Tired!
February 27th, 2012I went to the eye doctor today to get some contacts, since I have been wearing glasses for the past six months. It’s a long story, but I was sharing contacts with Paco, then he went in to order more and they said, HEY she’s supposed to be wearing these different ones! So he brought home the different ones for me and I wore them and couldn’t see shit, so I stopped wearing them and just gave up and wore glasses for a while. But then I started running and I don’t want to run in glasses, so I would pop in the Contacts I Don’t Like just for my runs and then pop them back out immediately after. But glasses are irritating when you have geezer eyes. I’m putting them on, I’m taking them off, I’m balancing them on the tip of my nose, I’m hanging them from my shirt, dropping them on the floor all the time, bleh. So I got the contacts today and OH MY GOD I HATE THEM. My eyes are so dry from being old and also from having a goddamned space heater at all times at my desk because it’s consistently 62 degrees in here. And I squint because I can’t see as well and besides I squint all the time anyway. I HATE NOT BEING ABLE TO SEE. I ought to just get progressive lenses and call it a day, but finding glasses for my stupid head is difficult. What everyone else dreads about buying jeans and bras? I dread about buying glasses. My face is small so I have to look at kids’ frames and my ears are uneven so they always look jacked. I shopped for my current glasses for a month and I still don’t like them.
Anyway, bitch bitch BITCH GOD YOU COMPLAIN ALL THE TIME!
Thank you all for responding to my OBVIOUS plea for validation and commenting your asses off and such. And when you all defect for Leeloo’s blog, remember who pointed you there. (passive aggressive SIGH)
On Sunday I felt tired but I decided to go for the 22 minute run (C25K Week 6 Day 3). I made it without stopping (1.76 miles! WHAAAT??) and it wasn’t too bad, though I don’t know how long it’ll take before I don’t want to slit my wrists about halfway through. I have little running revelations all the time that are really good learning tips, like don’t wear stupid shoes to work. Oh by the way the three-inch platform clogs I mentioned aren’t heels – they are literally like three-inch blocks of wood I’m standing on. Don’t get me started. I’M SHORT. I have to wear these ridiculous high shoes or else all my pants are dragging on the ground and don’t talk to me about hemming! I hem and then the pants shrink and are too short and I’m screwed either way!
But my latest running revelation is this: UNLESS YOU’RE IN A DOG PARK, WALK YOUR GODDAMNED DOGS ON LEASHES YOU ASSHOLES. I run around Holly’s school compound (elementary and middle school all in one big campus). There are usually some other people ambulating around when I am (but only when it’s warmish; when it’s cold, I’m the only masochist/awesomchist running or walking) and that’s fine. It’s a free country. But there is this one guy who has a couple of dogs and he just thinks it’s adorable to walk them off leash. I’m SURE he thinks he’s got them under control, but my experience is if you run past a dog , nine times out of ten the dog is all, “Oh! A pack is forming! Yeah, that’s a funny looking dog, but whatever! Wait up! I’ll run with you, brother!!” And then I’ve got a fucking dog chasing me and that aggression will not stand.
So when this jerk shows up in my path I have to cross the street and run on the path on the other side, which is fine except my biggest fear about this running shit is I’m going to fall and break something and jumping up and down curbs makes me unhappy.
ANYway. I did the run and I came home and then I helped Paco for several hours with our living room demolition. I say “helped” but I don’t know how much help I am. I can do about one-eighth of the work he can do in the same amount of time, because he’s crazy big and strong and I am not.
Listen, I had no fucking idea how hard it was going to be to pull down oak paneling. I mean, I knew they were boards and not that nasty thin stuff a la the 1970s finished basement, but good god. And oh my god the disposal! We would throw all our nail-laden boards in the middle of the room and before we knew it there was a mountain of them, all of which had to be carried out to the dumpster. I don’t know what was worse. Carrying the boards was dicey because you have to be careful on account of the zillions of nails. Paco and I both have scratches and puncture wounds all over our arms and he has a nice bruise where a board fell on him and I have bruises on my legs from god knows what, but my point is – who runs almost two miles and then spends hours prying planks off a wall and hauling boards around? This dummy. Today I am so tired I feel like I could go to bed and not wake up until tomorrow morning.
