This is about to be a hard-hitting piece on what I feel is a grave injustice!
Okay, it’s not that serious, but it really annoyed me, and you guys tell me if you’ve had this experience.
So I’m blind as a bat. I started wearing glasses in like 4th grade, and my vision has steadily gotten worse, even more so now that I spend the second half of my day glued to my laptop.
My only option at this point is contacts – I work out way too much for glasses, and I think I look pretty stupid in glasses.
So the way it all works, is that when you order 6 months to 1 year in contacts, they tout this rebate as like, the biggest draw EVER to ordering the contacts in bulk. Since I wear dailies, that meant that I had to order a truckload of contacts to get a $35 rebate.
So I apply for the rebate, and I’m notified that it’s going to take 10 weeks to get the rebate. Okay, fine, whatever. At least this time I didn’t forget about the rebate, like they were hoping I did. I got that thing in the mail over the weekend and my “rebate” is a prepaid Citi card with $35 on it that I have to activate, and it expires in a year. I also have to spend all $35 in one place because they charge you per transaction. That rebate sucks. I’m buying my contacts through Walgreens’ website next time.
Moving right along…SNOW! Actually, it was fake snow. Here in North Carolina, we never get good snow, so on my way to the gym last night, the snow was looking pretty serious, but it was for naught. By the time I was done with the gym around 9pm, the snow seemed to have eased up, and was replaced by a bone-chilling wind and cold. Ugh, North Carolina, can’t we get just one good snow before the spring? Please?!
Once I got to the gym, I ran an easy 2 miles, and then hit the studio to take instead of teach a class with the amazing Loretta Bates. I look like a beluga whale next to her, but she is teeny, not only around, but she’s a good half-a-foot shorter than I am. Her class was a blast! It’s so nice to take a class instead of teach one once in a while.
So how are you guys doing today? Enjoying a snow day?
Overactive Blogger 
That’s one point for the glasses-wearing crew 🙂
For sure! I really want to get Lasik!!
I don’t think I am brave enough for Lasik yet.
I am just so sick of sticking my fingers in my eyes every day, and contacts during allergy season is the WORST. My mom got lasik like a thousand years ago when it still was a newer, more expensive procedure, and she turned out okay, plus she doesn’t have to wear her coke bottles any more (she had an astigmatism). I hoping for similar!
I have an astigmatism too. I started wearing glasses when I was in my early 20s and my eye strength has gotten progressively weaker, although from the last 2 checkups, it seems my prescription has pretty much plateaued. But the eternal optimist that I am, I am eating carrots and hoping someday, my eyes will be strong enough to do without the specs. *fingers crossed*