Mattocks Family News

People just irritate the fire out of me, really.
So I am trying to sell this armoire. I have had no less than 10 people say they want to come look at it and will be here at such and such time. And so I make sure I am here and they never show. I am really getting quite sick of it. Is the general population of this world flakes or am I just really unlucky and meet up with just the ones that are.
I have determined that I don't like selling stuff. Because people want to buy it, or so they say but they either want me to deliver it, (as if I'm some kind of store) for me to give it to them for nothing or for me to waste my time sitting at home waiting for them to never show up.
So when people show up when they say they are going to, to get something it almost makes me want to just give it to them for them actually being a real person that does what they say they are going to do.

So on to a different note........
Nothing going on in my exciting life here. Now don't get me wrong, to you it would be boring, to me, it is quite thrilling, I love my life!
I am looking forward to this weekend. Going skiing on Saturday, I know, 2 times in one year. Amazing.... Next thing you know I will be buying season tickets like my siblings do. But this time I am going without the kids, I was a bit surprised that they didn't seem to disappointed, but then Sis. Melinda is watching them and they know she will take them wherever they want and not only take them but do whatever with them and not just watch like boring mom. Perhaps I should teach her to ski then I could just take her skiing with me and she and the boys could go thier way and Travis and I could go ours. Great plan but cheaper to just leave them in the valley while we go up the mountain. haha
I am a tiny bit apprehensive, see I always have the kids to hide behind and slow me down. I am not an aggresive skier and have went on 1 black diamond run and vowed to never do it again, and I will go on the blue runs but really it gets me prayed through because I pray I make it down and don't go off the cliff or get run over by some crazy snow boarder, the snow boarders are very crazy people. So anyways I am going to be up there with all the family and they are aggresive skiers, and Josh and Ana go every week so are all up on thier skill and then there is little ole me who has only skied once this year and that was with the kids trying to teach them how.
I hope I don't kill myself, or worse. Because I will of course have to try and stay up with them, and if they do a black run, do I look like the type of person that is going to sit down and cry till a snowmobile comes and gets me??? Nope, I will follow like a dummy, through moguls and all and I hate moguls! But I love to ski, really, so I am actually looking forward to going even if it doesn't sound like it. Although I am praying that the snow that is in the forcast for that day just disappears because I do hate skiing when it is snowing, it makes my face cold.

Nothing really on the agenda for tomorrow, I may go to Scheels and see if they have some goggles I want to buy, just in case it is snowing. I usually just wear sunglasses but if it is snowing real bad I will wish for goggles so I better make sure I have them just in case. And I better go see if I can get my skirt hemmed up a little, it is a bit too long.

So we are all doing well. Dallas finally got his new glasses in and can see again.
I am still packing although I really don't know what else to pack any more. I think I have packed all that I can for now, I wander around the house looking for things to pack or get rid of but I am kind of at a loss of what to do next. I suppose I could start taking pictures down and filling the nail holes and touching up the paint but then my house would look even more bare than it already does and we still have 3 more weeks here so I don't know. Perhaps I will start doing some of that next week.

I go to an eye specialist on the 10th.
Not sure all that know but when I was 9 I had a nail stuck in my eye. It left bad scarring and I can't really see all that well anymore and it gets worse as the years go on. I just recently went to get my yearly eye exam to update my prescription and he said in just one year (to put it in easy terms) my eyesight has worsened by about 3 notches. He took some in depth pictures and found that my bad eye is clouding over. I have no peripheral vision on my right side at all and he fears that I may have the beginning stages of glaucoma. So I am going to some big fancy specialist. My Dr told me don't be alarmed when you go there, but there are interns there and this is something that one doesn't see often and so I will be a very popular person there and have all kinds of people wanting to see my eye and study it while there. My Dr wouldn't tell me a whole lot but that if one eye gets glaucoma the other will too, it is a type of contagion per say but more of a what one eye does the other will do also and my left eye is quite taxed with being the sole seer most of my life.
It was quite interesting to see the picture of my eye. I wish I could have gotten a copy to put up on here to show you. but my right eye being so injured has taken on quite the look. The scarring has built up alot to where there is this black cavern like thing and then the white cloud that is creeping over to the black cavern that is the scar.
My Dr says that he is sure that there is surgery that can be done, probably an artificial lens can be put in among other things but he is not knowledgeable enough nor equipped enough to deal with something so serious which is why I have to go see Dr Specialist.
So anyways, I am not really nervous but quite curious to what they will say and do to me while there. They told me it would be an all day appointment mostly. How one spends all day at an eye Dr? That's enough to make anyone curious, right??? LOL
I have this totally weird vision of me laying back in a chair and like 5 Dr's leaning over me looking into my eye all at once. How strange I am, right???LOL
But on the bright side at least my fears of being completely blind when I am old are put to rest. I have always known that that was a more than likely thing that would happen to me being as how my eyesight deteriorates yearly so that by the time I am 50 I always just figured in my mind I probably wouldn't see, I had even started trying to make myself like dogs more so I wouldn't have to have that red and white stick. lol But now I have been assured that I will always see, that technology is equipped enough to take care of it all even if my insurance and my bank account aren't. haha and so now I can quite trying to like dogs, although I think a little one wouldn't be so bad, once the boys are old enough to take care of it and we move out to our ranch. haha

Well I've probably written enough of this book and so I will save some for another time.