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Froggy-G

wantabetterlife wrote: »

Thank you everybody for all your omlette making advice:D, well it actually tasted lovely, didnt look that great...........more like scrambled egg as michelle said if i am honest. Must have been ok because everybody ate it and there were no complaints.

I think i will try and make one about every two weeks for dinner....anymore and i will get sick of them. I love the way you can use up anything you have in the freezer or a handful of frozen sweetcorn etc...kind of like a "free dinner" if you see what i mean.

And Froggy you were right they are really filling......we had dinner about 5.30 and usually at this time i am peckish and munching on a bowl of cereal, but not tonight...dont feel hungry at all ........although that could be because of the homemade chips we had with the omlette...:rotfl:.

Bit of a financial dilemma in my head at the minute.....advice appreciated...
I have been really short sighted for as long as i can remember....imagine jam jar type glasses....except i wear contacts most of the time.
For years i have wanted to get laser surgery done and am going for a consultation at the end of the week....they have already estimated the cost to be around 2.5k judging by my prescription.
I just dont know wether or not i can justify this type of expense on something that is not essential.
However if i dont get it done i will definately need new contacts and glasses very soon which will cost about £400 anyway....emmm not sure what do, i would just love to be able to wake up in the morning and actually be able to see!!!

No worries, happy to help / advice with cooking questions anytime...

Concerning laser eye surgery, most companies do interest free credit.. If they can assure you you won't need much care then the cost will be recouped after just 6 years.. Worth considering.. Do you have Bupa cover??

Froggy

Ps: I have a fat free homemade chips recipe if you are interested!?!?

wantabetterlife

Thanks so much froggy... i have read your posts on other diaries and you are always so helpful.
Will go to the consultation and see what they say...and i guess your right if you look at it long term i would actually be saving money!

I know that recipe you are talking about for home made chips..lol. my mother in law is a slimming world fanatic and she made them one night.........all i can say is they took that long what with par boiling and oven cooking that i was nearly ready to eat the hand of myself by the time they were ready :rotfl::rotfl:.

CathT

Great recipes froggie!

I was going to suggest the interest free option for laser surgery too. Have you shopped around?

cha97michelle

People i know who have had it done have said it changed their life. If you want to go for it, work out how best to do it and go for it.

I don't know how anyone could have it done to be honest as i am so squeamish about eyes. But then again, that is me.:o

gallygirl

As long as you are aware it will not solve your eyesight for ever - your eyes wil still deteriorate as you get older and you will still probably need glasses at some stage in the future for driving and/or reading. The difference is with the laser treatment you can at least see well enough to find the glasses :rotfl:.

I have a very bad left eye which can't be corrected with glasses or laser. Because of that I can't take the risk of something going wrong with the right eye else I'd have it done like a shot. However, having read The Secret I have decided what every optician has told me for the last 30 years is wrong. I WILL have a fully functioning left eye. To help it on its' way I have just ordered an eye patch for my right eye which I will wear in the house . The Universe WILL deliver.....

Froggy-G

gallygirl wrote: »

As long as you are aware it will not solve your eyesight for ever - your eyes wil still deteriorate as you get older and you will still probably need glasses at some stage in the future for driving and/or reading. The difference is with the laser treatment you can at least see well enough to find the glasses :rotfl:.

I have a very bad left eye which can't be corrected with glasses or laser. Because of that I can't take the risk of something going wrong with the right eye else I'd have it done like a shot. However, having read The Secret I have decided what every optician has told me for the last 30 years is wrong. I WILL have a fully functioning left eye. To help it on its' way I have just ordered an eye patch for my right eye which I will wear in the house . The Universe WILL deliver.....

GG :j

Is that you in the below picture with your eye patch on??



froggy

gallygirl

Froggy-G wrote: »

GG :j

Is that you in the below picture with your eye patch on??



froggy

Only in my/your dreams :rotfl:

wantabetterlife

OMG i go out for a couple of hours and come back to pictures of patch wearing pirate ladies............:rotfl::rotfl:.

Hope everyone is well and thanks for posting....

CathT i probably will go for the interest free option and i think they let you pay it over 18 months and if i pay £500 deposit it works out at just over £100 per month which would be OK...........havent really done any shopping around but optimax were offering to beat any price and the cheapest any other place would do it for is £2.5k and this would be for a really low prescription..........mine is -5.5 so would be a lot dearer. Optimax just charge a flat rate and it doesnt matter how strong your prescription is....bit confusing i know.

Michelle i have been wearing contacts for about 15 years now so am not really that squamish but would be lying if i said i wouldnt be nervous getting it done.

Hi GG...i know that eventually i probably will need to wear reading glasses at some stage as most people do but i think i could live with that......as you say at least i would be able to find them . Hope the patch helps by the way.....i take it the idea is that by covering the good eye you make the weaker eye work harder?

gallygirl

Well, in theory it won't work. I have very bad vision in my left eye and basically as it wasn't picked up when I was v young, and a patch could possibly have rectified it, the neural pathways are not strong enough to interpret what it sees. When I've had as strong a lens as possible in glasses it feels as if it is about 12" away from my face and I get double vision when I turn my head (which is fun when I was driving :eek:). I also got dreadful headaches.

So, this is my remedy which I have decided is going to work, although it shouldn't obviously for the reasons above. And if all else fails I'll just wear it for froggy g :rotfl:.

Good luck!

wantabetterlife

Have just received free tickets for a self build exhibition that me and OH were going to anyway :j..........would have cost £15.00 if we had to buy them so i have just made an online payment for this amount to the mortgage

Have been so fed up with next recently......tried to charge me for a pair of shoes i never received...got it sorted eventually, but it also peeves me off that every turn around they send you out their latest catalogue and charge you £3.75 for the pleasure.:mad:
So i sent them an email requesting to close the account for this reason and they agreed that i could still be a customer with and could continue ordering online but that they would no longer send me the catalogues. Am happy with this as you can see everything online anyway..........so another few pounds saved

Am trying to think of dinners/snacks for the little ones during the day that dont cost the earth....they seem to be eating so much more recently. I seem to spend a fortune on cereals and lunch box snacks!