Blame-Passing (Day 3558 - 8/22/19)

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Stephen put faith in the GorillaPod to be able to hold the vlog camera on top of the upper kitchen cabinets. He wanted to see if it was possible to put the camera up there without it falling. They are currently cooking dinner. Stephen is cooking spaghetti. Mallory is cooking ground beef while eating a bell pepper. She originally wanted to make a stuffed bell pepper for her dinner. But, didn't feel like having to cook the ground beef, put it in the bell pepper, and put it in the oven. So, she just ate the bell pepper. Stephen breaks the spaghetti in half before dropping it into the pot. Mal says that she finds it satisfying to break the dried spaghetti noodles in half.

Stephen then talks about how recently they had problems with the car. Mal also had problems with her new glasses since it gave her headaches. She called the optometrist who told her that it wasn't their fault and it was the fault of the people who made the glasses. Mal got her glasses from Costco because they were cheaper, so she went there and showed them both her old and new glasses. She mentions that she also bought her contacts from Costco which saved her $20. While they were taking a look at her glasses, they walked around Costco but Mal couldn't read anything. So, they went back to the place in Costco that sells glasses. They ended up saying that it was the optometrist's fault that there was a mistake with the glasses. So, there was a lot of blame-passing.

Mal went back to the optometrist who found what the problem was. So, the optometrist wrote what needed to be fixed on Mal's prescription and told them to go back to Costco. The issue was that the base curvature of Mal's old glasses was a 4 while they were a 2 on her new glasses. They got to Costco and the optician tells her that the base curvature of her old glasses is actually 5 and not 4. So, the optician has to call her optometrist to ask them whether they want to match the base curvature of the old glasses or to go with the base curvature that the optometrist wrote down. Mal ended up giving the optician her new glasses and left the optician to deal with the issue.

Mal now only has her old glasses which she can't see out of. She mentions that she couldn't see out of her new ones either. Mal says that she doesn't have contacts in her prescription either since she got her contacts from Costco and she isn't sure if the prescription is correct. The tester contacts she got from the optometrist had to be thrown away since she accidentally put something that she is allergic to in her eye. So, she currently cannot see at all. Stephen says that he is trying to look on the bright side of this situation, but all these problems keep happening. They also need to be working on stuff since their trip is in a week.