Charming Miss Rachel Pie says to me yesterday when I was grumbling and bitching about not being able to see because I had missed last year's eyeball check that "here's a novel idea! you could just get them checked in the fall! or the winter! or hell, break out of a rut and go in the spring!" Madness. That's what I say.
Why wouldn't that kind of care-free willy-nilly idea occur to me? I have no clue. But the fact is, it doesn't. If I normally do something in August and it gets skipped, well, it just stays skipped till NEXT August.
Anyhoo, all this planning to get my eyes checked has got me planning on what kind of new glasses frames I want to get. Right now I am wearing some that are at least 3 and maybe 4 years old. They were way cool and different when I got them. Now? Not so much. Everybody and their mother has this style now. Even Tina Fey and Sarah Palin. Time for an update, is what I am sayin'.
Interestingly enough, over on the Compact group site, one of my very favorite people posted a question as to where one could get eyes checked and not pay a bazillion dollars for new glasses. So I perked up and have been checking everyone's responses as to how they manage to not go broke each time their own eyeballs need new lenses. And the best idea popped up, and I am really sorry that I have no clue who it was who posted this, but there is a store near her that sells really cool vintage frames. Vintage is right up my alley. So, of course I have been scoping out vintage frame people all over the internet.
Here is one vintage frame site that I really like. And here are a handful of the frames that I really like:
Are those the cutest things you ever did see? How about ever see through??? I love them all.
Now apparently, I need to come up with measurements of my current glasses to know which of these will fit my face and not be too small or too big. And let me just say this . . . every single one of these awesome vintage frames are cheaper than the new and not nearly as awesome new ones that I have seen. Of course, I can't see. Which is why I need to go get my eyeballs checked and get new prescription lenses.
Do any of you wear glasses? Did you just switch to contacts because the whole wearing glasses thing was too much trouble? Did you get the lasik surgery because the contacts were way more trouble? Do you just have perfectly shaped eyeballs and don't need all this stuff?
And most importantly, which frames do you think I should get? : )
to answer your questions: yes, yes, yes, no, red
ReplyDeleteYes, I got contacts because the whole glasses thing was so annoying.
Yes, I got lasik because the contacts were so annoying.
Yes, 10 years post-Lasik I am back with contacts/ glasses.
I like the first pair :)
I wear contacts or glasses depending on my mood. And my sweet new glasses look a lot like those first ones. Unfortunately, mine came from the eye doctor and were something like a bazillion dollars. I have many friends who have had the Lasik, successfully. But I had one friend whose vision was botched forever. That one friend is the reason I have never gone there.
ReplyDeleteI wore gas permeable contacts for 30 years & tried out a new lens that combined the hard lens inside those big honking soft lenses, and the soft lens helped with the close vision. They worked well, but I never was able to put those big lenses in my eyes without major angst & temper tantrums, crying in frustration because I blinked AGAIN. So now I am in glasses with progressive lenses, and the only down side is that I have to remember where I put them because I can't see to find them.
ReplyDeleteA note about ordering internet glasses - I ordered some from Zennioptical for my son and always felt guilty going to a glasses place to get them adjusted, since I hadn't bought them there. Maybe with grownup glasses it's not quite as much an issue, but he was regularly trashing his to the point where they were unwearable.
I like the first pair too.