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Rambling Reader - Eye of the Beholder

My blog is suffering only because I just have not been able to find the time or patience to read. Currently I am finding most of my books to be unoriginal or just a little too dull to capture my attention. If you compare last February to this one I have read very little this month. I hope that will pick up soon, however there is a reason it might not and so I thought I'd share this reason with all of you!On Wednesday morning I'm having LASIK eye surgery!I am both terrified and excited about the prospect of having a surgon shoot lasers into my eyes, but at the same time, I am looking forward to not having to wear my glasses all the time! I take my glasses off to read however and I was told the first few weeks reading might be blurry as my eyes heal and adjust. So I don't know how much I will be able to read once I have this procedure done. Some people have had no problems and some have had their eye sight fluctuate from blurry to clear for the first couple of weeks. Who knows what I will experience?It's only been in the last under 1o years or so that I have had to wear my glasses full-time for distance. I can't do contacts because my eyes are dry and I hate having things in my eyes. I have disposable contacts for special occasions where I don't want to wear glasses and if I want to wear sunglasses I have to have them on. I can't see properly out of brown or black lenses, so all my sunglasses have been of the blue or purple shades since I was a teen! You can't really get that in prescription unless you want to pay a fortune.I am pretty lucky, I do not have a very strong prescription to begin with and with my glasses I have BETTER than 20/20 vision (I am so rarely better at anything than most people that I am clinging to this like I just won a gold medal. ha!) and so I am a perfect candidate and the price isn't too steep (especially when I took the 4-year payment plan heh). So If you factor in the cost of eye exams, prescriptions and frames for the rest of my life the money I am spending is nothing (it's really not that much to be honest!). So I think it's a good investment! Plus I needed new frames as the ones I have now (and love) are broken and so I thought I'd look into the free evaluation with LASIK to see if I qualified before making the appointment with my eye doctor and shilling out $400-$500 on new glasses.Here's the thing though, my Kim Harrison book comes in on Tuesday! Will I be able to read it? How will I survive if I know I have the book but can't read it right away? GAH! I will have to stay up all night on Tuesday just to finish it. But they told me to make sure I get a good night's sleep. What will I do?!?!?