New Glasses
I woke up early last week, it was a Saturday, to go get some new eyeglasses. Waiting patiently for me at the Lakewood Vision Center since the previoius Wednesday, I finally had the free time to go grab my Valentino 5281/U's with FlexHinge technology.
I'm not trying to be a glasses snob about it. I just want this documented. They measure 51/18/135 (that's eye size, bridge size, and temple size, respectively) and they make me look bookish.
I was planning on drafting a much longer entry on these new specs of mine, because to me they are quite the cause for some pomp and circumstance. I don't buy new glasses every day, and I've been coloring the world around me through those same old frames for the last ten years if it's been a day.
Right up until I stopped wearing them a couple of years ago. Instead, I did the cheap bastard thing and just stopped wearing any kind of corrective lenses entirely.
That was probably a mistake, but it's hindsight now. You know what they say about hindsight. It's 20/20, which is probably worse than what I have now with these new glasses. I can spot obscure details around me that were just fuzzy blurs before.
And so the new glasses are a welcome change, eye strain headaches and all. If they persist for more than another week or so, I'll probably go back to the Lakewood Vision Center and (gasp!) ask for weaker lenses or something.
Until then, I still have the old pair of glasses hanging around. I don't use them. I don't want them. In fact, I'd probably be much happier destroying them entirely. I'm taking suggestions on how to send these old glasses of mine straight to the Devil so he can wear them in Hell.
Seriously, if you have a suggestion for a creative way to annihilate my old glasses, let me know.
2 comments:
I remember when I first got my glasses, I got the eyestrain headaches pretty bad. What I would do, is I would wear my glasses for an hour or so, and then take them off for maybe 20 minutes. After about a day or two of that, I stopped getting the headaches. I don't know if that'll work for you, but it could be worth a try.
Sledgehammer
Only cause I love you.
Or if you could get your hands on some of the glass etching stuff and etch interesting things into the glass - just for old time's sake (things like "FuckMeNots", or just designs).
Or donate them. Even if no one should have to wear those glasses ever in life, perhaps the lenses could be trimmed down, and refitted for someone else's frames.
I'm just sayin...
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