Also, this guy:
is a pain in the ass! This remodeling project is the most exciting thing to happen in Kevin’s life since he was neutered! He’s been inside return vents and sitting on boards and sniffing hammers and batting around nails and just basically OWNING EVERYTHING. THANK YOU KEVIN, YOUR ASSISTANCE IS NOT REQUIRED.
It’s expensive but I had lasik 2 years ago (at age 48). Best thing I ever did. My eyes were too dry to wear contacts anymore and I had the progressive bifocal things, and I was freaking blind. We’re talking 20/200 vision. Got one eye done for closeup the other for far away. Love it.
Not to repeat dakotagirl, but I’m about the same age and was having the exact same issues with contacts & glasses. Got lasik last October and I’m so happy with it. It was kind of unnerving for a few months until everything settled down, but I also had a difficult/tricky prescription and I’m not even wearing reading glasses now.
I have worn contacts since I was 18 and I am now 61. Hell yeah I have dry eye! And, my cornea is now too thin to get Lasik, not that I would have anyway because I am scared sh*tless about a screwup. I quit wearing contacts for a while a few years ago, and like you, hated the glasses. I really see much better in them but I am still vain enough not to want to wear them until I retire and don’t care who the hell sees me. I figure I’ll also just wait until I have to have cataract surgery when I’m 80 and then I’ll see much better. (Yes, my 87-yr-old mom now doesn’t need glasses after the cataract removals which seems the weirdest thing ever.)
Watch those nails: tetanus up to date? What’s worse is the carpet tack strip thingees when you pull up the carpet…those are awful. I love Kevin’s photo – he has a verrrrrrrry long tail!
I was wondering how Kevin was doing with the remodel when presto you publish his picture! It looks like he is being a good supervisor checking everything out.
Yeah the second anything remotely out of the ordinary happens in our house, the cats are there to “supervise” i.e. get into every god damned thing and be complete pains in the ass. The dog is smarter than that.
My husband who had not been able to see shit without his glasses since his teens had LASIK last year and raves about it. He can swim, run, and play racquetball without goggles or glasses or any of that. Yeah, it cost an arm and a leg, but it improved his quality of life so much I’d pay it twice.
No defection here, just an addition. Besides, she doesn’t update near as often you do (smooch).
I hate my glasses and can’t read with contacts.
I love your Kev pic.
~K!
Yeah, I had lasik about 5 years ago…and now I need glasses again! My vision isn’t AS bad, but it is weakening for sure. Sigh….aging sucks.
OMG I love Kevin! I just started imagining how Amber would react and it would be exactly the same. She’s the Biggest Helper Ever! Ahem.
awesomchist is being added to my daily vernacular.
Renovations are just a thinly disguised tetanus booster reminder. When I ripped up the old pine floorboards put down when the flat was built in 1912, I ended up so perforated it was ridiculous.
My blog sucks, your faithful readership will find it sorely lacking.
Curbs + running = ankle injuries waiting to happen. BE CAREFUL BOLT. xx
Kevin on the ladder is so adorable. I know your pain although it is usually my Cocker Spaniel Ruby who is up my ass and getting stepped on. I feel HORRIBLE but sadly my ankles have yet to sprout eyeballs which I tell her when I have a basket of laundry etc. obstructing my view of floor level. I am a dog person but walking dogs off leash is illegal-here anyway. My husband does it with our Basset Hound Ollie sometimes and I get pissed. If he causes an accident hello lawsuit and no leg to stand on. One of these days the dog will bolt. I just know it.
I have dry eyes but I guess I am lucky glasses are not a hassle to get and I adore my progressives. I got them at 35-I think it was from lousy eyes and close work with numbers I did in my retail job, plus years of avid reading. They make special glasses for sports but I guess that would be expensive and the size issue might make it harder too.
One friend had Lasik and loves it, my Aunt did it at 70-successfully but died three years later of a heart attack. One friend had early catarac surgery as a result of steroid drops for an eye disease. The nice part is she only needs reading glasses now and she had very thick lenses and could never get stylish glasses. I’m the forever four eyes of the group but I’m so used to it and happy I can see.
