Me and SpongeBob… we’re like *this*

There was some extra money left in the old Flexible Spending Account so we (the husband and I) decided to ditch the glasses and get contacts. I haven’t worn contacts in more than 15 years. That’s a long time to go without seeing only through your eyeballs.

Its like… well, it’s like all of a sudden I decided not to wear shoes again. Just stopped wearing shoes completely. Except that I’ll put them on at night when my feet were tired.

Right. Just like that.

Without my safety goggles, I’m feeling completely exposed and lacking protection for me… um, my eyes. People can actually see me now… see my face. I’m not super-comfortable with this.

Its been a few months and I’m still adjusting to them… to me… to this new (old) face. This is a pic me after just a few days with them. It also happens to be Halloween – hence the orange & purple hair (which I truly wish I could wear every day… really) and the heavier-than-normal make-up (that is running down my face).

(ack! There’s that forehead again… yeesh… anyone need some advertising space?)

So. Every morning I wake up and stick plastic lenses on my eyeballs and look longingly over at the glasses that I’m not wearing during the day (these suckers come out as soon as I walk in the door from work).

Instead of an eyeglass cleansing cloth, I carry a spare pair of lenses in my purse along with eye drops – which are a huge necessity – because every afternoon my eye balls start to feel like they are drying out inside my head just like when SpongeBob goes into Sandy’s tree house without his water bowl (because water is for sissies) while he’s trying to be fancy.

Yes… exactly like SpongeBob.

Say hello to my little friend…

I love my new phone.

Is it wrong to love a ‘thing’ as much as I love this phone? Maybe so… but I don’t care. I luhve it.

(especially when it’s working… which it is now. finally. and the people at t-mobile were too nice to me to be mad at them when it wasn’t working.)

I love that I can do important things like… update my Facebook status. I can check my email. I can check the weather.  Get my Perez Hilton and E! Entertainment fix. And I can correct my husband when he’s wrong. (Jimmy Page was in Led Zepplin, thankyouverymuch.) I also got us home today when we were driving on a road we had never been on before. Why? Because my phone comes with a map. Genius.

How did I ever manager to get around without it?

Whatcha been up to?

It’s been a busy month so far… lots of stuff going on and some projects to share. I also went on a little trip to Virginia Beach to hang out with my former assistant. Had fun, fun, fun. (and we were no where near the beach)

And then she put me to work in her new office.

The nerve.

My new phone didn’t work so well while I was gone. Well it worked. But it worked like a phone…and that was it. It wasn’t supposed to be just a phone. Why would I want *just* a phone? I mean, really. A phone?

Oh – and it only took me two years… but I finally have an Atlanta phone number. So, uh, I guess that means that I really live here now.

While living here, you know in Atlanta, I did scrap a bit for Serendipity Kits:

There’s more… and you can check it all out here… along with an awesome January GIVE-A-WAY! (the photo looks like this because it was taken with my… phone)

So – don’t be such a stranger, okay?

And it comes with a FREE book light!

I don’t understand this. BUT – the commercial completely cracks. us. up. My sister told us about it and it was funny enought to hear her talk about it… but the commercial? Oh my goodness… it’s comedy, pure comedy.

Have you seen the Snuggie? Check it out here.

So… why not just, oh, I don’t know… turn up the heat? Or maybe…wear warmer clothes? Perhaps a sweater and some socks?

Nah, I’d much rather walk around the house dressed like a jedi. A warm jedi.

You know how I always wanted to be a monk? Now I can look like one without all those pesky vows.

In the commercial is shows a woman wearing a snuggie and holding a baby. Because without the snuggie she wouldn’t be able to be warm AND loving at the same time. She’s fully protected from the cold… but the baby? Much more dispensible. I guess they haven’t invented the baby-sized snuggies. Let’s all just keep our fingers crossed for that breakthrough.

Hmmm… a free book light? Tempting… very tempting.

Me and Rip Van Winkle

They say that the way you spend your New Year’s Eve will determine how you spend the upcoming year.

I’m okay with this.

(it’s not like I couldn’t use the beauty sleep… because, clearly…)

Mack and I fell asleep long before the ball dropped. We were nudged awake in time to see the last few seconds of 2008, give kisses all around, and then we went right back to sleep.

Happy New Year, sleepy heads.