Lasik

Thanks to everyone for all the well wishes for my long awaited Lasik.

It was one of the weirdest experiences I have ever been through, but also one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life. I'm sitting here this morning and I can see just about as well as I could before with my contacts. I'm told that my sight will fluctuate over the next few days. I was a little concerned last night because of the amount of blurriness I was experiencing. I thought that I may have to have my eyes adjusted which really would've been no surprise and it's covered in the price I've already paid for the whole procedure. I took off my eye shields this morning and was very pleasantly surprised. I've always felt that having horrible eyesight has been one of the things that defines me. It's wonderful to finally be able to change that.

The surgery itself was relatively painless. All I felt was some pressure and I had to try to stare at a blinking red light. I saw the things they were moving over my eye. There were a lot of eye drops. Each eye took no more than 5 minutes from start to finish. The next couple hours were the worst. My eyes were draining like crazy and it kinda hurt to open them. They were extremely light sensitive. I came home and got comfy in the recliner part of my couch and went to sleep for a couple hours. When I woke, they weren't draining nearly as bad and it just felt like I had a up-side-down contact in each eye (basic discomfort). I dosed off a couple more times in the evening. I watched Idol and closed my eyes during the commercials. This morning, my eyes are relatively dry. I see myself using the artificial tears a lot today. I have two other types of drops that I have to use 4 times a day for 7 days.

Made me laugh... shit in a box

In a rather unseemly new interview with Life Style Extra, braindamaged rocker offspring Kelly Osbourne reveals that her mother used to force her to defecate in a box, which Sharon would then send to her enemies in the media. Say what you will about Kelly's candor, but this story fills me with a fuzzy feeling of nostalgia for my own youth, specifically those perfect Saturday mornings when my mom would drag me away from cartoons long enough to poop into an empty kleenex box that she would later mail to Sally Jessy Raphael for not taking a tougher stance with all those heathen teenagers.

Source: http://www.bestweekever.tv/2007/01/11/sizzler-kelly-osbournes-sht-in-a-box/

Global Warming

This picture was taken on Christmas out a window looking at my back yard. Reminds me of winter in TN. That was a great winter (except for when we got stuck in an ice storm trying to drive back to MI).

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Weird Al

No, I'm not a closet Weird Al fan. I AM a Weird Al fan. I went to his concert 2 or 3 years in a row. I miss those days.

Wasting time on 'Best Week Ever' today, I surfed into a site where someone listed their top 10 favorite Al videos. That led me to the realization that even though I knew some of these songs rather well, I had never seen some of the videos. White & Nerdy is still my favorite, but there are some other great videos.

Assuming Al does a tour for 'Straight Outta Lynwood', PUNK, we are SO going!

Link to behind the scenes of White & Nerdy.

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Holidays

I hate the holidays. That's no big surprise. It seems like it gets harder every year. People don't get it. Holidays are for kids. Guess what. I don't have any. And, I'm definitely not a kid. I don't have parents. So holidays are just damn depressing. I find it an unnecessary chore to put up the stupid tree. I didn't bother this year. We put up a couple strands of icicle lights outside, but there are a lot of dead bulbs and one section died all together. Hope someday I'll get back into the holidays, it used to be fun.

I think I got it to work...

Ok, looks like I may have had some luck in the blogging department. I love Firefox. And I love geeks who make extremely useful extensions for Firefox. I now have an editor right in my browser which I can use to dual post to my blog and to Myspace.

It wasn't completely painless - I had to change my blog over to WordPress because Sblog isn't supported by this extension. That's something that I was going to have to do at some point anyway. The transfer/import was rough in a few places but I think I cleaned it up as much as I needed to. Only trouble is that my comments didn't transfer. And if you comment my blog or myspace, it'll only be at one place.

Main blog is now located at... http://www.geminidreamz.com/wordpress.

Even though I'm not having the best week in life in general, I'm having a great week as a geek.

On a side note, I found a really kickass service called goosync which will sync my PDA calendar with my Google calendar. Woohoo!!! No more Outlook!!!

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Not a happy Mary

As it turns out, the doctors office doesn't own the equipment - it gets brought in 1 day a month to do surgeries and they wont do it for less than 3 patients cuz it's a whole ordeal to set up and tear down... and a couple people canceled so that made me the only patient for Monday.

So, 6 more weeks. It's not even the waiting that pisses me off so much... it's the fact that I have suffered in glasses for two weeks only to have to start all over again next month. I don't see well out of my glasses. I have no peripheral vision. The glare is atrocious at night.

That's life I guess. Or at least that's my life.

Update: Come to find out that one of Dan's sisters is pregnant. Isn't that the icing on the fucking cake.