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25th March, 2002. 12:15 pm. I forgot...

I forgot to mention a few things in my last post. There was so much that happened this weekend... I only remembered the most recent stuff at the time. When I came home Saturday, the first thing my dad said was his company just laid off people. They first took all the volunteer laid offs and retirements. Then I guess they'll see after the volunteers, how many they still need to do... and they're laying off again on Wednesday. My dad's a little nervous. He's been at the company for 16 years. He was never scared to being laid off because he's the only one in his department, and he usually has plenty to do. This time, they just merged his department with another, and he has not been as busy. His big boss got laid off after the merge, so my dad's afraid that they'll either lay off him, or his immediate supervisor, and I guess they have a good relationship or something cuz my dad was saying how he's worried cuz he doesn't wanna be under someone else. He took the day off today to use up his sick days cuz he still has over 40 hours of sick days and he'll lose it if he gets laid off. He also still has over 200 hours of long term sick days he never used, so if he gets laid off, he'll lose all that too. But he will get paid for his non used vacation hours... which I think he said he has over 200 hours as well.We'll just have to wait till Wednesday. I hope all goes well.

Oh... gtg... just made an optometry apointment for right NOW!

Current mood: stressed.

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25th March, 2002. 2:19 pm. new glasses!

Yay... just got back from the optometrist. She was so nice... I had her explain everything she was doing. hee hee... It was my first time getting those drops in my eyes... my eyes went numb! Weird... kinda neat feeling... thought I was going blind though, but because she told me it would go away in 10 minutes, it was neat! And the optometrist who helped me picked my glasses was nice too... patient with my indecisiveness. I was so proud of myself... I made my whole glasses decision all on my own! Didn't ask for anyone else's opinion about the looks, and didn't ask anyone else about the price and extra options and stuff! My insurance's basic coverage is free basic lense and $45 off of the frame. But if I get the better lens (scratch resistent, uv protection, non-reflective), they would cover $95... however, the cost would also go up quite a bit. I ended up getting the better lens, which costed me $30 more than if I got the normal lens. Justifiable? I was debating between these black (kinda thick) frames that I felt were comfy and looked good on me (one of the few) or those cool titanium rimless ones. They were so cool... didn't even feel them on! But there was a $80 difference. In the end, it wasn't that difficult of a decision as I thought because although I liked the rimless look, the titanium thingys that holds the frames to my ears curved funny... made me think of that guy in startrek who wears the silver thingy to see (the Reading Rainbow guy). It kinda looked like these:

You see the sticks on the side (what the heck are they called?), they curve around my head, that's why I felt like the startrek guy. I ended up getting these:

I think it's these... similar at least. But looking for this picture, I see it's $25 cheaper online! But I guess with my insurance it still was cheaper at Kaiser? I hope so... don't like to feel ripped off.

So last night, my mom comes in while I'm surfing the net and asked, "how do you shop online? I wanna shop online". I asked her, "well, what store". She didn't have a store in mind, just wanted to shop online. Eventually, she says she wants to buy a watch and I guess she just wanted to look around. At least now I know how to help her. She wanted me to look up Cartier watches. The one she liked was $4,000. I think that's too much for a watch... but it's not my purchase, so I don't say much, except for my opinions on the asthetics. She then makes a comment about it being a good watch for me... she wants to get ME a watch! I saw that the Gucci ones were so much cheaper and said I just like those... the bracelet looking ones. But she said they're not good. They won't last long... will go out of style... She wanted to get me something more classic so it'll last me a long time. That makes sense, but I still don't see why pay so much for a watch. If it really will last that long, then sure. But my previous watches, when they get scrathed up or run out of batteries, I stop using them... I usually stop using them before the batteries run out. But the Cartier one is scratch resistent (like the lens of my new glasses! hee hee...) In the end, my mom's thinking of getting me a cheaper one... same style, just that instead of 2-tone, which cost almost $4,000 on sale, she's looking at just the silver one, which is $2000. I still think it's too much... we'll see what she does. It's fun looking at nice things with my mom, like when we looked at the over 2 karat diamond! hee hee... fun... $30,000 rock. I just always hope in the end that my mom will not end up buying... she's a sucker. Easy to sell to.

Current mood: accomplished.

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25th March, 2002. 4:35 pm. about this feet...

Just updated my About This Feet secion!

Current mood: hungry.

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