Karen’s Opinion

I was thinking about how, since finding out about Zenni Optical, glasses are so much affordable. While some of my friends can get new glasses every year because their insurance pays for them, I do not have that luxury. I really cannot think of many people who do have eyeglass coverage through their insurance. Thank goodness for Zenni Optical.

When I was a child, my eyesight would change every single year! My parents had to put out a chunk of money to keep me in eyeglasses. If, by some miracle, my prescription would stay the same, it seemed I would inevitably break my frames and cause my folks to have to buy me new ones. I refused to be one of those kids who had tape holding their glasses together. When I was a child, it was not particularly fashionable to wear glasses. When I hear the young kids at our church talk about how they cannot wait to get glasses, I am shocked. They are lucky. I never liked being called four eyes. Kids today are very lucky. They have cool frames to choose from, they aren’t teased for wearing glasses and their parents can afford their eyeglasses because they can go to Zenni Optical.

This might sound like a crazy thing to be excited about but, I just found out that my husband and I have a preventative clause in our health insurance policy. That means that we can both have a colonoscopy! I don’t know if that is how to spell that procedure but I know that we have been concerned about having it done. We are at that age when we need to have things checked out and catch small things before they get big.

Another thing that makes me happy is the state of our IRA accounts. I have been afraid to even look at how they are doing since the stock market went into a tailspin a few years ago. Well, I was pleasantly surprised to see that they are doing better. We have been considering some mobile trading or online trading to offset some losses that have set us back quite a bit.

Getting older is for the birds! but life is as good as we make it.

I love the cooler fall weather we are having here in Indiana. It is time to bring out the sweatshirts and long pants. I have been making an effort to get some walking exercise. When it is hot, I talk myself out of going for walks. I also talk myself out of walking if it is too cool, I am too tired, the wind is blowing. Sigh…

I am going to have to do better about exercising though because with the fall season comes fall baking. My husband and I went to the orchard and bought apples to eat and another kind that are good to bake with. I made apple crisp last night and it is gone! I only made a half batch so that I wouldn’t sit around and eat it all day. I know how I am. LOL

Do the seasons change where you live?

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I don’t care to play a game that requires me to work hard to benefit from it but I wouldn’t mind playing a game that gets me to move. I need the exercise! I sit at a desk most of my day and my butt shows it. When I am not working, I am sewing. Another butt builder activity. I need to get moving with the new PlayStation®Move. The Move is a gaming system that works with the PlayStation®3 system. It’s controllers are ergonomically designed to give the player the most control of any gaming system out there. That is what I need! I tried the one I had bought before Christmas and I was not coordinated enough to get it to work for me. That was so frustrating that I gave up and sold it.

The new PlayStation®Move is just what my doctor ordered. Yes, just today, I went to the doctor for a routine check up and I we discussed how I would probably feel better if I exercised. The PlayStation®Move has a bowling game that looks like something that even I could learn to play and have fun with.

Whatever your skill level, PlayStation®Move will want you to have friends over to get moving. I can see it becoming the highlight of our week. Sony has made adding MOVE to your gaming system affordable. The MOVE bundle package allows you to add MOVE to your system for the low cost of $99! At that price, we can all get moving!

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Bottega Verde. All opinions are 100% mine.

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