So I went to the eye doctors on Saturday for my annual exam.. My eyes are getting worse :( .. Not TOO much worse.. The prescription has only gone down -.25 in each eye from last year.. But it’s gone down quite a bit from the last time I bought glasses 3 years ago.  But then again, I rarely wear glasses… I think I’ve only worn them twice in the last year (to work) .. But I still need something that works.. And I figured now, while we have pretty decent vision insurance (the rest of our health insurance sucks ass though) I’d get some new glasses.. So off to Lencrafters we went.. And man, thank god we do have insurance.. If we didn’t then they’d have been $534! That’s just ridiculous.  How do people with no insurance afford decent glasses?  I feel pretty confident that these frames will last me quite a while (for the price, they freaking better) and hopefully my prescription will stop changing and I won’t have to fork out $$ for new lenses next year either.  Our insurance is weird and that it covers Frame and Lenses ($100 and 20% towards frames and $90 towards lenses) or Frame and Contact Lens fitting (So, 100 and 20% towards frame and $90 toward lenses) .. well, since I knew I had to have a contact fitting, and the fitting for astigmatism’d (I know, I just made that word up) eyes is $99, I figured it best to use my benefit for that.. just in case I opted not to get glasses.. Well, now I got glasses too.. I think we would’ve paid the same out of pocket either way.. so, oh well… that lesson in insurance coverage was pointless ‘eh?

Now I’m going to take my 3 year old glasses to bed and read before sleepy time.. oh yeah, I’m reading the funniest book I’ve read in years.. you all should read it. Every single one of you!

It’s called “Bitter is the new black” and holy crap is it funny.  I got it for Christmas but just now picked it up.. I can barely put it down.. The author has another book out called “Bright Lights Big Ass” that I need to go buy ASAP so I can start reading it when I’m done with this one… and another called “Such a Pretty Fat” coming out May 6th.  I can’t wait to get that either..

Anyways, I highly recommend this book.. very funny…

The full title is actually “Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass,Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office” And the back says “This is the story of how a haughty former sorority gal went from having a household income of almost a quarter-million dollars to being evicted from a ghetto apartment in less than two years.  It’s a modern Greek tragedy, as defined by Roger Dunkle in The Classical Origins of Western Culture: a story in which “the central character, called a tragic protagonist or hero, suffers some serious misfortune which is not accidental and therefore meaninglesss, but is significant in that the misfortune is logically connected.”

The bitch had it coming.”

so, go buy it. now

It was a lot more work than I expected really.. We should’ve gotten started earlier, like oh.. yesterday. haha..

We only did the kitchen/dining room today .. and did 2 colors.  The main color is “butternut wood” (brown) with an accent wall of Jungle Green ... funtimes

Of course, I took pictures!

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Well we moved last week.. Technically 3 nice men that we paid an arm and a leg for came to move our stuff.  Yes, we hired movers.  I was not about to move all of our crap down 3 flights of stairs in February.  And it’s probably a good thing too… Since Sunday Mike came down with the plague and I got it on Monday night.. Okay, not quite the plague, but the flu with bronchitis, fun huh? Nothing like running a fever for 4 days straight and coughing so hard I can barely move now.  I did get some good meds from the doctor yesterday though

So yeah, Wednesday (the 13th) the movers came in the morning and it took them 6 hours with drive-time to move all of our crap out of the apartment and into the house.. But it’s all here.  For a minute I felt bad, when I was sitting on the living room floor in front of the new gas fireplace eating lunch and the men were out in the rain getting our stuff off of the truck.. but when I wrote them the check to pay for their services, I no longer felt bad.  We managed to get quite a bit of stuff unpacked on Wednesday, which is good since we didn’t have much time after that to get it done.  Thursday and Friday I had a payroll class to go to for work.. which was actually highly educational.. Thursday night for Valentines Day we went to The Melting Pot for dinner. yumyum.  Friday after my class and stopping by the office to work for a few hours my sister came out to help me unpack and decorate.. See, we didn’t tell anyone we were hiring movers.. We told all of our friends that we needed help moving on the 16th.. but in reality while Mike was meeting everyone at the empty apartment, I was back at the house making up a big batch of chili getting ready to party.. we threw our friends a “surprise, thanks for helping us all of those other times” party… So we ate snacks, chili and cornbread, drank beer and played games for a few hours.. It was fun times

Sunday we were exhausted so we just vegged out in the morning, but got up in the afternoon and went to Target, Linens & Things and Bed, Bath & Beyond for curtains and other house decorationy type stuff.  We spent WAY too much money but got curtains for all of the windows (except for the one above the sink, I don’t want a curtain there) and some pretty green placemats and napkins for the new dining room table that we got last week.. oh and an outdoor firepit that was on sale for $50… can’t wait to use it next summer Got home from shopping and I hunt up almost all of the curtains.. then proceeded to make dinner in my new giant kitchen.. oh I love my new giant kitchen

Monday I had taken off to unpack and get more organized in the house.. but Mike woke up with a 102ish fever and needed to be taken to the doctor.. So I did that in the morning, him to the doctor, pharmacy, etc.. Then once I got him into bed with lots of covers, cough syrup and a movie.. I started coughing and getting achey.. by 3pm I was full blown sick too :( We were both sick in bed Monday and Tuesday.. then Wednesday we went to work, which just made me sicker… So we’ve been home since.. Thursday I went to the doctor to get the same diagnosis Mike did on Monday, so I got some of my own antibiotics and cough syrup. joy.  Today was the 3rd annual Ski Trip that our work takes all of the employees on.. but we stayed home so not to get sicker or give anyone else the plague :( Sad.. I hear they all had a great time… Michelle said I was missed, so that’s always nice

Tomorrow I’m hoping I’ll feel better in the morning so I can clean up the house and take pictures.. all of Mike’s family want to see the house.. I also want to get the curtains up in our bedroom and the office.. We’re also hoping to paint in the next month or so.. the way the house is laid out, if we paint 1 wall, we’re going to have to paint them all.. There isn’t really anywhere you could “stop” and have it look good.. and with cathedral ceilings, it’ll be interesting

It’s sad that it’s 10:51 on a Friday night and I’m going to bed… but my cough syrup has kicked in so that’s where I’m off to.