that tastes kinda funny…

When I buy the pre-made salads from Albertson's, I usually also buy a couple of the packets of salad dressing made by Litehouse.

I already had some Fresh Express bagged salads and tossed some into a ziplock to bring with me to work, along with some stinky cheese (feta), tuna and a packet of Litehouse ranch salad dressing from the fridge.

I always wondered where they put the expiration date on those, because I've never seen them stamped in ink anywhere on the packets.

I discovered today, after I ate half of my salad.

It's not inked anywhere on the packet, it is impressed on the side seam. And what was the date impressed in the seam?

02/09/03

Oh dear. I hope I didn't just give myself food poisoning. 😕 I've already experienced that once last year, and it ain't fun.

I guess I'll know in about five to seven hours or more.

Homie say what?

I'm sitting here at work, and an instant message pops up from a name I don't recognize and who isn't on my yahoo messenger list.

A couple of years ago I tried raising betta fish, and my main yahoo ID I used to sign up for Yahoo groups for betta fish breeders and betta keepers, and I put in my ID info that one of my interests was betta fish keeping. So, occassionally I'll get messages in Yahoo from people who I either talked to while I was on those lists or people who found my ID and see that I had an interest in raising bettas and fish keeping.

Sometimes I get messages from random strangers being weird. I don't know which category this guy fell into, he may have been a fellow betta fish keeper, I don't really remember.

a vacation from my vacation

So we're back. Got home around 3pm I think.

Didn't win anything, but what can you expect when we put all of maybe $6 into the slot machines? Neither of us are really big gamblers, even when we could better afford to be. Justifying dropping $20 in one sitting with little to no chance of breaking even let alone gaining any more than that, just doesn't sit well with us.

But I will pay for lottery tickets. Go figure. I usually only buy $5 a drawing, sometimes $10 if the jackpot gets really high.

to the DMV

I went to the DMV today to have the lens restriction removed from my license. The lady to whom I paid for the replacement almost sent me on my way without getting a new picture taken until I pointed out that on my original license I'm wearing glasses. Derrr...

My new picture wasn't really all that bad.. I actually like it better than what was on there before.

Do you know the DMV in AZ only requires your vision to be 20/40 in order to not need the lens restriction on your license? I thought it was at least 20/30, but it's not.

Now I have to wonder for all those drivers out there who seem to be totally unaware of what exits they need on the freeways until the last possible second, if maybe their vision is only 20/40 and they just couldn't read the signs until it was almost too late to exit? But then that wouldn't explain the fact that you get at least two to three miles warning of what exit is coming up, so I guess they simply just don't pay attention. That's nothing new, really.

My, what big teeth you have!

I have a confession to make.

I haven't been to the dentist since I got my braces taken off in high school.

And before that, even if I was just getting my teeth cleaned, I was utterly terrified and would usually whimper or cry while I was laying in the chair waiting for the dentist to show up and start working on me. Not an all-out bawling type of cry, but the silent, wipe away the tears and sniffle type of cry.

Open enrollment is coming up here at work for the various insurances that are offered (medical, dental & vision), and I'm thinking I should probably pick up dental insurance and at least make one visit to the dentist to have my teeth cleaned.

Although I'm afraid when I do, the dentist will find all sorts of things "wrong" and will insist on putting fillings in half my teeth, even though I only see one or two spots that may warrant any work, and minor work at that.

Why do I fear the dentist so? Probably because of having to have three teeth pulled in one visit before I got my braces on. And I can't stand having a needle stuck into my gums, even with the topical numbing crap they put on beforehand.

But, I'm sure my teeth could probably use a cleaning, so I'll at least go in for that much. If they insist that I need any fillings, I'll have to mull that one over, considering my anxiety about having dental work done.

*shudder*

Anyone have any referrals for good dentists in the NW valley?

they mock me!

(written @ 5:40pm)
They do this on purpose, I know they do.
I was just sitting down, had perused some of the blogs I visit (remembering domains by memory because Blogrolling appeared to be down for maintenance)... and then I decided it was time to finally change my eBay ID to coinicide with my domain name. I had just tuned WinAmp to a favorite streaming station and it had run for about a minute when what happens next?

My cable internet bites the big one.

*frown* Get up and go unplug the cable modem, count to 15. Plug cable modem back in. No lighty-lighty. Grr.

Call Cox tech support.

CSR: How long ago did it go down?
Me: Less than five minutes ago.
CSR: Let me check some things. (pause) Do me a favor and unplug the cable modem for about 5-10 seconds and plug it back in.
Me: Ok. (obliging, even tho' I'd already done that) It's plugged back in. Cable light didn't even attempt to flicker except when the power plug was put back in.
CSR: Hmm. Let me check your neighbors to see if there's an outage. (pause) Wow. Yup, there's definitely an outage--about a six to seven block area.
Me: Figures.

