How do you know when your eyesight is getting worse...or that you're going blind...or that, at the very least, you need a new lamp?!...When you find yourself squinting to look at the t.v. all the way across the room, or continuously blowing your hot breath on your glasses and cleaning them (and still wondering why they don't seem to be getting any clearer!), or you find yourself crocheting in slow motion because it's taking you forever to find the stitch that you're suppose to be going into next!
Truth is...I don't think I'm going blind. I think I need to get my eyes examined, and get some new glasses. These old 'peepers' don't wanna work like they used to....Although hubby's new-fangled light bulbs may have something to do with it!...They're suppose to save us some money on electricity...
You probably can't tell, with my photo-taking skills,...Ha!...but it's a small coiled bulb. One of those energy-efficient ones. Hubby put them all over the house a while ago..about the same time I started wondering if I was going blind...now that I think about it! LOL...The light bill did go down a little...
...but so did my ability to see!! ^_^ I didn't even know there was dust on the lamp arm there until I saw this photo!!! LOL....UGH!
This is the lamp that I crochet by in the early hours before sunrise, and at night before bed. It used to give off really good light...before the new bulb!...But now it's giving off a golden glow, like we have a romantic movie we're trying to film in here or something! ^_^
See what I mean?! O_O ...It's a good thing I get lots of natural light in the house during the day, or else I'd probably be in a different kind of mood all the time than the one I need to be in to crochet!! LOL...I've got boutonnieres to make, people!!!
I need to get me a bowl like this one (above) that holds your yarn in this special bowl that guides the yarn out to you. That way I won't have to get a seeing-eye dog to 'fetch' my yarn balls...that I can't see...from all across the floor! LOL
Or maybe I need to get a better, more light-efficient, lamp!...This one is really pretty!...
So is this green one....and it has flowers!...
With my eyes, maybe I need two of them! LOL...
I know hubby would love it if I got this one!...
...but if I got it I'd have to keep going to find my lamp every time I wanted to crochet. He'd have it in the room with him or taking it somewhere for "Show and Tell"! LOL...Okay...maybe not. But I'm not gonna chance it! ^_^
All blindness jokes aside, I really do need better light in my room to crochet by. I told hubby this morning that I think I need one of these...
It's a headlamp. It has the little light on the front that you can direct down to your work. My local Home Depot may have them too!...for less than $20.00!! I'm gonna find out before the weekend.
*sigh*....As I've said in the past, getting old is not for sissies!! LOL...Moving on!!!...Just wanted to let my regular readers know...the old car...our old reliable "Betsy"..is gone. :-( Hubby turned over the title to the auto shop that did the diagnostic work on it....We couldn't afford the more than $2,000 it was gonna cost to fix it, and the most we could have gotten for the non-working car was $200 at the junk-yard!
So, rather than getting the $200 from the junk-yard...minus $100 to have it towed there!...and then having to pay around $150 to the auto shop for their diagnosis...$75 an hour!......we agreed to let the auto shop have it...So, in the end, it didn't cost us anything...except for a few of hubby's tears. He got really emotional when he went over to take all of his things out of the car and leave the title. :-(
After our meeting yesterday, he went over to see the new car that some friends are giving us. He loves it!! :-) He says it looks just like another car we used to have!...I'm glad. Maybe that'll take some of the sting out of losing his big green 'Betsy' baby. He's been, about that car, the way I am about yarn. Now you get the emotion, right?!...Oh Well, me, hubby, new 'Betsy' baby...varoom!....varoom!.....Moving on!!! ^_^
Have a good day, Everybody!...and don't forget the Giveaway (right hand sidebar)!
Everything Is Getting Older
Everything is getting older,
past it's time, and rusting fast!
No matter how many times you oil it,
Somehow, still, it doesn't last.
Everything is getting older.
Even veggies just from the store,
have now browned and withered up.
They're not all shiny like before.
Everything is getting older.
Old dogs included, people too.
Even babies, from the womb,
start getting older, just past brand new!
Everything is getting older,
like real good books, with tales all told.
But, Wait a minute! Some books are good!
That's why "To read" will not get old.
Everything that's getting older
doesn't harm us and displease.
Just think of wisdom in the aging-
that's with people and with cheese!
All the things, those getting older,
showing marks and scars of time,
just need a tad bit more attention,
or just a small aged glass of wine!
Everything is getting older,
past it's time, and rusting fast!
No matter how many times you oil it,
Somehow, still, it doesn't last.
Everything is getting older.
Even veggies just from the store,
have now browned and withered up.
They're not all shiny like before.
Everything is getting older.
Old dogs included, people too.
Even babies, from the womb,
start getting older, just past brand new!
Everything is getting older,
like real good books, with tales all told.
But, Wait a minute! Some books are good!
That's why "To read" will not get old.
Everything that's getting older
doesn't harm us and displease.
Just think of wisdom in the aging-
that's with people and with cheese!
All the things, those getting older,
showing marks and scars of time,
just need a tad bit more attention,
or just a small aged glass of wine!
