(Note: I have been catching up with some book entries for the rest of June. If you are into that sort of thing, they start on the 9th)
I am up before 8am for the first time in an eternity. I don’t know what it is about my normal schedule, because when I am working, I am quite happy to be in bed for 9:30, read until 10, and get up at 6:30am. When I am not working, my body wants to stay up reading until 1 or 2, or even 3 in the morning, and not get up until about 9 or even 11 (that was Sunday’s record).
I’m feeling a bit blah today. I am under the suspicion that I might be getting a cold of some kind. My throat is scratchy and my stomach is a bit off, and I feel like I have what is maybe heartburn? Meh. So far today, I have had a bath, drank a cup of broth and a glass of apricot juice, sorted all the junk lying around the foyer and tables, and put on a load of laundry.
My mum is coming back through town today on her way back from my grandparents, so I need to do a bit more tidying and clean the bathrooms. It is looking like it will be a nice day, if a bit cool. Last night was really cold, it felt like fall. We haven’t had one hot humid usual summer day yet! It’s very odd.
Yesterday I had a contact lens fitting appointment, which could have been disastrous, but instead was just kind of typical Mondayish. I had woken up around 8am, but went back to bed with the cats. I wasn’t even fully asleep, just kind of thinking and dozing, when the phone rang around 9:30. I answered it, and it was my eye doctor’s office, asking if I wanted to take over a cancelled appointment for 11am. I originally said no, but as it turns out, my original appointment was for 9am on Wednesday, and I have a driving lesson scheduled for 10, so I was glad she called and decided to take it.
There was only one problem. It was 9:30, and I was still in bed, and the office is a good 35-40 minute walk away. I had a quick shower and got organised and was out the door, but there was one factor I hadn’t considered. On Saturday I stubbed my left baby toe really hard into the wall that sticks out in the basement. It is bad enough that I might have cracked it, but I am pretty sure it is just badly bruised. I have been walking around gingerly, but I totally forgot that in my running shoes, walking is really painful and slow.
I turned around and decided to take a cab, but I didn’t have any cash on me (I have wholeheartedly embraced the debit card). I managed to scrounge up about $10 in change but I had no idea how much a taxi would cost and I couldn’t risk being short.
I briefly entertained the notion of riding my bike, but there is no place there to lock it up, and a bit farther away is a kind of sketchy area where I really wouldn’t want to leave a bike. Finally I decided to just suck it up and walk. After the first 15 minutes or so, I found a gait that wasn’t too painful, but it meant that I ended up with a huge calf charleyhorse when I got home.
When I got to the office, right on the dot of 11, I was told that my appointment was for 11:45, not 11. I could have sworn she said 11. I really must have been more asleep than awake when taking that call. So I sat and waited, and waited and waited.
Finally I got called to the back, and the doctor popped in the new contacts. They immediately felt about 5 million times better than the last brand he tried on me. These new ones are monthly disposeable, and made for people with dry eyes. I don’t have particularly dry eyes, but I have a very strong prescription, so my lenses are quite thick and do tend to dry out and be very uncomfortable.
I also had a bit of a breakthrough. I found out I have astigmatism in my right eye, something I never knew before, and the reason why that eye never is completely happy when I have a lens in. My left eye’s vision with the contact lens is perfect now, and the right is blurryish, I can only read the two lines worse than my left eye with it. If I want, I can try a toric lens on the right and see if that helps.
I am thinking though that having the left eye perfect and the right decent will be fine, because my left eye can compensate. I don’t think I will be doing a lot of reading with my contacts in, so it shouldn’t be an issue.
I also picked out new glasses. They are copper coloured and I hope they look good. I will post pictures when I get them. I went for something completely different. The past two sets of glasses I have had have been thick plastic frames, one brown and the other dark blue. These are copper wire, a lot smaller, and have magnetic clip on sunglasses. We’ll see!