Can you see me now?

I think this falls under the category of "nobody wants to know what you had for lunch," but nonetheless, you're a gonna hear it.

I took Binnie to the vet this morning. The poor girl has cataracts. When she looks at me I think "you're blind as a stone, aren't you?" We could do surgery when they start to affect her QOL (that's quality of life for you non-pharma people). Each eye costs $3,000 to fix. Yes, that's each eye. She better see the hell out of some stuff for six large!


I spent some time at the dermatologist this afternoon. I laid myself at her mercy. Fix me. I signed up for some sort of undereye treatment for my dark circles, and a wrinkle treatment. Then this past week I sprung with acne again, so I asked her to fix that while I'm there.

This is the Before Intense Pulse Light Treatment photo. Since this year began with the word ugly, I've decided to embrace my ugly and not hide it so much. This is really what I look like with no makeup first thing in the morning. Stunning, isn't it?

So the good news is the treatment she did is excrutiatingly uncomfortable. That's what doctors call pain, they call it discomfort, and they also call it pressure. This time it was just pain, but pretty quick. It kind of felt like she was flashfrying my eyeballs for a few minutes, one blast at a time. The weird thing is I really didn't have freckles under my eyes before the treatment, and now I do. Dark ones, too! It's basically the death of bad skin cells, pigmentation that doesn't need to be there, imperfections that make me more imperfect. They get fried to a black crisp and then they fall off. Sounds pretty, huh?

So that's my big day, a little work wedged in here and there, a little self-improvement. Oh, and it started off with Cooper wrapping his skateboard up in Blue Blankie and skating on his belly around the dining room. Kids are weird.

Oh, wait! I knew there was something Important I wanted to post. We're going to slap up a tile backsplash in the kitchen, throw a little lipstick on this pig before we take her to market in March. Do you like the mixed squares tile or the rectangles? I thought I liked the rectangles best, but when I put it up I'm just not sure? I could be thrown by the dark color of the cardboard sticking out behind it, that might be the problem. I wish I could do a poll, so if you wouldn't mind commenting and telling me what you think about my tile choices? Thanky!