I just got back from the eye doctor and he wouldn't say they are worse or better... just my prescription has changed a bit. He did tell me that my left eye has developed a stigmatism and that is probably why it twitches off and on.
Other than that, I is OK and no bifocals yet :)
As technology has advanced and my new prescription at hand, I am keeping my frames that I love and putting new lenses in them. They showed me the HD technologically advanced lenses with a pricey cost but I may actually be able to read street signs with them... the main reason I got them is because it will take some of the glare out of my vision when I see lights and since my eyes are sensitive to light, I thought it would be a good investment.
The HD lenses are like watching HDTV vs.. Basic TV and only certain types of patients actually qualify for these lenses. I am one of those qualifying patients. I don't know if it is a good thing or not... but if I can see better than YEAH, plus my insurance covers 20% :)!
Every two years I get new frames... well since I am using my old frames and putty the snazzy lenses in them... I will be getting new polarized sunglass lenses in new frames. The frames I chose are similar to my regular glasses but have the sunglass lenses in them instead... WAY COOL!
I hope this update didn't bore you :P
If I don't post this weekend HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Excitment
It has been two wks since I updated... super sorry about the lack of updates! Jeremy and I are always staying busy and enjoying life. I know I tend to only talk about what we are doing physically and not what goes on besides exercise... well here is a new kinda post, lol!
Happy Belated Mother's Day!
Jeremy spent Mother's Day with his mom and family and I spent mine with my mom and family! It was just easier to part for the day instead of trying to do too much in one day! My brother and I took my mom to Olive Garden and then picked up his wife Mitzi and their kids (Connor age 5 and Alexander age 3) to head on over to Yorba Linda bowling alley. We all had a great time their... I really enjoyed seeing and hanging out with everyone. The last time we saw each other was Christmas... I know, I am BAD!
Last week we had more excitement than we were hoping for IN our house. On Wednesday after my 5-mile run I decided to eat a small bowl of Fruit Loops and then go to Hot Yoga... well I had unexpected company... BEES. Not 1 bee or 2... but 4! Yep, I found 3 and put 2 of them outside since they were alive and then 1 dead one in the trash. I texted Jeremy about the new BEE situation and he found one that I missed that was dead by the bathroom window. We thought it was a fluke but began taking precautions but had no idea of where they were coming in from... On Thursday we went to work and I came home and no bees or so I thought. Jeremy found two when he got home and did his walk through inspection... both were dead... 1 by the bathroom window and the other by the sliding glass door to the balcony. Day 3: Friday, both Jeremy and I were determined to find their point of entry and stop this once and for all... he first stuffed the gaps from the bathroom window and began getting ready for work. I was already ready for work and taking a look out side... I looked around the bathroom window area and no sign of bees... then I walked down the stairs and BINGO first 1 bee was flying around high in the air, then bee #2 joined in and before I knew it I saw 4 bees and they all began to find their way into our bathroom vent. They seemed to have a purpose and I wanted that purpose to end for good! I went in the house and told Jeremy of my findings and went to work.
Jeremy sprayed WD-40 up the vent and closed off the two doors (bathroom and sink area) to contain them. I called the HOA and they had a Bee Guy come out to spray the vent... long story short we haven't had a bee in the house since Thursday, yay!
Now for some more exciting news... John and Mitzi are having a baby, uh-oh another Fowler in the world! Yep... they are preggers. This will be John's first baby and Mitzi's third! He is a great dad with the other two but I think since they have 2 boys... she is really praying this one is a girl! I have been getting alot of people asking me lately when we are going to have kids... my latest answer is 2015 (I would be age 36), lol! It is not the true answer but I figure it will get people off our back until I am preggers myself... we do plan on having kids but just not now! We want to do things before kids come... the biggest thing will be to buy a bigger place... our place is 535sf! Right now with the economy in the tank... it doesn't look like we could sell our place for much or any profit right now so we are holding off on selling until the right time and just going to enjoy life! As for being an Antie again, I am stoked! I will keep you informed of their progress!
