Bigger Than My Skin

[greenstorm]

It's summer. For real it's summer, today, no matter what it may be tomorrow or this weekend.

I spent most of today and yesterday not falling asleep as I worked in the sun. Sun turns on my napping impulse, and it makes me happy. Today and yesterday were all sun, with the windows at home open wide today. We're playing sunshine music, the kind that even when it says baby, it's 3am I must be lonely is rock-y dancy music.

I'm not moving at the end of this month due to a confluence of factors. In the end this may be for the best, so oh, well.

Having been so exhausted today, I've switched around my schedule. I'm doing a full work-week, but no extra-long days, so that's okay.

I get to go visit my babies for the first time on Sunday. I'm really excited about that! I'm not sure how this will work given that I'm not moving-- I may need to lean on Graham for livingspace for them. We shall see. That reminds me, I need to bathe the babies today.

I'm loving my contacts, still. I can wear sunglasses again! I just need to obtain some. I spent so much of my life with glasses as part of my self-image, I'm amazed that they shed so easily. In fact, though, they do shed easily. I wander around like this thinking, 'I can see, I'm whole, this is a miracle!' and that's what it feels like. Wholeness. A miracle. Dammit, I understand people a lot better now. This is why they never look too closely at one or two things-- there's so much competing for attention.

My plum tree is still blooming, and beautiful. I worked in North Van today, and there was aperfect white-cherry-blossom-against-bl;ue-sea-and-sky moment in which I almost died.

What else is there to say? I wish there was someone free right now to hang around and listen to music with and eat with, just right now, but I think y'all are busy. If not, lemme know.

Oh, and no more blood.

Comments

[cz_unit]

Bit far away for dinner, but that would be nice sometime.

CZ

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it would. There's always crash-space. Just keep your super-sperm away from my IUD! :D

[khamura.livejournal.com]

I have been entertaining the thought of getting contact lenses when I go for a eye check-up upon my return home, and the self-image stuff was one thing that I dwelled on for a while. Because while glasses are definitely a fixed part of my self-image (I had to wear them since the mid-'80s, after all), they're not a necessary part of it: I like the way I look without glasses, too. But I suppose I just have a generally high (and healthy) acceptance of my physical self.

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

You know me, and you know that I do too. It's not the externalities that have me hooked, though. It's being able to see in FULL STERO VISION WITH DEPTH OMG OMG OMGOMGOMGOMGBRAINOVERLOADED.

[khamura.livejournal.com]

Well, that'll serve me as a warning not to do any driving while getting accustomed to the lenses. ;P

You've inspired me

[http://users.livejournal.com/_greenwitch_/]

I love contact lenses - look ma! my vision doesn't stop where my glasses do, and I can look everywhere! Problem being, I've always worked around *lots* of paper (bookstore, offices), so they become dry and scratchy after only a couple of hours wear - despite using the most up-to-date-'these-are-99%-water'-lenses, and with the use of lots of drops. Maybe it's time to try again.....

Re: You've inspired me

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

My contact dude at Metrotown is wonderful. I went in for the one-week thingy, and said, 'this and this and this happen' and he gave me some different solutions, cleaners, and lenses with different water content, etc-- all this still under the original fitting fee. Basically, I keep going back for free until we find what works for me. He's also amazingly friendly.

Re: You've inspired me

[saxifrage00.livejournal.com]

Jas, yeah, he's great. I need to make an appointment to get that all finished up—I've been too busy since Christmas to follow up and get my final supply.

Now you know why I was so enthusiastic about the lenses. We won't recognise each other at all!

Re: You've inspired me

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

Love, given that I'm in physical proximity to you about once a year, I doubt it will come up.

From what I understand, the lenses there are at least three

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Love, given that I'm in physical proximity to you about once a year, I doubt it will come up.

From what I understand, the lenses there are at least three <i><times</i> the price that Trevor pays for his dailies, and possibly more. So while I'll get my first set there, it likely won't be my source forever.