LASIK

I got Lasik done last saturday.
It was incredibly quick procedure.
Laid down and after a few brief minutes probably like 5 or 6 I was done.

Since then the healing process has been hit or miss.
At work I have to work at a computer and do most of my work when
not with families at my desk and thus
my eyes have been hurting and burning.

I had monday off, took wednesday off cause my eyes were killing
and yesterday ended up having to take the afternoon off because
I was in so much pain.

So I went back to the doctor just to see if I was being a big baby
or there was really something wrong.
As soon as I walked in the doors
they looked at me and said wow your eyes are really red.
In my head I am thinking, "gee you think I don't know that, now fix it."

So they told me it was extreme dryness, they took pictures of my eyes
and I started crying while I was seeing the doctor because my eyes just burned
so bad!!

I wanted the numbing drops to put in my eyes just so I could work
and to get through the healing process. Unfortunately the drops apparently
make my cornea too soft. Honestly I did not care and just wanted
the pain to go away.

So it turns out I was not being a big baby and the pain was real.
The lady told me I was definitely having an adverse reaction and this
was not the norm for most patients. oh yipee, guess I get to be in the painful,
very painful minority :(

So they gave me a coupon for these special eye drops and basically vaseline for
my eyes. I can say that I have never thought that putting vaseline in my eyes
would be a fun thing to do, however it FINALLY brought relief to my
very red/sore eyes.

I got to a point last night after putting frozen vegetables on my eyes that I need to start
praying about this and letting it go. It hit me like a ton of bricks why had I not
been praying about this, so I started praying about it.

So today I awoke and my eyes were feeling sooo much better. I feel as though they

are finally starting to heal. Praise the Lord! Thank the Lord!!!

The crazy part in all of this is that I can see! I can see when I wake up in the middle of the night and look at the alarm clock. I can see details I have never been able to see before.
I can see fine print on stuff far away. I can appreciate all the small details
that I never have been able to before.
My vision is 20/15 and that is amazing. All in all I will say that this process
even though painful will definitely be worth it in the long run. I just
can't wait to get to the other side of the healing process.

Yeah for seeing!

Taking Time Outs

Yesterday I looked cute,

my outfit was cute

my hair was doing

it thang ;)

and so when I got done with work

I didn't want to work out

and ruin my hair

I know, I know that is

so

girlie!

and I am not usually one of those girls.

However, as I was contemplating to work out

or to

not work out?

rachel called me

and told me

she aced

her test

yes!!

so I said let's celebrate

and I will take you out for

ice cream.

So last night instead of working out

and ruining my hair, duh!

We walked around downtown on a perfect

fall night

and ate ice cream.

Its important to make pit stops in life

and appreciate

the people

who are important to you.

It is important for you to tell them you

love

them

and show

them how precious they are to you.

(and skip working out once in awhile to eat homemade ice cream with hot fudge on it:)

glorious weekends

weekends always seem too short.

they always will even if we had another day off,

then we would want another.

I mean who wants to get up early and go to work

when

you could stay in your warm bed??

This weekend in colorado

was gorgeous!

So the pup and I went on a hike

this was the sunset on sunday eve.
she got tired and just laid down as soon as I stopped to take a picture :)

saturday night.

i went to go see trace bundy with melissa, ben, and erin

trace was amazing.

(he played pachelbel's canon for us:)

there is nothing like

sitting in a small venue

watching a great musician

share their love

and incredible talents

with others.

friday night

had girls over to my and rachel's house

we watching season opener of greys

which was weak.

but the company was not!

all in all

it was a great weekend!

Castles

So this weekend.

I went to see this castle.

with friends.

It was awesome and scary.

kisses.

boys jumping.

sarah clearly won!

boys on bridge that leads to nowhere and the only thing stopping you in a rope, from dropping 15o ft. fun :)

boys in the globe.

steve facing his fear :)

mel made it up into the globe!

rachel all the way on top

staircase that went all the way up, coming down these things were uber scary. no handrails and nothing kept you from falling all the way down.

sorry about some of the pics. blogger was being stupid :)

Earth

This video truly is amazing. It's video clips from the BBC's Planet Earth series, set to the sounds of Sigur Ros's "Hoppipolla." Wow. If you haven't seen it, please watch.

Love

The pic below of of my sweetie niece tootie a.k.a aubrey.

Went home to visit friend and fam in MI a few weeks ago.

If you want to see the rest click

Water

Today as I was getting ready for work

I looked down in my water and saw a bug

in my water.

I thought....

gross.

Then I had a realization.

my water was clean.

it was not brown.

just a little bug.

there are millions who drink brown water with bugs in it everyday.

I thought I am spoiled.

I don't even think about these things.

I did some research and found out

1.8 million children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean
water and poor sanitation.

That is beyond terrible. I don't a word for it.

But know we can do something here.