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Weird Ads and Alarming News

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mtpspur
, 06-21-2008 at 01:56 AM (1617 Views)
Now this is downright strange. I just now logged in with intent to post some disturbing news received earlier when I glanced at the ads on Litnet. As God is my witness there was an ad for Avengers items listed and not just for the car.

The question comes to mind is that were those targeted to me (the ego is very adroit at making every thing about me) or did others see the same ads? There were also some for child custody cases. Again a small thorn in my life and a reflection of events in my life.

Nah--I just can't see some renegade Geek Squad malcontent reading all the blogs and matching up profile ads.

But that ad about finding your soul mate awhile back coupled with a fantasy mod crush-hmmmmm??!!

But this wasn't what I was going to go on about.

First things first.

About 5 pm son James called to say my new grand-daughter Al has been cleared to go home. Her life is now about to start. God is good and better to me and my son then we deserve but He is very good about that sort of thing.

But where there is a life extended there is often a life winding down.

About 9 pm my sister Elaine called to say that my mother is in poor health again. She is unable to hold anything including ginger ale down. My sister and second brother Bob have medical say so on treatment and in accordance with Mom's wishes she is now on I believe the term is Constant Care(?). Bottom line they monitor her for pain only. No food no water.

The only comfort I'm getting from this is that she can't hold anything down anyway but that is a horrid way to end your days if I may speak from the heart. Mom had told my sister she did not expect to see age 91.

The inheritance check should be here any day now but the payment to clear up a credit card for car rental will take a bit longer. I intend to send it in via overnight express. Worse case AAA can get me a plane ticket and pay back later.

I'm taking this a bit too calmly. At one point my sister broke down when I asked her how SHE was handling things. Elaine does not get asked this enough. The burden has always been on her and I have hidden away in Ohio and the Air Force for years like a craven coward unable and unwilling to make more then a duty trip every couple years or so and then only a couple hours visit at that. I fully knew what I was doing and this is not a cry of poor poor pitiful me rather then an acknowledgement of roads not taken.

My beliefs are such that I have little faith in Mom's eternal resting place as I view that way about my father. This is a statement of faith and personal belief. If they ever believed it was buried very very deep in their heart of hearts and I would be unfaithful to the Lord Christ to pretend this is evidence of saving faith.

At the end of the day I echo Job--The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away-blessed be the name of the Lord.

And I believe God is still good and has had MUCH mercy on my wandering heart and soul.
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  1. motherhubbard's Avatar
    Such wonderful news about Al!! I’m so happy for you and your family. I know this has been hard with your mom. I’m glad to hear that you are going to see her. I hope you take every opportunity to tell your sister she has worked hard and done an amazing job. I don’t know what is harder than caring for an old person. Comfort care is a term that has an effect and I think it’s normal at this point to be calm about it. She’s been sick for a long time and it looked real bad just a couple of weeks ago, so you’ve had time to think about it. Maybe you’ll be able to talk to your mom about eternity. About the adds- I think they must somehow pick up on words in the blog or something. Baki’s blog had a vampire add the other day. I clear my cookies everyday. I see a lot of chubby gay men single adds lately so I’m sure it must be something more than cookies.
  2. Sweets America's Avatar
    Oh, Rich, I'm sorry about your Mom. Try and find peace where you can. I know what you mean about your sister being more with your mom than you have been, because when my father's cancer began, I could not go and visit him, I felt too scared about it, scared of what to tell him or what not to tell him, and seeing him in his hospital bed, all weak and such, and my older brother was more with my father than I was. Now I have learned to cope better with this. Oh, I think I'm going to give you a new hug here, the "Hug-Of-The-Day", if you like.
  3. mtpspur's Avatar
    Yelena, MH and Sweets--Your sympathy is much appreciated. MH however you misinterpret-the check that I am waiting for has not arrived which means next week and the only credit card available to me (that replaced my cut up ones needs paying on. With a check freeze and what-not my mother will probably be dead by then. The airplane ride would be at AAA expense and for the funeral which I am already dreading (mistly to do with my idiot oldest brother DOn who certainly made Dad's funeral memorable.)

    Now to Sweets---it is difficult seeing a loved one go. Most people I know have very hard times with hospital visits. My other brother Bob can't handle it at all and he is one of the bravest people I know. This is the one area I exceed him in. I can do hospitals but the confession is made that I block out the personal feelings and just keep nodding and murmuring agreeable noises to the sufferer. Your fears were real and NORMAL and not to be ashamed of or mourned over. You did what you could at the time and life is a growing ongoing journey.

    Yelena, always the first of late to greet me and I find I look forward to your comments much in the way that Kizpaws is special to me. ANd that is a very good thing. No secret I have favorites here and each of tem are special in a unique way. But I'm still not watching Blind Date reruns just to see the lucky man who won you. Ha Ha
  4. Virgil's Avatar
    Rich, first I get targeted ads too, but for some reason they think I'm a muslim young lady. They keep sending me advertisments for muslim match-making. Second, great on little Al. Poor little tyke has been through a lot and has handled it like a trooper. Third, I'm sorry about your mother. You still don't know yet. I never give up. And as to her place beyond our earthly life, my goodness you cant possibly know. God's grace is a mystery and eternal justice is beyond our conceptulization.
  5. Captain Pike's Avatar
    Don't feel bad, Rich, I keep getting this ad that asks "did your accident mess up your love life?" Mother_ER -- and it's some young, hot looking guy, in a wheelchair! Yeah, some kind of software_spider crawls through our blogs and spits out most_likely_to_click.dat, file, or some horrendous high-tech chicanery.
  6. applepie's Avatar
    I just got to this my friend, and all I have to offer is my best wishes and love. Hang in there:)
  7. 's Avatar
    Now now, don't panic Rich ... yes, Google Ads at top of pages here "serve" content-driven, targeted ads that reflect the page that you are viewing, so, picks up on key words.

    I'm sorry you've been on such an emotional roller-coaster lately, but that is wonderful news about your little Al
  8. kiz_paws's Avatar
    Of course my comment here is a month too late (I was away and it has taken me a while to catch up). But nonetheless, I am very glad for little Al being cleared to go home -- that is such good news indeed. About odd ads, yes, I wondered, too, about strange ads that I thought could not be affiliated with a Literature site, but oh well... I was honored to read that I am special to you, just as you are to me and to a few of the others here -- so glad that this Blog has been brought back to life, else I'd never have read this. About your mother, well, I can only hope that when her time comes, that she goes painlessly and peacefully; I don't quite know what else to add. Your relationship with her has been the source of some of your sadness in life, so I send you hugs over all of this. Your friend, K♥zzo