this morning

[fox]

The redness in my left eye had mostly gone away by the time I went to sleep last night (about five minutes after I finished posting about my adventures.  Still kind of teary and sticky with foreign-object-B-GON type secreta, but not really hurting anymore and not red.  Slept fine.  This morning, the right eye took the lens fine and the left eye kind of balked a little bit, but it's okay now.  I seem to remember that when my brother first got his contact lenses, as a wee boy (okay, maybe he was about nine?), he had an eensy suction-cup-on-a-stick sort of affair he could use to take them out.  He learned to remove them without it pretty quickly -- these were gas perms, which you can break the seal between them and your eye by pulling the corner of your eye back, like a kid on a playground pretending to be Chinese, and then blinking -- but I remember he had this device.  I want one of those, if it would work for soft lenses.  Probably not.  So instead, maybe what I want is a pair of tiny tiny rubber-footed tweezers, so I can pluck the lenses out quickly and safely and not go nineteen rounds with my fingernail embedded in the sclera.

Coffee's ready now, so I need to get dressed and have my breakfast before going up to the curling open house.  I bought new curling duds yesterday; very exciting.  I think I will also need an ordinary gym bag of some kind, because I'm kind of over carrying my clothes in my broom bag.  I'll look into getting one with the club logo on it.  But in the meantime, before changing into my curling stuff up at the club, I do not know what to wear.  [examines fall clothes restlessly]


On the up side, the eye thing has rather taken my mind (or at least its pain receptors) off the fact that I accidentally cut a toenail on my left foot down below the quick the other day.