the Amsler Grid

This is a pretty LAME pic o' the day. It's the Amsler Grid....something I'm supposed to look at every day, with one eye covered, from a distance of about 14 inches away. I'm supposed to stare at the dot in the middle, and peripherally, the lines should be straight up and down, and horizontal. If they look all bent, like a fun-house mirror might make them look, I'm supposed to call the retinologist immediately. If they're all curvy looking, it would most likely mean that I "sprung a leak"....and those abnormal blood vessels under my retina are leaking, causing the retina to bulge....causing the vision distortion. EVERYTHING you always wanted to know....

Pic o' the day.....

So.....I'm not too good at keeping up with this blog thang, am I?

To "fix" this problem, I've decided to post a "pic-o'-the-day"....just some random picture I hafta take every day (for a month). This'll 1.) make me use my camera more and 2.) make me post stuff on my blog more.....or at least, for a month.

It's WAY easier than, say, making a piece of art every day, like I've heard some artists do... and since I'm pretty much LAZY, this is the route I'm going to take for now. Maybe someday, someone will challenge me to do the ART thang.....

What does this hafta do with my vision? Nothing and everything, I guess. I mean, I can only take pictures if I can see....same for the art. Gotta do it while I can! And even when/if I should lose my central vision, who says I can't still make some sort of art???? I might not get to do little, detailed stuff (that I LOVE), but who's to say I can't still paint? I can't draw worth a damn, so my paintings have always been sorta abstract blobs of color anyway....I certainly should be able to still do that......and I'm guessing, if I'm losing my vision, the price of my artwork could triple!!!!!!! Ha ha. I could finally be a mil....uh, a THOUSANDAIRRE!!! Why wait till I'm dead for my artwork to become priceless, like all those other artists???

Ok, so I'm a little full of myself. But I'm in a positive mood.....a little too positive maybe, but positive nonetheless.....

Sometimes I wonder if I might not be a little bi-polar, too. Hmmmm....

So far.....so good.

So....I've had no problems with my eye/eyes since my injection. So far, so good.

My CAR, on the other hand, is having its OWN medical problems....mostly in the brakes. The mechanic said that something (can't remember....brakeline hose?) was so cracked and corroded that all four of my brakes could've failed at the same time. There were some other things, too, but I forget....when mechanics start spewing car talk, my eyes sorta glaze over. The tone sounded serious and important, though. I'm waiting for the call with the ball park figure.

The GOOD news is that yesterday, while cleaning out a closet, I found $130 in a purse! Yay! I must've switched purses, and forgot to take the envelope of money out of the old purse? (Ay caramba! Might need to add another medical condition to the growing list! Ha ha.)

All in all, things are good.