Breaking News in California... we had an Earthquake last night... it was only a 4.7 and the epicenter was around LAX but felt as far as a 100-miles away. I kinda felt it... as usual I was moving about and actually didn't realize it was an earthquake until it was over, lol! I got home from bowling to find out we were out of a few food items so I decided to bolt to Ralph's and pick up a few groceries... right when I closed my door the earthquake hit us and I thought it was me... that I slammed the door to hard because all I heard was the doors rattling when I was locking the dead bolt, lol! Jeremy called me to see if all was good on the home front and then went back to his dance practice. He will be competing in two months and the team he is on is going to be working double time to get the routine polished... that equates to 3.5 hrs on Saturday and Sunday of hard core swing dancing! I hope they place in the top three... they have been working so hard since the Fall on this one routine! For all my out of state family and followers the earthquake did no damage to any of my family and friends!
Now to marathon news... my knees have healed up nicely and don't hurt when I run anymore... I am still icing after the run for recovery purposes but all is good. We are less than 2 weeks away from San Diego and 5 weeks away from Seattle! Woo Hoo!!!!
Happy Belated Mother's Day!
Jeremy spent Mother's Day with his mom and family and I spent mine with my mom and family! It was just easier to part for the day instead of trying to do too much in one day! My brother and I took my mom to Olive Garden and then picked up his wife Mitzi and their kids (Connor age 5 and Alexander age 3) to head on over to Yorba Linda bowling alley. We all had a great time their... I really enjoyed seeing and hanging out with everyone. The last time we saw each other was Christmas... I know, I am BAD!
Last week we had more excitement than we were hoping for IN our house. On Wednesday after my 5-mile run I decided to eat a small bowl of Fruit Loops and then go to Hot Yoga... well I had unexpected company... BEES. Not 1 bee or 2... but 4! Yep, I found 3 and put 2 of them outside since they were alive and then 1 dead one in the trash. I texted Jeremy about the new BEE situation and he found one that I missed that was dead by the bathroom window. We thought it was a fluke but began taking precautions but had no idea of where they were coming in from... On Thursday we went to work and I came home and no bees or so I thought. Jeremy found two when he got home and did his walk through inspection... both were dead... 1 by the bathroom window and the other by the sliding glass door to the balcony. Day 3: Friday, both Jeremy and I were determined to find their point of entry and stop this once and for all... he first stuffed the gaps from the bathroom window and began getting ready for work. I was already ready for work and taking a look out side... I looked around the bathroom window area and no sign of bees... then I walked down the stairs and BINGO first 1 bee was flying around high in the air, then bee #2 joined in and before I knew it I saw 4 bees and they all began to find their way into our bathroom vent. They seemed to have a purpose and I wanted that purpose to end for good! I went in the house and told Jeremy of my findings and went to work.
Jeremy sprayed WD-40 up the vent and closed off the two doors (bathroom and sink area) to contain them. I called the HOA and they had a Bee Guy come out to spray the vent... long story short we haven't had a bee in the house since Thursday, yay!
Now for some more exciting news... John and Mitzi are having a baby, uh-oh another Fowler in the world! Yep... they are preggers. This will be John's first baby and Mitzi's third! He is a great dad with the other two but I think since they have 2 boys... she is really praying this one is a girl! I have been getting alot of people asking me lately when we are going to have kids... my latest answer is 2015 (I would be age 36), lol! It is not the true answer but I figure it will get people off our back until I am preggers myself... we do plan on having kids but just not now! We want to do things before kids come... the biggest thing will be to buy a bigger place... our place is 535sf! Right now with the economy in the tank... it doesn't look like we could sell our place for much or any profit right now so we are holding off on selling until the right time and just going to enjoy life! As for being an Antie again, I am stoked! I will keep you informed of their progress!
