Originally posted by Trindajae
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Eh-T, your timing never ceases to amaze (and slightly frighten) me. I was just planning to ask that same question. I put a box for stamp collecting in the break room at work and the janitor left me a plastic shopping bag completely full of every kind of postmark used. He was so completely pleased with himself and I was so completely blown away by the gesture that I didn't tell him the business mail meter marks probably didn't count as stamps. But there were some useful ones in the bag, too, so he still totally gets the credit.
In other news, for the couple of people who worried about me dropping out of existence for a bit... My eye is healing nicely. I've been avoiding spending too much time on the computer for the past month after I managed to scrape my eye with an unusually dangerous bag of cat food. After a nerve-wracking couple of weeks where the cornea specialist kept using intimidating words like "surgical scraping" and "permanent scarring", it's finally healing properly. I'm still not allowed to wear my contact lens in that eye for probably another month, but the world is no longer so blurry that reading computer screens is bad for me. As a slightly awesome side-effect (I love my brain!), my weaker but uninjured left eye seems to be working more efficiently with my stronger right eye. My prescription didn't improve at all, but it's like my weaker eye is being ignored less often. It's meant that, aside from two weeks where I couldn't handle the unbelievably dry HVAC-circulated air at work combined with staring at computer, I'm currently able to work and drive. (Though I'll admit that I generally avoid driving at night right now cuz judging distance of cars based on headlights isn't easy when the cars are blurry.)
And I have learned valuable lessons. Added to the precept that soda should not be inhaled, I now know that foreign objects and my eyes will never be friends and I should stop trying to introduce them.
Last big exciting news is that my aunt who lives a couple hours away has decided to move back at the same time that I'll be headed to England to become a postgraduate student, so she's going to rent my house and take care of my cats. Best of all possible solutions. I bought my plane ticket for London in September with the return leg in late October to visit my mom for her birthday & mine, then back again in time for AT6. Happy times.
In other news, for the couple of people who worried about me dropping out of existence for a bit... My eye is healing nicely. I've been avoiding spending too much time on the computer for the past month after I managed to scrape my eye with an unusually dangerous bag of cat food. After a nerve-wracking couple of weeks where the cornea specialist kept using intimidating words like "surgical scraping" and "permanent scarring", it's finally healing properly. I'm still not allowed to wear my contact lens in that eye for probably another month, but the world is no longer so blurry that reading computer screens is bad for me. As a slightly awesome side-effect (I love my brain!), my weaker but uninjured left eye seems to be working more efficiently with my stronger right eye. My prescription didn't improve at all, but it's like my weaker eye is being ignored less often. It's meant that, aside from two weeks where I couldn't handle the unbelievably dry HVAC-circulated air at work combined with staring at computer, I'm currently able to work and drive. (Though I'll admit that I generally avoid driving at night right now cuz judging distance of cars based on headlights isn't easy when the cars are blurry.)
And I have learned valuable lessons. Added to the precept that soda should not be inhaled, I now know that foreign objects and my eyes will never be friends and I should stop trying to introduce them.
Last big exciting news is that my aunt who lives a couple hours away has decided to move back at the same time that I'll be headed to England to become a postgraduate student, so she's going to rent my house and take care of my cats. Best of all possible solutions. I bought my plane ticket for London in September with the return leg in late October to visit my mom for her birthday & mine, then back again in time for AT6. Happy times.
Glad to hear you are on the mend.
Originally posted by NZNeep
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Trin, not Trim! Sorry, was typing with my phone.
Yeah, my surgeries were the scapel kind, not laser. Heh.
So I just spent the day in a quilting class with EhT's sister! She walked in wearing her jeans, sneakers, glasses and the same hair. I immediately thought, "oooh a Kiwi Eh-T!" Then she spoke and I heard the accent... a Canadian Eh-T! I immediately pounced and worked out exactly how far from Eh-T she was from... what's 2 days drive? Switched at birth I say.
Yeah, my surgeries were the scapel kind, not laser. Heh.
So I just spent the day in a quilting class with EhT's sister! She walked in wearing her jeans, sneakers, glasses and the same hair. I immediately thought, "oooh a Kiwi Eh-T!" Then she spoke and I heard the accent... a Canadian Eh-T! I immediately pounced and worked out exactly how far from Eh-T she was from... what's 2 days drive? Switched at birth I say.
One day I hope to get to see them live (fingers x'd)!
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