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To be fair to myself (or, more accurately, to be overly lenient with myself... as usual) I have gotten a lot done today. My kitchen is filthy, the dining room table is a paper avalanche waiting to happen, and I haven't vacuumed in you-really-don't-want-to-know-how-long, but I *have* been productive today.
Laundry is happening in great glorious loads. Some club at the high school is having a garage sale for charity, and so I did an end of season sort and purge that was *dramatic*. Frightening, really.
Also I cleaned out my car. Sort-of-ish. I mean, I brought some stuff upstairs and threw out a ton of trash. Go me.
Today's best "chore" was ordering my new glasses.
OK. I didn't do any of the $39.99 sites. I waited until I got my tax refund and bought them from the optometrist. Here is why:
*The pair I was eying on-line was... well... pink. pink metal cat's eyes. Pretty much. I tried on a similar pair when I got my eye exam and the effect was ghastly. So my judgment? Not what we will call *sound*.
*My left ear, the one that was taken off and put back on in surgery? is a full inch lower than my right ear. I've bent my wire frames into a ridiculous configuration that *does* sit straight across my face, but I couldn't do it with plastic frames. And I am sick of wire frames. And the man at the shop promised that he could heat the plastic and bend it to my crazy specifications.
*The pair I tried on while getting my eye exam AFTER I tried on the unfortunate pink pair were pretty much the glass slipper of frames for my face. When I went into buy them today, the guy working was like, "usually I like to try a selection of frames with my customers... but you should just get those."
Also, I bought summer work pants today. Two pairs of the same pant in different colors. I stupidly went to the mall first, steeling myself to just spend $30.00 on a pair of serviceable pants and be done with it. (God, I hate pants. My body is Not Normal.) Ok, I and the mall are a little out of touch. Pants cost $50-$70 now and are ugly. Pants at the Gap are expensive and ugly. Pants in the adults section of the department store are expensive and ugly. Pants in the teeny-bopper stores are expensive and ugly. What The fuck? So I fled after a wasted hour, oddly aware if the fact that I am not ever going to go clothes shopping in the mall again.
Then I went to Target, whose pants usually are weird, and found some that are too full in the ankles really (though that is apparently going to be THE look for summer as everyone's crowing about their wide, wide legs...) but make my butt look really fine. And if there is one part of my body that I am abnormally proud of, it is my nicer than usual butt. So there. And they were only $19.99. So there again.
And now I have done all of my scheduled tax refund spending, and the rest is tucked safely in savings. Whee...
Laundry is happening in great glorious loads. Some club at the high school is having a garage sale for charity, and so I did an end of season sort and purge that was *dramatic*. Frightening, really.
Also I cleaned out my car. Sort-of-ish. I mean, I brought some stuff upstairs and threw out a ton of trash. Go me.
Today's best "chore" was ordering my new glasses.
OK. I didn't do any of the $39.99 sites. I waited until I got my tax refund and bought them from the optometrist. Here is why:
*The pair I was eying on-line was... well... pink. pink metal cat's eyes. Pretty much. I tried on a similar pair when I got my eye exam and the effect was ghastly. So my judgment? Not what we will call *sound*.
*My left ear, the one that was taken off and put back on in surgery? is a full inch lower than my right ear. I've bent my wire frames into a ridiculous configuration that *does* sit straight across my face, but I couldn't do it with plastic frames. And I am sick of wire frames. And the man at the shop promised that he could heat the plastic and bend it to my crazy specifications.
*The pair I tried on while getting my eye exam AFTER I tried on the unfortunate pink pair were pretty much the glass slipper of frames for my face. When I went into buy them today, the guy working was like, "usually I like to try a selection of frames with my customers... but you should just get those."
Also, I bought summer work pants today. Two pairs of the same pant in different colors. I stupidly went to the mall first, steeling myself to just spend $30.00 on a pair of serviceable pants and be done with it. (God, I hate pants. My body is Not Normal.) Ok, I and the mall are a little out of touch. Pants cost $50-$70 now and are ugly. Pants at the Gap are expensive and ugly. Pants in the adults section of the department store are expensive and ugly. Pants in the teeny-bopper stores are expensive and ugly. What The fuck? So I fled after a wasted hour, oddly aware if the fact that I am not ever going to go clothes shopping in the mall again.
Then I went to Target, whose pants usually are weird, and found some that are too full in the ankles really (though that is apparently going to be THE look for summer as everyone's crowing about their wide, wide legs...) but make my butt look really fine. And if there is one part of my body that I am abnormally proud of, it is my nicer than usual butt. So there. And they were only $19.99. So there again.
And now I have done all of my scheduled tax refund spending, and the rest is tucked safely in savings. Whee...