Living in Ohio is so fuckin’ odd.

It was in the 80s on Monday, and it is in 40s today. I went from sweating at work to bundling in sweaters in the course of a few days.

And our old ass apartment’s building management controls the radiator heating but DOESN’T THINK IT IT’S COLD ENOUGH TO TURN ON THE HEAT YET! Woooooow it’s 2018 and this apartment is on a straight 1920s timeline.

Cool. Coolcoolcool (literally too cool I’m dying).

So, per usual, Peter and I are planning our vacation…a few days before our vacation. It is stressing me out that this is how he prefers to do things! But he is the…Financier…so I am stuck on his timeline and doing the best I can!!!! We have planned like…six sit-downs to do this and…have clearly not accomplished this yet!

Anyone that has been to/visited/lives in/has a vague idea of what’s good to visit would be MUCH APPRECIATED. Share if you want, that’s fine, I expect maybe 10 people to even read this but I am literally desperate. 

1) Drive 6-8 hours Thursday night from Akron and stop somewhere in Virginia for the night. I think we’re aiming to drive down 81 for scenery, even though our destination is way quicker to access going a different way!!! And we won’t see anything in the dark! Cool! So the options, kind of, are: Wayneboro, Staunton, Lexington, Roanoke. PLEASE GIVE ME SUGGESTIONS. We’ll probably only stay here over night and might get breakfast, but, y’know, whatever place is prettier or SAFER. I am still working on convincing him that the FASTEST way is the BEST way when we won’t see SHIT at night! 

2) Drive to Asheville, NC on Friday morning/afternoon. We’ll stay here until Sunday morning. PLEASE GIVE ME GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS! Peter wants to do some nature shit at some point, I am interested in bars/restaurants, obviously. Please advise.

3) Leave Asheville early Sunday, do a pit stop to Charlotte (we’ll probably only have time for lunch since he wants to drive to THE COAST (destination unknown) that same day. Literally, trying to figure out where/when/how/why.

4) Spend Monday on said COAST (still…destination unknown). 

5) Drive home Tuesday, we’ll figure it out. 

Please, anybody that has been to or knows the area, just…help me out. He’s more of a “BIG PICTURE” person and I am the stressed out planner trying to make it work. 

MY EYES! Oh, my eyes!

After a year+ of consistent eye appointments between an optometrist and an ophthalmologist (literally, I had more appointments combined in one year than I’ve had in 8+ years), I have no follow up appointments to go!

I am free!

My opthamologist concluded that I had some sort of eye dysfunction (more specifically, something about STEM CELLS IN MY EYES, build up of bad epithelial cells, not even sure of the name of it, but something that sounds life-threatening) due to long-term contact wear, even though I’d been wearing dailies for 15 years, never had any problems, and often switched betweeen them and glasses. And raaaaaaaaaarely accidentally slept in them. I was a model contact-wearing patient!!!

I’ve had this problem since March 2017, and I’ve had such extreme problems as excruciating light irritation, double-vision at night, and extreme blurriness in the day time since then. Oh, and pain. After I got sent to the opthamologist, he told me to “stop wearing contacts as much”. He didn’t tell me that I shouldn’t wear them AT ALL. I tried wearing them the weekend of a dear friend’s wedding (shout out to Katie, I am still upset over this, I’ll never get over missing that!) and was holed up in my room for three days with my eyes swollen shut.

Now, finally, my eyes are healing. I’ve worn glasses ever since and followed all rules from my opthamologist.

I am just excited I can get a new pair of glasses. He said we can even talk about LASIK in the future! Or CONTACTS AGAIN! Just so long as they are the right kind.

This year has been hella dumb with my eyes. If anyone EVER tells you that their eyes bother them, don’t scoff at it. I literally had my night driving privileges revoked for 5 months because of my extreme eye/vision degradation and the fact that I couldn’t fully pass my license-renewal test back in December. I recently had to pay to get my license re-printed last month once my vision improved, which is just more annoying than anything. I was in a torturous state for most months of last year until I got proper treatment.

So, y’know, consider yourself lucky if you have great eyesight! Or have had LASIK! Or have no problems with contacts! Because the alternative is painful and dangerous and devastating!!!