I’m really fuckin’ bent out of shape at the moment- at things beyond my control.
Well- they’re within control, but it’s hard to manage a situations when those that need managing refuse to heed good intentions and best-laid plans.
So USUALLY this is when I write a Music blog, but as I am listening to Iron Maiden, I can’t just very well write about them AGAIN. I mean, I could… but that could just bore everyone into disappearing. let’s just avoid that from happening, okies?
So! Other than that Sitch-a-mation, I will try and think about other things.
Like the fact that I WENT CAMPING! It was a short trip, only a couple of days, and was local- Coyote Lake. I will have to say, it could have been a LOT WORSE than it was. More people were invited than two sites could accomodate, the person that booked the sites neglected to recognize that they were RV sites and we were tent-camping, and had picked partial-shade sites… Partial Shade in TEN YEARS, as the trees in the area were just planted. Not to mention a Lake that no one could swim in.
However, as stated, I had an okay time. The fact that I had this-
-Made it quite bearable. He was a really good boy- no squabbles, no problems! The first night with him in a tent was a struggle, ’cause he coudn’t find the perfect place to sleep, so he kept moving. But the next night- after a day of walks and running and swimming (as pictured here!) he was a tired little man and slept like a rock. I fussed over him and fed him and took care of him. He was simply amazing.
On the way back from Camping, I got a call from the Optometrist- my glasses were in.
I used my Surplus check to purchase a new pair of glasses since my precription had changed… my eyes are apparently getting worse. It’s pretty bad as is- I’m not legal to drive with out corrective lenses- but it is kind of scary that my eyes are still deteriorating. Nevertheless… I got some pretty neat frames- they are Converse frames with Starsa on the stems, and I feel so sophisticated! lemme show you.
So, I’ll very well possibly be sporting my specs more often. The Camping trip with contacts was just a major pain- has always been. I do LOVE having contacts, though- so I’ll probably just be regularly swaping from glasses to lenses more often… neato-beeto.
And Lastly- the SUMMER MEGAPARTY has Begun! I’m really excited about Matty writing more- a whole two and a half months of DAILY pieces. Sooo cool! Today he wrote about Otter Pops! Yummie.
However… WaiterBot showed up in a couple of the pictures.
Which means…
*gulp*
Box 23 is alive and afoot.
Not COOL.
I mean, it’s cool, but it’s just that…well, As interesting and brain-wracking Box 23 projects are, they scare me really bad too. I can’t explain why. Maybe it’s the way its presented- as sneaking around and deciphering thigs that are “meant” to be hidden. Like… it’s just better to leave it alone, than to dig too deep. It could just be me- If I start something like this- I get too deep-I get obsessed- and my brain goes to hell in a handbasket. I tell ya I was drawing Hssxlllo all over the place last Christmas… and last Easter considering there was a small amount of Box 23 action around then too.
Anyway…
This is hwta I have for now. I’ll hopefully have some more interesting writtings to entertain you with in the next blogie post, but for right now, I’m in crap up to mk knees and need to pull my waders up a little higher. than usual.
Cash is so fucking cute. Or does that offend him? He is ruggedly handsome, in a totally hetero way. Better?
No, it’s cool. Cash is adorable.
I call him Smoochie-Poochie.
He doesn’t seem to mind.
Groovy glasses, man. Yeah I worry about my eyes too. Mine have slowly gotten worse over the years, but I wear contacts like 90% of the time. The only time I wear glasses is in the morning or late at night–basically before and after I have my contacts in for the day. I shouldn’t drive without mine but do sometimes in a pinch, but I almost can’t at all at night cause I can’t read the road signs. Luckily my godmother is an optomitrist, so I get all my contacts/glasses/eye exams and stuff for free. I’ve never had to pay for any of it. I’m really lucky that way.
Interesting!
here’s a yarn for you about that EXACT THING.
When I was young, I knew I needed glasses. I couldn’t see the chalboard well and CHOSE to sit in the front of the class. My work regularly suffered when I sat in the back. In High School the sigh-test teacher told my parents I needed glasses- but as broke as we were, it never happened.
I didn’t actually get glasses until I graduated College and had my first real job. Paid $300 for an eye test and glasses at Wal-Mart.
Sported those as my only specs for 2 years until the frames started to crap out.
Got my eyes tested and got Contacts, used the glasses for spares at morning and night.
Just this last March, got myes tested again- as is the norm with Contacts… and my eyes were still detioroating. Got a new prescription for contacts and specs- which meant the specs I had would still work in a pinch, but worn regularly could make things worse.
With the surplus check I got my new specs- spoiled myself by getting Transitions lenses- my one gripe about glasses was that they weren’t sunglasses. Had to pay $150 for these. Cheaper than the first time, but that’s why Costco Rocks.
I was sposed to wear a patch over my eye when I was a kid because I had a lazy eye (not the kind that moves, just a nice, static, shitty eye) but I always took it off for school because there was book in the library called The Adventures of Amanda Pig so everybody called Amanda The One-Eyed Pig. Speaking of books, check out my little sidebar. There’s an encyclopedia entry. And you can write about Iron Maiden anytime you want. I’m working on a colored pencil picture of Eddie right now. xoxo.
I want another music review! I love the specs. It makes you look smrt. But you are pretty smrt to begin with so, now it makes you look official.