{{Robin}} That's all I got.

I am so grateful for the Bitch hivemind, even if I'm not the one needing it right now. My closest female friends here at home both had hysterectomies in their late-30s, early-40s so they can't give me much advice (other than about hot flashes.) I like knowing I can come here and white font whenever I need to.

I want glasses. After all the work to get my eyes cut so I wouldn't have to wear them, I do occasionally like to wear them (esp. when I need to look smart or intimidating at work). I have a couple costume pairs, but I'd like some real ones. The problem is I want Jilli's.

I am totally random in my routing.

We have to vary our routes and times, so often our fight is which random route to take. Although mostly we just bicker over preferences. I don't care which car of the metro we get on; the DH prefers certain cars because they debouche right to the escalator. Things like that.

Budget called her the day before yesterday to inform her that there were no trucks available. Apparantly when she called to reserve a truck, did not actually qualify as a "reservation."

This was a constant with taxis in Malaysia. You'd call the night before to get a taxi to the airport, and the next morning, 15 minutes after the taxi was supposed to be there, you'd call the company and they'd say "Oh! No taxi, lah!"

You could even by t-shirts that said "No taxi, lah!" on them.

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

One thing to watch out for with Costco is they don't guarantee satisfaction. That is they will guarantee to fill the prescription, but if they fill the prescription and it just is not comfortable with those particular frames they won't make it good. This differs from most of the chains. Also when I went in with my prescription (bifocals with really strong prescriptions and and prisms in both half the lenses ) the optician told me they did not have the capability of filling that prescription - they could not grind lenses that small and that strong.

Thank you all so much for the advice. You guys rule. If things don't slow down today, to the doc I go!

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 -

Reason 4,612 why I. Love. Brenda.

I had good luck with Costco and they were good about adjusting the earpieces and the like. I have a prescription that's challenging, in that one lens is much thicker than the other, but it's not really, really thick. I wish I could afford different glasses for different looks, but progressive trifocals are pricey and my lenses won't go into a lot of the stylish looks. Very much a first-world problem.

Sure overall Costco is good. Apparently though they can't handle the toughest of tough prescriptions (which should not be a problem for most people.) And, as a friend found out the hard way - while they will do adjustments, they have an absolute "if the prescription is right you can't return it policy". Not even unreasonable - except most places do have a "return for any reason within first n days" policy. N usually varying from 30 - 90.

Well, huh. Just made a list of items damaged while the landlords made "improvements" to the Cambridge apartment. $700. I know that won't be the final worth amount, because some of the things were several years old, but still. Seeing it all down on paper is like, wow. Stupid idiots.

TODDSON! Hi, sweetie!!!