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memes COULD be me.....

I get these memes coming in on my blog reader and sometimes I get interested in doing them, but since NO ONE reads this, or even knows it exists, I haven't been posting them here. Instead I emailed 2 of them to the girls who just seemed baffled, although I think they all played the 25 Random Things on Facebook. Anyway, here's my 10 favorite childrens movies and my 10 favorite places to shop:

Movies

1. Beauty and the Beast
   
2. Wizard of Oz
   
3. Shrek
   
4. Charlie and the Chocolate factory
   
5. Harry Potter (any one of them)
   
6. Lady and the Tramp
   
7. Fly Away Home
   
8. Ice Age
   
9. Babe
   
10. Secret Garden

Shopping

1. Trader Joes
2. Nordstrom
3. Bloomingdales
4. Target
5. Amazon.com
6. Fry's (well...how can this not be here, but favorite????)
7. DSW
8. Williams-Sonoma
9. Andronico's
10. safeway.com

Brief eye update

After nearly two weeks without the hard contact lens, I finally got a replacement last night. The new one is bigger than the last and more definitely green so I hope it won't float off my eyeball and get lost. I can see better with it, but still not very well.

Ten Favorite Items of Clothing

1. The black Not Your Daughters Jeans that fit better than anything I own
2. The dark blue NYDJs that have rhinestones on the hip posckets, even though I am accused of trolling for cowboys when I waer them.
3. The adidas exercise pants
4. The Karen Neuberger green robe
5. Purple fancy dress that has now gone to 3 weddings and other special events
6. New red jacket
7. Black t-shirts of several types
8. Red pair of Naots and bronze pair of Naots---a tie
9. Purple sweater set
10. Beige coat with fake fur that went to Holland last year

Nearest Book Meme

Maybe this will get me back in the habit of posting!

Butter-and-sugar. Kandy Korn. Ambrosia. Silver Queen. Sweet Symphony.

“Corny”, in Radiance, Poems by Barbara Crooker.

Rules: 

* Get the book nearest to you. Right now.

 
* Go to page 56. 

* Find the 5th sentence. 

* Write this sentence - either here or on your blog.

* Copy these instructions as commentary of your sentence. 

* Don't look for your favorite book or your coolest but really the nearest.

Here I am in a big library and the closest book is a small collection of poems given me last year! I took the fifth sentence, not the fifth line of this poem for my choice.

Update

Wow, did this last surgery knock me down! First nausea, then more pain, then more pain, lots of sleeping...too many kinds of eyedrops. I am becoming an eyedrop expert. Homatropine is the very strangest one. If you check it in the PDR, the term coming up is "can cause mental confusion." My ophthalmologist said maybe a better term is psychosis. Definitely it gave me nightmares of grotesque creatures.

Now that I am better it is a relief to be only comparing the healing properties of artificial tears. It is important to use preservative free tears, which come in individual vials. That goes against my nature, to have all that extra packaging, but that is the only way to get no preservatives. I have been using thera tears regular and liquid gel, tears naturalle, and now a stronger one, refresh celluvisc. The active ingredient is the same as the thera tears liquid gel but it feels better in my eyes.

My ophthalmologist has a new web page.

Here we go again, number 4...but who's counting?

This afternoon is surgery number 4. This is what I think is going to be done, but we'll see when it is over:

• repair the detached retina
• try to repair the hole one more time
• remove the lens
• use silicon oil to tamp down
• place (is that the term?) a scleral buckle
  

I am not at all sure what the recovery time will be for this set of wonders. And yes, I AM nervous about it.