September 27, 2004
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Dear Diary,
Thursday last was my optometrist appointment. The optometrist I had been using left the shopping center in which she was located, and didn’t forward an address. (I should be going in for a “yearly eye exam” like my yearly physical, but I procrastinated for two years, and then when I drove up to the office a few weeks ago, it had turned into a pet store. ) My latest optometrist in in the Medical Building where I have my HMO, so going to the optometrist was more like going to the doctor than going in to a “shop” that sells glasses. There is an opthamologist in the same suite of offices, so if I have any “real” problems with my sight as I age, then I have a doctor I can see as well. The test proved that my left eye is “changing” more rapidly than my right, and that’s why my eyesight lately has me seeing like I’m underwater. I’m getting a new set of progressives, and has to put out half of the cost of the glasses. Since this was $117.00, I had to put the kibosh on plans to go to the Fair this past weekend. Instead I rented a bunch of DVDs and got ready to spend a weekend in my media room “at the movies”. I haven’t been to a theater since I developed back and shoulder problems a few weeks ago, and am feeling better now (except my left hand and arm is still “asleep” and I’m going back in to see my doctor on the 7th about that.) but opted for a quiet weekend at home. My roommate Cancerboy should have been working on Friday and Saturday, so I thought I’d have the house to myself. As (bad) luck would have it, Joel’s last two chemotherapies were canceled because of his platelet count, so he was home on Friday afternoon when I came home early, thinking he’d be at work. He spent the weekend in the living room, he’d rented some of the Sopranos DVDs for one of the seasons he hadn’t seen, and I spent the weekend in the media room. We didn’t spend any “buddy time” together because I tend to drink beer when I spend time with Joel, since he drinks. My only alcohol consumption for the past three weeks has been one “six pack” of malt liquor to last through the weekend. The films I saw were “The Punisher” (6 of 10), the original “Star Wars” (still 10 of 10), “Mean Girls” with the latest actress young enough to be my (grand) daughter with whom I’ve fallen in love, Lindsay Lohan (5 of 10) and “When Harry Met Sally” (7 of 10). I also watched my laserdisc of “Raintree County” from 1957. It’s a lush looking attempt to recapture the “spirit” of Selznick’s “Gone With the Wind” but the story is almost laughingly melodramatic. Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor (looking magnificent) starred. I didn’t spend hardly any time on the computer. This Xanga blog is about the only thing (except for my ElectricPoetry Group) I’m “updating” on the internet these days. Now it’s Monday, I’m back at work. Some nice orders came in on Friday, but it is still much too “slow”. The cycle begins again. I have got my digital videocamera boxed up and ready to take it back into the Good Guys so the memory stick latch can be fixed. I know it’s going to take them a while to send it back to Sony, so I’ve procrastinated for a while about taking it back for repair. Now that the little piece of paper I was using to keep the memory stick in place has fallen inside the body of the camera, I can’t use it to take stills, so taking it in for repairs is not something I can put off too much longer if I want to use the camera. Well, 6:30 am already, and time to take my daily walk around the business park. I haven’t weighed myself this morning, but I’ve been at about 164-165. The target is 160.
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Oh, Mike,
I’m so sorry about your eyes and everything! Gosh, it’s a very long story, but I know how upsetting and frustrating that can be!! I hope and pray things will get better! Please hang in there.
I’m so sorry about your roommate having cancer. I was just writing to another one of my Xanga friends on here, too, when I just found out that her grandfather has lung cancer.
My father was diagnosed with large cell carcinoma (bad lung cancer) this July, and it’s spread and everything, but he’s still been taking treatments though.
I was telling her, too, that it’s a long story, but my father has had a bad temper throughout my whole life, but since he got this, his temper has gotten even worse, and it really hurts, but I just try not to think about it, or I get to feeling even more depressed.
I don’t write about it on my Xanga posts nowadays as much because I’ve been just trying to pretend all this isn’t happening. It’s the only way I’m really able to cope better is just to try and pretend it’s not happening. I even had to take some of my Xanga posts off before with all the depressing things I had written in it cause I would go back and read it, and I would get all upset again.
Anyways, I’m so sorry for rambling on and on. I know things can feel so overwhelming and stressful sometimes. Like I was telling my other friend, Haley, on here if you ever need or want to drop me an email sometime, too, here’s one of my main email addresses: shara1973@yahoo.com Sometimes it takes me a while to email back or get back on Xanga from time to time cause I have to pace how long I’m on here because of my eyes, but I always try to get back whenever I can though.
Again, I’m so sorry about what you and your friend are going through. Please hang in there!!!!
Hugs!!!!
Shara P.S. Sorry you haven’t been to a theater in a while. Hey, it can be even more fun watching movies from home though.
You don’t have to stand in line to wait for tickets, you can lay around like you want to, you can pause the movie if you need to go to the bathroom, and it’s so much cheaper, too!! It’s outrageous what they charge at theaters nowadays! Plus, the drinks of coca-cola or popcorn there is like robbery! One could buy a whole supply of coca-cola and popcorn for home for the price they charge ya there at theaters for just one drink and a small popcorn! Okay, I’ll get off my soapbox for now about theaters. 
Just thought I’d list all the great advantage of watching movies from home instead. 