DO YOU SEE? (This is the thread for people who wear glasses.)

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So I finally took care of my eye sight:

http://static.flickr.com/130/322957327_6f33427a08.jpg?v=0

It feels a bit strange. Depth perception is totally wonky but hopefully that's only temporary. My mum advised me to get some lenses but, fuck it, I wanna show off my bad eye sight. ;-)

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

I used to wear glasses up until the age of 12. Then I had a second eye operation and he said it was fine to stop wearing'em.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm off the lenses at the mo, so wearing anol'pair.

It's like having windows in front of your eyes!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

do your eyes turn completely blue every now and then and then reboot?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Glasses rule, contacts suck.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

That's how they stay in the eye!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

I love my glasses! Been wearing them since I was 10 or something. It can be difficult shopping for them though! You always need someone else (and to be wearing contact lenses. This is vital!)!

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'd probably have lost an eye in a car crash if I didn't wear glasses.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

Ophelia quite likes'em: she's been grabbing at'em. YAY.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 15 December 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

I got my first glasses a couple of months back. Choosing glasses is such a pain if you've never worn them (at least it was in my case). Everytime I was handed a new pair I'd put them on, look in the mirror and give them back. Luckily, my sister was there to help me choose some or I'd still be in the shop now.It took a bit of time to get used to seeing them on my face but I'm starting to like it.

― jibe (jibe), Friday, 15 December 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Nath - they are COOOOLLLL!

Choosing new frames is a bit of a pain, you're right, and apparently small differences in size of lens or shape can become really magnified when you stick them on your face.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 15 December 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks! THEY ARE TOM FORD GLASSES. Yes, I'm a total snob. ;-) I didn't wanna pay that much for the glasses but those were the only ones I liked. Yes, I know I could have gone to another shop, but my migraine told me to take some NOW instead of wait and be sensible. ;-)

I didn't have much problem with picking out a pair cause I have such a long face that glasses make me look better. So I have been told... and I sort of agree.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 15 December 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

It is weird, at first, to look at your feet. They seem like they are miles away.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 15 December 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

I bought my last pair of glasses for a huge sum on the never never (OK, six month interest free credit), but they are almost a part of my body, from the moment I rise till the moment I go to sleep they are there.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 15 December 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Same here Ed - I tend to get headaches if I try to do much without wearing them, so they're on all the time. I take them off in the shower and in bed, and that's about it.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 15 December 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I'm hoping my migraines are due to bad eyesight. One can hope. :-)

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 15 December 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Glasses are the bestest thing ever. Welcome to the club!

(I do not trust people who don't wear glasses. I know this is a funny thing.)

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

all the cool kids wear glasses, nath.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 15 December 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

I love my specs, but prefer to wear contacts when I go out on the razz because the make-up options are better and they don't steam up. They're daily disposables, which is very practical post-pub. Wouldn't want to be faffing around with solutions and that when I'm in no fit state.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 15 December 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

x and xxpost :-D

I do feel a bit awkward addressing clients. I keep thinking: "maybe they prefer me to take'em off? ARE THEY LAUGHING AT MY GLASSES?"

Ah fuck it, I feel good.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I'm hoping my migraines are due to bad eyesight. One can hope. :-)

-- nathalie (wotwotwot@the

I used to get bad headaches when I didn't wear glasses, so you're probably right about this. I got mine because I needed them to pass my driving test, I must have been nuts not to wear them for so many years.

They suit you & look great in the pic, anyway.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Pash OTM there. They make you look all sexy librarian, like you know what's what.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

When I started on Contacts, people looked at me strangely, until one person said "Umm, have you shaved your moustache off?"

(I never had one)

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

You know, that's exactly what I thought Nathalie had done before I read the title of the thread!

(slowly starts to run away)

But she hasn't.

(far away now, hiding behind something in the distance, too far for people with glasses)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I've got lovely new dior specs, got them for £85 as i got loads of discounts for being in my optician's contact lens scheme, much cheaper than the brand free titanium ones i got last time around. The lenses are kind of rectangular with no rim along the bottom and a nice red bit across the top. Still like to wear my contacts if i'm going out though.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Nathalie, those glasses look great!

