we can be self sufficient unto ourselves. Our government seems to think the American people can and will withstand any crisis that comes along.

It’s appalling the way they spend our tax dollars and here again I have always been amazed at the way they will pay farmers for “Not” growing a particular crop on their farms. I simply don’t understand a lot of things apparently. I never understood why the ultra rich got so many tax breaks while the poor had to bear the burden. If you read the Bible, even way back then the poor were unduly taxed. We the poor people deserve a break.

Politicians have always reminded me of used car salesmen and we all know they have the reputation of being shysters. We want to see that silver lining that our politicians promise us, we want to believe and have faith for our future and the future of our children so why does everything look so bleak for that future?

I personally don’t listen to all the promises because they could promise me the moon to get elected, but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to get it when they get into office. We find corruption everywhere, but as far as I’m concerned I’m very suspicious of anyone that chooses politics as a career choice.

Yes, I know many people go into politics because they are idealistic and think they can bring about reforms and change for the betterment of all. You hear them tell us, my record stands for itself, read the records, many people actually do read the records and don’t like what they find and thank goodness they have no problem pointing out errors to the rest of us that simply can’t be bothered.

I have often wondered if my vote actually matters and I have come to the conclusion that while it might seem like it doesn’t and the majority will win out anyhow. It doesn’t really matter if I bother. I’ll just go with whatever is decided, my vote or yours could very well be the one that decides our fate. So read those records yourself and don’t rely on someone else’s opinion or be persuaded by a bunch of smooth talk.

 Your vote matters decide for yourself!

Talent6 is looking for extras and they need these extras for all kinds of different shows, reality, TV and big screen movies. Sometimes I see things like this listed in the newspaper, but of course at my age I’m not very trusting. However I knew a couple people in Lancaster that told me they were extras in that movie ‘Witness’ with Harrison Ford.

I’ve been told that extras make between 100 and 300 dollars a day, not bad work if you can get hired on. I know Bill loves the cameras and any time we are at an event with a camera he tends to be some where near it. This would probably be right up his alley, but I’m sure he would demand a speaking part, he’s such a ham.

I have always had the desire to be rich, but I’ve never wanted to be famous or even on television, but I know many that would love it and if you’re curious you can call toll free 800-493-9047 and talk to a portfolio manager, anyone between the ages of 18 to 85 they say they can find you work all across the country because they film everywhere, maybe I’ll become Bill’s manager.

Bill and I give money as presents for birthdays and Christmas because neither of us has had much luck in picking the right gifts because everything always gets taken back anyhow. We don’t even bother with gift certificates to specific stores because sometimes even those are a hassle to use, so we decided money was the only way, of course we also have a big dinner for the kids.

Both Bill and I still have presents that we have never used, but most get returned except one and that was the Garmin GPS they got us last year. Both Bill and I have a tendency to get lost and that thing has been a blessing for us. The best present anyone could have ever given us, it really came in handy on these last 2 trips made to Kentucky and it’s something we would probably have never bought ourselves.

I always have a problem trying to figure out what to get for Bill. This year I am planning on purchasing a Memorial Brick with his name, rank and all the Vietnam information, that is if he ever fills out the paper I need. Of course he knows about this gift, but he isn’t being very helpful and before I know it, it will be Christmas and I wont have this gift accomplished in time.

He hates when I spend my money on him, but he loves to spend his on me. Actually that gift is for his birthday because it’s a couple days before Christmas and I still don’t know what to get for Christmas yet, but I’m quite sure something will crop up that he wants for his bike between now and then. He always appreciates anything to do with his bike, but he already has just about everything that can be put on it.

I remember when I was young it took forever for the holidays to come around, but now they fly by so fast that I sometimes feel like I’ve missed them. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, Tax Day one is barely finished till the next one pops up, of course I could do without tax day all together and of course this year we have Election Day and not to be wishing my life away, but I’ll be glad when that one in particular is over.