2011... already pretty bitchin'

You know, I always think that I live a pretty mundane life until I look at it in retrospect. In reality, this month was fairly eventful and overall, pretty satisfying. I hung out with fun friends, neighbors, and siblings and even had enough time to buy some new eyeballs! Who'd a thunk?!

So lets get some picture action going on. Lets start with January 1st, since it seems like a good place to begin our journey. Elba, Hippy and I went to Lava Hot Springs to ring in the new year. It was both random and awesome. I just love small towns. Silly phrases like "open container laws" and "being of age" just don't seem to exist!


Lava is lovely. But the air was so cold, that being in the warm spring was only semi-bearable. It was about 1 degree at all times (not joking) so even when your body was warm in the springs, your face was screaming "uncle." We hit some dive bars, and did some dancing, but my favorite pictures are from just hanging out. Like when we used the boob padding from my swimming suit as gas masks:



Or when we realized that our "hot pools" bracelet looked a whole lot like it said HOT POO.


And just for funsies, here is a picture of Hippy and I... looking all cute after eating a crapload of pizza.


Anyway, so after that... I came home and had my eyes replaced with fully functioning mechanical eye balls. Oh wait... thats a little lie. So the real story is that I had PRK. Its a surgery similar to LASIK, but instead of cutting a little flap in your eye, lasering, then replacing the flap... they put acid on your eye to dissolve the surface and then laser your eye, then leave you in writhing agony for days. Its not pretty. But totally awesome. Don't worry, I did my research and felt like PRK was healthier for my eye in the long run... but it was a crazy weird experience. I don't want to go on forever about it... so let me just give you a little feel for it.

For starters, I honestly thought they'd black out my vision, or at least shoot me with a tranque gun first. But NO. I was stone cold sober as they numb the surface of my eye, put crazy eye clamps in my eye, dissolve the surface of my eye, and prod at my eyeball endlessly. Its like being a fish in a tank as you watch this blurry action happening above you... and yet you can see everything and feel it (in a not painful, but very irritating way). Ugh... it was nuts. You just stare at this blinking light above you and pray that your eye won't flinch involunarily, because you know that if the laser misses its mark, you'll end up with an eyeball dangling helplessly from its optical nerve on your cheek. Okay, maybe thats a SLIGHT exaggeration, but it didn't feel like it at the time. It was a scary 10 minutes. But seriously, it really was only 10 minutes for both eyes. Crazy fast. Anyway, so I had a painful couple of days while my eyes healed, but after a week... I was feeling just fine. And my vision is getting better and better, every day.


Thats me with my awesome eye shields on. Not too crazy, eh?

And this is me now...

ITS A FREAKING CHRISTMAS MIRACLE:


I R THE BEST SEE-ER NOW EVER.


And anyway, since then I've been able to get all crafty and stuff. Its pretty awesome. For example, I refinished a glider/rocker. It was in rough shape when I got it for a whopping 5 bucks at a yardsale, so I painted it and made new cushions for it. Nice, right?


AND I saw THIS BLOG which made me feel all artsy, so I did this:



Pardon the glare, but its the cutest dandelion wall EVER. Well... unless you look at the woman who made the tutorial's wall, but lets just pretend. Its on my bedroom wall, next to our bed. I like to think of it as Hippy and I... standing strong in the winds of lameless...

Anyway, thats all I have to blog about for now. I am looking forward to February for 2 reasons: Valentines Day mushiness, and we started demolishing our basement bathroom, so I'm super excited to get that remodel going on. Anyway, thats all for now. I hope that all of you stalkers are having an equally awesome January. And if I don't talk to you within the next couple of weeks, WILL YOU BE MY BALENTIME?!?! <3