I have been wearing glasses since 8th grade; I tried contacts twice and hated them both times. The last time I wore contacts was my wedding day. (Oh, vanity.) I rarely wear them for pictures because of the flash bouncing off the lenses.

The other day my daughter's little preschool friend was upset because someone had made fun of her new glasses. I told her she looked really cool, and that she reminded me of Tina Fey, who is on tv. The little girl had no idea who I was talking about (and neither did her grandmother, who was standing there), but she did cheer up a lot.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

i need to get a pair soon, i am finally coming to admit. londoners plz inform me of kewl places to purchase some frames! or anything else i should be aware of. i know nothing at all of this world.

― tsk. (rrrrrtc), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Stan. You make my colleague turn around and wonder why I am laughing at the comp screen for. No longer can I say: Ah shit, I misread that.

Sexy librarian? WOOHHOOOO I like the sound of that. :-D Thanks for all the compliments. :-)

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I am sort of borderline - I do need them for driving and distance work, but not reading or close work. I do sometimes get out of bed and forget to put them on for a while, but usually I wear them all the time except for sport.

I am getting better at choosing frames - my latest ones, just over a year old apparently make me look 'sexy' according to a couple of female friends and colleagues. That's OK with me! (For the record they're bog standard Specsavers ones - I'll post a pic if I can find one, but you can probably find them in your nearest Specsavers - just ask for the ones that make Dr. C look sexy.)

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

I need new glasses mine are wonky. but i had to put it off due to a couple of months of high vet bills.

I used to always wear vintage frames which are cool and funky but then I got older and didn't want to be quite so funky. Glasses are fun.

I haven't worn contacts in years and years. I got tired of the dryness and allergy-issues and have never gone back. Plus, I don't have to bother with eye makeup, hurrah!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, Alice has just started with Glasses. She has "Little Miss Naughty" branded ones.(subtle, on the arms)

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

legs

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I love contacts but they irritate my eyes so I can only wear them for about four hours :(

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, the scary thing for me is that I fear I may be moving toward the need for bifocals, not just glasses. I'm only 34!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

legs?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I've been wearing glasses since I was 13, and now mine are very strong (it's actually kind of satisfying that anyone who does the 'let me try them on, then, if they're so strong' thing, is always 'impressed' at how blind I am).

I tell you it's a weird realization to, um, realize that I am not equipped for living on my own. I literally cannot do much more than get out of bed and pee without this piece of equipment I wear in front of my eyes. God didn't make me perfect! (As if that wasn't obvious otherwise.)

― g000blar (g00blar), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

I think that's what goes along with my insistence that I don't trust people who don't wear glasses. It's that daily reminder of your own imperfections, your own limitations.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

subtle, on the legs

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

I would like these miss naughty glasses. where does one get them?

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

I hesitate to say it...

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

specsavers.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/myglasses.jpg

These are my glasses. They were the closest thing to generic that my eye doctor had. I love them. They're bifocals. I felt very naked for that moment it took to scan them.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, glasses. Fun things, those.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

indeed.

― latebloomer's mayan name is tapir ballz (clonefeed), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/meglasses.jpg

my glasses with me in them.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Beth, that's terrifying.

Biggest problem with glasses: when you take them off at night and don't remember where you put them (because drunk or entertaining or etc) and can't see to find them in the morning.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

haha, I love scanned beth.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel, maybe you should just sleep in your glasses.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

My dad used to sleep in his glasses "so he could see in his dreams!"

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

I had the same very mild prescription from 1989 until this past Feb., when I finally had to get stronger glasses. Dude said "Hm, you're close to needing bifocals, but I don't think you're quite there yet." Boy, was he wrong. I have to take my glasses off to read now, irritating as hell. If someone shows me something in a book or magazine they want me to see, I have to take it from them so I can hold it at the right distance, OR grab their hand and move it to the right distance, AND/OR take my glasses off, depending.

Time for new specs and maybe a new eye doctor.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I *could* sleep in my glasses really - it would be too awkward when laid on my side.

Then again, I do sometimes fall asleep with them on.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Beth, maybe I should! Will require foam pillow with cut-outs, for sleeping on the side. Hah, XP.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

You could get a special strap-on pillow with flexible breathing snorkle. It would surround your head and not slip. Or you could sleep in a zero-gravity chamber.

