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What I done and done learned recently!
Dec. 2nd, 2010 09:51 pmHello! This week is almost over, yay!
What I done and done learned recently:
1) It is cold here in Indiana in the winter. Yeah, like I forgot. Sheesh, what is up with freezing your butt off as you go outside in the dark to string holiday lights for your aging parents? When the light-strands only lit halfway, I just left them where I'd put them, because it's just too cold to stand there trying to figure out which light is broken. :)
2) My new eye-doctor had a couple of revelations for me: (a) my eyes are actually a little less nearsighted than they were a couple of years ago; she gave me a lower contact-lens prescription, and it's amazing how the world looks when things are clear. I can read street-signs and everything now! But (b) I have the beginnings of cataracts. I sort of suspected, given that I can't see very well in the dark anymore. The doc pooh-poohed my claim of cataracts because I was much too young-- until she actually looked at my eyes. My dad had cataract surgery in his late 30s, though, so I'm guessing it's genetics. I won't have to have surgery right away, but eventually I'll have to have the darned things lasered out. Sigh.
3) I keep being told that rather than buy all my books, I should go to the library and read them for free. Except... I went to the library tonight, and it closed at 6:00! SIX! Apparently, the Indianapolis library system had its funding cut, and they had to drastically shorten their hours. And yet the city is paying millions to keep the Pacers here. It seems unfair that literacy and education is always going to take last place to everything else. I have lots of friends who are teachers, and what they're paid is criminally low. Grrrr!
Hugs to everyone reading this. ♥ I hope you are all awesome.
What I done and done learned recently:
1) It is cold here in Indiana in the winter. Yeah, like I forgot. Sheesh, what is up with freezing your butt off as you go outside in the dark to string holiday lights for your aging parents? When the light-strands only lit halfway, I just left them where I'd put them, because it's just too cold to stand there trying to figure out which light is broken. :)
2) My new eye-doctor had a couple of revelations for me: (a) my eyes are actually a little less nearsighted than they were a couple of years ago; she gave me a lower contact-lens prescription, and it's amazing how the world looks when things are clear. I can read street-signs and everything now! But (b) I have the beginnings of cataracts. I sort of suspected, given that I can't see very well in the dark anymore. The doc pooh-poohed my claim of cataracts because I was much too young-- until she actually looked at my eyes. My dad had cataract surgery in his late 30s, though, so I'm guessing it's genetics. I won't have to have surgery right away, but eventually I'll have to have the darned things lasered out. Sigh.
3) I keep being told that rather than buy all my books, I should go to the library and read them for free. Except... I went to the library tonight, and it closed at 6:00! SIX! Apparently, the Indianapolis library system had its funding cut, and they had to drastically shorten their hours. And yet the city is paying millions to keep the Pacers here. It seems unfair that literacy and education is always going to take last place to everything else. I have lots of friends who are teachers, and what they're paid is criminally low. Grrrr!
Hugs to everyone reading this. ♥ I hope you are all awesome.
