Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

Went to the eye doc today - got there early ( I hate being late for anything) and sat awhile, then sat some more half-way through the exam, as he had to dilate both eyes to check the retinas. Hubby ended up leaving late for work, and I've spent the entire day dilated!

So, it appears (as if I didn't know already!) that the astigmatism in the surgeried eye is now much worse than the other eye, which had severe enough astigmatism, thank you! But he can get a contact that will come close to the prescription I need. They don't actually make a contact for astigmatism that bad, and I can't wear glasses any longer - after wearing contacts all these years, glasses make me dizzy, and even if they didn't make me dizzy, there's my vanity.

I spent my entire youth wearing bottleneck glasses and having eyeballs that looked the size of peas behind these huge lenses. One can't look sideways out of glasses, not with my myopia, as everything's a blur if one does. They fog up, they're cold in winter, hot in summer, heavy ALL the time, and ugly. Once hubby got me my first set of contacts, I was in heaven. Unless you've lived with such glasses all your life and still not ever seeing the blackboards!, you don't know what a relief having full vision is like - that everywhere you look, your sight is even and corrected! They don't hang on your face, denting your nose, hurting your ears. They're so light, you don't feel them sitting on your eyes. Heaven!

So, there's no way in h*ll I'm ever doing glasses again. I'll live with the not-quite-ideal prescription. He said as my eye continues to heal, the prescription may well change and I'll have to be refitted, anyway. He even asked if I wouldn't want to wait! Wait! And spend, what?, more months squinting one eye closed all the time so I can read and write. I don't think so!

So, it's been interesting finishing up Dad's hat. I had to rework the crown decreasing, so I sat under bright light, squeezed the *bad* eye closed and still fumbled through it. But it's done, washed and laying on the shelf atop the radiator to dry, so I can wrap it up and mail it tomorrow - ufda!

Also still continuing with the linen re-washing. Am down to my handspun, handwoven wool rugs and pillows to wash and let hang to dry in the basement and on the rad. Gotta get a few more of those clear plastic tubs with lids - have more linens than I thought.

I keep checking email, hoping for list talk, but, naturally, everyone's quite busy preparing for the holidays. We gotta get the tree tomorrow and put it in the dining room, DD and boyfriend will only be here a day and a bit, so there's no point putting it in the parlor and turning on that room's heat, as once she leaves, we gotta turn the heat off and shut the room, so at least in the dining room, we can enjoy the tree, as we pass through.

I'm thinking the next house should be decorated seaside cottage. I looked at my handwoven rugs and they would fit in rather nicely with a creamy white and blue decor. I love red, though, so one room, my office, would have to be a rich dark red, papered, with lots of wood - very English country gentleman's study. They say that those rooms are masculine, but I'm drawn to them and think they are very warm and relaxing and not at all masculine. All those bright rooms aren't relaxing, they're *awake* rooms. Relaxing needs dim light, deep colors, and deep, comfortable sofas or armchairs, nothing startling or too high contrast. That's the kind of room you go into to read a book, get 10 pages in and end up sound asleep! Perfect!