I have recently learned that, without glasses, my eyesight once again does not meet the minimum requirement for driving. I had suspected this for a while: I go to a lot of concerts, as you know, and these days I have to don glasses to make out who is who. Otherwise I risk grinning at someone with whom my daughter is not that friendly. (Actually this shouldn’t be that difficult: clarinets don’t like flutes. They get along with saxes and oboes, but only just. And brass might as well be from Mars. You get my drift)
I am lucky to be entitled to a free annual eye test because my dad had glaucoma. So far I have inherited no trace of this painful disorder but I make sure I have the eye test, just in case.
This time, however, my marginal prescription, 15 years after Lasik changed my life, became a little more serious so instead of being mealy-mouthed and apologetic about my glasses I decided to go for a bold look:
Granted, there’s more than a trace of Amy Farrar Fowler from the Big Bang Theory to this look but it’s strong and bold and I like it.
Reasons to be happy to wear glasses:
- I can actually see stuff. Which comes in handy when driving; being at concerts: watching TV
- Being shortsighted means, thankfully, I can still see to put my make-up in the right place. I pity those poor folk who are longsighted and can’t.
- Being shortsighted with a very longsighted OH means that I can see up close to put on my make up but he has no idea how I look.
- Wearing glasses makes me look serious and intelligent and means that men are more likely to at least pretend they are looking at my face.
- My glasses cover up the bags and shadows under my eyes. Especially the sunnies. Useful.
- Wearing glasses highlights my cheekbones. Always useful when other things are rapidly going south.
- I feel able to wear prescription sunglasses indoors without looking like a divot. And when you are wearing sunglasses, you can watch people without them knowing.
Loving number (3) – and that pic with the sunglasses! Very Kardashian!
I thought so too. But not sure I was keen on the association!
Lovely sunglasses. Health to wear. Hopefully this is the last prescription change for a good long while. So you and OH truly complement each other, he can point out distant landmarks, and you can point out what is right under his nose (wait, don’t wives already have to do that anyhow?) ;-D
Oh, forgot to say, you always look intelligent, whether wearing glasses or not.
You can fool some of the people all of the time or all of the people some of the time…
I blame bloody reading all these blogs past midnight on my macular degeneration…..
haha. Whoops. Sorry about that…
Looking good, Misalliance! Always good to go bold.
Or to boldly go…?
Apart from sunglasses, I only need glasses for reading, but your post has made me want to ditch my four pairs of cheap ones (for kitchen, bedroom, car and handbag) and go and buy some stylish ones.
Haha. Subliminal. X