Sometimes I Make Faces Like This.....

That's my general WTF face....  Glad I could pass that on to the kid.  I'm sure his father is proud when he flashes it.  Because really, it does say WTF perfectly.  It also suits my mood perfectly right now, but he's cuter and I look like ass right now, so you get a picture of him.

See, I went to the eye doctor on Tuesday.  I hadn't been there in like 16 months (oops, my bad)  and I've been wearing my current pair of contacts for like 3 or 4 months now.  Ugh.  They are gross, but even though I have vision insurance, I just haven't had the money for the eye doctor.  Until the first of the year that is...  My medical flex spending $$ re-upped and after paying off Brandon's braces, there was enough money left for my 3 day stint in alcohol rehab and a visit to the eye doctor. 

My doctor's office is usually able to get me in pretty quickly, so when I called last week because my right contact felt like it was grinding bits of sand up against my eyeball, they told me they could get me in Tuesday.  Great.  I forgot about having to work all day and night Monday, so by the time I got there Tuesday morning, I was feeling a little rough around the edges.  I went through the drills, got berated for not coming in sooner and blah blah blah.  I tried unsuccessfully to get out of having my pupils dilated, but then I remembered that it was the only way they found out that the other Tara had a torn retina last summer, so I didn't fight it...

Hello dilated pupils, lol.  I'm not even going to try and photoshop the wrinkles or the fact it looks like I have a black eye out of this, because, let's be honest, I'm too tired to do it.

 Finally we settled on the fact that my eyes hadn't changed.  Ok great, gimme my boxes of contacts and let me be on my merry way.  They didn't have them in stock, only a sample pair.  He brought me the samples and laid them out for me to put in.  I got them in and they felt weird, but I figured it was probably just because my pupils were dilated.  My boxes would be available on Wednesday for the retarded sum of $71 after my benefits for 6 pair.  Ouch.  I know I could get off cheaper with other contacts, but these Air Optix contacts are 30 day continuous wear contacts and have got to be the most comfortable things I've ever worn.  And, let's face it, like I said, I'm lazy, so I like maintenance free.  They get taken out once a week for a 6 hour soak and that's it.  I wear them 24/7 otherwise, so well worth the extra money.

As the day wore on, the contacts still felt weird.  I didn't have any contact solution or my glasses at work, so there wasn't a whole lot I could do about it.  I had to go out and get the baby and pretty much slept the evening away deciding I would deal with it in the morning.  I figured they must be in the wrong eye, no big deal.  Wednesday morning I woke up, showered and took out the left contact.  I stuck it in the case so I could get the right one out and swap eyes. 

When I went to get the right one out, I had it, but then I don't know if I twitched or what, but it was gone.  It wasn't on the floor or the sink.  I couldn't find it in my eye.  WTF happened to this contact?  No clue.  I can't feel it in my eye.  I'm already running late, so I say fuck it and throw on my glasses.  God, I hate these things.  And no, you're not going to get a picture of me in them.  That's how much I hate them. 

I get to work and make my mother poke around in my eye.  She thinks she sees it up under my eyelid, but can't get to it.  FUCK.  Ok then.  I wash out my eye with saline and it still nothing.  The president of the company has an idea and blows into my eyeball to make it water.  Still no contact.  Fuck it, glasses it is.  Ugh.  I get off Job 1 and check all over the bathroom again.  No luck.  I work all last night at the bar in them.  Yuck.  Maybe that's why I didn't make a whole lot of money...

I was kind of hoping it would magically reappear in my sleep....  Apparently this was not to be had because the fucker is still missing.  Today I have a damn near blinding headache behind that eye.  Great.  Just what I need right now.  WTF???  I'm going back to the eye doctor in a bit to get it fished out I suppose... Ugh...