I can see clearly now...

Okay, it was unfair to leave my previous Lasik entry at that. People (you, Rosanna!) are calling me as if I've been through a terrible ordeal so I should clarify.

I can, at this point, honestly say, "Why didn't I do this sooner?" Every other hour I think to check on my contact lens, whether they are dry or need drops, and I realize WOW! I'm not wearing contacts! My vision is better than ever before -- finally 20/20 (except at night where the halo/glares are even worse than my contacts, but I'm told that should go away soon) and my eyes have been great- no itchy, swelling, irritation like my contact lens. They stay nice and moist and otherwise healthy.

I love it, I love it, I love it.

Who knows, maybe when I come back in for my check-up on Friday I'll have better than 20/20 vision! (20% of wavefront lasik patients can see better than 20/20)

Other than Lasik, the warehouse sale on Sunday was a huge hit. Too huge, in fact. We only had one credit card machine so we set up 2 cashiers which was not enough to handle the crowd of 722 that we pulled in that day. I had to stop what I was doing to help out at the cashier for 5 straight hours without taking a breath. I heard that at some point, the line got to be 2 hours long for the cashiers. I think someone was overexaggerating. Nevertheless, I'm very sorry! We did exceed all expectations and I think we will refine our strategy and plan for another one in the near future, before the Christmas shopping rush.

This week marks week 3 of my last quarter at UCLA. Classes I'm taking: Psychology & Law (it's like 2 hours of Law & Order every week!), Sexual Rights (It's like 3 hours of SVU every week!), and Architecture/Urban Development History. I kind of like the batch of classes I'm taking-- everything is very interesting. Being my last quarter and all I kind of feel like I should have paid more attention before and that I might actually miss school. But not enough to make me go back for my Master's.

Today is Anton's birthday, I think he's 31. He stopped admitting his age at 30 and I *think* that was last year. We had a group dinner at Koi (finally!) and my verdict is... in terms of food, I can tell that Rod worked Koi before Yi. The dishes were underdeveloped but still quite tasty. Especially the Kobe Filet Mignon and the Spicy Tuna over Crispy Rice. I definitely like that ambience at Koi better, I think that's their winning point.

Other things going on lately-- I am in bad need of a pedicure. Haven't found a place yet that zaps my dry heels AND does a perfect long lasting french mani/pedi. I think I might try the place on Montana tomorrow.

Actually, I have a few resolutions. I've realized that I sleep too much (Sleep at 2am, get up at around 11am if I'm lucky-- hehe) so I am going to wake up earlier and get more things done. I always have a long to-do list on my cell phone and nothing ever gets done.

Here are some things I am going to do regularly:
- Clean up around the house
- Laundry
- Cook dinner
- Go to Pilates
- Pick up dry-cleaning on time
- Keep regular appointments (like mani/pedi, hair, eyebrows) rather than wait until conditions get really bad
- Go to class
- Call up a friend and have lunch or at least coffee

And one last note... am I the only person in the world without an ipod?

Supervision

It's done!

My lasik surgery was at 10am. They gave me a valium and in 20 minutes I was ready to go. Actually, I should have asked for another one because as soon I walked into the surgery room I was extremely nervous. The entire procedure was very fast, as I expected, but it was more painful than I was told. They put a speculum to stretch your eyes open which felt very weird and unnatural and then they put in drops to numb my eyes. The anasthesic drops stung really bad for about 15 seconds and then they started poking at my eyes. Not painful, but very discomforting. Then they lowered a small suction tube that felt like heavy pressure on my eyeball and proceeded to cut away a flap of my corneal tissue. The laser itself was the least painful- I didn't feel it at all. However, it was very hard to focus on the red light as I was supposed to, because my eyes felt very tired and I really wanted to blink. When it was all over my eyes were in a lot of pain and they stung really bad- I couldn't open them at all. They gave me a vicodin and I went straight home to sleep it off.

I woke up 4 hours later and... I could see! My eyes still stung a little bit but I could see just as well as I normally would with my contact lens. Of course I still had to wear my spiderman goggles but at least I could open my eyes. The rest of the day I had to sit and rest my eyes whenever it stung, which was about every 3 minutes. It also felt like a random pin would prickle my eye every couple of minutes. The doctor described this sensation as "a small grain of sand stuck in your eye"... but no.. it really felt more like a pin prick.

In the evening the stinging started to go away and my vision is getting clearer by the hour. I still have a hard time focusing but I'm not supposed to be using my eyes anyway. Supposedly, when I wake up tomorrow my eyes will be almost completely healed without any discomfort and I will be able to see clearly!

So... it's time to sleep :)

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I'm leaving now for my lasik surgery. Wish me luck.

Trouble Two's

Happy birthday to you~
Happy birthday to youuuu~
Happy birthday dear MOLEY!
Happy birthday to you!


Just saw Taxi...

Very funny... Jimmy Fallon very funny... Queen L pretty good... nice BMW's...

But geeeez. Gisele is HOT.



P.S. Anyone know who these shoes are by? :-D