Hi all! I've been up since 7 even though I don't have to be in school until tonight (it's parent orientation night). Damn this whole internal clock reset thing. Then again, I wouldn't be sleeping now anyway since the guys retrofitting the foundation to be earthquake-safe are drilling or jackhammering or something underneath the house. Needless to say, ND is calmly sleeping through this. That man can sleep through anything. It's rather amazing.

ION, getting paid again after two months of no paychecks is good. But...okay, so I knew that I was taking a paycut to come to the new school. But seeing what that means in cold, hard net pay? Ouch.

Oh gosh Sail...that sounds so...um...unpleasant. Perhaps necessary, but eesh. You make me feel like I dodged a huge bullet yesterday when I visited an eye doc for the first time is roughly 10 years. I'm having what Bing Crosby used to call 'tromboning' issues...age related far sightedness. (I blame my computer!) In the end, all I need is a good quality pair of reading glasses. (He did 'touch' my eye with that bright lighty thing and that was creepy...but injected dye? Oh my.)

The cheapest pair of frames, not actually glasses, the eye doc has are $150, even with my new found insurance! What is up with THAT?

Now I'm looking for a less expensive alternative...have you ever purchased glasses on line?

Yeah, me too. I guess her mom was quite horrible to her about it, saying, "Are you trying to tell me that there are NO moving trucks in the ENTIRE city of Boston?" Um, YES!

Labor Day weekend, and on the first of the month? I don't doubt it for a minute.

and the number of people that argue about paying for them when they keep them longer than expected is huge.

Ooh! Did I mention I did a Good Deed yesterday? This woman gets on the bus, doesn't have her monthly pass, and gets into this huge fight with the driver because she thinks it's wrong for the driver to make her pay when she already paid for the monthly pass. Which she didn't have.

Seriously, the bus sat there for almost ten minutes because this woman would neither pay nor get the fuck off the bus. And the bus driver was being very polite, but not budging - which, given what a bitch this girl was being, I totally support her in. People were trying to reason with her - or at least get her to pay so we could move - and she'd be all "yes, I'm very sorry that she [the driver] has decided to inconvenience you. Apparently she's having a bad day and has decided to take it out on all of us.." And on and on. And going into that really nasty, condescending kind of formality. "I'm sorry, I don't have time to argue with you [the driver] about this right now, but I'll certainly bring that up when I speak with your supervisor this afternoon." And you know she was going to do it, too.

So I noted the bus number and the first thing I did when I got into the office was call the CTA and get the opposing view on record first. The CTA lady was kind of boggled -

"So, she says she's going to file a complaint against the operator because...?"

"She forgot her card, yes."

"She didn't leave it on the bus, or anything..?"

"Nope, left it at home."

"So, she's going to file a complaint against the operator because she...forgot her own card?"

"Exactly."

The cheapest pair of frames, not actually glasses, the eye doc has are $150, even with my new found insurance! What is up with THAT?

Oh, you don't want to get glasses at the eye doc - kind of like getting your oil changed at the dealership. Check out whether your insurance will cover things like Lenscrafters or one of the other chain places.

Target has some kickass glasses. That's where both Joe and I got ours.

Sign # 56-3956-4 that I am a parent: My new tag line is from Sesame Street.

Lenscrafters

Of COURSE. See? That' show long it has been since I've done this sort of thing. Didn't even think of a chain. Especially just for reading glasses. I bet they have reasonable qualty readers already made up.

I've been getting by with the $18 for 3 pair Costco specials, but since I now know this is a long-term issue, I don't want to make the sitch worse with bad quality lenses.

eta: Target, check. Even easier.

Consumer Reports rates Costco's prescription glasses highly, and Costco has some reasonable frames.

Howdy!

re: glasses - VisionWorld (which might only be in MN) kicks ASS. They're wonderful. I miss them.

Me: starts to open mouth, thinks better of it

Him: I know, I don't know why I always go this way.

SO CUTE.

actually - I just do the whole arguement

I don't know why you are going this way, it is the harder way. ,I would do it different. you just felt like it and Im not driving so I'll be quiet now

Hmmm, I already do this.

Morning!

Beej - I'm not sure if they have a VisionWorks in your area but that's where I got my glasses. They have various specials depending on what type of frames/lenses. And they had a separate selection of reading glasses.

I have a girly TMI question:

I have had an insanely heavy and painful period this time. It started with really REALLY bad pain and I am still cramping pretty badly on day five. I am still having to change tampons every hour or so. I bled through a tampon last night and all over the sheets, not a pleasant way to wake up (Lucky for me, the DH grew up with two sisters and is rather blase about the whole thing. His reaction was, "Hey, these things happen.") I know I have ovarian cysts--could a cyst bursting cause these symptoms, or is it just perimenopausal fun?