So, somehow, Miss Brilliant here managed to get poison ivy on the LID. (Yes, the lid) of her eye. It’s all swollen and pink and it looks like I’ve been bawling my heart out for two weeks straight. I am trying to get in contact with my Doctor, see if I can get a poison ivy shot. I was told about them a few years back…I get the stuff so easy, and this shot supposedly makes you temporarily immune, which would rock very much. I do a lot of yard work, and even though I wash up with Fels-naptha right away and try to remember to take my pills in a timely fashion, I still spend much of the summer with little scabs on my arms and legs from scratching myself raw, for I have little self control.
Until then, I’m taking the homeopathic cure that usually seems to work.
I also need to make an appointment with the optometrist. I need new lenses, and it’s been two years. Of course, whenever I go to the Doctor, the question of to do contact lenses or not rears its head. I actually don’t mind glasses, I’m so used to wearing them, but I wonder if I shouldn’t go for contacts because maybe it would be less of a pain while fencing…I have a laundry list of go-to-the-doctor things, but I keep putting it off, partly because I’ve enough of them, going all the time with my father, partly because I was waiting for summer break.
Anyway. I am re-doing my bathroom downstairs. Mum and I took out all the furnishings and such, (at least what wasn’t attached) and pulled up all the tile. The floor is now dark grey wood, slightly sticky. It’s kind of creepy, really…I know that sounds silly, but it’s really old flooring, tongue and groove, in some places you can see a tiny bit of the grey-blue paint the floor used to be before mum tiled it, but most of its almost black, like the bathroom floor from a horror film. That, and the fact that since it’s so dark I almost stepped on a wood spider the size of a skillet quarter has not endeared me to it, only added to the spookiness of it. I’m really looking forward to repairing it this weekend, painting the walls, cleaning the glue off the floor and retiling it. This time it’s going to be green marble. (Sort of.) It’ll take me more than a weekend, though…I’d be working on it this week if things weren’t so busy at night.
But not everything is doom and gloom. I went out to eat with three lovely friends last night (all of them have the fact that they were/are my Grad Assistants in common…) and tonight a student club is having a dinner at a semi-nice place that I’ve always wanted to go to, and they’ve invited me. Sweet students.