Breaking News in California... we had an Earthquake last night... it was only a 4.7 and the epicenter was around LAX but felt as far as a 100-miles away. I kinda felt it... as usual I was moving about and actually didn't realize it was an earthquake until it was over, lol! I got home from bowling to find out we were out of a few food items so I decided to bolt to Ralph's and pick up a few groceries... right when I closed my door the earthquake hit us and I thought it was me... that I slammed the door to hard because all I heard was the doors rattling when I was locking the dead bolt, lol! Jeremy called me to see if all was good on the home front and then went back to his dance practice. He will be competing in two months and the team he is on is going to be working double time to get the routine polished... that equates to 3.5 hrs on Saturday and Sunday of hard core swing dancing! I hope they place in the top three... they have been working so hard since the Fall on this one routine! For all my out of state family and followers the earthquake did no damage to any of my family and friends!
Now to marathon news... my knees have healed up nicely and don't hurt when I run anymore... I am still icing after the run for recovery purposes but all is good. We are less than 2 weeks away from San Diego and 5 weeks away from Seattle! Woo Hoo!!!!
Monday, May 4, 2009
He did it!
After a week of Jeremy going back and forth on doing the 1/2 marathon last Saturday this is what happened.... Friday after work my dad and I went to the OC Marathon race expo to pick up Jeremy's 1/2 Marathon bib and shirt. When I went there on Friday the volunteers working the tee-shirt counter were not very friendly. He ordered a large shirt because they tend to run small... this event they ran to size and when I saw it I knew it would probably be too big on him. The lady wouldn't let me exchange the shirt for a medium and so I went home with the large "as ordered".
He was very disappointed that his shirt didn't fit as he put it "it feels like I am wearing a tent" and then he said he does these races for two things (1. the shirt and 2. the medal) so he wrote me a note stating that he would only do the race if I was able to exchange the shirt for a medium. Well I did pay $80 for this event and the accountant that I am mentally forced me to the expo on Saturday to do the exchange after my team in training 9-miler. The exchange process was painless on Saturday except the parking patrol people wanted to charge me $5 to park to do the exchange... which was free on Friday! Luckily they were nice enough to let me go through without paying because I had no cash on me! After the second round of that expo I went home and took a 3hr nap since the 5am wake up call for team practice was really having an effect on me by then.
Once Jeremy woke me for my nap we went to dinner and then to Disney to dance the night away. By the time we got home and were in bed it was Sunday, 12:30 am and we had to be up at 4:15 am for the event. The lacking of sleep did affect Jeremy's run a little bit but he was the rockstar that I love and know so well as he finished his race with his slowest time but to me it was awesome 1:56:55!
I am a very proud wife! I turned him into a running machine, lol! He now holds a medal I don't have and has 5 medals total. He told me he wants a case to put his medals in but he wants his case in the shape of a surf board! I still out number him on his medals holding a total of 7!
This weekends agenda is going to consist of a 20 mile run with the team on Saturday and dance at Disney that night. I plan on doing hot yoga Sunday morning and then bowling that evening... otherwise it is Mother's Day weekend so I am making myself free for the mom's in my life... My mom Kathy and my mother-in-law Mary!
May 29-31 will be very exciting for us as Jeremy will be heading to Yosemite for the weekend with friends... I was invited but can't go because it is event weekend for me in San Diego running my third Rock N Roll Marathon on May 31st!
I think my neighbors think we are crazy people since we are in/out of our place at odd hours! They probably think to themselves "do these guys sleep?" and the answer to that is... when we get the chance, lol!
Good times!
He was very disappointed that his shirt didn't fit as he put it "it feels like I am wearing a tent" and then he said he does these races for two things (1. the shirt and 2. the medal) so he wrote me a note stating that he would only do the race if I was able to exchange the shirt for a medium. Well I did pay $80 for this event and the accountant that I am mentally forced me to the expo on Saturday to do the exchange after my team in training 9-miler. The exchange process was painless on Saturday except the parking patrol people wanted to charge me $5 to park to do the exchange... which was free on Friday! Luckily they were nice enough to let me go through without paying because I had no cash on me! After the second round of that expo I went home and took a 3hr nap since the 5am wake up call for team practice was really having an effect on me by then.
