bad vision

i've been wearing glasses since 6th grade, contacts since college. its near sightedness and astigmatism from reading a vast quantity of books in summer, when i had the run of the normally closed school library, thanks to my mother who teaches at the school. 


yes nancy drew, i blame you.


but this pregnancy seems to make my bad vision worst. blurry. but i've read that its not unusual, and pregnant women are advised not to do any laser eye surgery because the results may vary from being mildly inaccurate or horribly wrong. too bad, as in the back of my mind, and before i realised i was pregnant, i was wanting to line up laser eye correction as my thing to do this year. my disposable lenses may not matter to landfills much, but the lens solution bottles probably have nowhere to go around here. 


anyway, to illustrate how bad its gotten, i walked into Marks&Spencers to and found what i thought were good bargains. having chosen 2 pieces of knickers a size bigger than usual (in preparation for when i turn into a balloon), the check out reveals that it is "buy 1, get the 2nd at half price" and not buy 1 take 1 as it registered in my brain. 


at Php 495 each, i thought i would be paying Php 495 for 2, not 495 PLUS 247.50


total damage was Php 742.50. argh. quite extravagant when i am happy with their 5-pack knickers that go on sale for about Php 495 a pack. 


argh.