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Spectacular! (My new glasses)
by Attention, everybody: I just got some new glasses.
Of course the main problem with getting new glasses is you can't wear your old glasses while choosing new frames. So when you pick up the final product, there's always that slight gap between what you *thought* you looked like in your new frames and what you *actually* look like. It's a bit like going supermarket shopping while starving -- you end up with a pantry full of pickles. Except in this case, you end up wearing the pickles on your face.
Another problem is the cost. Glasses are expensive. I don't know why I resent paying so much money for something I wear every single waking hour of my life, but I do. I resent the hell out of it and I inevitably end up choosing frames based on price, totally overlooking the fact that a $175 difference in price now is actually the difference between spending the next three years looking like Christina Hendricks in glasses or looking like Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie'.
Yet another problem is fashion. I mean, just the word 'fashion' is, like, so last sentence already. Harem trousers and self-bedazzled belts can be hidden in the back of the wardrobe but your glasses have to stay on your face. And if your face, like mine, is no longer in the 25 - 39 age group, any attempt to be fashionable runs the risk of tipping you into the Women Of A Certain Age category and then it's a one-way ticket on the express train to brightly coloured multifocals.
So yes, there's this thing with me and my new glasses where I've ended up looking like I shopped for them at the REJECT Shop while shit-faced drunk and on the dark side of the wrong side of 40. Um, so why did I bring your attention to them again? Oh, I know. Because the biggest problem of all with new glasses is that you can spend as much time and as much money as you want buying them but at the end of the day, nobody will notice. Nobody. Even when you point your new frames out, they'll just look at you vaguely and say "Have you always worn glasses?" or maybe even "Have we met?". It's then that the glasses come into their own. I just take them off and pretend the blurry shape I'm talking to is someone far more interesting. There's got to be some benefits to failing eyesight, right?
The
formerly fashionable NDM had three children and discovered that brown is
the new black the hard way. The force behind the critically
acclaimed once-was-blog Not Drowning, Mothering, she now very occasionally
writes for the sometimes-blog Queen NDM, The Best. In her spare time, she
enjoys baking cakes, cyber-hassling advertising executives and collecting digital photos
of unusual objects made out of paperclips. She's occasionally onTwitter
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Report Fri Mar 1, 2013 - 5:06 pmOh heck I have to go for new glasses on Feb 19. I really can't see much to read the computer screen with the current ones unless I tilt my head back (they're multifocals) and I end up with a stiff neck. What's in these days? I think my glasses are about five years old.Reply -
Report Wed Feb 27, 2013 - 5:08 amI had to stop wearing contacts about 12 years ago when my eyes decided to stage a revolt against them. Never once did anyone suggest this, but when I went to a new optometrist, I thank the stars they offered to let me wear a pair of disposable contacts with my prescription strength (and for free to boot!) WHILE I shopped for my new frames. I swear that light shone down from above and the angels sang. Even if they charge you a mere fee for one single set of disposable contacts, it's worth the price. No more unhappy surprises! Hallelujah!Reply
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1 reply, Last reply by TheNDM on Fri Mar 1, 2013 at 9:10 am
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Tue Feb 26, 2013 - 6:26 pm
shopping for glasses (which I've worn for 43 years now) is an act of desperation. I go in, throw something on then ask the optician (who wears blue eyeshadow and a huge curly wig) if they look right, then leave. I have to go for the cheapest frames I can find, because my funky prescription usually runs a solid $400. I tried contacts, and can't wear them.Reply -
2 replies, Last reply by rootietoot on Thu Feb 28, 2013 at 6:03 pm
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1 reply, Last reply by TheNDM on Thu Feb 28, 2013 at 10:40 am
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Report Tue Feb 26, 2013 - 8:02 pmi feel your pain!! i just recently replaced my glasses ... CHA-CHING!!!! i did shop around as we dont have any coverage (only every 24 months and of course this is my 2nd perscription change in 12 months!!) sooo, mama needed PROGRESSIVES - sweet mother of GOD!! i went to aout 4 different stores and was looking at $600+ - WTF??????? anyway i was at my kids practice one night whining and a mom i didnt even know came over and said that she overheard my plight and gave me a business card and said go here. THANK YOU random Hockey Mom!!! i still spent almost $600 but i got 2 (yes TWO!!!) pairs AND a $100 credit for the next pair for anyone in my family!!!!! .... i think the mortgage on ym first condo was less than what i just paid for glasses .. sigh ....Reply
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1 reply, Last reply by TheNDM on Thu Feb 28, 2013 at 9:34 am
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Report Mon Feb 25, 2013 - 7:34 pmI've worn glasses/contacts for about 40 years now and I can still remember the first year I got contacts. Everyone insisted that something was missing or different but for some reason no one guessed that it was my glasses. It's strange that they seem to become part of your face. What kind of a world do we live in when zits are more noticeable then a pair of puke green binoculars strapped to your nose? Yea, that was the color of my first pair (picked out by my parents). I thought I had it made the first time I ordered new glasses after I started wearing contacts. Finally, I could actually see what glasses would look like before I bought them. Problem is those cute little frames look just fine .... UNTIL .... they arrive and the cute little frame has the bottoms of coke bottles poking out of them. Nothing can help you when you are wearing glasses that enter a room a whole step ahead of you.Reply
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1 reply, Last reply by TheNDM on Tue Feb 26, 2013 at 4:46 pm
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Mon Feb 25, 2013 - 9:32 pm
This is exactly why I wait so long between getting new ones!Reply -
1 reply, Last reply by TheNDM on Tue Feb 26, 2013 at 4:41 pm
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Tue Feb 26, 2013 - 12:25 am
Actually putting on my new glasses is like shopping for new glasses for the first time. I thought the ones I bought last year were kind of honey-colored frames, and they were actually dark brown. Maybe I'm blind, maybe the optician is messing with me. I'll never know.Reply -
1 reply, Last reply by TheNDM on Tue Feb 26, 2013 at 12:16 pm
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Tue Feb 26, 2013 - 1:20 am
Shit - I have to do that this week. Not fun and the sonofabitch better not mention bifocals. Your glasses are lovely.Reply -
1 reply, Last reply by TheNDM on Tue Feb 26, 2013 at 12:14 pm
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