Once Jeremy woke me for my nap we went to dinner and then to Disney to dance the night away. By the time we got home and were in bed it was Sunday, 12:30 am and we had to be up at 4:15 am for the event. The lacking of sleep did affect Jeremy's run a little bit but he was the rockstar that I love and know so well as he finished his race with his slowest time but to me it was awesome 1:56:55!
I am a very proud wife! I turned him into a running machine, lol! He now holds a medal I don't have and has 5 medals total. He told me he wants a case to put his medals in but he wants his case in the shape of a surf board! I still out number him on his medals holding a total of 7!
This weekends agenda is going to consist of a 20 mile run with the team on Saturday and dance at Disney that night. I plan on doing hot yoga Sunday morning and then bowling that evening... otherwise it is Mother's Day weekend so I am making myself free for the mom's in my life... My mom Kathy and my mother-in-law Mary!
May 29-31 will be very exciting for us as Jeremy will be heading to Yosemite for the weekend with friends... I was invited but can't go because it is event weekend for me in San Diego running my third Rock N Roll Marathon on May 31st!
I think my neighbors think we are crazy people since we are in/out of our place at odd hours! They probably think to themselves "do these guys sleep?" and the answer to that is... when we get the chance, lol!
Good times!
Friday, May 1, 2009
change
I am turning into a weekly poster, lol. This week has been busy with both work and recovering from a knee injury from last Saturday's training. I was scheduled for 16 miles and at mile 14.3 I had a pain in my left knee that even hurt to walk so I called my friend Amantha to come pick me up and Coach Paul to give him my update. Once I got home I took a bath and soaked my knee for a long time and then I put icy hot on the area and fell asleep for my weekend nap with an ice pack wrapped around my knee!
Jeremy and I went to a birthday party and ditched Disney that night and Sunday I began hot yoga which totally helped my knee... I did a hot yoga class Sunday - Wednesday and feel healed! I have toned down the running quite a bit and haven't attempted a run since Saturday's hick-up.
I have been doing a lot of thinking on the running front and am doing 9 miles tomorrow instead of the scheduled 18! Because San Diego marathon doesn't offer a half I am going to take my time and try to finish in 7hrs. Once the race is done and if I feel GREAT I will consider doing the Seattle full marathon... if the results go the other way I will switch to the half marathon on event weekend for Seattle and continue my training but switch to what the half marathoner schedule and not the full schedule... No medal is worth wrecking my knees and I do love/miss running.
Jeremy is scheduled to run the 1/2 marathon on Sunday but has decided not to do it, lol! His reasoning is all the dancing he wants to do... Paul and I aren't running it with him and he would be doing it on his own.... he wants to sleep in and enjoy the great band at Disney tomorrow night "Stompy Jones"!
To sum up this week there has been a bunch of cancellations... Jeremy canceled the race on Sunday... Megan canceled hot yoga because of work.... I canceled running this week due to the knee.... Sally canceled our Saturday get together... LOL
Have a great weekend!
Jeremy and I went to a birthday party and ditched Disney that night and Sunday I began hot yoga which totally helped my knee... I did a hot yoga class Sunday - Wednesday and feel healed! I have toned down the running quite a bit and haven't attempted a run since Saturday's hick-up.
I have been doing a lot of thinking on the running front and am doing 9 miles tomorrow instead of the scheduled 18! Because San Diego marathon doesn't offer a half I am going to take my time and try to finish in 7hrs. Once the race is done and if I feel GREAT I will consider doing the Seattle full marathon... if the results go the other way I will switch to the half marathon on event weekend for Seattle and continue my training but switch to what the half marathoner schedule and not the full schedule... No medal is worth wrecking my knees and I do love/miss running.
Jeremy is scheduled to run the 1/2 marathon on Sunday but has decided not to do it, lol! His reasoning is all the dancing he wants to do... Paul and I aren't running it with him and he would be doing it on his own.... he wants to sleep in and enjoy the great band at Disney tomorrow night "Stompy Jones"!
To sum up this week there has been a bunch of cancellations... Jeremy canceled the race on Sunday... Megan canceled hot yoga because of work.... I canceled running this week due to the knee.... Sally canceled our Saturday get together... LOL
Have a great weekend!
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