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Yesterday I made another trip to the eye doctor. I have to admit I’m losing faith. First of all I was called by the office at around 3ish yesterday to tell me that my trial contacts were in-uh thought I already got my trials-and that I needed to make an appointment to come in. I was like…”uh, ok. I have an appointment already at 5:00 today.” Wow.

So I went in and they had ordered me the contacts I wanted in the first place. B&L Softlens 38-if anyone cares. They used to be called Optima FW and I’ve been wearing them since I was 14 years old. That is 13 years people. Anyhow I was happy cause it seemed like they were actually listening to me now.

Well I saw my prescription and just got really irritated. Not only was the strength weaker than the ones I currently wear (same for 4ish years), but the left and right were now different strengths. Fuck that! You use contacts for 13 years that are interchangeable and then try to switch to actually paying attention which is right and left. Fuck that! So anyway…I told the doctor I was concerned and showed him my previous 2 prescriptions I had actually remembered to bring with me…and then he just said well, that’s what the computer matched you up with. You don’t want to overcorrect your eyes…and he didn’t seem to get the different left/right issue I was having. I dunno. I may get a second opinion.

Great news everybody! My favorite sci-fi cartoon is finally coming back. According to this TV Squad article, Futurama will return as a full length dvd to be released on November 29th. (I checked Amazon and they don’t seem to have the release date up yet…but as always you can sign up to be notified.

The movie is called “Bender’s Big Score” and in addition to the full length DVD, it will be split up into 4 different episodes to be aired on Comedy Central. I thought I had read somewhere though they don’t get to start airing until 2008 sometime. So definitely check out the dvd. I’m really excited about it…although I’m still getting a kick out of the reruns, and I recently discovered the comic books. Although they aren’t released very often it seems.

Have you ever noticed how people always say that they had a difficult childhood? Really? Children are so god damn spoiled and selfish. Of course that is how you feel as a child. Oh wah…I have it rough. I didn’t get the Barbie or Bratz…or He-man or Transformer or whatevs that I wanted. Boo-hoo. I guess this feeling of not being the center of the universe has overwhelmingly taken over people…and has turned into…Yeah I had it rough growing up. Whatever…shutup. You had parents attending to your every need while you got milk and cookies and got to watch Smurfs or Spongebob or whatever.

It’s funny because we see kid’s lately, and Mike and I always ALWAYS react the same way to their misbehavior. My dad would have beat my ass if I would have said or done that! Yeah my dad wasn’t very big…but to a little kid he was fucking scary. Did something happen to discipline? Not that I condone beating your children…but come on…no one wants to hear them scream.

I remember how it was always this big tragedy when kid’s parents got divorced. I know, I know. Yeah it sucks, and it’s a transition. My parents never got divorced….but I swear to god I wished they would have. I hated the long arguments and the crying and just all the bullshit. Looking back…I’m glad they stayed together…it just seems like something happens when you have grandchildren…you like get nicer or something…I dunno. Things stopped mattering as much. Perhaps the best of both worlds. Having kids around to have fun with and spoil but not having the overwhelming burden of being completely responsible for them

OK OK…Don’t get me wrong. I don’t hate kids. I like my nieces and nephew.

So I know I haven’t posted in almost a full week. That is strange for me…but I’ve been pretty absorbed in the final Harry Potter book. I finally finished reading it this morning and it was wonderful. I loved it. I won’t post any spoilers because I would be pissed had I read any.

Yeah I’ve been a super hermit. Just staying home reading, doing miscellaneous projects about the house. Attending to my menagerie of animals. They’re a handful.

I don’t remember if I mentioned…but I lost 12 pounds on my diet. I’m pretty content with that. All of my pants seem to fit all right now…so I’m happy. I guess it doesn’t take much…just wanted to fit into my clothes. Now if only I had the will to exercise…

Check out this article about Oscar the cat

He visits people when they are about to die. Creepy huh. I’ve always thought animals were somewhat more in tune then we realize….I dunno.

I haven’t been up to much of anything lately, besides reading Harry Potter, and trying to finish up some random projects around the house….of course it is those unnecessary projects like painting endtables and cabinets…when I should probably be painting the bathroom. It has just sat there with a prime coat on it for weeks…Or how about the mountain of unpacked crap in the guest bedroom. Ugh. I get overwhelmed every time I think about it.

Today I went to the eye doctor. Ya know every single time I go I forget to bring sunglasses with me. So I got my eyes dilated, and then they gave me these horribly embarassing coiled shades that just uncoil and kinda hug your face. I couldn’t bear to wear them. I’d sooner get in an accident. So it was fun driving home. It’s not like I couldn’t see…it was just that my eyes were ultra-sensitive. So my eye care insurance plan has probably changed every year for the past 5 years or whatever…so I again had to go to a new doctor to get my eye exam (I just picked a doctor of the list of providers). And of course the doctor wants to switch me to a different kind of contact lenses that he prefers. Uh no. I hate that. Just give me what works. Anything else will turn out to be a disaster…But I’m a wuss…so I’m humoring him. I’ll try them for a week until I have to go back for a follow-up. We’ll see. It may last a day before they drive me crazy like the Acuvue advance did last year.

So I’m almost half way through the new Harry Potter. I was pissed that my vision wasn’t good enough to read it when I got home from work today, but it’s better now. I’m a pretty slow reader, but I’m still incredibly worried someone is going to spoil it for me. I really like it so far.