Thanks for those links, sumi.
I'm doing an experiment that's possibly ill-timed, but...
When I told my neuro I was having difficulty seeing, his initial response was "You're 44." I said I was still concerned, because the loss of vision was not gradual--it was intermittent, and quite dramatic. He explained how lenses fail, and how it's not a slow crawl towards blindness, but...last time I had dramatic sight problems, they took me off morphine and boom! Back to single vision. Then he mentioned topamax would the likely culprit, if it wasn't my extremely advanced age.
I stopped taking topamax Sunday since I have an optician's appointment today--it seemed sensible that I should see hime with my eyes doing their stuff, not the meds. Perhaps coincidentally, my vision is pretty decent. Not as good as it was five years ago, but I'm not expecting it to be. But I can read things at arm's length without a magnifying glass, which I think is fair, considering.
Why topamax suddenly, if that's the culprit? Dunno. What will stopping topamax do to my migraines? Dunno. Should I be getting glasses for my topamax blindness instead of this? I really dunno.
It seemed like a good idea at the time. I'll go back on it when I get back from the appointment.
Who do you call/what does it cost to have someone come and assess a room and help you figure out how to organize/furnish it?
An organizer/planner/decorator/stager, I guess. The folks who are staging my folks' condo for sale also moved them into the new assisted living place, and they organized/decorated the apartment wonderfully.
Good luck with the reorg, Glamcookie.
So I just booked airline tickets to Dublin for a week. IN THREE WEEKS!!!
I realize the middle of February is the time to go somewhere sunny, but don't wanna, esp. not all by myself. And I figure that weather in Ireland in February is going to like weather here in April.
But eeeeee!
ETA: Taking any travel tips for Dublin or Galway.
Have we mentioned yet today that librarians are awesome?
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Taking any travel tips for Dublin or Galway.
So exciting! I loved the Dingle peninsula. Dublin: do the Guinness tour for sure. It's right next to the old prisons which have their own fascinating tour.
Sue, so exciting! Dublin is amazing, even when the weather isn't great.
Dublin has an awesome rare books museum/library that is well worth a visit, is also a beautiful building, AND has a good cafe, the Chester Beatty Library: [link]
We went to an awesome pastry/tea shop called Queen of Tarts: [link]
If you like Celtic gold and/or bog bodies, the National Archaeological Museum is worth seeing. [link] We went to the art museum part too, but that was not that thrilling. Although it had an excellent gift shop.
I also really liked a one-day bus tour we did that went to Tara (not much to see other than a nice bumpy hill) and Newgrange (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange) and the associated megalithic tomb visitor's center. You could DIY by car but it wasn't too pricy as a but tour and we were in the mood for easy.
Sue that is fantastic! Very jealous.
Glam, I have had good luck with online space planning tools. You put in the measurements of your space and the measurements of your furniture and then you can shift them around however you want. Maybe not quite what you are looking for, though.
And I'm still in grrrrrrrr mode. Pest control guy still isn't here. I called the office and he has picked up keys for all the units he has to hit today, so he is on the property, just don't know where I am on the list. I threw the cats in the bathroom last time I was in my room. I know they aren't happy with me, but I figured it was better now than when they freak out with a stranger in the house.
Work....too busy to even think about. And yet, here I am taking a brain break cause it is all too much at the moment.
