This is it. This is the last picture of me wearing glasses forever....well until I get my old lady pearl chain to hold my reading glasses that is an inevitable mark of old age. So have a good look. It is hard to believe that I am actually fixing my eyeballs. It is pretty exciting. My friends asked if I was going to have a party to celebrate and I said, "yes, an eye opening party." Buwahaha - Hey that's the kind of comment you get from me on the spot. Truth is, not many people have even seen me wearing glasses. Me and my glasses don't have the best of relationships. I got them when I was in 5th grade and wore them until the summer before 9th grade and no one has really seen them since. I got called all the names you call someone with glasses and suddenly with the addition of them people noticed that I had buck teeth so it wasn't a pleasant experience for the duration of my middle school career. Thankfully when I started my dreaded high school career I had one of my problems solved. New eyes by way of contacts. What a glorious invention those were. So, for a few short minutes in the morning and for a small bit of time in the evenings since then I have my glasses on. There have been a few exceptions with the occasional eye infection or a surgery that I've had where getting contacts in when I was not even getting out of bed wasn't going to happen. To get laser surgery on your eyes you have to endure 2 weeks of wearing only your glasses. This quite frankly has been probably the major reason it has taken me this long to have it done. The other being that I'm just a big fat chicken, and hello! It's your eyeballs. They're kinda important. I have managed to wear them without too big of an ordeal. A couple things that I have learned is: 1st -I can't really see well at night with them on and probably should be allowed on the road. 2nd- you know the sensation you get from wearing certain kinds of sunglasses for too long? Right behind your ears? The feeling that someone has your head in a vice? It's amazing how 2 such small little arms on your glasses can cause so much discomfort. Constantly throughout the day I am having to pull them away to give my head a 2 second break. 3rd- showering and putting on your make-up blind is kinda comical. 4th- surprisingly after all these years and loads more wisdom and experience, I still feel like I am invisible with glasses on. No feelings of extreme smartness come over me even though about 100 times a day I push them up by the bridge of the nose like a smart person wearing glasses should. I still feel a bit like quasimoto. Intellectually I know it's not true, but obviously my baggage still does. I realized this when I saw some pictures of me at my friends birthday party and I just had a pained look on my face. The camera never lies. So, goodbye to my old friends that have been there for me when my contacts started feeling like rocks in my eyes. When I was too drugged up to be trusted to put something in my eye and when we had bouts of pinkeye running through the family, you were there. Good bye old friends, I won't be needing your services anymore with my special eyes.
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