Concurrently upgrading and abusing my eyes

[nendil]

So it looks like I'm getting LASIK on Friday. We (that is mom and me) meant to just go in for checkup/testing appointments today and see how compatible my eyes were and how we felt about the whole thing, but Dr. Furlong's crew were so shiny and competent-seeming that we just couldn't resist. Or sommat. Come to think of it it is kind of freakishly abrupt ^^;; but then, mom did have the insurance money set aside and it'd go to waste if I didn't get this done.

On the other hand, we (that is brother and me) rented Paper Mario 2 and are having a blast. Even though we've played it nonstop for two days, we're not even halfway through. It's a big and plentiful game full of charming surprises, and so far it runs no risk of becoming too formulaic like the first game did. Love the battle dynamics too, especially how you have to pay attention in battle more than ever and how they came up with so many more creative ways to execute the Mario RPG fight system.

Need to setup my new laptop (for bringing to China) with all my (~50 gigs of) files and programs. Oy vey, moving's never easy.

I like the sound of the new LJ tags system (because goodness knows I'm all for self-plugging) but I don't want to switch to S2 and lose my custom comment links. And I think it looks uglier. Drat to that. ^^;

Edit: Brand new laptop that was out of my hands for about a week, ~50 pieces of spyware! Oh the woes of clueless parents+siblings. I don't want to leave my current darling Dell to their mercies, even if it might not be my main compy anymore =(

Comments

[theropicus.livejournal.com]

Good luck! My dad had some eye surgery a few years ago, and I got fuzzy hospital socks out of it :) I'm not sure if the surgery actually helped his vision in any great amount, but at least my feet are warm! But still, good luck and I hope it helps a lot. I still remember when I first got my glasses ("Mom, look! The trees! They have individual leaves!")

I laugh at your spyware ::laughs and cuddles Apple:: and I totally don't understand the lj tag things. I think they scare me :\

[simhuman.livejournal.com]

I was amazed to look at the sky and realize that birds aren't little smudges oozing by after I got my first glasses.

Hope your LASIK goes well! I'm looking into getting it soon too. Just sick of going outside in a drizzle and coming back in blind.