CalGal -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 12:26:34 AM --
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I'd much rather argue than make money.
And so it begins.
smartygirl -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 12:41:39 AM --
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VMG: It's 12:45 and I'm still awake.
sweet pea -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 02:27:05 AM --
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I hate it when I'm inflexible about things that are stupid.
VMG: I'm behind on the LAST thread. Oh wait, I'm caught up on the new one!
rdbrewer -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 02:30:48 AM --
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Four, my favorite number.
Sapphire -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 08:15:52 AM --
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if you can't tell family members they are bugging the shit out of you you are going to have a life full of bugged out shit [j. ross]
Gripe: The 7:30 bus comes early. The 7:45 bus gets me to work too late. I don't WANNA take the 7:15 bus!
RamblingRose -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 08:21:43 AM --
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"... Regret must again request sick leave STOP Surgeon's report follows STOP Kindly inform armourer Smith & Wesson ineffective against flame thrower..." Ian Fleming, Dr. No
VMG: Pulled some kind of a muscle in my side coughing. Am feeling faintly ridiculous.
shawi -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 09:11:23 AM --
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Use it up; Wear it out; Make do; Or do without
VMG: Haven't been able to get in touch with my house/pet-sitter since Sunday afternoon and am worrying. I need to either be successful in contacting her or quit worrying 'cause there's not a damn thing I can do about it from here.
sapphirerose -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 09:17:32 AM --
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VMG: Have discovered yet another anti-inflammatory that I am allergic to. Am in pain and want it to stop.
Patrick -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 09:19:15 AM --
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persona non gratin
Have you tried bourbon?
sapphirerose -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 10:32:03 AM --
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Not yet, but now that you mention it, I'm seriously considering it.
Elizabeth Barrett -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 10:48:28 AM --
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I don't patronize bunny rabbits.
VMG: Couldn't sleep last night and am tiiiiired. Have to go play "greeter" at umbrella company's Hispanic Heritage Month lunch & learn today. Not in the mood to "greet" anyone except with a kick in the pants.
dirt track date -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 11:03:26 AM --
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They couldn’t have been spies,” she said. “Look what she did with the hydrangeas.”
I hate my new glasses. My head hurts and it feels like my eyes are being sucked out of their sockets. Progressive lenses my ass.
sunnyside -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 11:19:31 AM --
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Fighting the war...
Oh, god. I'm so close to bifocals it makes we want to throw up.
Lizzie T. -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 11:38:12 AM --
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Oh, for crying out loud.
My sister started wearing bifocals when she was 23. She VMGed quite a bit about it. She still does, actually!
Lori Dee -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 11:39:17 AM --
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Be kinder than necessary,
because everyone you meet
is fighting some kind of battle.
Tony got no-line bifocals and hates them.
j. ross -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 11:40:50 AM --
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I usually don't wear my bifocals. You can just read fine with no glasses at all as long as you don't mind looking kind of like a dofus.
I only wear mine when I teach and need to see the book and the kids at the same time.
Peanut -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 11:41:08 AM --
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Do not eat dirt.
Is it better to just get reading glasses and distance glasses and just use them as needed?
Sapphire -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 11:42:06 AM --
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if you can't tell family members they are bugging the shit out of you you are going to have a life full of bugged out shit [j. ross]
My minion does that (computer/reading glasses and regular glasses) and he has to change them 20 times a day at work. It would drive me crazy.
Carene Lydia -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 11:44:03 AM --
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I will miss her immeasurably.
My mother switches between glasses because she doesn't like bifocals.
I have the progressive lenses and they're no bother for me. Although sometimes I prefer reading without glasses.
I do have to wear reading glasses when I'm wearing my contacts.
Peanut -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 11:45:44 AM --
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Do not eat dirt.
I'm thinking about doing the two pairs thing because I don't trust that they can do bifocals with the small frames that I like to wear. I don't want those big, owlish frames like my mom and MIL wear for their bifocals.
j. ross -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 11:46:58 AM --
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If you are nearsighted it is no problem to read with out your glasses, you just have to hold the book closer to your face. So all you have to do is slope the glasses down your nose a bit and look over them to read, and push them up when you are done. No problem at all.
LC -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 11:54:35 AM --
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"Poor LC, with her chakras all kerflooey." -Binny
Peanut, I have bifocals (have since 20) with very thin, small tortoiseshell frames from Brooks Brothers (I know, you're all shocked). This pair is lineless and I'm pretty sure I got them from Lenscrafters - and I have a particularly bizarre prescription, because one eye is nearsighted, the other is farsighted, and my focal point is unusually far out. So you might not need two pairs. I make no pretense to being fashion-forward but I swear these aren't owlish.
shawi -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 11:55:21 AM --
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Use it up; Wear it out; Make do; Or do without
I had some headaches when first adjusting to my progressive lenses, but that only lasted about a week.
