My Contribution to the image pool today of pix from Sydney’s wild Red dust storm…
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Antici-pation.
I am a recent convert to the music of Imogen Heap, ok, not that recent, but a definite convert… I’m pretty darn excited that her album is due out in a week or two… but until then I’m putting this up here so I can listen to it pre-release… Bonus… you can too!!!
Hurrah!!
Specs-taclular ~ A Cautionary Tale.
I come from a family whose eyesight has served them well all their young adult life, at least as far as I’m aware, certainly my parents didn’t get spectacles until they reached their mid to late forties, maybe even later, and none of us 4 children required such things in our youth or childhood.
Much to my disappointment.
I thought glasses were great, largely I suspect due to the perceived increase in intelligence they portrayed. Such childhood notions were dispelled along with those of the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus by the wanton display of stupidity I later witnessed in both spectacle wearers and non-wearers alike, but in spite of this, the desire to own a pair remained.
By way of proof I submit the following somewhat embarrassing picture of the author as a 20year old sporting a pair of tortoiseshell frames containing nothing but plain glass ‘uv filtered’ for her protection [coughs]. I believe this was taken Christmas of1988.
In about 1990 I was living in London and decided to avail myself of the National Health offer of free eye checks and got my eyes tested for the first time.
I was told I had the nearest thing to perfect eyesight anyone ever gets.
Colour me a touch disappointed.
Fast forward to 2004 and the beginning of my career as a web developer and deep abiding love for my laptop, then further forward to 2009 and the beginnings of a niggle about how things were looking out of my right eye. So I took myself off to avail myself of a free medicare provided in Australia (oh, how I love national health) and sure enough, the years of abuse at the screen of my computer have taken their toll. I am long sighted, and have an astigmatism!! Lucky me!!
So, now I’m the proud owner of the following spectacles – and I heart them quite a lot, though it’s taking rather longer to get used to them than I’d like…
So, do you wear specs? How long for? How bad were your first pair?? Links to pictures in the comments VERY welcome!!!
I Started this Post about Sunday
And ran out of steam.
It was a great day.
I sang in church for the first time in years. In A.Lot.Of.Years. It wasn’t my usual church (see post below).
It was good. It felt good. I’m still not sure what to make of this change. But I’m sure it will work itself out in the end.
I dreamed about my choir this morning, a huge choir that opened its gorgeous [collective] mouth (as it were) to sing and then my alarm woke me up. I’m still feeling ripped off they looked as though they would have sounded AMAZING.
I sang in church, did I mention that?
Yeah, still trying to figure out how I feel about that…
I watched ‘Glee‘ on TV. Those channel 10 bastards for teasing us with the show that doesn’t kick off here until September… hey, Channel 10, haven’t you heard of Ninja Video? Pah.. take THAT. In any case, I loved it, and would class it as High School Musical for Grown ups. And I’ve never actually seen HSM. Anyway, any singing thing would be cool with me right now that I have my singing mojo back… oh, any singing thing except Idol… refusing to get caught in that trap for another season.
Anyway, I seem to have picked up steam again… it’s just not about the church thing.
And that’s all I have to say about that.