My reading glasses are in.

I am now officially in possession of my first pair of reading glasses. I should mention that as of about ten years ago I should also have been in possession of atleast one hearing sid, so while I do treat the new reading glasses as a mark of aging, I don’t think of my poor hearing the same way. I’ve had hearing loss since I was about six years old, so not age determinate. That was more genetics and not an organ slowly changing shape over a forty year span. But on that note perhaps you’ve guessed it, I am now forty five years old. Closer to age fifty than ever before! Fifty, wow. Yikes. There’s an age that always seemed so far off into the future as to be unobtainable, and yet it’s now closer than feels comfortable. Ha.

The glasses are a welcome change as I read a fair bit all day every day, so making the text clearer, and thus easier to see is a boon! Bestowed upon me for a not inconsequential sum of money, I might add. Aging, isn’t it fun. Different, yet similar for a good chunk of us.

I took my youngest rock climbing last night, which was pretty awesome. The gym is less full on Tuesdays than Saturdays.  Go figure. Tried my hand at some old trusty favourites, with success. Even went so far as to try a 5.9, which in turn laughed at me with its entire chest. Not there yet. I still have to work on grip strength, angle of attack, hand & foot holds, pivots, swings, leaping up to catch a hold from a crouch etc… long way to go yet. I just seem to slide off those tiny little nub holds. Whether it’s a foot or a hand I can’t seem to stay put on too many of them. I know my balance is bad, the Wii sports pad/board thing showed me that fifteen or so years ago. You had to stand on it and do breathing exercises, or yoga, skiing or hoola hooping, and my body was all over the place even at rest. I didn’t know I moved about quite that much, but rolling on the balls of my feet to keep my weight centered was pretty obvious when tracked on screen. It was enlightening. I’ll never be a surgeon! My hands aren’t steady enough. D’oh!

Today is Wednesday of all days. That means Taekwondo and tutoring runs for the kids after school. And it’s a real wet one today. Just pouring rain outside. So skating next week, or even later this week has been called into question. They might have missed their chance by about a week unfortunately. For next week is March Break so no school trips then either. Which puts the rain date into the third week or March and who knows what kind of weather we’ll have by then? Any bodies game at that point.

Made a pit stop after walking the dog in the rain down at the farm. Had to go all the way across town to the optometrist office to grab my new specs. They could have just handed them to me, but instead they made a big show of opening the box, washing the lenses, having me try them on etc… should have been twenty seconds, took fifteen minutes. Oh bother.

I have them in hand now. Maybe I should take the day to read nonstop in them while I get used to them. I opted for some very light frames, as I have found my sun glasses to be far too heavy. Those fall off my face at every opportunity. Slide down my nose, or fall off the back of my head if I put them up for a second. It’s an irritant. Maybe I’ll buy one of the sports cables to keep them firmly affixed whilst I have them on for good measure. Don’t want to drop them!