I Got What I Paid For--Again!

I love my new glasses. They look the same as my old ones (as in my accompanying photo). They are the old frames with a new prescription.

When I found out I needed new glasses I foolishly tried to save a few bucks by going to Lenscrafters. I first was sold new frames that were too small to carry my progressive lens prescription. When I switched to different frames and larger lenses they could not/did not make them so that I could read comfortably with them. I could only see a small part of a line of a book at a time. That is not how I read--one of my favorite pastimes. After multiple visits back to the Lenscrafters store and adjustments to the frames (they said nothing was wrong with the lenses) I finally gave up and started using el-cheepo reading glasses for reading books.

Then a couple of weeks ago, as the Stock Market appeared to be going up and I felt I was no longer on my way to the Poorhouse, I decided to ditch the Lenscrafters product and went to Guilford Vision Center to see what they could do. They knew exactly how to deal with my field of vision "problem" and ordered new lenses that work beautifully. (I should have gone there in the first place!)

"You get what you pay for" is certainly true in this case--as it was with my cell phone service. (Ask me about my abortive move to Virgin Mobile.) I will stop by Lenscrafters one more time to tell them where to put the glasses they made--and the sun doesn't shine there.

Wasting an Hour

I love the switch back from daylight-saving time to standard time. That extra hour we get when we "fall back" is an hour I feel I can waste without feeling guilty. Of course a lot of it is spent going through the house changing all the clocks. Thank goodness the computer clock changes itself!

I wonder how many people are oblivious to the change and will arrive today or tomorrow at some event (or work!) an hour early. That's not as bad as in the spring when the time changes to daylight-saving and folks are an hour late. It takes me at least a week to make up for that hour lost when we "spring forward".

For people who don't pay attention to the clock anyway, it doesn't change their being chronically late. (My sister calls it being "time efficient".) They like to have others wait on them; it gives them a feeling of control and power and attention. I, on the other hand, prefer being the wait-er rather than the wait-ee.

So now I've wasted my extra hour writing for my blog. It's time well-wasted, don't you think?

My How Time Flies!

Oh my goodness! It's November and I've missed October almost completely. I know it was there--I gave out Halloween candy on the 31st--but somehow it just zipped by without much more than a passing glance.

Now that I think about it, I remember sister Mary and her friend John being here the first week. Then I started rehearsals for Seussical, a musical based on the stories of Dr. Seuss, with High Point Community Theatre (I'm a Who). The rest of the month is a blur. I know I played a lot of bridge (both with real people and on line) and did a lot of Sudoku puzzles (a billion of them are available on www.websudoku.com). I didn't clean house. I did that before Mary's arrival. I replanted some of the daffodil bulbs I dug up last summer but still have a lot more to put back in the ground. They had really multiplied since they were planted 13 years ago.

I went to water exercise sessions--even led a couple in the teacher's absence. I continued to slog through Harry Truman's biography in between reading some light mystery novels. I read the newspaper (what little there is of it these days) mainly for the obituaries.

I remember October seemed to have a lot of cloudy rainy days. Then the leaves burst forth with color. I prefer spring, though, for beauty.

Now the Christmas shoppng season will begin--a month early to "stimulate the economy"--and cajole people into taking on more debt. I'm already working on my Wish List from Santa and have stashed away several gifts for others in my "Christmas Closet".

I hope this month goes as quickly as October to bring us to Seussical performances November 19-22 and the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas the 27th through the 30th. My birthday is November 28th, but it's not a very significant one, so I'll let it slide by as I'm basking in the Caribbean sun.

Before we know it, there'll be a new year. My how time flies when you're having fun!