Specs

Well, it's finally come round after months of putting it off: buying specs for my younger two. My oldest already wears his round the bleedin' clock . . . did all three of my kids have to be blind? Chief and I have no eye issues whatsoever, but parents that do. Both sides riddled with blindness of one variation or another.

If I am blessed to live long enough, I reckon I will have to hand over the dosh to buy myself some reading lenses - not only so I can continue to read, but sew as well.

A few years ago I did have a brush with lenses. I got better. The eye specialist said that might happen being as I'm still relatively young. However, he also said I would likely have them in my wiser years.

It's cheeky of me, really, to say I think I've wizened enough to wear them. Ahem.


After SB gets home, we'll shuttle off to the lens shop and order their glasses. I told them both to not consider anything other than comfort. I don't want them to buy designer frames, either, but let me just say here that if I had to wear my cheap sunglasses all day, I would not due to how uncomfortable they really are with prolonged wearing.

I've had them waiting long enough. It's not really my fault, because all I could see was the money. I really should not have been blinded by money. But anyone who has done a move knows that it takes a couple of months for the finances to settle and dust off. We are at that lovely juncture now, praise God!

Looking back, I could afford them all along, but I wasn't sure and I have totally sworn off using my credit card (which, is, by the way, long gone . . . the debt from it going down every month).

Now that Crickles has taken up a fancy for reading (again), it's doubly important that he see well.

I just hope I remember to buy some ruddy stamps! I forgot last night when I was getting my hacking medicine. Teenie has noted this hopeful purchase in ink on her hand.

*later: glasses purchased; stamps bought; read a post on Les Femmes about how actor/comedian/songster Jack Black prayed a prayer to Satan on MTV awards show recently (where the audience held hands and repeated it) . . . NEVER AGAIN will I watch anything with him in it - I've had enough of these dumdums. I will NEVER AGAIN watch anything MTV produces or is a part of (if at all possible). Eventually, I'm sure I'll throw my telly out.