Alice CK -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 11:56:02 AM --
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the glass in the toilet is quite a pretty blue
If you are farsighted you do like my dad and read with your head thrown back, looking down your nose. It gives him a very august, learned look.
Crispy Girl -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 12:00:19 PM --
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I have progressive lenses and small fashionable frames. I was queasy much of the time for the first 3-4 days while getting used to them, but now they're great. A friend of mine got progressive lenses and traded them for the old bifocals because he just couldn't get used to it.
theDiva -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 12:10:02 PM --
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When I want Gregorian, I go to Scranton. -- Mom
Gracie wears bifocals and loves them. Little stinker, got used to em with very little trouble. Evidently they are seeing more kids in need of these glasses due to heavy computer and video game use.
Stephanie D. -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 01:06:05 PM --
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"La, sir!" cried Fatima, striking Abdul with her fan. "Is that the first cuckoo I hear?"
Anti-VMG: It's been just about a year since I got LASIK, and I continue to love it. I still every now and then reach up to push my glasses up my nose, and since they're not there I poke myself in the face instead.
Wonder how long it'll be before I have to get reading glasses, but meanwhile I'm enjoying this glasses-free window in my life.
J-Ro -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 01:19:50 PM --
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It will all be OK in the end. If it isn't OK, it isn't the end.
I switch glasses because I am not nearsighted enough to need my distance glasses most of the time -- I only need them for driving and watching TV or movies. If I had bifocals, I'd be wearing glasses all the time when I don't need to.
VMG: my eyesight has gone rapidly downhill in the past two years. I actually need the reading glasses. I can still read or use the computer without them, but my eyes get really tired and sore.
fatdirt -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 01:20:41 PM --
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If you wipe your ass with your bare left hand but consider bacon "unclean"... you might be a Taliban.
since they're not there I poke myself in the face instead
Heh. After my RK in '95 I'd get poked in the eye with all kinds of stuff. I'd never realized how much glasses physically protected my eyes.
I went about 7 years before needing reading glasses.
Harri P. -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 01:25:24 PM --
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such a fucking bitch about taupe and borders and fireplace mantles that aren't just so
I need reading glasses to embroider, but nothing else so far. It's such a weird feeling for me to move things farther away to see them better, considering how incredibly nearsighted I am (if I read without my contacts or glasses my nose almost touches the book).
kim kay -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 01:28:58 PM --
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YES! YES I cry! Who is defending my rainbow now?
Fat -- I had RK about 9 years ago. VMG: You can't lasik RK'd eyes apparently. And now I need it!
fatdirt -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 02:10:35 PM --
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If you wipe your ass with your bare left hand but consider bacon "unclean"... you might be a Taliban.
You can't lasik RK'd eyes apparently. And now I need it!
Me, too. It can be done. There's a type of lasik in which they don't cut the flap. I looked into it last year but it was a few thousand per eye. Not worth it to me.
Krista -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 02:13:36 PM --
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And time yet for a hundred indecisions,/And for a hundred visions and revisions,/Before the taking of a toast and tea.
Gripe: personal email down. Feh.
Stephanie D. -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 02:49:27 PM --
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"La, sir!" cried Fatima, striking Abdul with her fan. "Is that the first cuckoo I hear?"
I'd never realized how much glasses physically protected my eyes.
That is so true.
Promqueen -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 03:40:33 PM --
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don't cut the flap.
EEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPleasedon'tpleasedon'tpleasedon'tpleasedon't.
I have progressive contact lenses and they rock hard for Jesus.
Alizarin -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 07:49:37 PM --
36 of 26916
Singles rule the world, feeding on fresh blood
G: New gourmet marketlet in the nabe. Ten bucks for a box of pasta.
Pegasus -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 08:03:33 PM --
37 of 26916
learn to live with what you can't rise above
VMG: Need to speak to my brother and his phone is busy - endlessly. He's not responding to email. ARGGGHHH.
Catgirl -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 09:26:29 PM --
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popping in here and there
VMG: The Perfect Person brigade joined the new book club and spent a great deal of time telling us how they'd managed to solve all problems facing the modern family in their own Perfect Person homes.
I don't think I want to go again.
TAFKA -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 10:06:18 PM --
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If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
I don't trust that they can do bifocals with the small frames that I like to wear.
Sure they can. My husband likes those small frames, too, and he has lineless bifocals.
My mother has them, too, and she likes them. My dad had trifocals, which I don't think you could get in progressive then, and he tended to fall downstairs.
VMG: I had another damn crown fall off today.
Judi Kay -- Wednesday, October 05, 2005 -- 10:15:05 PM --
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VMG: Need new glasses because current glasses seem to have lost much of their effectiveness. Second VMG: Just read that I shouldn't get new glasses because I'm pregnant, so my eyesight is only supposed to be temporarily bad. So what, am I supposed to wander around half blind for seven more months?