Cat on a ladder.
Awesomchist.
Really, those are some pretty great take-aways.
Your description of what the dog is thinking: a) spot on. b)
made me laugh out loud.
i had lasik in 2001… i wear reading glasses now (they offered to do the one eye long/on eye short thing but i did not want that) and have for a few years but i would never give up this last 10+ years of seeing distance for anything. the best decision ever..
I am in the same boat as you with the small head and a problem finding frames that fit. I found a pair of frames that I liked at my optometrist, but they just seemed a little big. They were discontinued, and could not be ordered in a different size. So I looked on ebay and found the same frames, and the seller listed the nose size, temple size and frame size. Look for the smallest measurements of those you can find. (look for a 14 or 15 bridge, temple of 130 or less, and width of around 48) Coach has really cute smaller frames. Anyway, I got the frames (Coach, for only $50! They wanted over $200 at the optometrist!) then took them in and had them filled with my prescription. The Silhouette frameless (just a nose and ear pieces) come in very small sizes too. They can be expensive, but I’ve had the titanium “frames” for over 10 years. I just had them filled with my new prescription, and I had them make a custom size lens, based on my other glasses. (It helps if you go to an optician that makes them onsite.) I love the progressive lenses. I almost never wear my contacts anymore.
Having said all that, I would do Lasik if I could, but my dry eyes and poor healing ability make me scared to do it. I also am going to just wait until I have to have cataract surgery.
I always have to have my glasses adjusted for my uneven ears. They just bend one temple piece down – and have a good laugh.
Love Kevin on the ladder!
I’ll run with you brother! Hahahahahaha! You crack me up.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. It completely slays me that you named your cat Kevin.
That is one spooky looking cat. I bet he is a hit at Halloween!
The unleashed dogs are driving me nuts lately. I like to walk on the trails up here, and no one leashes (or even tries to control) their dogs. I love dogs, have two myself-but these owners don’t even call their dogs back when they run up to you. I had a dog jumping all over me the other day, and the owner just kept on cross country skiing. Finally I yelled, “do you mind calling your dog off?”, and they were like “what?”. Freaking clueless. I can’t imagine what it must be like to try and take a walk around here if you were afraid of dogs, it would be a nightmare.
Great job on the running, isn’t it funny to think how at the beginning you were nervous to just run a couple minutes at a time?
Hope your tetanus shots are up to date…
Kevin is bee-yoo-tee-ful. He’s bigger than I’d have thought, too.
I hope you keep the ceiling beams. They look good and it isn’t something you see anymore (especially in the McMansions built in the past dozen years).
I’d carry some pepper spray for the unleashed dogs, just in case. Although, it sounds like the owners need more of a bitter spray in the eyes than the dogs do. Leash your dogs, people. The laws apply even to special snowflakes.
I am sitting here with my glasses sliding down my nose as we speak. I also have crooked ears so they are always a little off. I usually wear contacts but I feel you on the glasses!
I love your running stories. One because I am really amazed and proud of anyone who can stick to running because it is HARD and two because they make me laugh until my glasses slide down my nose.
You’re lucky you don’t live with my hubby, Jane. When we pulled old panelling off the walls of the house we bought here at Golden Grain Farm, he insisted on pulling all the nails out of it! Far-TA! What’s THAT all about? Mind you he’s practically a hoarder, so he probably stashed the old panelling in an outbuilding in the farmyard … never know when you might need it for something. That’s his motto.
I once had a dog follow me for FIVE GODDAMNED MILES before he finally gave up. And I didn’t bother trying to find the owner, either, because you get what you get when you leave your dog off leash near a running path. Bah.
Before I got THE LASAH (which, agreed, is the best thing evah) I always had to buy kids frames. I have the world’s smallest melon.
Aren’t there leash laws in your city/region? Here we must keep our dogs on leashes in the city, and I have always done that with my two. Just wondering, you might want to look into that.
Remodeling is a b!tch, late hubby & I did it ourselves with two houses. You don’t even want to know….trust me!