Rock Hardy, You must find a new eye doctor. Bifocals are the bomb.
When I'm doing extremely detailed work I wear drugstore magnifiers right over my bifocals. I asked my eye doctor if the reading part of my bifocals could be stronger, but he said I would lose range.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

ZERO G = MY SCI-FI FUTURE

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Glasses are great!

I think I will get a new pair soon - my eyesight improved at my last eye test. Making an appointment with the optician is so much easier than going to see a dentist or a doctor, it's all "haha! I can't even see the second row of letters without my glasses!", and then when they shine the torch in your eyes and you can see the veins in your eyes, that's fun. Though, I hear they pour some kind of fluid in your eyes if you are going for contact lenses - therefore, I will never wear contacts.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yay indeed for glasses, although I'm seriously considering the jump to contacts in the near future. I've been wearing them since age 4! :-/

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Seconded up on the "waking up and not being able to see where you put your glasses" thing. Especially if, like me, you lie in bed with your contacts in, then take them out last thing (I, like Madchen, value the non-faffiness of daily disposables), meaning that your glasses aren't next to your bed. Cue lots of bumping into doors and peering at shelves/mantlepiece/bathroom cabinet etc while I try to remember where I put them that thought I'd remember.

I look really really bad in glasses. I look quite bad with contacts in too, but glasses add a whole other level of badness. My face, hair and eyebrows just weren't made to have extra bits of stuff added onto my face.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

that scan is rad, beth.

my glasses just broke, and i need new ones. also: -6.5 diopters, y'all. who's blinder??

― grbchv! (gbx), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

wow, beth is howard stern.

laurel, i solve that "where are my specs problem" by trying to remember where i flopped down when i got home. then i look to see where my right arm is positioned, my specs are usually within 18" of where my hand is.

but i have passed out with glasses on. no fun.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

No idea what my scrip is, but I'm pretty blind + astigmatism in both eyes YAY.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

i have painted acorns for eyes.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Three cheers for astigmatisms in both eyes! I think I'm -8 in one eye and -8.7 in the other. Blind as a bat.

Crawling around on the floor, looking for your glasses is the worst.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Friday, 15 December 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Im getting a new pair of glasses today. I have this horrid tale of breaking my old pair.. I basically got shitfaced drunk on a 11am to 12pm bender and tripped and fell in the street on my way to my friends car. My glasses broke at the corner and more or less gave me a solid 1" gash above my right eye. So yeah they uh broke and now I'm getting them replaced. Who woulda thought that glasses could be such a liability? (perhaps I am liability to myself)

― turd burglary (turd burglary), Friday, 15 December 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

I always put my specs in the same place when I go to bed/pass out! On the Marshall amp by my bed!

However, it's a game every morning to find where I put my glasses while I was brushing my teeth.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

I really can only see about 2 inches in front of my face clearly, without glasses, therefore I have a routine spot where I dump my glasses at night (right in front of my alarm clock). Otherwise, it would be a disaster.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Friday, 15 December 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

i see your -8.7 and raise you -9.5 in the left eye and -10.5 in the other!

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Friday, 15 December 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I finally fucking fixed the glasses I broke in my bike wreck. Thx gorilla glue! I don't have to squint like the Human Mole now!

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 15 December 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

OMG you are all blind! I'm -3.5 in both eyes and find functioning without aid next to impossible.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 15 December 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

I broke the temple off my glasses by sitting on them. I fixed them with a big wad of duct tape. Took me weeks to get them fixed right—a two-minute procedure.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, I love I started this thread if only for scanned Beth! I HEART YOU SCANNED BETH. :-)
Or should that be 8-)

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 15 December 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

IS NOTHING SAFE FROM TEH BETH SCANNING???!!

― C J (C J), Friday, 15 December 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you guys! I scan everything. It's how I avoid work.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

I occasionally miss wearing eyeglasses, particularly after I spot a pretty pair of frames or when I gaze upon my old pair of glasses. There's this beautiful feeling to the ritual of putting on eyeglasses in the morning. It's like a secondary way of welcoming in the new day. Granted, I'd been wearing glasses for almost twenty years when I got LASIK and at the time I was, like, I'm tired of this, and it is nice having good eyesight without having to put on anything. BUT my vision's not as good as it was when I had on my glasses (better than 20/20 with those bad boys) and SO.

