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fabrisseNot 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.
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Date: 2005-06-09 11:54 pm (UTC)I can't even watch the news or any shows like that whatsoever. I just can't. That's why I live in the Stargate world instead. :-)
I've never heard of having special glasses for the computer, but it sounds like a good idea. I do understand how great it can be to finally get glasses (or contacts or whatever) that work for you, though. I first started wearing glasses over three years ago and they never had my prescription right. I lived AK (on an island) at the time, so I had to wait months until I was in the Lower 48 to get to a different eye doctor who gave me a completely different prescription, but that wasn't right either. I finally just stopped wearing them. Here I finally found an eye doctor that I like and finally have glasses that I like and that work for me. (I wish I'd picked a different frame, but at least the prescription is right.)
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.
I don't know enough about this to know, but I wonder, too.
Do you go to a Curves class? One of my friends started going, and she said it was really hard. A Curves just opened up right near my house sometime in this last year and I've thought about going there, but I really dislike going to exercise in a public place. OTOH, maybe I'd be more consistent if I had somewhere to go.
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Date: 2005-06-10 06:12 am (UTC)As far as Curves goes -- I didn't expect to like it. Since it's a franchise, each one has a different vibe to it, but the workout itself is standardized. It's a simple circuit of resistance machines with cool down squares between them. Most of the women at mine are older (like in their 70s) or seriously overweight. The two Orthodox Jewish women are the only real exceptions.
What I like is that they check target heart rates at least once a circuit. They don't expect you to work at anything other than your own pace. With my tachycardia, that's a real relief.
Too many of the aerobics classes I tried kept me trying to keep up. Sometimes it was the teacher, usually it was just the ambiance. At Curves they don't care if you just step-touch your feet together on the cool down squares or can only do one rep on a machine. For the first week I could only do two circuits instead of three. There are a couple of machines that I can only do a beginners level of reps on while most of them I'm in the intermediate range with. The best thing is that from arrival to departure I'm only there for 40 minutes -- three circuits and a cool down.
I'd say talk to the proprietor and at least one other person who works at your local Curves and see if they're congenial.
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Date: 2005-06-12 12:12 am (UTC)Anyway, your birthday present arrived. I also have a bit of mail to forward, but I don't know that you'll be at your sister's long enough to get them if I send them there. Do you know where you're going, so I could mail things out to be waiting for you, or should I just hold onto them for now?