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3 years ago
Coffee With The Princess!
May The Fourth BE With Me Today!
**Giggles!**
I know a lot of the Star Wars fans love this day as it celebrates the day as marking the month back in 1977 when the original and still the best of the Star Wars movies was released. Released on May 25th, 1977, I waited with baited breath as this movie was thoroughly teased and tormented me for a month or so by my friends and especially my Big Sister, but I don't think I saw it until June when it came to Brunswick, Georgia at the Lucas Theater nears SEARS where Pop worked. He got us some of the best seats in the house, thanks to "Employee Day!" at the movies or something like that, I think. And even today, being in my mid fifties, I still get a thrill over the lights going down and the movie starting ...
But this was also when people behaved at the movies too! They didn't text each other, snap pictures of themselves watching the movie, or worse, try to record it like I had seen in a couple of movies where people actually had a blanket over a camera and was actually filming the movie as it was played on screen. And this was also before you could only see movies like this in the movie theater too, unless they were old enough and good enough to be picked up by either HBO or Cinemax. Back when you only had four TV networks, though Ted Turner was out there pitching for a fifth.
For me today at least, it's an extra special day since I go in and get my eyes fixed. Here's what's happened as best as I understand it. Think of your eyeball as a movie projector and your eye being the movie house. The light from the outside is like the power source,if you will allow me a bit of flexibility here, and strikes the lens with the world showing off the reel of wonderment that life makes. The image is sent to the back of my eye, onto the wall or screen known as my retina which translates the image into impulses to the brain. Along with the microphones for my ears being the pick up for the sound, I have the best seat in town for the story of my life!
Wonderful, right?
Well, what's happened to mine is the retinas have been slowly getting less and less blood flow to keep them healthy, so the brain has been instructing them to build more blood vessels to keep them working, but what this has done is caused swelling along the surface of the retina, distorting the image. Now, this process takes time to cause problems, but I have let this go for too long as well. The people at Georgia Eye Institute think that since a lot of the swelling picked up recently that things can be fixed, but that means I need to get some shots in my eyes. Not straight in, mind ... like some horror movie. No. A robot arm will do this injection after they numb up my eyes and add some medicine to keep me from blinking. The shots are actually faster than you can say, "One!" And just so you can have a little Star Wars trivia that I learned when I was little, saying one for a movie takes 35 still shots of the camera for you to say that. Neat, eh?
Anyways, that's how I'm celebrating my May today ... so May it BE with you in whatever you are doing! :Love:
BE Happy!
Love and Kisses,
Loonia
May The Fourth BE With Me Today!
**Giggles!**
I know a lot of the Star Wars fans love this day as it celebrates the day as marking the month back in 1977 when the original and still the best of the Star Wars movies was released. Released on May 25th, 1977, I waited with baited breath as this movie was thoroughly teased and tormented me for a month or so by my friends and especially my Big Sister, but I don't think I saw it until June when it came to Brunswick, Georgia at the Lucas Theater nears SEARS where Pop worked. He got us some of the best seats in the house, thanks to "Employee Day!" at the movies or something like that, I think. And even today, being in my mid fifties, I still get a thrill over the lights going down and the movie starting ...
But this was also when people behaved at the movies too! They didn't text each other, snap pictures of themselves watching the movie, or worse, try to record it like I had seen in a couple of movies where people actually had a blanket over a camera and was actually filming the movie as it was played on screen. And this was also before you could only see movies like this in the movie theater too, unless they were old enough and good enough to be picked up by either HBO or Cinemax. Back when you only had four TV networks, though Ted Turner was out there pitching for a fifth.
For me today at least, it's an extra special day since I go in and get my eyes fixed. Here's what's happened as best as I understand it. Think of your eyeball as a movie projector and your eye being the movie house. The light from the outside is like the power source,if you will allow me a bit of flexibility here, and strikes the lens with the world showing off the reel of wonderment that life makes. The image is sent to the back of my eye, onto the wall or screen known as my retina which translates the image into impulses to the brain. Along with the microphones for my ears being the pick up for the sound, I have the best seat in town for the story of my life!
Wonderful, right?
Well, what's happened to mine is the retinas have been slowly getting less and less blood flow to keep them healthy, so the brain has been instructing them to build more blood vessels to keep them working, but what this has done is caused swelling along the surface of the retina, distorting the image. Now, this process takes time to cause problems, but I have let this go for too long as well. The people at Georgia Eye Institute think that since a lot of the swelling picked up recently that things can be fixed, but that means I need to get some shots in my eyes. Not straight in, mind ... like some horror movie. No. A robot arm will do this injection after they numb up my eyes and add some medicine to keep me from blinking. The shots are actually faster than you can say, "One!" And just so you can have a little Star Wars trivia that I learned when I was little, saying one for a movie takes 35 still shots of the camera for you to say that. Neat, eh?
Anyways, that's how I'm celebrating my May today ... so May it BE with you in whatever you are doing! :Love:
BE Happy!
Love and Kisses,
Loonia
