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Not much happening. There are things that I'm so mad about that I can't write coherently -- like Sean Hannity on The View yesterday saying there was no proof that the United States had committed torture at Abu Ghraib.
So.
Right now, Sis is looking after both dogs while the 'rents are on the east coast. Today, she had to take Scout to the vet for a shot. Apparently the babydog doesn't like a rectal thermometer any more than you or I would. Which means that at the moment, Aunti Fabi is Scout's favorite human ever.
Sis and I have been walking both dogs, too. Usually they just run around in the yard, but we've walked them to the folks and back (about a mile and a half total). This means they sleep well. And when the pups sleep well, so do the humans.
If I can figure out how to post pictures, I'll post something recent of the dogs. They are infinitely cute, but infinitely time consuming.
Curves has been working. I haven't lost any weight and I've only lost .1 off my body mass index. However, I've lost half an inch off my waist, half an inch off my biceps, and three inches off my thigh in the last month. When I'm doing more cooking for myself rather than restaurant eating, I expect the weight will begin to come off again.
Lastly, I now have contact lenses (the Optix kind which allow oxygen exchange. They're terrific.), the coolest sunglasses in the world, and computer glasses. The computer glasses are supposed to be for all forms of reading, but they make me nauseous if I wear them when reading regular text.
They have no prescription per se, just prisms that make me focus my eyes. I had them outside (dog-chasing) earlier today and saw the sunlight pattern through them. They're fascinating.
It seems that the reason my eyes elected to specialize is that the left eye is enough higher than the right that my brain can't make the pictures fuse correctly. So when I was about ten someone finally noticed that my right eye couldn't see three feet in front of me, but could read the finest text printable (I can still read a two volume OED without a magnifier if I cover my left eye). My left eye clocked in with distance vision of 20/15 which gradually downgraded to 20/18. Sometime in my late twenties, my left eye also became nearsighted, but the prescriptions were still so different -- and the left eye was still higher than the right -- that my depth perception wasn't entirely corrected.
These prisms make the computer much easier to read, but everything else looks very funny through them. I wonder if they'd realized earlier what the problem was, if they could have made me see everything with both eyes.
So.
Right now, Sis is looking after both dogs while the 'rents are on the east coast. Today, she had to take Scout to the vet for a shot. Apparently the babydog doesn't like a rectal thermometer any more than you or I would. Which means that at the moment, Aunti Fabi is Scout's favorite human ever.
Sis and I have been walking both dogs, too. Usually they just run around in the yard, but we've walked them to the folks and back (about a mile and a half total). This means they sleep well. And when the pups sleep well, so do the humans.
If I can figure out how to post pictures, I'll post something recent of the dogs. They are infinitely cute, but infinitely time consuming.
Curves has been working. I haven't lost any weight and I've only lost .1 off my body mass index. However, I've lost half an inch off my waist, half an inch off my biceps, and three inches off my thigh in the last month. When I'm doing more cooking for myself rather than restaurant eating, I expect the weight will begin to come off again.
Lastly, I now have contact lenses (the Optix kind which allow oxygen exchange. They're terrific.), the coolest sunglasses in the world, and computer glasses. The computer glasses are supposed to be for all forms of reading, but they make me nauseous if I wear them when reading regular text.
They have no prescription per se, just prisms that make me focus my eyes. I had them outside (dog-chasing) earlier today and saw the sunlight pattern through them. They're fascinating.
It seems that the reason my eyes elected to specialize is that the left eye is enough higher than the right that my brain can't make the pictures fuse correctly. So when I was about ten someone finally noticed that my right eye couldn't see three feet in front of me, but could read the finest text printable (I can still read a two volume OED without a magnifier if I cover my left eye). My left eye clocked in with distance vision of 20/15 which gradually downgraded to 20/18. Sometime in my late twenties, my left eye also became nearsighted, but the prescriptions were still so different -- and the left eye was still higher than the right -- that my depth perception wasn't entirely corrected.
These prisms make the computer much easier to read, but everything else looks very funny through them. I wonder if they'd realized earlier what the problem was, if they could have made me see everything with both eyes.
