I had my follow-up appointment with my optometrist today. When I went in a few weeks ago he was concerned about the fluid pressure in my eyes and wanted to run some extra tests to make sure I hadn’t developed glaucoma. So, I arrived early and mentally braced myself for the dreaded eye puffer machine, which, thankfully, was not on the agenda for today. One of the tests I had done was to see if my peripheral vision has deteriorated. I had to put a pirate patch on one eye, stick my head into a machine and stare straight ahead at a small orange light. Small white lights then flashed…

The other day the Hubster and I were driving somewhere, and the topic of “soul mates” came up. I find that every person has a unique view on this, and I’ve decided that I don’t really believe in them in the traditional “one perfect person for everyone” sense (but that’s another post altogether). My optometrist tells me otherwise. Just recently we decided it was time to get our eyes checked. We both wear glasses / contacts and have terrible eye sight and knew it had been at least two years since our last check-up. We’ve always gone to see different optometrists–I have had one where my parent’s live for years,…

In case you didn’t know, I am rude, unhelpful and a thief. Picture this: It’s getting close to closing time so I naturally begin what we call our “closing list”. One of the tasks on this list is to wash the front door. I dutifully get what I need, get down on my knees and begin scrubbing the door. There was one spot that was bothering me and I guess I was focused intently on it as I didn’t see a customer approaching the door wanting to enter. This actually happens a lot, and most people smile and wave or knock gently on the door to get my attention. This…

Oh my lovelies… today I discovered just how out of shape I am. For the past couple of weeks the Hubster and I have been talking about running together down by our local lakefront as the weather has been so glorious and the lake is beautiful. This, that and the other kept preventing us from making it down there until today, as we both had the day off and had absolutely no excuse not to. After a lazy sleep-in morning (allll the way to 8:30am! I am so old… haha) I finally threw on my runners and we made our way there. When we parked our car I had no…