Mucho, mono

So last night I went right from work to help Ali do phase 2 of her move.  Getting the stuff off the truck didn’t take terribly long.  We got the bigger/heavier furniture items in their designated room but for the most part we just dumped most things into the two car garage.  After emptying the truck we went back to Ali’s apartment to throw the large amount of odds and ends that were still there.  It was enough to fill the floor of the truck completely.

Ali’s new place is really nice.  Evidently it was built as the model home for the community.  It has a lot of nice furnishings and has some other cool upgrades like a whole house music/intercom system and ethernet wiring through out the place.  The place was actually being sold as furnished, Ali negotiated an unfurnished sale however the prior owners left a ton of stuff in the place anyway.  End tables, shelving, a desk, office chairs, king size bed, wall art, lamps, mirrors are only some of what was left behind.  Some of it can be used by Ali, some will either be given away or dumped on Craigslist.

Ali was quite relieved to have the lionshare of her stuff inside the walls of her new place.  Of course there is still a mountain of work to do but at least it won’t require heavy lifting or moving trucks to address. I congratulated her on her new home.  It will be great for her to have a place she can truly call her own.

Cindy has had to rely heavily on reading glasses the last couple years.  She was at the eye doctor yesterday looking to do something about it.  The solution they have proposed is something called monovision. Monovision is when you perform a correction on one eye allowing it to see well for reading while the other eye is used primarily for distance.  However not everyone is a good candidate for this, it can cause some people nasty headaches and be disorienting.  The way they find out if you are a good candidate is fitting you with one contact lens for a few days to see how you react.

Well evidently Cindy is a good candidate.  So far the single contact has not bothered her and she can read without cheaters.  She is thrilled.  If she gets through the weekend without problems then the next step is to surgically alter the reading eye to make the change permanent.  I’m happy for her.

This weekend will be full.  I have a race to time Sunday, plenty of work to keep me busy Saturday and we are going to wedge in a trip to the theater to see the new Spiderman movie as well. Fun.