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There is a new farmer's market every Thursday, across the street from my work. AWESOME. Today I bought asparagus and strawberries. I can't wait for blueberry season; everyone else is going to have to get there really early or else just accept that I will buy ALL THE BLUEBERRIES IN THE WORLD.

Ahem.

The thing is, every summer I have the same five conversations with myself*, and every summer nothing happens, but this summer! This summer, one of my "shoulds" will become a "do".

*1. It's very bright out here. I should give in and buy expensive prescription sunglasses.

2. Maybe I should just get contacts instead and buy cheap sunglasses.

3. I should go do some of those things that people do in Toronto in the summer. There's more to summer than air conditioning and patios, or so I've been told.

4. I have so much free time these days.** I should take a class, or go back to the gym.

5. Now would be a perfect time to start buying all my vegetables at farmer's markets.

**No, I have no idea why I think I have more free time in the summer. It must be the heatstroke.

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**No, I have no idea why I think I have more free time in the summer. It must be the heatstroke.

Because it's light so much later?

I want to go to the farmer's market! What's the timing like for the one near you?

Oh, it's a midday thing only, and not really worth coming all the way down here for, but it's perfect for those of us who are too lazy to make it up to the one at Nathan Phillips Square on wednesdays. :D

I think it must be because the days seem longer, because the sun goes down so much later.

I have some similar few things I promise myself every summer, too. We'll see how this summer goes. :)

These days, when I have these conversations and make these promises, I usually start laughing halfway through at the futility of it all. Oh well, at least i can entertain myself!

Every summer, I intend to start a kitchen herb garden, go to some kind of classes, hit the special fish shop in James Bay, get outside more... it never happens.

Either we move, or we're planning to move, or I get sick, or I'm just too lazy.

The one thing I do manage is to up my Zip membership to 6 discs, because there is no good TV during the summer...but now they've changed all the categories, and the 3 disc one is the only one with no shipping, so I can't do that. Suck.

Yeah, I always end up doing even more of nothing during the summer.

If you go to a place with a good contact lens person and a good policy in case they don't work for you, it'd probably be best to try #2 first, then #1 if necessary. Like, go get fitted for contacts, try 'em out, and if you like them and can see yourself wearing contacts on most hot summer days (it's definitely my preference), then one pair of cheap sunglasses later, you're done. If you hate 'em, take them back (that's where the good return policy and/or free trial pair comes in) and get your expensive prescription sunglasses and a VERY good case.

On the other hand, if contacts in your prescription are ridiculously expensive and you can't imagine liking them enough to pretty much switch over to wearing contacts for the majority of the summer, going straight to #1 might be a better plan. Even though I do wear contacts almost exclusively all summer, I still occasionally wish I also had the sunglasses option.

Also, I am available to be your contacts-getting-used-to guru; it took me FOREVER just to learn to put the fuckers in, never mind to do so quickly and comfortably. I swear I have made every possible mistake and been given every possible tip, so whatever problem you're having, you just come to me and I'll sort you out. ;)

I've owned contacts twice, and both experiences they took me, like, an HOUR to put in each time. Which I kind of don't understand, because I can touch my own eyeball without flinching, for pete's sake. So I'm a little reluctant to try them again, because the likelihood is that I wouldn't wear them to work, which is, you know, 5 days of the week.

Whereas I can't even come close to touching my eyeball, and can't even keep my eyes open to put eye drops in, but I got my contacts in right away on my first try.

But despite their ease I probably only end up wearing them every couple months.

I have a hard time with the eye drops, too. Keeping my eyelids open is a huge challenge -- I usually just end up getting them all over my face.

See, this is why for any eye-jiggery-pokery-related activities, one hand is always enlisted to simply haul the lid up and hold it there by brute force. :D

You'd get faster :) If it's not about squeamishness then it's probably about angle or the amount of liquid or whatever. But about work -- it's hard to do computer tasks with contacts unless you're not at all prone to dry eyes, because you just don't blink enough when you're on the computer, plus the air at work is usually dry. So maybe go with the scrip sunglasses?

Have Transitions lenses improved at all since they came out back in the day? I remember that eventually they started to be pretty dark even inside, which is stupid and pretty hard on your eyes, to boot.

The whole idea of contacts freaks me out!! I really need to get prescription sunglasses. OH FOR A BENEFITS PLAN WITH DECENT VISION COVERAGE!!!

When is blueberry season in this land, anyway? I have been WAITING.

August? I think? NOT SOON ENOUGH.

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