We picked up the trike last night so we have it for the weekend and everything hopefully is now fixed. We’re going to take it out for a bit when Bill gets home from work since it’s sunny. Bill went to the eye doctor yesterday and the doctor wasn’t too pleased with the pressure, he has glaucoma and has been putting drops in his eyes for years to keep the pressure under control so now we have to go next week so a colleague can examine him and see if he will need surgery.

He’s been afraid of losing his sight for years and now this news has us concerned. I think the worse part for him would be to never ride his bike again. The pressure has never been this high before and they showed him a film about what could happen to his eyeballs if the pressure isn’t kept under control. We are just hoping the surgery will correct the problem and he wont have to do the drops any more. I know his sister-in-law had some surgery done and her eyes seem to be okay now, but that might have been for something else.

We’ll find out more next Wednesday, but of course in the mean time he will be a nervous wreck. He worries more than anyone I have ever met, no wonder he has high blood pressure with all the stress he puts himself through. He tends to think of himself as unlucky and always expects the worst I on the other hand do try to be positive and force him to see things in a different light even though I am unipolar. I do try not to be down all the time and expect the worse scenario. At any rate I hope everyone has a great weekend if it doesn’t rain we’ll definitely be out on the trike.

We went over to Jodi’s for a couple hours last night so we could lift that heavy baby up and down for her till her husband came home. Actually most of the lifting was left up to Bill because I strained my lower back from mowing and trimming yesterday. She’s a cute little thing and very serious, she has to warm up to you before she will smile at you unlike my Ethan that grins and laughs all the time, these photo’s were from the March visit I don’t have any newer ones yet.

Of course when Ethan’s daddy was sick he had so many people handling him that he got socialized very young unlike Natalie who hasn’t been around that many people. I can’t wait to see Ethan in August. My DIL is bringing him up for his 1st birthday. He’ll probably be walking by then and jabbering away. They called the day after Mother’s Day and I know it was just as hard for her as it was for me. I have the recording of Ethan laughing which does much to lighten my heart I’m so grateful he’s in our life.

You know I try not to have any favorites between Bill’s grandchildren, but I can’t help that I’m partial to Nate he’s the one in the middle. Nate just seems like mine and he’s always been special, Nate is Natalie’s older brother of course. I never thought I would actually have a biological grandbaby so Nate filled that spot. Eric lost 4 babies through the years with a couple different partners and then they had Ethan at the same time Eric found out he had the cancer and was being treated.

I will always be grateful I was there and almost got to see the little guy born, but it was too much for her so they had to do a cesarean and I was so happy to be a Nana. It was very special and Eric was so proud and happy that his Mom was there and had driven all the way from PA to Kentucky by herself. Eric and I were very close up until he was 21 and then he didn’t need his Mom anymore. I really missed when he stopped calling me mama and switched to Mom when he got older.

Entrecard Afterthought
I really don’t understand why Entrecard bloggers still continue to buy ads on blogs that are showing the EC paid ads on their widget knowing they are only going to receive half of the impressions. Like this blog for instance it’s just not fair to you guys so please stop wasting your credits here until I make a choice to stop helping them, it makes me feel guilty so please spend your credits on those blogs that only show regular ads full time.

I have a big gripe with men that insist on having long hair and don’t wash it and especially those that go to a salon or barber and haven’t even bothered to wash it beforehand. That was one of the main reasons I quite working in a salon because I couldn’t stand to touch their greasy smelly pungently repulsive heads. Some were so gross that it was hard not to gag and just throw up on them.

When I was in beauty college I was assigned some guy that came in and apparently he worked as a cook in a greasy restaurant and that was the most gross smell in the world and just remembering that awful head actually makes me cringe and to this day I can still smell that head and get physically sick. I washed his head about 5 times with the strongest stuff I could find while holding my breath as much as possible.

I didn’t know at the time that I could have refused him service. There is nothing worse than smelling greasy dirty garlicky yucky crap oozing from someones scalp and pores….still cringing….yuck. Over the years I had banked that experience down until I was crammed into an elevator with 16 other people last week and the huge man with a ponytail was pushed in front of me, oh my God there was that same odor and I was trapped with it, I thought I was going to pass out.

I held my breath until we were let off that elevator and I thought I was going to throw up or faint it was the smell from hell. I so pitied the poor people that were forced to sit on either side of him. We were forced to ride the elevator up, but you can believe everyone decided to take the steps down except him. Please if you work around grease and pungent odors wash your damn hair and bath before you go out you could be toxic and cause asthma attacks or worse, now I remember why I like to be alone.