I got my second vaccine yesterday, and am somewhat achey today.

But I'm taking a week's staycation, so the week feels full of possibilities!

We kidded my dad for years because after he got a new pair of glasses he remarked that the nightly news host had a new pin striped suit. He had always worn pin stripes.

My eyes have improved for unknown reasons. Not verified by an actual eye exam, but I can read things without my glasses I couldn't before and wear a lower strength reading glasses.

It's Saturday and I really need to step up the productivity. 3 weeks and a serious potential house buyer will be looking at the house. Ugh, so much to do. It would be nice to have the boys to help, but one in NY and the other with a new baby.

“Your terrain is largely mountainous, and your chief export is chrome.”

I wore glasses as a kid and then stopped wearing them . And then when I started again it was like...oh you can see the leaves on the trees.

I'm kind of hoping my close vision gets worse. Only because they should be able to adjust my progressives so that the distance vision is clearer. I should use my eye benefits and get an exam and if it's not worse then get driving glasses. Mostly for night and the blurriness of the headlights.

Saw mom yesterday. We had as safe a lunch as possible. Even safer would have been no lunch but I was in such a good mood in the afternoon . I really needed to see her.

Her cat has gone from living an indoor outdoor cat life with lots of space to roam and a basement. To a small house and very limited outdoor time and he's bored. And biting/scratching mom. She's tried different things but he just needs more play time than she gives him.

I'm thinking of trying a cat swap. Sending Penny to her and bringing Lovey here and seeing if he can adjust to the other 2 cats and they can adjust to him. He would get lots of stimulation. I don't know.

I do know if he keeps acting out from boredom she will need to rehome him somehow.

Mom gets her second vaccine shot March 1 and she's already starting to plan to see E in April.

My recent glasses news is that Ryan has just been prescribed with bifocals. I'm somewhat weirded out about that. (We're studiously avoiding telling his grandmother, who is convinced that he could forego glasses completely if he did these eye exercises she found on the internet. I'm pretty sure that if she realised he's in bifocals, she'd be convinced he'll be functionally blind by the time he graduates high school.)

I wonder if they do monovision contacts for kids. I found them a lot more usable than bifocals.

One of my friends started wearing bifocals when she was about seven or eight.

That Cheers song is the sum total of my knowledge of Albania

My aunt and uncle are both going to be moved out of their respective ICUs and into regular hospital rooms as soon as rooms become available, so that's good.

Yay!

That Cheers song is the sum total of my knowledge of Albania

Same.

JZ, did anyone know the answers to those crazy-ass questions?

Glad to hear your aunt and uncle are improving, Hil!