No I am not going blind, but have realized that it is time to visit the eye doctor-it has been about 4 years, and my computer usage has increased. I have had a 'headache' behind my eyes for about 2 days and this morning my eyeballs hurt-I have been reading ericmayer blog continuously at work since I have not had any real work to do. Too much computer reading under florescent lightbulbs equals eye strain. It hit me this morning what the problem is. Now that I know what is causing the headache, I can ignore it for awhile till I can get to the doctors.

I am at work, taking a break from the work that I have all of a sudden-it's feast or famine. I am sitting at the division secretary's desk. I know I will have problems with my back tonight because of how her computer is set up-no to mention that she is about a foot shorter than I am so her chair is low.

I had my crochet group last night and got to visit with some friends for a couple of hours. We had a new woman show up who learned how to crochet when she was in high school. She is a left handed crocheter and when she wanted me to check her work, we had to flip it around. I asked her how she learned and she told me by mirroring her right handed aunt. She picked it up pretty quickly. I try to tell the group that they should try to crochet about 20 to 30 minutes a day, every day and their speed and technique will pick up. One of the young wormen, Aubrey, only crochets when she comes to the meetings. We are working on a 'hat & scarf' project for members of the church we belong to and then hope to expand it to the community. I had hoped that we would have more sets done, but it is slow going. I asked one of the women if members of the church could just donate hats and scarfs they had made even if they didn't come to the meetings. She will be finding out if any would be willing to do so. I would like to start meeting 2xs a month- one Saturday and the Thursday, but it is hard to get the women enthused. I need to make more of the sets myself. It is pretty mindless work, but time becomes and issue. There are only 24 hours in a day.

When I got home, my SO was acting like a cat that had been left alone too long-very needy. This is a change that I am still trying to handle. I have been developing a social network here in DC slowly but surely. (It's harder in your 50s than in your 30s). He hasn't. I am his network. Sometimes it is very suffocating. He doesn't realize what he is doing and if I mention that a little space is needed-both physically and emotionally-he over reacts. For the next week or so he will go to sleep earlier to 'give you your space.' Aggravating to say the least.

well, I think that's it for now. please visit again. I promise to retain the rant, but just typing this down is helping me solidify how to deal with the behaviors.