Loving Barbie
Feb. 17th, 2026 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This last week I did so much adulting!
And not a moment too soon.
Today at work, a screw suddenly fell out of my glasses, and they fell apart right off my face. My coworker found the screw for me. There was no way I could have found something so tiny with glasses on or off. Nathan put them back together when I got back home. I am blind as a mole without them, and it was hard getting through the day, though luckily I had prescription sunglasses for my drive home.
Even though it felt like such overkill, I went to the eye doctor early last week, got a new pair of glasses, then a couple days later took my new prescription to the safety glasses place and got some safety glasses for work. So, when all these new glasses come in, I will be so happy and relieved, because in my experience, once the glasses fall apart and are put back together, they will fall apart again and again. It felt so unnecessary, and I got caught in major traffic on both errands, but apparently I was not over-adulting.
The other big thing was sending off my Cologuard kit. Oh, geez. My doctor ordered the kit for me at my appointment to renew my Lexapro, and I figured it was no big deal, since it was all free and involved just sending a stool sample in the mail to detect colon cancer. Well, Cologuard has been calling, emailing, and texting me every day to send that sample in, but the instructions clearly said to wait until you were not menstruating, because it can result in a false positive. Well, a false positive is a really big deal, as far as I am concerned, because then you have to get a colonoscopy. Also, apparently, you get a message that says something along the lines of "you have a very high risk of having advanced colon cancer and should schedule a colonoscopy immediately." I'm not sure I could survive such a message. But my period has always lasted a full seven days, and in the last several years, it has definitely stretched further, so it took many days till I was sure there was not any residual blood. However, when I finally provided my sample, it was soft stool. I panicked, because you're supposed to provide a firm sample, and diarrhea can also result in a false positive. Is soft stool the same as diarrhea? I wasted so much time Saturday researching every aspect of that question and this test. It was really unpleasant. I sent off the sample, but it was just received today and still hasn't been processed, putting it over the 72-hour time limit. I am seriously hoping I will get a "no result" message and sent another kit.
So that was absolutely the climax of my adulting, and I hope that will be the end of the stress. New kit, please, and I am better informed about how to provide the sample.
After dropping that off at UPS, I treated myself to a trip to Michael's and got some craft supplies. I found this amazing set of red stamp pads on Valentine's Day clearance as well as some ribbon to finish off my 2026 Christmas ornament, and many new cross stitch threads for a project I'm resurrecting: a fairy dressed in yellow on a yellow buttercup.
The stamp pad is made for Barbie's hand, so that you can have Barbie stamp your stationary, if you want to, though I don't want to get my girl around the ink. The original ink pad is dried up. There was just a little bit on the stamp, and I could see it was more of a magenta color. I'm sure there's a way I can resurrect the ink pad. However, the four colors in my Valentine set are lovely, and it's so easy to work with. I also had the nerve to sharpen my pencil, which was nerve-wracking, because it didn't sharpen easily. Working with these this afternoon reminded me of doing the same thing in my childhood. When I put my used stationary back in the heart-shaped box, I remembered that I had done just that when I was a child as well.
Loving You Barbie's reproduction jewelry set is stunning and really completes her as a set. She's easily the star of my collection.
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Date: 2026-02-18 03:09 pm (UTC)And your Barbie is so pretty! Thank you for sharing her restoration journey!
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Date: 2026-02-19 11:45 am (UTC)