― Phoenix (is still) Dancing (krushsister), Saturday, 16 December 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

I have NEVER dated a woman with good eyesight. Fact.

(I don't wear glasses and probably won't need to for at least another 5 years)

― Maaarghk C (Maaarghk C), Saturday, 16 December 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

be difficult shopping for them though! You always need someone else (and to be wearing contact lenses. This is vital!

I don't bring anyone with me, but shop at a really good opticians where they give me the free hi-tech eye test and will happily adjust my glasses as many times as I need, and they are very good at telling what looks good on me and won't just try to sell me the most expensive thing. Although the glasses in there are all pretty expensive. I don't care. I like expensive glasses.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 16 December 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

It is kind of scary to think how blind we all are. I can't see a damn thing without my specs on - how the eff did people cope beforehand?

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 16 December 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

It was always foggy in the past and they only had candle light, so it didn't really matter.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 16 December 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Accentmonkey: Opt1ca On Royal Hibernian? They're who I use. Mad pricy though!!

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Saturday, 16 December 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

Same group. Donal McNally on Stephen's Green. Nice, family run business, always impeccable service. I really like them. Plus, years ago when Mister Monkey and I had just started going out, we went in there in the rain to pick up glasses he had bought, and they took my glasses (which I had not bought there) and cleaned them and put an anti-fog spray on them for me while the transaction took place. Which was nice of them.

I do think it's funny that when I buy new glasses, people will remark on how much they like my nose piercing. Which I have had for ten years.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 16 December 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Nathalie, those glasses are perfect for you!

I've worn glasses since college, when someone noticed that all of my photographs were slightly blurry.

Call it vanity, but I've also dodged bifocals for years now. I have a separate pair of reading glasses and just take off my regular glasses to read anything (or I tilt my head so I can peek under the lenses).

― patita (patita), Saturday, 16 December 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

wow, beth is howard stern

My husband says Joey Ramone.

But back to Nathalie—they ARE perfect glasses! AND they match the drapes!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 16 December 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

you don't have to have bifocals for that though patita. i am both long and short sighted and my lenses are 'graduated', not bifocals. they're a bit pricy and it takes a bit of getting used to, but worth it i think.

― Gem (gem ), Sunday, 17 December 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

i like your glasses nathatlie. i wish i could make the move from contacts to glasses (esp. b/c i wear my contacts every day all day and haven't changed them in like 8 months - i THINK they are weekly wears?? yikes) - BUT i get obsessed with seeing the rims and lack of peripheral vision. even after wearing them for a long time i can't get used to it. also they make me SEE myself better and then i feel ugly. esp. in the store while picking them out - those bright lights and so many mirrors. i do think they look nice on others. and seem fun to wear - theoretically. i'm stuck with contacts then. until neuroses pass

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 17 December 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

NOONE (IRL) has commented on them! Except our employee but I had mentioned that I would be getting some.

The migraines sadly haven't stopped. :-(

― nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 17 December 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

My dad used to sleep in his glasses "so he could see in his dreams!"

that's so awesome.

Nath, it took me about a week to get used to my new glasses, after I"d gone without for quite a while - headaches actualy got worse, at first, while my eyes adapted, and then were gone.

I'm not very blind, but other people still can't function wearing my glasses cos I"m shortsighted in one eye and long-sighted in the other, plus astigmatism. Which means I could never get contacts - even hard ones, they'd still not even be good enough for me to drive a car in, so what's the point? I'm trying to wear my glasses all the time, these days, even clubbing, which is surprisingly easy once you get past the walk-into-hot-room-insta-fog-up thing; I think they're even protecting my eyes from the worst of what's spewed out by smoke machines.

― cis boom bah (cis), Sunday, 17 December 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

i hate my glasses, frankly, though I've worn them for years.. next year time to try again to get contacts.

― dar1a g (dar1a g), Sunday, 17 December 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

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