Category: Life

My eye is healing nicely, there’s no sign of infection and I can wear my contact lenses tomorrow! 

W2 and 1099 forms have landed in my office.  My left eye has been bothering me this morning.  It feels like I have something in it.  It wasn’t getting red or anything, so I didn’t worry about it, but at lunch time I decided it would be prudent to take the contact lense out.  Oddly enough, taking the lense out has made it feel worse and water a lot.  Good thing I didn’t take out both lenses, as I don’t seem to have a pair of glasses in my office or in my car.  My Eye Doctor has an office across the street, but they don’t staff it on Tuesday.  My friend, G’s Eye Doctor who’s office is also not far from my office was willing/able to see me immediately.  A white piece of something was removed from my eye.  Ick.  I have to dose the eye with antibiotic drops and go back tomorrow to make sure it’s not infected and is healing well.  In the future, I’ll be using this Eye Doctor instead.  She had trouble getting whatever it is out and ended up using a second, stronger anesthetic and she promised it would hurt pretty bad when that wore off.  It’s been three hours and so far, so good.  My eye just feels like it’s being scratched or something that I wouldn’t really call pain. 

Bayside Out&Back:  60 minutes, 4.18 miles, 4.1 mph, HR=136.  Yay!  It’s not easy to get out of bed and get that done, but I’m so stinking proud of myself that I did.

Flannel Sheets.  Stubbs/Maxwell Loop:  102 minutes, 5.80 miles, 3.4 mph, HR=104. There was a house I wanted to check out and as long as we were in the neighborhood, we stopped at Steve’s daughter’s house.  Tour de Hopkins:  172 minutes, 27.92 miles, 9.7 mph, HR=138.

I spent the morning doing laundry, decluttering and knitting.  Lethargy Cured:  115 minutes, 21.46 miles, 11.00 mph, HR=113, Cadence=?  We stopped at Teri & Tony’s house to find Teri recuperating nicely from Thursday’s knee surgery.  They were just having cocktails, so we joined them for a bit.  I love having friends we can drop in on when we’re out biking!  While I did brush my teeth at the last minute before we left, I hadn’t showered today and was pretty grimy.

Early Mass.  We enjoyed the company of Steve’s children and extended family for the afternoon.

I’ve spent the morning working on decluttering the office.  I didn’t get as many books off the shelf as I had hoped.  I did, however, manage to rid the room of enough junk to fill an entire large black trash bag.  The three smaller external hard drives have finally all been cleared to the large network drive.  Stubbs/Maxwell Loop:  104 minutes, 5.82 miles, 3.3 mph, HR=111.

Avery and I made it out for two bike rides!  The first was to “Woodchuck” Park.  I wish I knew why she refers to this park by that name, it’s actually Bederwood Park.  After her nap, we hopped on the bike and took dinner to a family from our church who’s Mom is recovering from cancer surgery.  On the way home we stopped at the “Car” park.  I still can’t get her out on the lake, but I’ll keep trying.

At lunch time today, I was somewhat concerned to discover I wasn’t wearing my watch.  I didn’t lose it, just forgot to put it on this morning.  Fox/Willow/Watertown Loop:  62 minutes, 4.13 miles, 3.9 mph, HR=147.  My music was 5 bmp faster and my heart rate was up 13 bmp, yet my overall speed was the same.  Confirmation that today’s workout was indeed harder.  Just wish I knew why.

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