Kiss My Knits!

Late this morning I picked up my new glasses, pictured right. They didn’t feel right at first, but then, new glasses never do. You have to get adjusted to them. Things may look weird or distorted as your brain and eyes get used to the new view. However, my new glasses don’t normally make me feel nauseous.

I lived with them for a couple of hours, then called back up. They checked their records, and apparently the optometrist wrote the prescription down correctly, but the optician transcribed it incorrectly. Instead of the 2.25 correction for astigmatism in my left eye which I should have, these glasses have a 2.75 correction. That’s odd, because it seems like the right eye sees things blurrier than the left with the new glasses. In fact, the right eye seems to see things worse overall than with the old glasses.

Anyway, I can’t get back up there today, but I’ll go in tomorrow morning and hopefully we’ll get this all sorted out. In the meantime, back to the old glasses!

Day 3 with the Nike iPod revealed a couple of problems. Number one, while the workout screen is up, I can’t scrub through songs, only jump to the next or previous one. This is a problem because for some reason, my C25K playlist was randomized. So when Week One came up, I couldn’t just jump right to week 2, which was the next item on the playlist. Nor could I select an individual song from the playlist. Hitting the “next” button brought up a different section of Week 1 for some reason, so I had to keep mashing it Playstation style to get it to go to the next song. Which was not, of course, Week 2. Week 2 never did come up, and I was tired of standing there on the Greenway punching buttons on my iPod like a caveman trying to figure out a cell phone. I just found any song and let it play, then estimated the length of time I’d been walking and running.

A couple of times, the same song would come up very close to each other, or Week One would rear its ugly head again, so I’d have to fiddle around on my iPod to go to the next song. And remember, until my armband gets here later in the week, my iPod is in my bra. I never look my best when running, but rummaging in my shirt really added that extra touch of class. The songs that randomly came up, though, weren’t bad, in terms of pep.

Our Lips Are Sealed – Go-Go’s
(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher – Jackie Wilson
The Girl Can’t Help It – Little Richard
Austin Powers (soul Bossa Nova) – National Youth Jazz Orchestra
I Want You Back (Single Version) – Jackson 5
Remind Me (Radio Edit) – Royksopp
Choo Choo Ch’Boogie (1946 Single Version) – Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
So They Say – Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Lust for Life – Iggy Pop

In spite of the problems, though, there was a little bonus I wasn’t expecting. As I hit the “end workout” button, it repeated back to me how far I’d gone, average speed, calories burned, etc. And then a male voice came on. “This is Lance Armstrong. Congratulations! That was your longest workout ever!”

Casey the wii fit instructor could take a few tips from Lance.

Okay, time to hit the showers and then pick up my new glasses! Yay!