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Last week I said I’d try to talk my room mate out of getting me glasses and instead fixing a television. I failed. On the other hand, I didn’t exactly try very hard. The prospect of being able to see without squinting was very alluring, I must admit. He got himself some glasses too so it wasn’t just an all about me day, so I that’s good. We each got to pick out two pairs of frames because of a deal they were running at the place. He picked out two that were similar and had one pair made into sunglasses. I picked out two that were fairly different, but also similar to one another. One of the pair I liked quite a bit, the other I chose because... they didn’t look stupid? Seriously, I couldn’t find another pair I liked that wouldn’t have cost more due to them needing another type of glass in the frames. There was this one pair that I kinda/sorta liked because they were bright and colorful. My room mate said he didn’t really like them because of some extra stuff on the side of the frames. When I looked at them in the mirror again, I agreed for the time and put them back, but now I keep thinking I should have gotten the colorful pair. I already chose a “normal” pair of frames, so having a colorful fun sort should have been fine. Then again, I could have looked rather stupid with that other pair on my face... I don’t know. I just keep thinking about it and it’s bugging me. Nothing can be done about it now though since the order was already sent. Still can’t get the thoughts to go away, even knowing that. Hopefully they will die down in the two weeks or so it might take to actually get the glasses. Sucks that it will take so long, but we didn’t have to pay a whole lot for them due to the deal that was going on at the time. Two frames and a free eye exam, the latter of which I really needed, considering how bad my eyesight had gotten. And according to the doctor, my prescription had more than doubled. I hope the glasses don’t end up being really heavy on my face. The other ones already liked to slide down my nose constantly. I don’t want to deal with even more of that.

On the topic of dealing with things, my room mate and I have been observing and talking about what the chick I keep mentioning has been doing, in an effort to decide whether or not we should let her move in with us. And we’ve found our answer this week: no. This week she owed my room mate money, and ended up getting a tiny check, so he gave her a break on paying him back. Then on the day I was getting my eye exam, went shopping. Neither myself or my room mate said anything about it since she’d given us a ride to the eye place, but, yeah... If you’ve got some debts, maybe don’t buy clothing you don’t really need in front of the people you owe? The other thing she did to make us both think she wouldn’t be a good room mate was how she behaved at work. She is/was dating someone at work (a bad idea in my opinion), and he wasn’t exactly nice to her for some reason. So she locked a door so he’d have to walk through the area where she worked so she could talk to him or run into him or whatever. That doesn’t exactly scream “good person to depend on”. My room mate and I think she might behaving weird because her child died and she wants attention or comfort from the dude she was with. I don’t really know what the dude thought of the relationship, or how close the two were, but the actions she took are clear signs to run far away from that sh*t. And she was at work when she did that sh*t. I know from experience that one shouldn’t f*ck around at work because it’s a good way to get fired. *sigh* My room mate and I were looking for signs of maturity and responsibility from her, but she hasn’t been showing any of that. Some of what she’s been doing is understandable, considering what she’s had to deal with recently, but she needs to be able to compartmentalize and know when something is okay to do and when it’s not okay to do. When it comes to her though, I think my room mate has a soft spot, so he might tell her yes if she pushes for moving in with us. But then we’d have to deal with her bullsh*t, which he doesn’t really like either, so I don’t really know what is going to happen for sure.

Lastly, due to the unfortunate date this entry lands on, I think I should mention 9/11. While I do see the event as a terrible tragedy and I feel bad for the people who were affected, I don’t see it as awful as many other things that have happened around the world. Worse things have happened before and since, and I’m sure more terrible things will happen in the future. I don’t think what happened should be forgotten or anything, but I also don’t think people should spend a day boohooing about it. The people who died are gone and there is nothing that can be done to rectify what happened to them. Taking a day to mourn when it should have already been done and people should have moved on by now, I don’t think helps anyone. It just looks like people opening a wound up to prevent it from healing. That’s not right. I wouldn’t suggest acting like it never happened and not teaching kids about it in a history class, but I also wouldn’t suggest acting like or demanding people be sad for a thing that happened every single year for the foreseeable future. It’s wrong and doesn’t help people move on in the slightest.

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