{"id":2873,"date":"2015-02-03T18:04:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T00:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2015-02-03T18:04:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T00:04:50","slug":"this-has-been-an-interesting-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=2873","title":{"rendered":"This Has Been An Interesting Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a little while now, I have been having some trouble with my vision. \u00a0Not a big deal but I knew that something was off.<\/p>\n

Two and a half years ago, I had cataract surgery on both of my eyes. \u00a0That was the best. thing. ever.<\/p>\n

For the longest time, my vision was bad enough that I could not legally drive so MFH (My Favorite Husband) drove me to all my appointments. \u00a0I really enjoyed the time we spent on the road going all over the place. \u00a0Since the surgery, we still go everywhere together! \u00a0I like that! \u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Four months post surgery, however, I found out that I had, (for lack of technical terminology), “Goobers” growing over the newly implanted lenses in my eyes. \u00a0This required laser surgery to blast that stuff off the lenses. \u00a0I had that done and all was well.<\/p>\n

Today, I found out that those nasty “Goobers” have grown back. \u00a0In two weeks, February 17th, I will have that laser surgery again. \u00a0Woo-Hoo, huh?<\/p>\n

Let’s backtrack to the beginning of the day.<\/p>\n

I had decided to do a little math. I have a couple of big races looming. \u00a0This is what I discovered. \u00a011 days until the Mississippi River Marathon and 31 days until the Mississippi 50 Trail run. A marathon and a 50K all within a month. \u00a0Yes! \u00a0Let’s Do This!!!<\/p>\n

I posted to social media about this and then, since I procrastinate, I decided to open my email. \u00a0My email, as a rule is pretty dull stuff. \u00a0However, I had one pretty exciting email!<\/p>\n

“It’s with great pleasure to welcome you into the Honey Stinger Hive for 2015.”<\/p>\n

I had totally forgotten that I had applied for sponsorship with Honey Stinger! \u00a0I’ve tried a few places to be sponsored. \u00a0I know that the people running those places look at how old I am (Old for a sponsored athlete) and then laugh themselves silly when they see how fast I do (or don’t) run. \u00a0Speedy I am not but I am tenacious as they get!<\/p>\n

Honey Stinger is a fueling product for endurance training\/events. Good stuff.<\/p>\n

So, Yes! \u00a0I am a sponsored athlete!!! \u00a0Funny that!<\/p>\n

It’s not a fancy sponsorship by any means. \u00a0It’s primarily some pretty sweet discounts. Hey, I’ll take what I can get!<\/p>\n

I’ll wear a Honey Stinger visor when I run and start using a hashtag when I post my running stuff to social media. \u00a0#HSHIVE<\/p>\n

Cool Beans!!!<\/p>\n

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For a little while now, I have been having some trouble with my vision. \u00a0Not a big deal but I knew that something was off. Two and a half years ago, I had cataract surgery on both of my eyes. \u00a0That was the best. thing. ever. For the longest time, my vision was bad enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}