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mamadebI am getting old.
I've had the first hints of it lately - not the increased creakiness of my joints, or the occasional gray hair, or even the Type II Diabetes.
No, it's worse than that.
I've been doing some handsewing recently - I had to sew the blue stripes onto my grey belt and I had to move the buttons on my blue suit. That requires threading a needle.
Threading needles has never been a problem for me. I'm near-sighted, after all, so focusing on the little eye is simple.
Not any more. One of the reasons I put off moving those buttons was because it was getting very frustrating - I could not get the thread in the eye no matter what.
But it had to be done - the suit jacket swam on me and the seven year old in my pakua class wanted to see my new stripes on the belt.
I had to take off my glasses, close my good eye (my right eye is 20/150, my left is 20/300, and that hasn't changed in over twenty years - and that statement also makes me feel old.) and squint the bad one. Then it was easy as ever.
I'm losing flexiblity, I guess. Or something. I see bifocals in my near future.
I'm old.
(Oh, and someone on http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com just asked who David Cassidy was. *Sigh*)
I've had the first hints of it lately - not the increased creakiness of my joints, or the occasional gray hair, or even the Type II Diabetes.
No, it's worse than that.
I've been doing some handsewing recently - I had to sew the blue stripes onto my grey belt and I had to move the buttons on my blue suit. That requires threading a needle.
Threading needles has never been a problem for me. I'm near-sighted, after all, so focusing on the little eye is simple.
Not any more. One of the reasons I put off moving those buttons was because it was getting very frustrating - I could not get the thread in the eye no matter what.
But it had to be done - the suit jacket swam on me and the seven year old in my pakua class wanted to see my new stripes on the belt.
I had to take off my glasses, close my good eye (my right eye is 20/150, my left is 20/300, and that hasn't changed in over twenty years - and that statement also makes me feel old.) and squint the bad one. Then it was easy as ever.
I'm losing flexiblity, I guess. Or something. I see bifocals in my near future.
I'm old.
(Oh, and someone on http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com just asked who David Cassidy was. *Sigh*)
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Date: 2004-08-02 05:31 pm (UTC)bifocals
Date: 2004-08-02 08:38 pm (UTC)Re: bifocals
Date: 2004-08-03 04:54 am (UTC)Re: bifocals
Date: 2004-08-03 06:53 am (UTC)My dad is far-sighted, so ever since I was little he had two pairs of glasses, one for music, which is generally at a specific distance from the head, and one for reading, which is closer. Now he has bifocals.
He's a former trumpet player (Chicago Symphony 1941-49, various other orchestras down to the late 1970s), still sings and plays recorder.