So he goes about reporting my outage report and sets up a tentative dispatch (procedure, tracking purposes) for tomorrow even though chances are it will be fixed today.

Dammit. Guess I have to pull out some CDs to listen to instead. There's a specific type of music I prefer to listen to when I'm either A) at work, or B) at home sitting at my desk, and it's mostly new agey stuff, Celtic and whatnot. I usually have a couple of Shoutcast stations bookmarked that I pick from that are new age/ambient, and that is usually what I listen to. I do have CDs of my own that are ambient/new age/celtic, but sometimes I prefer the mix that I get from the stations. Oh well.

I wonder how long this outage is gonna last?
Eh. I've got some sculpting to do anyway.

Update: Entry added @ 8:00p, outage lasted almost 2.5 hrs. Not too bad I guess.

Flowers from my sweetie

Aren't they pretty?



They're from my honey, Josh. He brought them to me last night (Thursday) on his way home from work. Isn't he sweet?

1 week post op

My eyes tested at 20/25 this morning. Both still have slight astigmatism, which may or may not go away. But I really only notice it with things in the distance

The flaps look good.

The only thing of concern is my right eye and the sensation of something being in it. If it persists I am to call my eye doctor to let him know.

But I have a theory about my right eye (and why it's just the right one, I don't know)... When I went into the eye dr's this morning, my eye felt ok. The feeling of something being in it was very, very minor, almost unnoticeable. At that point, the only eye drops I had used were the rewetting drops, none of the medicated ones. They were both slightly dry, but otherwise nothing uncomfortable.

On the way to work from the eye dr's office, I started putting in my medicated eye drops. I could see better while driving this morning than I have all week. After about an hour after I got to work, my right eye started feeling extremely dry, and the sensation of something being in it came back noticeably.

So, I figure it's either a combination of the medicated eye drops and my office's internal environment, or just my office's internal environment. I guess I will find out on Monday which of those holds true, as today was officially the last full day I have to take the medicated eye drops.

Technically I can stop wearing the goggles while I sleep at night, too, but I think I'm going to keep wearing those for just a couple nights more for my own peace of mind.

hot hot hot!

I decided today would be a good day to do some yard work, i.e. weed killing.

The front yard was simple, only a few here and there, and then after weeds removed, I sprayed the spots where they had been growing with the White Death (that is, the all vegetation killer). Our front yard is all rock landscaping, so this is no issue.

Then I moved to the back yard. A few more back here, mostly in large clusters. I also use the White Death on these.

Our yard is au naturale except for a patch of grass about 20' x 10'. So it is mostly dirt & rocks, except for that bit of grass next to our very small concrete slab that is our patio. Oh, and the weeds, of course.

We've not been very good about weed killing. Last year I think we just let the weeds grow and die naturally. So now, there are a bunch of dead weeds congregating in various places about the yard, mostly near the south side of the house. Really close to the house. So this could be a potential fire hazard.

So I decide to start wacking away at those with a shovel and a rake. Some of the weeds are new so they're still green, so I take the shovel to them and dig them up.

A couple have inter-mingled with our grass at its edge, so I have to carefully untangle those. Then I discover I've stirred up a colony of black ants. And boy are they pissed! I think three got on my hand and bit me, but as far as I am aware I am not allergic to ant bites. There was some old ant bait sitting on the patio so I grabbed that and spread it about, hoping that it is still poisonous. It probably isn't, so the next time our Bug Man comes by, we'll have to let him know we've got several ant colonies about our home, please treat for them.

But anyway, I got one giant pile of dead weeds that I watered down and after I've cooled off a bit (hey, it's still over 90 degrees out here, ya know), I'm going to go back out and stuff them into garbage bags. The weeds were on either side of our patio, and I only got one side piled up, but I watered the other side down before I go rake them to keep the dust down.

I guess it's a good thing I hadn't showered yet today, 'cause I'll definitely need a shower after I'm done with the yard. Yuck.

yeah, I know

The few that read this may have been wondering what was up with me since I hadn't written anything in like, what, four days? Particularly since I'd only posted once since my Lasik surgery.

Well, for the most part, it was for eye comfort. Reading computer screens wasn't much fun the first couple of days with my close vision being all wonky. I managed at work ok on Saturday, but by the end of the day, I sat down at home long enough to peruse my email and that was about it. Sunday, I mostly did other stuff because my weekend was going to be really short. As in one day long, because of the new schedule at work beginning this week, where I start working M/T/Th/F.

The last couple of days, really hasn't been much to write about, so I didn't bother. But I'll be putting at least one more post up before I go to bed tonight...

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