wildyams

I don't have a whole lot to talk about today. It was hot as hell again (hopefully like last week it will go away later on in the week), I went to work, I worked, and I came home. The end.

So since I don't have much to talk about today, I'll talk about what I did on Friday. Friday I got off work early cause I had to go to the eye doctor. A year and a half ago when I went to the dentist to get my wisdom teeth out, that was my first time to the dentist in probably 7 or 8 years. Well, Friday was my first time going to the eye doctor in about that long as well. I didn't go so much because my glasses weren't cutting it anymore (as in, because I was having trouble seeing with my glasses), but more because #1 my glasses are pretty rundown, needing new nosepads, needing a replacement hinge, and with a chunk missing from them in one area; and #2 because my kick-ass insurance with Universal was gonna end on May 1st (GE bought Universal so my health insurance transferred from one company to the next, and according to GE, Universal had better vision coverage).

Seeing as how I always seem to end up waiting till the last second, I went on Friday, the last day I was covered with that insurance. Luckily for me, I had ordered my new frames through Steve-o and they arrived Friday morning. I'd never been to this doctor before, since this was only my third ever eye exam (my first was when I was about 15, and I have no idea who it was with, and my second one was at an EyeExam2000 up in Santa Barbara), but this doctor was cool. He was so cool, I'm give him a little free publicity from all the millions and billions of people who read my blog, so if you wanna get your eyes checked by the guy who checked mine, go see Dr. Gordon. Anyway, he checked my eyes, gave me a prescription, and then I left my new frames there so I could get kick-ass new lenses put in them. I got all the bells and whistles too: polycarbonate, UV protection, photochromatic, polished... I got it all. Last time I got glasses I just got the cheapest lenses they had, cause I was without insurance and was a broke college kid. But since I had insurance this time, I got $500 lenses for about $80. Not bad, huh? Anyway, those should be ready for me in about a week or two, and I can't wait.

I'm also gonna get me a pair of sunglasses, also courtesy of Steve-o. See, I already have a pair of prescription sunglasses, but the problem is that they're not that dark, and the main time that I use them is when I am driving to work in the morning, when I go from being indoors in my parking garage out into the sweltering and exceedingly bright LA streets. Because my sunglasses aren't that dark (and also because Dr. Gordan said it was a good idea), I'm getting the darkest sunglasses I can find that are offered through Steve-o's sweet deal. Now my drive to work in the morning hopefully won't be so harsh on my eyes. Steve-o tells me that those will probably be ready for me in the next week or two as well, so pretty soon I'll be sitting pretty with some much-needed new eyewear :grin

After my eye exam madness, I went over to Dave and Jen's place, because they had invited me over to go get some dinner with them. When I got there we all decided to go to Houston's, which even though it is a little pricey, is always worth it. We went there and it was semi-crowded, but we got a table after about maybe a half hour or so. While we were waiting for our table I realized that Cookie had told me the next time we were gonna go there to let him know cause he was curious to try it. Cookie usually tends to stick to meals that are a little cheaper, but he seemed so convinced by myself and Riggs and Nick raving about the food there that he wanted to try it. Well, being that we'd decided spur of the moment, I had no way to contact Cookie, so he missed out (he said he was probably still working anyway, so it wasn't a big deal. Next time, Cookie :grin). Jen and I had our traditional knife and fork ribs, while Dave had his usual ahi tuna steak. Afterwards we went back to Dave and Jen's place and shot the shit for a while, then at around midnight I went home and went to sleep, and that was my Friday.

God damn I'm long winded :grin