For most of us who are out of college and in the business world, we find ourselves spending at least 40 hours a week at the office.  We go there Monday-Friday and see and interact with the same people for 5 days a week.  Many people spend time with these work people more than they spend time away from work awake.

In being around these work people (almost) daily, I find that I don’t really know them that well.  I’ve come to realize that none of us really know much about each other.  It seems difficult for people to invest in relationships in the office.  People are there to work and work only.  It seems like no one has the time to care about you and your personal life.  Sure you can have one or two really good work friends, but how well do you know them?

Do you know about their family?  Do you know about the things they like?  What do they do on the weekend?  What are their passions?  Their beliefs?  What troubles are they dealing with?  Personal problems?  There is so much that makes up of a person that its hard to get to know someone fully.  The point is that each person has so much to them, so much more to them than just their existence in the office.

I think sometimes we need to remember that a lot is going on in people’s lives.  That sometimes people aren’t always “there” because they have so much more going on.  Some people may always be in a bad mood, others always joyous and it may make us wonder about them.  But I guess we shouldn’t forget that there’s more to life than just the office.

I just spent the last half hour splashing cold water into my eyes.  I idiotically put something that warns to “NOT put directly in eye” DIRECTLY INTO MY EYE.  The result – burning.  Very very painful burning.  But of course, I did NOT know that you couldn’t put it directly into your eye.

I went to the optometrist to pick up my new lenses today.  I’m going back to gas permeable lenses.  Normally, gas permeable has two solutions.  One is a cleaner and the other is the conditioner.  When you take the lens out of your eye, you rub it with the cleaner, and rinse with water.  Then you put the contact in your case and fill the case with the conditioner.  When you want to put them on again, you take them straight out of the case and put them in your eye.  That is a NORMAL circumstance.

I had my new contacts to put in and the assistant asked what solution I wanted.  Boston or Optimum.  I’ve had history of allergic reaction to Boston so I opted for the latter.  It had 3 bottles in the box.  One cleaner, one rewetting eyedrops, and one storing and disinfecting solution.  Ok, its obvious, put the last option onto the lens and insert into eye.  BAD IDEA!  My eye hurt so freaking bad.  My eyes were just watering and it was so painful.  So I was like, oh maybe I’m just not used to hard contacts.  Where are the rewetting drops?  Okay, put that in, BURNING!  After about 5 minutes of me being hunched over holding my eye, I decided, maybe this solution is no good.  Perhaps I should try the Boston.  BUT, I had already put the other solution on the left lens.  So what do I do?  I put the Boston solution OVER that one in hopes to wash it off.  Then I put that one in my eye.  More burning.  After I’ve calmed down for a bit they take me into the room to wait for the doctor.  Little did I know that for new lenses they want you to wait around 15 minutes to get acquainted.  Those were the most uncomfortable 15 minutes EVER.  I was going to die.  I needed some eye drops badly.  My right eye felt all cloudy and both eyes were just painful and bloodshot.  So the doc comes in and I ask for eye drops.  It felt much better.  Then he checked my eyes.  He thought it was weird that it was so uncomfortable and said that he would brb and disinfect my lenses again and try a different solution.  He came back to show me what he used.  And I’m like, no not that.  I just used that.  And he said what did you do?  I explained and he said you’re not supposed to put that in your eye! You have to rinse off that stuff with water first!

Well, great!  Now what am I supposed to do.  He told me I didn’t damage my eye so that’s good.  So I took off those freaking lenses and put my soft contacts back on and they burn too.  In fact my eye still hurt.  The right one was a little cloudy so I kept putting more and more water in it.

Why did that dumb contact solution make theirs different like the others.  I guess I should have read the directions, but they usually (I guess not anymore) operate the same.

Anyway, I hope my vision clears up.  I took off my contacts for now.  I should rinse my eye out some more.

The more I consciously think about eating healthier and less, the more I want to eat.

My vision is probably worse than anyone you know.  If I didn’t have my glasses or contacts on, I would have to put my face probably about 3 inches from whatever I’m looking at.  I kid you not, inches.  I wouldn’t be able to identify faces, heck I probably wouldn’t even know a person was there.  Blobs of colors.

I’ve only discovered one semi good thing about having blurry vision.  Although, its not entirely good if you think about the basis of it.

I went to the optometrist today and of course my eyes got worse.  Every person that looked at my chart (2 helpers and the doc) all remarked about my intense prescription.  Turns out I need to go back to the gas permeable lenses.  The soft ones just aren’t cutting it.  The only good thing about the soft ones were that they were more comfortable and cheaper.  However, the clarity of my vision is greatly lowered when using soft lenses.  Anyway, I need the gas perm ones because I need them to press down on my cornea and shape it.  Gas perm lenses aren’t cheap.  As they were about to damage my wallet, the guy decided that he should call the insurance company because he thought that maybe my prescription was bad enough to deem it a “medical necessity” for contacts.  Wow that’s intense.  What do you know?!  It is.  It is a medical necessity that I have contacts so the insurance is paying for ALL of it.  Normally they would only cover $100.  So I ended up saying a few hundred dollars!!  Woo hoo!  That’s the only good thing.  Though its actually kind of a good and bad thing.  Good cause I got a great deal.  Bad because its a “medical necessity” isn’t very good.

It also turns out that my glasses suck!  I always thought they were clearer than my contacts.  Little did I know, if I covered up my right eye, the left eye is completely blurry!!!  I’m straining to use only my right eye because frankly the left one is useless.  Maybe that’s why its getting worse.

Since I got such a great deal on my contacts.  Maybe I should fork out the ridiculous $400 or so to get glasses.  Yeah $400 – that’s the minimum.  The guy asked if I was going to Asia anytime soon.  He told me they could make the lens thinner than they could here and for cheaper.  Dang, but maybe $400 is worth helping my vision.

I’m secretly wondering if I’m going to go blind in my left eye.