Friday, November 15, 2013

The Day off

I was lounging around in bed on Facebook when I remembered and realized I was already late for my eye appointment. So in my capri sweats and T-shirt I brushed my teeth and washed my face then rushed to my appointment. I found out my flex spending has $800 left I need to use and I really don't have time to do this during the week so I rushed over there.

The waiting room has a Book of Mormon so I was happy to get started on my reading today. The optometrist isn't the same one I had last year. This one is young and is white although he has dark hair and is dark. I'd be interested to know what his ancestry is.  He said something about blood vessels detected and asked me if I had blood-sugar or high-blood-pressure problems. I haven't seen a doctor in 3 years. I haven't had to see one. I had to see so many when I had my brain injury and car accident I haven't wanted to do that. He gave me a physician referral. He asked me didn't my husband and children have a doctor. Usually I can tell if someone's fishing for information. I looked like a dog BUT I was reading the Book of Mormon in the lobby so perhaps he was intrigued. That's even if he's single. I told him I wanted to try on colored contacts for fun and that I just wanted them for a fun weekend. He said he liked that about me. Weird, I couldn't tell if he was just being friendly or flirty. Very smooth. That is the best way to flirt so they can't tell if you are or not.

He's not bad looking although he's not really great-looking either BUUUT I definitely looked like a dog and I will REALLY like that if he was flirting despite my no-makeup crappy just-woke-up look. I'd rather marry an attorney BUT I could deal with an optometrist just fine AND I wonder if I could get free exams every year. If only I could find a nice single, spiritual and fine dentist. That's the free care I'd really like. He's probably married with kids. It's pretty sad that I speculate these things at all but if it doesn't work in my head why bother?

The have this Facebook game where you confess a number of things on your status most people don't know about you. I explained about how much and how sure I was that I wanted to be an attorney but then how I ended up a librarian by accident. Instead of getting that a lot of people are commenting about how great it is that I got that much education. If they were going to take it that way I wouldn't have written about that at all. People are consistently missing the point.

White men tend to flirt with me when I'm wearing my glasses or not wearing make up. That's something I've noticed over the years. That just isn't me however. I love my make up and I love dressing up and I feel the most comfortable when my make up is perfect, my hair is done, my nails are done and I'm wearing clothes and shoes I love.

2 Mosiah 2
36 And now, I say unto you, my brethren, that after ye have known and have been taught all these things, if ye should transgress and go contrary to that which has been spoken, that ye do withdraw yourselves from the Spirit of the Lord, that it may have no place in you to guide you in wisdom’s paths that ye may be blessed, prospered, and preserved—

40 O, all ye old men, and also ye young men, and you little children who can understand my words, for I have spoken plainly unto you that ye might understand, I pray that ye should awake to a remembrance of the awful situation of those that have fallen into transgression.
 41 And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it.
The Doctines and Principles Contained in the Articles of Faith - L. Tom Perry

You young men—I encourage you to use your bright minds to study and learn the Articles of Faith and the doctrines they teach. They are among the most important and certainly the most concise statements of doctrine in the Church. If you will use them as a guide to direct your studies of the gospel of Jesus Christ, you will find yourself prepared to declare your witness of the restored truth to the world. You will be able to declare in simple, straightforward, and profound ways the core beliefs you hold dear as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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