The Eye Of The Beholder

It's the halfway point of the week and I finally managed to clear all my work, well most of it anyway and have managed to get some time for myself. I haven't been blogging from the office for quite a while now. Well, not as often as I used to anyway. These days with the workload I've been having, I've only managed to get a couple of minutes free time here and there to check on my blog and do a little blog hopping.

I haven't been this busy in god knows how long. Not that I'm complaining that much mind you. More work means more business. More business means more money for the office. And more money for the office means I'll get paid every month :D We can't be too choosy with the work we have right now. Not in this day, situation and age anyway.

But the workload is kinda taking it's toll on me. The moment I step in to the office, it's right down to work. No chance to check into my blog like I used to first thing in the morning anymore. It's work, work and work right through the day. And by the time I get one project completed, a new one is already coming in demanding attention.

By the time I'm done in the evening I'm totally drained out. I'll be driving home with a mentally exhausted mind and feeling lethargic and can't wait to call it a night. My average day these days revolves around coming to work, working like a slave, heading home feeling like a zombie, prepare my usual diet dinner of salads or a chicken sandwich, watch a couple of hours of TV, then head to bed, not even bothering to log on and check my blog. And you all know what a blog addict I am.

There was a time I use to even catch a few hours of reading in bed before calling it a night. I love reading and it's something I love to do before sleeping. Wifey will normally be blogging away and I'll be cuddled up in bed with a recycled book waiting for her. Now, I'm fast asleep even before she comes in to bed. Man, I hope to get back to some semblance of my normal routine sometime soon and get back on track with my daily postings ... hehehe ...

Speaking of reading in bed and all that. I've recently noticed that my eyesight has deteriorated considerably. I have problems trying to make out those fine prints in some of the books I read. I have a whole load of books at home and I've gone through them all at least 4 billion times (ok, I exaggerate, maybe a little over 2 million ... LOL!) and I had no problems before reading them even with some of them having fonts are are pretty small.

When I read them again nowadays, I don't remember the fonts being so small that I have trouble trying to read them. And the position of the lighting in my room doesn't help all that much. Maybe if you keep a book too long, the fonts tend to shrink? Or maybe the ink fades in time and makes the fonts look smaller? Ok, ok, I'll stop making up excuses. I've got bad eyesight due to old age! There, are you all happy now?

But the thing is I hate and I really mean I HATE wearing glasses. Glasses can be so uncomfortable for me. After long periods of time wearing them the bridge of my nose hurts. I actually wore glasses at one time and being the vain pot that I am, I threw them away after a few months. I have astigmatism and was prescribed glasses especially for when I drive at nights. Even wearing my sunglasses for too long a time makes me feel totally uncomfortable. And I'm using pretty light weight Ray-Ban wayfarers and even then, they can hurt.

You know, the funny thing is at one time when I was a kid, I so wanted to wear glasses. I remember my cousin was prescribed to wear glasses and I pretended that I was having headaches and blurred vision so that I could wear glasses too. In those days, it was so cool to be seen in school with glasses on. It made you look intelligent and I did everything I could to get a pair but my mom saw right through me ... LOL! Now, I wouldn't be caught dead in one! How times change, ya?

But the sad truth of the matter is my eyesight have gone bad and I probably would one day really need to get myself a pair of glasses. But that was until I heard of LASIK! I'm sure you all already know that LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) is a type of refrective laser eye surgery for correcting myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism, right? Well, if you didn't, shame on you ... LOL! This sounds like the perfect option for me. Instead of having to wear some uncomfortable not so happening set of glasses or even contact lenses, I could go get my eyes lasered (is there such a word?).

I'm told it will take about 2 hours for the examination of your eye that will include 3-d mapping (sounds cool and high tech!), get a customized wave-front measurement of the eye (whatever the heck that means) and also get my corneas checked. It's supposed to be a fast and painless procedure but I was also told that not everyone is eligible for it. I guess I need to check out a lot more LASIK information if I ever decided to let some guy in a white coat (they call them ophthalmologists, Nick!) shoot lasers into my eye.

Whoa, will you just look at the time, I'd best be getting back to work now :D Hope you all have been having a great Wednesday so far. But before I even get back to work, a little blog hopping is due ... hehehe ...

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