1. I Got Lasik

This is more of a potential delight, since I’m not sitting in the delighted part quite yet. On Thursday I got Lasik! I’ve had terrible eyesight since I was about 8 years old, so this is a big life change for me.

I was the last appointment of the day, so I had to watch people file one by one into the room to get their surgery. There is a big window where you can watch everyone get it done. I didn’t realize this, so luckily since I was last, there was nobody left to stare at my procedure and I didn’t have to freak out about it. This was especially good because they did not give me the chill-out drugs before my surgery. I spent my time pre-surgery flipping through The Home Edit’s Pinterest boards on my phone so if something went horribly wrong and I ended up blind forever, at least the last thing I’d see were beautifully organized spaces. That’s right–not pictures of my family or my husband. Just angelic color-coded pantries. I am a crazy person.

Anyway, the process was fairly smooth, but apparently my eyeballs are not. They had to put clear lenses over them to help them heal and reduce pain because they were kinda roughed up. The downside is it made my vision super blurry for five days, so I kept trying to put my glasses on to fix it, like a fool. Anyway, I got the lenses out this morning and hopefully I’ll be able to see clearly within a few weeks. And hopefully by then it will feel worth it to have spent my vacation fund on my contact-hating eyeballs.

Here’s a pic of me with this husband this weekend at a family wedding. This was four days into wearing those protective lenses on my eyes and they were going insane. And thank goodness for sunglasses when you’re not allowed to wear eye make up for a week! (Also thank goodness for The Diplomat for showing us cape dresses are still cool, thank you very much).

2. Organizing my house! (speaking of T.H.E.)

Since I got rid of truckloads of stuff, I was finally able to start organizing what’s left. This maybe seems like a weird thing to do when you can’t see very well, but my nearsightedness was the only thing that was good, so organizing was actually one of the only things I COULD do.

After you get Lasik, they tell you to sleep for four hours after you get home. My appointment was at 4:00, so I essentially just slept for 12 hours with brief lucid periods of pain when it felt like my eyeballs were on fire. Anyway, I lulled myself to sleep by listening to The Home Edit’s audiobook, so it’s very possible that this hypnotized me during the night so I woke up blurry-eyed and bushy-haired and ready to take on my closets with a ferocity I usually only see in my cat when she’s attacking a tea bag I stupidly left in my mug.

I will share more of my pictures as I finish more of my house, but here is some of my progress in various spaces of my house (and yes, those ARE tampons organized by color, thank you for noticing!).

3. Kayaking on the St. Croix

Again, this was a mixture of delight and why-the-hell-did-I-do-this. I love kayaking, but this trip was only a day after my surgery and it was rough. It was lovely to be out on the water again, but it was cold, windy, and couldn’t make out anything more than six feet away from me most of the time.

Still, at least I was out in nature! I love kayaking on the St. Croix because it has the calmness of a lake, but still has a current if you don’t feel like doing any work. And it has a couple of riverboats doing tours every weekend that somehow always pass by when you’re stopped on an island trying to take a pee break.

You see that white splotch in the middle of the picture that looks like glare from the sun? Yes, that’s me!

4. Cruising Through my TBR Pile

Like organizing, reading can be done up close and requires no screens, so I also got plenty of it done this week (when my eyes were not on fire). I’m on a mystery/thriller kick, so this week I’ve read The Social Climber by Amanda Pellegrino and The Resemblance by Lauren Nossett. Next up is The Villa by Rachel Hawkins.

I could not get myself to like The Social Climber, because of the unlikable narrator, but if you like things with a lot of vengeance , it might be something you’d enjoy! If nothing else, it made me feel much better about myself and how I spent my twenties.

I enjoyed the Resemblance more, but it still wasn’t something I’d trip over myself recommending. I’ve got about twenty books in my pile in this genre, so hopefully I find one I do recommend soon!

5. Family Game Night

So I have a huge hippopotamus of an extended family and both my mom and my dad’s side do Friday night family game nights every month. So half of my Fridays I spend with some concoction of family members hanging out, eating tons of food, and playing games. Since we are all getting older and my grandparents are all gone, it’s a nice way to get together when you no longer are for a lot of holidays.