Four eyes
The countdown to my holiday has begun, so I've been out shopping to buy all those essentials. I've had the jabs, got the antimalarials, but have ended up getting all hot and bothered today trying to buy sunglasses. Not the normal sort, you understand, as I've got a variety of pairs to suit everything from sports and activity to full-on Footballer's Wife style poolside posing. But what I was looking for today were prescription ones, in case I have a bad eye day and can't wear my contacts (Occasionally I get a bad eye as a result of accidentally poking it with sharp tweezers a couple of years back, that's what comes of being highly myopic but still wanting to have perfectly groomed eyebrows).
Anyway, I thought I'd invest in a pair so that I can still see if my eye goes bad in the sun, but as yet haven't had much luck. The problem is, my usual glasses would look like this (made marginally better if I pay lots for high-index lenses). For those of you au fait with lens prescriptions, that's a minus 9 strength. It's all very well telling everyone to go to Specsavers (or any other high-street optical chain store) but when you're blind as a bat, you're a bit limited. For everyday wear you can get small discreet frames that minimise the coke-bottle effect, but this is no good for sunglasses where the aim is to block out as much sunlight as possible. Hence the obvious reason that most go for big sunglasses frames, but that would look crap in my case. I still have nightmares from the early 1990s when the fashion was for big glasses, I kept my worst ever lens and it was over a centimetre thick at its widest point. Not a good look. So I'm going to have to go shopping again tomorrow as I didn't find anything I liked today...
Aching lots in fact, as I managed to go to dance class at the gym and go for a swim in addition to all the above, the dance workout has just changed the routines and is now a strange mix of 80s Bros, and current R&B. I liked it more when there wasn't so much R&B as there are too many skinny girls in the class and it just looks stupid, them trying to shake their non-existant booty.
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Anyway, I thought I'd invest in a pair so that I can still see if my eye goes bad in the sun, but as yet haven't had much luck. The problem is, my usual glasses would look like this (made marginally better if I pay lots for high-index lenses). For those of you au fait with lens prescriptions, that's a minus 9 strength. It's all very well telling everyone to go to Specsavers (or any other high-street optical chain store) but when you're blind as a bat, you're a bit limited. For everyday wear you can get small discreet frames that minimise the coke-bottle effect, but this is no good for sunglasses where the aim is to block out as much sunlight as possible. Hence the obvious reason that most go for big sunglasses frames, but that would look crap in my case. I still have nightmares from the early 1990s when the fashion was for big glasses, I kept my worst ever lens and it was over a centimetre thick at its widest point. Not a good look. So I'm going to have to go shopping again tomorrow as I didn't find anything I liked today...Aching lots in fact, as I managed to go to dance class at the gym and go for a swim in addition to all the above, the dance workout has just changed the routines and is now a strange mix of 80s Bros, and current R&B. I liked it more when there wasn't so much R&B as there are too many skinny girls in the class and it just looks stupid, them trying to shake their non-existant booty.
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