ALL EYES ON DECK

I decided to give contact lenses a try. I only have to wear glasses when I read or work on a computer. Which is basically all day (work). And of course they are bifocals. Well here my daughter and I go to get our eyes checked. She was very disappointed when they told her she had 20/20 vision. Ain't that a kick in the head. A teenager who wants to have bad eyes. She thought she was going to get some colored contacts. The doc told us she could get some with just the color in them. Of course that started a very good "debate" between she and I. I won't pay for something that isn't needed. Plus you take a chance of getting eye infections. She said she would pay for them herself. Needless to say I won. The rule in my house is that I am the boss and I will ALWAYS win all arguments. At least with her. Then it was my turn. I already knew what he was going to tell me. I just had to let him do his thing (just check my eyes folks). To wear contacts that are bifocal you have to give up some of the ability to see farther away. Now I can see a road sign a mile away when I am driving. With these things in it is like-I don't quite know how to describe it-anything 10 feet in front of my truck looks like it has a halo around it. So I guess I will go back tomorrow and get me a new pair of specs. I don't like wearing glasses. Call it vanity or whatever. But to be able to see to read or do my job I have to. My old eyes just can't see all this little stuff. Why don't they make something to make our old bodies not wear out? Boy I wish I could invent something. I wouldn't have to worry about reading then!! I just wish more good-looking men would become eye doctors. I would rather have one of them leaning over me than a short rather chubby old one with very bad breath checking my eyes. Well we can't have everything!

NO RESOUTIONS-JUST HOPES AND WISHES

The new year came in ratherly quietly for me. Went to a friends house and ate supper. Then we watched movies with the kids. Got home about 11:30. Of course I dosed off immediately so Britt had to wake me at midnite. Finished my laundry yesterday so I don't have to wash today. The black-eyed peas and cabbage are cooking now. I quit making new year resolutions a long time ago. Most people who do set their self up for failure. When you don't accomplish what you tell everyone you are going to do of course they remind you of it. So I call it making wishes and hope they are possible to come true. I have never be able to keep a resoultion. So here are a list of what I wish for and hope for the new year:

1. For everyone to be safe and healthy.

2. To be able to lose a few pounds.

3. To quit or at least cut back on smoking.

4. To keep my house and life more organized.

5. For my child to learn to respect me more and help more.

6. For everyone to be prosperious and happy.

I know that people can accomplish anything they really set their mind to. It's just when you are like me and have soooo many things going on sometimes that is hard to do. I can start off pretty good but then life kinda kicks in. Britt says maybe you will meet someone this year. If I do I do. If I don't I don't. I don't feel I am any less a woman without a man. My friends say I am looking for Mr. Perfect. What they don't understand is he doesn't really exist. I know lots of great guys. I consider several of them to be very good friends. But I just don't know (or have met any recently) that I would like to hang onto. My Mr. Perfect would be easy on the eyes (my eyes anyway), have a JOB, be trustworthy, honest, if he has kids a good dad and understand that my kid is very important to me and will come first. Any one know anybody that fits this description send a pic. I will check him out. Hope everybody has a great new year. May all your hopes and wishes come true.