That is what I have been doing all day: personally training my replacement for my job. The lady who has been hired in my place is so sweet and I think she is really going to flourish in the position. She seems much more organized than I am, and I’ve been furiously cleaning my drawers and organizing my haphazard files in anticipation of the day she takes the reigns. She’s a quick study and it’s nice to have to explain things only once. The one thing that sucks about training someone is how severely it cuts into my blogging time! How am I supposed to say, "Now here’s the part of the day where I ignore the phone and check the 50,000 blogs I can’t live without"? Hence, my presence may be slightly diminished in the next two weeks but I’ll try my best to keep up. I miss you already and it’s only been a few hours.
In other news, I wore my contacts today for the first time in…ever. You see, I am both vain and lazy. I am too vain to wear spectacles every day unless I am going for a bookish look and the glasses happen to match my outit. But I am too lazy to get up an extra three minutes early to press the contacts into my dry, tired eyes. So I’ve basically been squinting for the past year. It’s amazing what the body gets used to. After wearing my contacts today I have realized that the fields across the street have individual blades of grass comprising them, not just blurry masses of green. The edges of the clouds are crisp. The grapes in the vineyard across the lake are beginning to grow. It’s a whole new world for mine eyes! I like being able to see and all day long I was like, "Wow, Summerland is beautiful!" It always has been, but seeing it even more clearly simply accentuates the splendor. I will be wearing my contacts from now on.
Well, I am off to get caught up on all the happenngs in your days!
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I didn’t realize my perscription was out-dated until I got my new glasses. I couldn’t believe you could actually see people’s faces and recognize them when walking down the hallway. Shameful, I know.
I go into withdrawl from lack of blogging too. At the beach yesterday I kept thinking, “if only I were home I would blog about this.” And, “I wonder if so-and-so updated her blog yet.” But at least it’s a free addiction with no side effects other than bleary eyes.
Glad all is going well with the training.
I had the same revelation when I first got glasses. I remember saying “Wow! I can see every blade of grass!”
Maybe you can sneak in some blog reading when she takes a bathroom break :)
haven’t always worn glasses, in fact I didn’t until my 20’s when I started to get terrible headaches. Figuring I had a tumor and was dying I told no one until one day I was in too much pain to do my job. Finally I told my then girlfriend that I knew I was dying. It made sense, I was in pain all the time and was having trouble seeing things even when I wasn’t drunk. She suggested I see an eye doctor, just in case it wasn’t a tumor.
She took me to the optometrist and as I was inside going through the checks she began to wonder; “What if it’s not just his vision, what if he is going to die”? She got herself carried away and by the time I was done she was sitting in the waiting room crying and making funeral arrangements. I came out with good news though, my mother was right, I was going blind. A few days later we went to pick up my glasses and on the drive home I said to her “I guess while we were in there they replaced the old street signs”. She paused a second before asking what the hell I was talking about…
I continued…”The street signs, they used to be all worn and faded, they must have gotten new ones”.
All she said was “Yes Will, in the half hour it took you to get your glasses someone replaced every street sign on Long Island”
“It’s about time, I could never read those old ones.”
You drive without contacts? Yikes! and I will be there on the streets of Summerland in a few short weeks. What type of car do you drive so I can beware?
I like your new site Amanda (this comment has nothing to do with glasses, although Aaron recently lost his 3rd pair)…. and I hope all is well and I love keeping up with you in this way. :)
I’m totally with you on the glasses. I rarely wear mine. In fact, I have no idea where they are (soooo bad). I have astigmatism so I am unable to wear contacts. Fortunately, I am not required to wear them for driving but I fear that I am making my eyesight worse for not wearing them. On another note…
I hope you do find the time to check up on and write your own blog. I have been following your pregnancy (we’re 6 weeks apart, I think) and would miss hearing your day to day thoughts.
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