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New glasses. That's what I think is going to happen, anyway. I repaired my old glasses, for the second time, with silver wire. Unfortunately, this time, I did something odd and those glasses sit crookedly, ridiculously crookedly, on my face. So today was the day that I took my friend Ruth's advice and looked on ebay for new glasses frames. I didn't find exactly what I was looking for, but I did find an ok selection. They were so cheap, I decided to bid on two pair. If they both work out, I'll have some normal silver oval frames and some wild purple frames. I have never, ever treated wearing glasses like jewelry before, but today was the day that all changed. Ebay--that's another first--I often buy things from half.com for the bookstore, but today was my first personal account purchase from Ebay. Groan.
The last time I had an eye exam was probably 1988. But I don't wear my glasses all the time, and my eyes don't seem significantly worse.
The frames I have now, I got in 1996. I remember this because I broke my really old pair on the day the bookstore burned down in January, even before I knew anything about the disaster that was to follow. I'd been cross-country skiing that day up at Stump Sprouts and I slammed them in the car door at the gas station. Then I drove home, took a shower, and on my way back out to visit my parents, there was this funny light above town, and for some reason I decided to go check it out, only to find out that my place of employment was in the process of quickly and savagely burning up. And I'm not going to go into the rest of that story tonight, I'll be here forever plus many of you readers already know it or were THERE fer chrissake; I'll just say that it still makes me feel slightly ill, even now. And I still work here, it's just in a different place. So I suppose it has a happy ending, of a sort, or at least an "ok, done that, carry on," kind of ending.
The point is, however, that I got the best of the stupid ugly cheap frames because I was on unemployment and couldn't really wait four or five months to get new ones. And they haven't been replaced since then, and, like a small thorn, I've decided over the years that they are uglier and uglier. Not to mention the fact that they're all scratched up, since we recycled the lenses from the broken pair, and those were already years old...so, overall, I'd say I'm due for new ones, and if I have two pair, well, then they won't be lonely...
Who knows...in a couple of years, maybe I'll get eye surgery like t_ktl.
The last time I had an eye exam was probably 1988. But I don't wear my glasses all the time, and my eyes don't seem significantly worse.
The frames I have now, I got in 1996. I remember this because I broke my really old pair on the day the bookstore burned down in January, even before I knew anything about the disaster that was to follow. I'd been cross-country skiing that day up at Stump Sprouts and I slammed them in the car door at the gas station. Then I drove home, took a shower, and on my way back out to visit my parents, there was this funny light above town, and for some reason I decided to go check it out, only to find out that my place of employment was in the process of quickly and savagely burning up. And I'm not going to go into the rest of that story tonight, I'll be here forever plus many of you readers already know it or were THERE fer chrissake; I'll just say that it still makes me feel slightly ill, even now. And I still work here, it's just in a different place. So I suppose it has a happy ending, of a sort, or at least an "ok, done that, carry on," kind of ending.
The point is, however, that I got the best of the stupid ugly cheap frames because I was on unemployment and couldn't really wait four or five months to get new ones. And they haven't been replaced since then, and, like a small thorn, I've decided over the years that they are uglier and uglier. Not to mention the fact that they're all scratched up, since we recycled the lenses from the broken pair, and those were already years old...so, overall, I'd say I'm due for new ones, and if I have two pair, well, then they won't be lonely...
Who knows...in a couple of years, maybe I'll get eye surgery like t_ktl.