Oh Monday....

Today was clearly a Monday.

I forgot until last night that I had an eye doctor appointment scheduled for 9:30 this morning. After leaving my job in news, I didn't have vision insurance for awhile. Thankfully the hubby's company offers amazing benefits, so I have it once again. Given my horrible eyesight and need for glasses since I was four, I was anxious to get my eyes check for the first time in a few years.

However, going to the eye doctor always makes me somewhat nervous. And am I the only one who feels like they are disappointing the technician because I can't read the lines?

Tech: What's the smallest line you can read?
Me: I can't read any of them. The font is so thin I can barely make out that anything is there.
Tech: Well don't squint, but blink a few times.
Me: Still...nothing.
*Awkward pause*
Tech: Okay fine, how about now?

Then there's what I like to call the "One or Two?" test. This large eye-piece type thing (that's a technical term) is put in front of your face and you look through one eye at a time. The technician flips different lenses asking you if option one or two is better. I always worry I'll select the wrong choice and end up with a completely wrong glasses prescription. The tech will write down the results, I'll select frames and the lenses will be made. I'll arrive a few weeks later to pick them up and feel drunk when wearing them, convinced that I must have been given the wrong person's prescription. The doctor will shake her head, confused. "Mrs. Arco, this is the prescription you selected through the "one or two" machine!"*


Perhaps this is unreasonable given that in my 25 years of glasses wearing, this has not happened...but I still fear it every time.

*It should be noted that all the technicians and doctors at my eye doctors office are actually very nice and are great at what they do!
 
Although, this could not actually happen this time because I decided to do something I said I'd never try again - get contacts! I tried a few years ago and the type they fitted me with just didn't work. The contacts constantly felt like little suction cups on my eyeballs. But they fitted me with a different kind, which felt much better and I'm optimistic they'll work out. If not, at least I can rock a pair of Tina Fey style glasses!


On a completely different note, I was just reading yesterday about how you should always be sure to heat up stainless steel pots and pans before cooking with them. The pots and pans we received as wedding gifts are all Calphalon stainless steel, but we kept our small non-stick frying pan from our single days since it's perfect for a few things, like scrambled eggs and grilled cheese sandwiches. Until today when I got confused about the whole preheating thing and burned off a lot of the Teflon coating while making a grilled cheese for lunch. Martha would be ashamed!

After lunch, I enjoyed a Toberlone bar my sweet husband got me. Only problem was I accidentally* ate the whole thing. Liz Lemon would be proud!

*By accidentally, I mean eating the first 2/3 too quickly, then deciding there was not enough to save and eating the rest.