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( wow, I didn't remember life being this interesting. But yay, legos! )

In other news, I'm back on the juice (aka, coffee). Why in the hell did I ever give up caffeine? Sweet sweet simulants.

In other other news, I have an eye exam and a gym orientation/fitness assessment today. I hopehopehope the gym has rowing machines. There's something lovely and hypnotic about rowing. I feel like the assessment is probably going to kick my ass, but in a good way. I need it. The plan for right now (until I start teaching in January) is to drop TRex of at daycare and then head to the gym three days a week.
( probably tmi for lots of folks. deal. )

And the damage is...

great.

Apparently my current (old) contacts are not breathable enough for my eyes, so I've got a lot of excess capllaries (ie, blood-shot-ness), and some scatching of my cornea where the contact apparently digs in. Am I being scammed? I don't know. The upshot was new, much more expensive contacts that, when combined with what seems to be neosporin for my eyes twice a day for the next week, should resolve the negative effects of my old contacts. Bonus: the new contacts are the sort that you can supposedly sleep in for up to a month, although this optician recommends removing and cleaning them once a week once I've treated the old contact-induced issues (during which time I'm to remove them daily). I also was going to get new lenses for my current glasses, since the script is old enough that I don't feel comfortable driving in them. But the difference between new lenses for my old frames and entirely new glasses ended up being only about $130 and my current frames don't have spring hinges (bad when you have a baby who likes to enthusiastically remove your glasses), so I got whole new glasses, too. AND they're little and purple. Bonus points there, eh?

Gym orientation went well. I chose the strength training orientation because, frankly, I know how to do cardio. So the nice boy showed me all the machines, gave me a card to record my workouts on (damn... that'll keep you honest), and set me free. I decided to forego more weights and go do cardio. Unfortunately the 2 rowers were occupied by the geriatric set, so I found myself a nice recumbent bike, popped Me First and the Gimme Gimmes into my ears, and raced that pesky dot around the monitor for half an hour (mental note: Interval 1 is BORING!).