My brother showed me this today and as I type this post, it’s a subject of a news report. Now this is what I found:
There’s our two vehicles in front of our house. I made sure you couldn’t see our license plates on the original post! This isn’t the entire view of my house, that big evergreen is hiding two bedrooms. Wow-that’s a lot people would know about us if they had our address. I have a few more screen captures of our yard:
(I blotted out things for privacy)
I was trying to think of a funny name for this post. And it’s true what I called it, I do have thicker corneas which is making the pressure reading 4 points higher than what it really is. So today they were 20 and 22-take off the 4 points, and I am in the normal range of 11-21! The cornea test is fairly new, only around for about 6 yrs. They numb your eye and the tech touches both eyes with a stylus three times.
It looked something like this.
If you blink it may scratch your cornea! She said she’s never scratched anyone’s eyes yet, so I was good. The test before that took photos of my optic nerves. I was having a little trouble getting in the right position and then I got it! It’s weird to see what it looks like in there!
Not mine!
Tomography Machine:
Dr. B doesn’t have to see me again until early next year. I was one of the youngest patients today too. Here’s what he is still calling it glaucoma suspect.
We headed down the pike to a pizza place my friend recommended and we had a little trouble locating it. Bri was getting a bit of a short fuse. When we located it, here it was across the road from where my uncle was in the nursing home for several months (I never went to see him there). I will say it was a good pizza, the best I’ve had for a while!
It’s a California Ranch with grilled chicken, onions, prosciutto, tomatoes and a ranch dressing. I like different kinds of pizza and Bri is more of a red sauce and cheese guy.
I knew Bri wanted to go to the Chester County Booksellers and we did. I purchased a few magazines-they have about 40 feet of magazines, so it wasn’t easy. We stopped to get some papers at my uncle’s because my mom was there too!
I’m so excited about crafting things, that I want to do about 10 projects at once! My partner is putting together the most adorable fairy kits for you to assemble. I’m making art pieces out of Altoids tins and will probably make other things from them. I have 3 almost finished (thanks for prompting this post Sharon!) It’s the ‘finishing touches’ part that is holding me up. I have a few other tins bookmarked on flickr to help me out. People have such great ideas! I will say I painted the tins and they resemble the photo below featuring Cate Blanchett.
Have a few appointments set up this week and one more next week. I hope that is it for a while! Still waiting on the blood work results-a week now. No news is good news, correct? I have to be more optimistic now! ; )
Off to wrap some birthday gifts.
I took some photos and thought I’d share:
I keep my Art Trading cards in a notebook and use baseball card plastic pages.
I just got this Mona Lisa rubber stamp and whipped this ATC up right away! I also was in QVC outlet store and they had this big pack of letters on different backgrounds that you just punch out. I think there were 10K of them!
Here’s a kit I had started and pulled out last night. I am so sorry I didn’t change out the fabric.
I finished the first African violet ‘Nancy Reagan’-only 6 more to do. I am all purpled out and put this aside for a few days.
I’m busy crafting things and soon I’ll be cleaning up more in the yard and planting flowers (not until May though). I’ll be posting updated photos soon on my cross stitched pieces and crafty items.
My poor mom was terribly sick yesterday with a tummy bug. She is better today, but it was a day long ordeal. I’m glad she had all of us calling and checking up on her. If she had to catch it, glad it was on a Sunday.
Yeah, see my blogroll and look down at #6-thanks to my childhood friend Chris, I joined Facebook last night and have been playing with it off and on from late last night until now! We didn’t have internet access until around 2-3.
I decided that the mosquitoes had all moved in and were getting cozy in my water features, the pond and waterlily garden, so I went out and hooked up the one pump for the waterlilies-nothing-no whirl, dead. Then Bri came out and took it apart and it started to work. Finally. Then it was a terrible task with the pond. We couldn’t get the pump to sit flat so Bri bailed out all the nasty water, I got it situated and it started to work. He had to disassemble that one too and now I can report, clean water and a nice splashing fountain! It wasn’t really warm, but we didn’t have jackets on. I heard my mom had her menfolk cleaning up around her yard today-gets me off the hook a bit! I like to do her lamp post garden though.
