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| 08.23.05 (5:18 pm) [edit] |
I read the way most people watch television or movies or even breathe air, for that matter. About two months ago I broke my glasses with the most up to date prescription and have been just a little blind. I decided to cash in my newly found optical benefits and go fetch myself a new pair of glasses or two after tearing through "Memoirs of a Geisha" (wow!) and "Saul and Patsy" (jury is still out on that one). I also read my issue of The Sun. Coupled with not very much sleep in the last couple of days, I'm ready to take my eyes out of my head and put them on ice.
I have bad eyes and shouldn't be so unkind to them. My right eye is lazy and crosses when it's tired resulting in me looking like someone has just bopped me on the back of my head with a Cadillac. Just having the eye exam was very tiring. When we finally got to the point of the exam when I was looking through that big thing and the lenses were being adjusted, (clearer or smaller? is one better or two? two or four?) I was so relieved to find that my old prescription is out of whack in the astigmatism department and I need to have a stronger bifocal when the room snapped into focus for the first time in months! Isn't it weird how you don't notice how wrong something is until you get it right? I can't wait for my new lenses. I chose some rimless frames with clear plastic hardware. Since I can't wear contacts, these little invisible glasses are the closest thing I'll get to having nothing on my face.
A little unsettling was finding out that I have pigmentation on my right cornea. This, I was told, can be the result of trauma to the eye from injury or surgery, for example. I've had eye surgery to correct my sight before so I'm not too worried that the other cause of corneal pigmentation is glaucoma. However, no optometrist or opthalmologist has every mentioned this to me before. All the same, I have to have a glaucoma check 4 times this year because my eye pressure was a little high. The aging body does beat the alternative, however, I hate to think about my eyes getting worse than they already are. I've worn bifocal lenses since I was a toddler and don't really have much depth perception. I better learn to play the piano so I can make a living in case I go blind.
Also unsettling was that someone or something put a rock through my window yesterday. It happened while I was out of the house so I'll never know. I just covered the hole with clear contact paper for now. When I told Kristin about my window she heard me say "bra" instead of "rock" (cell service sucks in the Mission, where she lives) and started cracking up that a female undergarment had managed to come in my window. I'm sure! I corrected her and we both agreed it was a fluke accident, most likely, and it's good I wasn't robbed. City living is like this.
Kristin and I went to Trattoria Contadina for dinner last night. North Beach is not my favorite neighborhood to go out in on the weekend because you have to have a reservation to eat a Big Mac but on a Monday night, we were seated immediately. We split roasted stuffed peppers with ricotta, parmesan and asiago cheese in a roasted red pepper and spicy tomato cream sauce. I ordered ravioli stuffed with veal ricotta and porcini in a porcini cream sauce. Kristin had gnocchi in spicy tomato sauce with ricotta and shaved asiago. Of course, we had tiramisu. Damn Good! all of it.
I missed several of the eight hours of sleep I prefer to have last night because my phone kept ringing all morning. You'd think I'd turn the damn thing off! Today was a lazy day, spent walking of the beach and browsing a few books that will become my next focus. For now, I think a trip to the video store is right up my alley
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posted by: themarina (reply)
post date: 08.24.05 (12:12 pm)
woohoo! another reader! btw, i too loved memoirs of a geisha. great read.
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it's a great concept that you may like...
posted by: a/c (reply)
post date: 08.24.05 (5:50 pm)
books, shooks .. just lead me to the asiago/roastedpepper/pasta/cheesiestuff .. then on to the tiramisu ... what a way to go ... day-em good!!
posted by: lindy (reply)
post date: 09.09.05 (4:14 am)
I've been rather fixated on my eyes lately. I only just discovered what causes those strange invisible flecks to appear and I'm not too happy to hear that it has to do with aging. I have glasses that I never wear. I wonder what the world would look like if I bothered. Hope you are enjoying your glasses. They sound quite hip. :)
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