Arrrrgh

When I actually sit down and think about it, it is amazing how non-boring my life is. For example earlier this week there was a very interesting incident at the house here, I'm going to the beach as soon as I finish this post and yesterday I went in for an eye exam. For those faint of heart be aware that this is what this post is going to be about (the interesting incident is going to have to wait until I have more time to write about it)

I received a raise at work several weeks ago and ever since then I have been wondering what to do with it. As I was thinking about different options I realized that I have had the same pair of glasses for the last six years and the last time that I had had an eye exam was when I had gotten those glasses. So voila, I had my money eating monster to give my hard earned dollars to. The local Walmart had an optical center in it so I scheduled an appointment. But I was thinking all the time, 'Can any good thing come out of Walmart?'

It started out very well. I was told to go through a doorway and the doctor would be there. As I stepped through I saw him stand up and start walking into the examining room. Thinking that he had seen me and was expecting me I followed him right into the examining room. He turned and around and practically jumped out of his skin. He hadn't seen me and didn't know I was there. After that it went fairly smoothly until it came time to dilate my eyes. A few eyedrops into my eyes and instructions to come back in ten minutes when the drops would have taken effect. So I went out and looked at frames. As time passed things got fuzzier and fuzzier and my depth perception was thrown off. I was called back in and had all matter of lights shined at me, told to follow finger had more drops put in me and generally misused and abused my eyes as much as he could. Finally he was done and sent me on my way with a pair of plastic shades that slipped behind my regular glasses and looked like something geeks invented to make everyone else look as dumb as possible. Since it would take several hours for the eyes drops to wear off I would have to keep these on since my eyes couldn't adjust to different light levels. Not wearing them would only give me a headache, which I didn't want since my eyes were already screaming in agony (okay slight exaggeration there but it sounds much better than 'quite sore'). It would have been alright if I had just gone home, then the only person who would have seen me would have been my housemate who I could care less what he thought. Unfortunately I had some grocery shopping that I had to do for the weekend so I got to show off my new look. I did a good job of avoiding eye contact with anyone until I came to the cash registers where I couldn't help but look at the clerk. From the look on her face I can only imagine what she was thinking.

I was able to drive home without crashing into anything and then spent the rest of the evening lying on the couch listening to the tv until my eyes finally returned to normal. Now all that is left is to go to the dentists and get my teeth checked out. Hopefully that won't be as bad.