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Organization and Lack of Space

My house is small, but moreso the problem is that it has a bunch of small rooms when a very select number of large rooms would be far more convenient for me. I am thinking about getting another bookcase, a relatively narrow and compact one, to put against one wall where a tiny table is. My stuff is just piled up everywhere and there's no room for it. The desk I'm using probably isn't being used to its fullest because it's littered with my collection of "cute things." I have an old dresser to repaint (I'm thinking with some scrolling flower designs, perhaps art nouveau-inspired, perhaps not). That dresser is kind of broken down on the inside (not something I'd want to keep clothes in) so I intend to store my art supplies in there, which might open up a lot of space. It's in my back room where I keep my paintings (if only I had a better place to keep all my canvases... I have an entire former "bedroom" filled with nothing but paintings! I do have a bookcase with a good number of my books in there, too. And there are shelves of My Little Ponies-_- Not to mention all my stuff still at my mother's house that there just isn't room for. I need a working vacuum, but my hair on the ground tends to destroy vacuums (I'm not balding but I have skin conditions on my scalp that leads to my hair actually falling off a lot and destroying small or cheap vacuums). I paint in my living room because it's most comfortable for me. But then my living room is covered with art supplies... It's a mess. I need to try and clean more often for sanitation purposes too. There is a basement I need to clean of mouse poop, and the large back laundry room has a lot of stuff. I could maybe move more of my paintings back there. If I can rearrange my living room well enough, there's also an antique chair I could bring out front here... I need another chair. It's just space is so limited! I might just buy another small chair (even if I like it less).

Anyways, I might get a new bookcase. But not for over a month, at least.

Contacts Appointment

Yesterday I had my appointment for contacts, which I haven't had in a long time due to not wearing contacts much (because of my eye problems I wrote a ton about last year). The doctor I saw was surprised my surgeon said I could wear contacts again (he did, he just said to be careful). Now I have to use some kind of hydrogen peroxide solution to soak my soft contacts in overnight, and I have to use a can of saline to moisturize them, because canned saline is preservative-free. She went into how unusual my eye situation is, blah, blah, same as always. She thinks I might also be developing an allergy to typical contact solutions because they can make my eyes sting. She wanted me to try some kind of new daily disposable contacts, but they are really expensive, so I'm not doing that. My eyelid surgeon wanted me to get some kind of Lasik eye surgery, and this woman did as well, and they always go into how many different ways there are to do the surgery now. I started looking into Lasik and similar procedures when I was 16, and last year I was told by two doctors that I can't get it. One doctor said my pupils are too big, the other said my left cornea is dangerously thin. My left eye is already near useless for me, compared to the right. My left retina spontaneously detached itself when I was 15 and I was completely blind in that eye for 6 months (I didn't realize this was a real problem, nor did I know how to express it in any way anyone took seriously -- it's considered to require emergency surgery so 6 months is a very long time). I'm lucky I have any sight in my left eye back, but my vision is only so correctable in it... Meaning, continuing to increase my prescription wouldn't make the vision any clearer; a prescription helps a lot, but my left eye pretty much just stays annoyingly blurry (but much better than it could have been; I used to not be able to see light even). So I just hope nothing bad happens to my right eye! My right eyelid, though, was the one with all the scar tissue from contacts.

I was recommended to start wearing contacts (hard lenses if possible for me, which it wasn't, and I'm fortunate since that would have probably made my eyelid scarring much worse than with the soft lenses). My prescription kept getting worse with glasses, but completely stabilized after I switched to contacts. I used to always break my glasses, they always felt dirty to me, always fell down my nose and got in the way, and there was always tons of glare (even with the expensive lenses to prevent them). Not to mention in vision screening I simply do not see nearly as well with glasses as with contacts, even with the same prescription. I really hate glasses, though I wear them nearly as often as contacts since my contacts problems.

I think I get to re-see the doctor about Lasik in January (he suggested I come back in a year to check on my cornea). I really really want some kind of surgery on my eyes, just so long as I don't go blind in my right eye.