I haven’t taken vitamins for two days now and my tummy seems calmed down. I really hope the ones I get for sensitive tummies will be okay. If not, I told Bri we’ll be eating lots of salads and produce. I’m hoping the blood work will be ok, didn’t hear anything after 3 days…so far.
Back to Facebook-it’s actually a fun place! If you want to join, be sure to click my link and hook up with me there.
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Another good reason to visit Longwood Gardens frequently:
This is the fairly new Children’s garden at Longwood Gardens. There are water features at every corner (see my video on the right). I love this sunny stained glass window. I didn’t know it had the two little red chairs under it (as I only saw it from the other side the last time I was here)!
WordPress just changed everything around! So I have to learn it again!
My friend and I are working on an etsy shop! There is nothing listed yet, but I figured if I talk about it, I’ll get busy! I hope to have something listed within a week.
Not much new on the home front. I made my niece a cute ATC for her upcoming birthday tonight plus I worked on a few other cards I am still trying to finish the first plant on the African violet cross stitch sampler.
It took me all evening last night to feel better physically. I think all this upset is going right to my gut. Just surfing, I went over to Flickr and saw a link-most views of my stuff and I saw that many people said that my photos or art were one of their ‘favorites’. That gave me a little moral boosting, especially when it came to getting etsy rolling.
Check out the elephant painting in my vid pod on the right. Angela Cartwright had it featured on her blog.
QUICK question-anyone have tummy trouble taking vitamin or calcium supplements? I’m wondering if that is why my tummy’s been so weird. I started taking them in February. I think I’ll not take anything for a few days to see. In the meantime, I’ll order some vitamins for sensitive tummies. Who needs this when you are trying to stay healthy?
Thanks for those who commented earlier. Things are still up in the air, but I hope two grown ups can act their age and figure out what they are going to do with their lives. The one was way too tired to try and make decisions. Geez. My mom called me again at 9:45 pm to complain about brother #3. I was watching ‘Elizabeth, the Golden Age’ and trying to calm down my bloated tummy. Bri said his was the same, must have been dinner (why did I have baked beans?)
The movie was excellent-beautiful clothes and scenery, my favorite kind of flick. This was set in the late 1500s. Cate Blanchett made a great Elizabeth. There was a movie before this one, so I’ll have to rent it also. I was trying to find a photo of the Queen standing on a bluff watching her army defeat Spain-it was magnificent.
Not the exact photo, but close:
I believe this is so. Our lives are simmering well for our existence and someone comes along and clamps a lid down on our world and the pressure starts to build up. You’ve got that little valve though, and if you are lucky, you can open it and things calm down a bit.
Someone in my life, not under this roof, has turned the heat up indirectly, though I have to feel it too. I have to hear my mom sobbing and being upset when she has enough to deal with everyday.
I won’t go into it in case that person reads here and has something to say to everyone else about it, even exaggerating it.
The temps dropped and last time I looked it was in the upper 40s. 70 was so nice! I took the cat for a walk without having to wear a coat. Debating about going to the grocery store. It’s different with just the two of us. I can go longer between trips-I don’t like grocery shopping that much. I am low on meat mainly. I could just go for a meat run.
Wish me (us) luck with the above!
It’s 70 degrees outside!!! I’m inside and wearing a sweater though.
Just got some bloodwork drawn this morning-terrible slow place-45 minutes with only 3 people ahead of me. The woman who draws the blood, does the paperwork too. She had to stick me in both arms-ouch! Wish me luck with that. Next week is my cornea thickness test as it got postponed.
I promised Brian a nice dinner, so I better get busy with that.
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