Today I had my first experience with, "I'm not as young as I used to be." It was an odd feeling.
I've always been extremely healthy... no chronic problems, only seasonal allergies to speak of, but no major health concerns ever.
So today I went to the optometrist because I needed new contacts, and the first thing he said to me was, "You need to cut down on fats and get your cholesterol checked. I can tell from your corneas that it is high, and if it's showing up in your corneas there's blockage in your heart."
Nice.
Then, he says, "Your prescription has changed quite a bit from a year ago. Your eyes have gone from a 4 to a 4.75."
Great.
Then, he goes, "You have very weak muscles in your eyes. They probably bother you when you get tired," (which is true) "and you are going to need to start doing some eye exercises to correct them. They're pretty weak."
Fabulous.
And then, he follows that up with, "I want you to go ahead and get some reading glasses so you're not straining your eyes at close distances."
Geez, freakin' Louise! So I suddenly have blocked arteries, bad eyesight, weak eyeballs, and have to wear old lady reading glasses! What the heck? I left the doctor's office feeling very old. I think for the first time I realized, "Oh my gosh, I am over 30." And now I actually have to act like it... can't eat whatever I want anymore, etc. Oh well. It's an excuse to trim down and exercise.
It just doesn't seem fair that my best friend, who is 10 years older than me, can run 5 miles and has perfect eyes. Thank you, genetics.
So here I sit with my Wal-Mart reading glasses on, wondering how I'm going to be able to stay up all night tomorrow night with 30 teenagers! And I have to work tomorrow. And they don't have Starbucks at Six Flags.
We met with our good friend, Jay Tope, tonight who just announced his mayoral campaign here in San Antonio. He is the only one running who is not a rich attorney, and he really has a great vision for San Antonio and for cleaning up the Mayor Garza/City Council mess. Anyway, check out his site here. Get behind him. Get a yard sign. Get involved.
I am becoming my grandmother. I thought about it tonight... they are, have been all my life, very active Republicans. It's my heritage, it's bound to be my destiny to be involved on some level in politics. Even if it's just to rant.
9.02.2004
Ich bin sehr alt.
8.31.2004
hammerhead
Watching a shark show with Punky... there's a hammerhead hunting down stingrays with his bionic senses. Ocean life is cool. Oooh... shark just killed a stingray. Go shark.
Went to a Mary Kay party tonight. Wow. I'm so not Mary Kay material. Why I'm always asked to join is beyond me. I wear jeans. They have some little motto about not wearing pants (huh?) and I live in jeans. Right. Okay. But it was fun and I did it for a friend, so it's all good.
I'm hungry. I really don't want to eat. I have eaten out for so many days that I can't remember when I cooked last. That's terrible. And I'm so tired of restaurant food. So tired of it. I'm feeling lardish and wish I could fast for like 3 or 4 weeks. Ugh.
I spent the entire day in Punky's closet today... his closet is a black abyss of evil. Seriously. I spent my whole day off last fall organizing it, and yet over the past several months it has gotten trashed and disorganized because things just get thrown in there. I am organizing one last time, and then it's outta my hands.
Really, REALLY dug Guliani's speech last night at the RNC. Y'know, I was thinking about this today... Okay, yeah. I'm a Republican. A conservative on most fronts. And most of the time, I am made to feel bad for that position... like I should apologize for my beliefs. No. NO! Liberals can rail and gripe and say all they want, but I'm usually looked down on and made to feel like an idiot for what I believe in. But I have every right to my opinion, and this is a free country, darn it, so there. You Dems who are reading this (and most of my friends and even my brother whom I love dearly are Dems) I respect your beliefs and still love ya (even though you're wrong :) ), but I'm tired of feeling weird about writing about what I believe in here. So anyway, I loved Guliani last night, thought he did a bang-up job, and was very entertaining. It'll be interesting to see what happens in 2008. Could very well be Guiliani against Hillary again. Innnteresting. Can't believe Michael Moore had the audacity to show up, but glad that McCain gave him the smackdown. Gotta hand it to Moore -- that took some guts. Or he's just an idiot. Maybe that's it. Yeah, pretty sure that's it. And USA Today has hired him to do legitimate reporting? Guess I won't be looking to USA Today for any legitimate news, now that I know they hire liars and libellers as "columnists."
Anyway, okay, time to go eat. I'm super hungry. Gotta stay up late (really late) all this week... we're taking 30 kids to a lock-in at Fiesta Texas on Friday, so we'll be up all night partying down with concerts by Pillar and Skillet and all night rides. Should be fun.....
