My ac adapter for my laptop battery = BIG FAT FAIL
It literally just up and died yesterday after a short 9 month life. Thankfully, I have a sweet Dell warranty that covers big fat fails and they are sending a tech to my apartment tomorrow to replace the part and to make sure my poor little laptop is ok.
Wel my friends, today is going to be a looooong day. Both of the boys that I nanny are home with pink eye. We have an appointment with a doctor in an hour, but all day long I am going to be freaking out that I am going to end up with a swollen shut eye for our family vacation this weekend. I used to be the Queen of Crusty Eyes in college. Stupid Mrs. Bear would sleep with her contacts in, develop an ulcer from doing so, and end up having to wear her nerdy glasses for two weeks. Or I would contract pink eye from another student just by walking by him/her. I was a big sexy mess in the face almost every other month.
Best Story Ever Regarding My Eye Issues
I almost had a heart attack when I woke up the morning of my first day of spring break freshman year with a crusty red eye. I had been a lazy idiot and fell asleep wearing my contacts. When my mom picked me up at my dorm she practically threw up all over her steering wheel when she saw the grossness of my eye. She rushed me to my eye doctor with three hours to spare before we were to hop on a place to Fort Lauderdale for the week. The doctor’s prognosis for my funky eye: I had a small ulcer/bacterial infection and the only cure was an antibiotic ointment AND I WOULD NEED TO WEAR MY GLASSES FOR A WEEK. NOt only did I look like Mallory from the Babysitter’s Club when I had to wear my glasses, but the ointment made my eye look all greasy and gunky. Needless to say I got on the plane and bawled the entire way to Fort Lauderdale while my sister and T pointed and laughed at their nerdalicious neighbor.
NOW before you go judging me for being such a pansy, you must understand something very very important. A young strapping lad by the name of MR. BEAR was meeting me in Fort Lauderdale with his friends for spring break in two days. I had not seen him since the previous June when he stopped by CT to visit me on his way back from Boston and boy did I need to make a good impression! (If you do not know how we met you MUST read this post before going any further.) I was single and on the prowl to make Mr. Bear my boyfriend.
So, after one and a half days of antibiotics, and looking like a tool on the beach while wearing sunglasses over my super nerd specs, I popped my contact back in and prayed my dreamboat wouldn’t notice that one of my eyes was significantly smaller than other (it was more than obvious I was having eye issues). Thank the high heavens and fate gods that he did not… because my sister was looking pretty shexy and we all know that she was the one who called dibs on him on the cruise ship way back when we first met. By the end of our spring break he was *madly in love with me* and I had made plans to visit him in Tennessee the following month.
The rest is history. Now he loves me for me, even when I look like a poindexter Quazi Modo.
Correction: I was madly in love with him and still had some work to do on securing him as my boyfriend.
I am laughing out loud at your story, but not your eye. I can get pink eye from some kid three miles away. Fred and I went out to Napa on business and I had it in both eyes and sat in meetings with my sunglasses on. Horrible. They all thought it was a hangover. I wish.
And remember how we were talking about weird dreams? Well, last night, I was hanging out with Charlie Sheen and rubbing his feet. Random.
Keep washing your hands and steer clear of touching your eyes.
oh man! Well, hopefully you don’t get the pink eye! Have fun on your family vacation!
Ohhhh Babysitters Club hahha..I hope you don’t get it from the boys & I just read the story on how you and Mr. Bear met and it was SO SO cute!!
Oh no not the pink eye!! ohhh I sure hope those boys don’t give you anything! yuck yuck yuck. And I loved your story. It’s quite possibly the best…because I could totally see myself bawling the entire way on the plane as well.
Hahaha! I have had the same eye problems. I’ve been to the emergency room twice, in fact. The last time was my junior year of college and they gave me valium because I said my pain was a 10. If you’ve never had a scratched cornea or ulcers, you just don’t understand how bad it hurts! And I’m happy to say I now take out my contacts EVERY night! (After my eye doc said not doing so could make me go blind due to lack of oxygen…)
i can’t stop giggling at your misfortune. i’m sorry, pwease let’s still be friends!
i’ve never had contacts or glasses so i cant sympathize, BUT i will say i think you look adorable in your glasses – but i wouldn’t want to spend some of my first days with my future hubs sportin’ glasses either, so i see where you’re coming from …
spray those boys with lysol and quarantine them until the docs appt! disinfect, disinfect, DISINFECT!
good luck little bear!
omg I loved that story!!
And the reference to Mallory… priceless!!
I LOVED Mallory from the Babysitter’s Club, plus you’re way cuter!
Ohhh I can totally relate. I woke up about 3 weeks before my wedding with my eye completely swollen shut. Couldn’t even pry it open! I rushed to the doctor and got it in order as fast as I could. I’m so sorry! But atleast it landed you your dreamboat 🙂
Oh you poor thing, pink eye is not the friendliest infection!!
I just read the story of how you and Mr. Bear met and that is the best “How we met” story EVER!