I originally planned to go downtown to do a few things but plans changed.
Is everything ok??
Your description of "jagged edges of dancing colors" make me think what you have is an optical migraine. No pain, just a bother and you feel somewhat disoriented. Google that, there are really good images of that. I have them every once in a while, they are harmless but a bother. They usually do not last more than half an hour but if they happen when I drive I have to pull over to the side of the ride of the road and wait for them to go away. I had them once or twice when I was still working and could not see what was on my computer screen. I had to sit and wait for them to go away. There is no known cure for them and apparently nobody knows what causes them. They are NOT in your eyes but in your brain. Usually it's an ever-widening circle or half-circle that starts quite tiny and then gets larger as it goes, the jagged lights are all around the curve of it and getting brighter. The image is in both eyes so you can't just close one eye and hope it goes away, it doesn't. I have had them for about 20 years off and on, sometimes not for many months and then again every few days. Nothing in particular brings them on. Rest assured that you are not alone in this, it is harmless, ask your optometrist about the, he/she will tell you the same thing and look at the images on the internet and google what you can find there. Your vision is not "broken".
segelkatt
I've had them all my life, starting when I was around 10 years old. After I had my son, they went away until I hit 40. Then they came back with a vengeance. The neurologist said they are migraines and that the jagged lights are an aura to the migraine. I always get pain about 30 minutes or so afterward; the amount of pain varies, depending on how soon I can go to bed. Sometimes, the headache might last an hour; other times, it will go all day and night. Due to allergies, I can't take anything. I go to bed with a cold compress until the worst of it goes away. I went to a migraine specialist, who said that they are migraines with the aura and sensitivity to sound and light, but refused to really do anything for me because I don't have 15 or more migraines a month. In other words, they don't incapacitate me, so she didn't want to treat me.
Glad you're ok. My mother had severe migraines and when I was a child there were so many days that they kept her in bed for 3 days at a time. In the 70s she began taking Cafergot Supp. and it helped a lot but it had to be taken when she first felt the onset of one or it wasn't effective.
I should add that a migraine aura will affect both eyes. The neurologist (and the migraine specialist) told me that if the jagged edges only affected one eye, then it was something else and I needed to be seen. These episodes are always in both eyes and even when my eyes are shut. So I just deal, go to bed til the worst of it is over and then go about my day. Thankfully, I might get a bad migraine only once every 2-3 months. But I am due for an eye appointment and will say something to her. Thanks for the heads-up!
- Breakfast for the kids, walked 2.5 miles this morning, and got ready for work. Because of the snow yesterday, I told Dear Richard that he might want to take me to work; once he got the truck down the driveway, he might not be able to get it back up tonight. He said, "Oh, no, I'll be fine." Well, OK then. So I'm hanging out on the treadmill, listening to music. And Rick comes down, "Dear, go get ready for work. And hurry up, so I'm not late!" He had gone outside and the driveway is a mess. He figured he wouldn't make it back up the driveway in the truck (Men!) So I had to rush around and get ready so he could bring me into work and then take my car to his work.
- Laundry night
- Trash night, so Rick will clean out the boxes
Mia6
Ms. Pepe is really matting up, too, and it's hard to get those mats out. She doesn't clean herself very well anymore, just a quick wash after she eats and that's only about her face and neck. We've been working on combing her out, but the mats are getting really bad. I even said to Rick about having her shaved, but we're afraid it might traumatize her. And right now, it's really most too cold to take her out. Rick's been cutting her mats out. She hates it.
Winchester
Poor Ms. Pepe, she's like the Vincie Girl. I was able to get a few more knots out this morning but did it quickly.
), eight 10-ounce bags of pretzel rods at 50 cents per 
, six boxes of cereal (5 boxes of Annie's Cinnabunnies gluten free 10 oz, and one Erewhon Crispy Brown Rice cereal gluten free 10 oz) for 50 cents each, and two more breads at 50 cents per -- a two-pack of 'brown bread' baguettes (will use these to put sloppy joes on), and a baguette.
micknsnicks2mom
Do you shred your cheese by hand or use a food processor? After breaking two cheap food processors many years ago, I now shred cheese by hand. I have a KA food processor now that I use for many things....but not cheese. But that would take a while with a 5-pound block! Another fine haul from the produce auction! Good job!
Winchester
--i use a hand held grater, to grate my cheese! it actually didn't take very long to grate that 5 pounds of cheese. i'd set the brick of cheese out in the unheated back enclosed porch for 4 hours prior to grating it, and the cheese came out in nice long shreds. i think getting the cheese very cold really helped make it easier to grate, as well as gave a better shred to it. and it felt good to get some benefit from the extreme cold weather, too! 
micknsnicks2mom
When I get muenster cheese, I always buy it in a block and then grate it for a filling in my fondue bread. I have a circular grater; mine is not a box. And it's an old plastic grater. It works (and I don't break it). Mom gave it to me decades ago. And you're right about getting the cheese really cold.
Winchester
-- it was because it was american cheese, that i thought of getting the cheese really cold. and it's good to know that that's the best way to grate cheese, too!
