That's Just the Way It Is

I'm the most fabulous person that you are ever gonna meet...that being said, read on...

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Location: Fort Worth, Texas, United States

We met one late, fateful July evening in a parking lot...little did we know that almost two years later, we would be taking the plunge. Please join us in celebrating our new life together.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Update on My Eye

So, I'm not gonna go blind after all or have to wear an eye patch for the rest of my life (Yea!), but this whole thing has been quite an ordeal. In all, I have been to the eye doctor three times in a week and a half, and Lens Crafters calls me more than my own mother. Needless to say, next time I will be looking for a new eye doctor...I can't deal with the communication gap.

Here's how it all went down:

Saturday July 15th
1:30pm--Go to eye doctor, have ulcer, told I have to wear glasses and use drops.
2 pm--Fill Rx for drops, continue to wear sunglasses over regular glasses, get lots of weird looks.

Sunday July 16th
12pm--Go to Lens Crafters, try on almost every frame in the store, pick one, have to special order my lenses, get temporary lenses.
2 pm--Pick up glasses, decide that I hate them, order more glasses.
2:30pm--Have a BBQ at the pool and have to swim the whole day in my glasses, really decide that I HATE them.

Monday July 17th
8am--Get lots of compliments on them at work, I still hate them.
12:30pm--Go to another Lens Crafters and spend an hour trying on more frames, have them transferred.

(various compliments, comments, calls, and messages throughout the week)

Saturday July 22nd
12:15pm--Go to the eye doctor, no more ulcer (yea!), get new contacts to try.
2pm--Get home and try on new contacts, they make me so dizzy I can barely stand, call my eye doctor and leave her a nasty message (jk).
3:30pm--Go pick out new glasses, lenses are still not in, tell them that I think the Rx might be a bit off and to wait to cut them when they do come in, walk around the mall while trying not to trip over my feet that suddenly seem like they are a lot closer then they normally would be, have my eye doctor leave me some new contacts for me to pick up and schedule yet another appointment.

Sunday July 23rd--Wear my glasses again--all day long.

Monday July 24th
12:45pm--Go pick up my new contacts, I can see again!!
3pm--Lens Crafters calls and says that my new glasses are ready, I call them back and cuss him out until I make the guy cry and apologize for not listening to me when I said "DO NOT cut them yet" (jk).

Tuesday July 24th
12:45pm--Go back to the eye doctor, my Rx has "miraculously" changed (it was either a divine intervention or she didn't want to admit that she had screwed up), she gave me the right Rx (finally!), and now I have sight--normal can walk a straight line, not make me sick to my stomach--sight!

Today, I'm going to get my new glasses. I think they are VERY cute but I hope to never have wear them again. I have officially started saving for lasik!

Monday, July 17, 2006

Don't Call Me Four-Eyes!


I went to the eye doctor this weekend to get a new prescription for my contacts. It was all routine until she looked at my right eye. She freaked out and before I knew what had happened, she had put this neon yellow dye in my eye. She shined a really bright light in it and mumbled to herself (she has an accent so she's hard to understand). Then she went on to explain to me that I can't wear my contacts because I have an ulcer on my cornea. "Are you serious?" I ask while wiping the yellow goop off of my eye...she was serious. She gave me a prescription for some drops and said that she would check it again in a week, if it hasn't gotten better then I have to wear glasses until it does. Otherwise it could tear my cornea and I would have to get a cornea transplant or may go blind in my right eye.

I'm hearing her say all of this and all I can think is GLASSES...I don't want to wear my glasses...I hate my glasses!!! But I guess its better to be a nerd for one week than having to wear an eye patch for the rest of my life (again, the pirate thing is just not that sexy on a girl). Still, if I was going to have to wear my glasses, then I was getting new ones! New ones that made me look hot! Ones that said "I'm wearing my glasses becasue they are chic and sophisticated, not because I have to."

I returned a too-expensive dress that I had bought last weekend and went to Lens Crafters. Ok, so I'm picky, I can admit it. I tried on almost every frame in the store (including some children's and men's) and narrowed it down to about eight of them. I tired all of them on in a close-up mirror (because I couldn't see myself in the ones on the wall). I picked out these black ones...waited an hour...went to pick them up...looked at myself in them with clear vision...and HATED them. Well, Lens Crafters has a 30 day return policy...I can exchange them however many times I want in 30 days--no problem. Well, so I had to special order good lenses and special order frames, so I decided that these will have to do until the ones I want come in...but the good news is that my vision has gotten a little better...so that means that objects are now a little bit clearer right before I bump into them.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

El Gato Blanco Esta Corriendo

Ok, so I got this program that is going to teach me Spanish. It is called Rosetta Stone. It is supposed to teach you languages the same way that you learned to speak English when you were little. It just shows you pictures and phrases and by sheer repetition it helps you learn it. One thing it doesn't do is tell you what the words mean in English. No vocab and no grammar. I like to know what the words mean. So, my friend showed me this website that translates words and phrases. Its http://world.altavista.com/tr. It helps, but its not totally accurate. Here's a paragraph that I wrote in English and translated to Spanish and then back to English again, see if you can tell what I wrote originally:

"Today for the lunch, I go to gym. Attempt to go daily. The individual that explores my card is a little strange. It has the long hair, shaggy of blonde and to seem the individual of dumb and dumber. Its clumsy one to have to throw to the breeze with him because it maintains to my hostage of the card so me he cannot obtain far until it is to speak fact."

I hope no one actually uses this site. I think it would confuse people more than help them. I think I'll stick with my program.


Answer:

"Today for lunch, I am going to the gym. I try to go everyday. The guy that scans my card is a little weird. He has long, shaggy blonde hair and looks like the guy from Dumb and Dumber. Its awkward to have to shoot the breeze with him because he holds my card hostage so I can't get away until he's done talking."