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I now have new specs! They are lighter than my old ones, though still very thick (they'd written on my record that I'd been told to get 1.67 or higher and had refused :) ) I probably should have gotten the thinner ones but I was feeling cheap. Still, I can SEE! It's cool, I can read the controlled parking zone signs now! Although since the frames are smaller, I have to remember to look ahead and not too far up or down, or I'm looking above or below the rims. It's surprisingly difficult. I had bifocals when I was younger and I acquired the habit of looking down when I read.

(I may take photos later, after I've washed my hair.)

Annoying part: My new contact lenses are in... but I can't wear them. They're making me have another fitting. And the damn fitter is only in every other Wednesday. So I can't get my new contacts until 15th March! FFS! I can still wear my old ones I guess, just not too often. I have one spare left lens left, no right ones. The last right one got put in the day I got fitted for my glasses--I dropped the old one. :)

she just offered to pay for my hair to be cut and coloured when I'm over :)

I desperately need it (roots are bad, need at LEAST 2" chopped off) but couldn't even contemplate having it done for a while, what with the boiler and the glasses and the cat. My roots, while unsightly, are considerably less important than those!

Remember how our shower was dying before Christmas?
Well, we kept putting off going to B&Q and getting a new one.

More fool us, because it's now dead... as I discovered when I went to wash my hair :( I foresee an itchy head before I can wash it again :( (Especially as I can only wash my hair once every few days anyway because it's so dry.)

(Anyone who says "wash your hair in the bath" is having a laugh. It's not a very big bath to begin with, and washing hair as long and thick as mine in it is impossible.)

I just dampened my hair and combed out all the tangles (something I normally avoid doing because it turns my hair into a frizz bomb, but I wanted to at least be able to put it in a ponytail without looking like I'd just rolled out of bed).

Sure enough, I've got the usual mess resulting from combed out dry curly hair.

Combined with Coke-bottle specs, it's making me feel particularly unattractive at the moment.