June 2020 archive

06
Jun
2020

I can finally get prescription sunglasses, everyone!

categories: personal; word count: 246 words

I found out that I can finally get sunglasses off of Zenni Optical.

This is going to be great for my migraines.

Before, the lens strength only stopped at -6, and my right eye was -6.75 at last checkup, which meant that the lens made would not be strong enough to bring that eye to 20/20 vision. Strangely, they made single vision lenses that weren’t sunglasses in that strength, but… not sunglasses. So after I do get around to getting my eyes checked (I was actually going to do it when the coronavirus hit, and then decided to wait on that), I can get sunglasses in a strength that fits my actual prescription! This means that I can wear them whenever I need to, which should also help cut down on the frequency and severity of my migraines. We hope. They can’t actually hurt them, anyway… and that’s the most major thing. I’ve been looking at some of them on the website (it’s a shame that my pupillary distance is a bit small, or else my first two choices would have worked and would have been great, but it is what it is here, isn’t it?), so I have some picked out in my head that I might like to choose from. I’ll go from there once I get my eyes tested and can also get a new pair of prescription glasses if my prescription has actually changed. But seriously, this is going to be really great!

05
Jun
2020

You fascinate me, but I’m just not like you are.

categories: personal; word count: 334 words

Reading other people’s religious conversion stories fascinate me, even though I know that I will never be one of them or write a story anything like theirs (unless you count taking the side step from atheism to atheistic satanism counts… I suppose to some people it might, even though there is the same basic foundation of a lack of belief in the supernatural, because all we do is consider Satan our role model). I suppose it’s because I absolutely know that I will never become like them or live my life like they live theirs, although I don’t mean to sound like I’m saying that in a holier than thou, “I’m better than you” way. It’s just that our lives are so markedly different from one another’s, and they always will be. I didn’t even intend to live that kind of life if I had married Bub’s father — I wasn’t going to adhere to any of the doctrine. I might have pretended to on the outside, at least to people that didn’t know that I had never believed in the existence of a higher power and never would. (And in case anyone asks: religion was actually not the primary thing that separated us, although it was one of the most major things. There was also the fact that once Bub was born, his father made it clear to everyone that he did not actually want to be a father. There was just sadly no denying that.)

I also find religious doctrine, and the rules of some of the “harder line” religions, a bit — or a lot — peculiar.

So many people are convinced that as I get older, “and I get closer to death”, I might recant, but I don’t see the need to change my mind on thoughts that I have had for nearly my entire life out of fear of the unknown.

As I like to tell these people, “if I am wrong, don’t you think baiting and switching will infuriate your God?”.

04
Jun
2020

A novel way to actually build credit for… free.

categories: personal; word count: 281 words

Please note that I am not actually getting paid to make this post.

Someone mentioned Kikoff on Facebook, and I decided to give this a try on my own since… surprisingly, I don’t actually have any credit. I’ve been the kind of person to only pay for things when I have the money “in hand” to make the payment, but I figured that if there were a way to start to work on my credit without actually taking tangible risk in the event that I needed to have good credit in the future, I might as well start now while I didn’t technically need to have good credit. So that’s what I’ve been doing. What Kikoff does is “lends” you $12.00 in their virtual wallet once you make an account with them, and you pay them back a dollar a month over the course of a year with them. As long as you stay current on payments, they report that “loan” being paid back to them to all three major credit reporting agencies in the United States. In turn, that actually gives you a credit score if you’re… well, like me, and you don’t have a credit score, or it improves your credit score if you’re someone who might not have the best credit score (this can influence up to 35% of your credit score if that is the case and you already have a credit score!). As long as you remember to make these single $1 payments on time, it’s all reward and no risk — you come out of it with an actual, good credit score, which you can later use to your advantage, or you actually improve your already existing credit score!

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