G is for Glasses

I wear glasses.  I haven't always though, I only got them about 2 years ago.  However, to me, this was far too late in life to become bespectacled.  See, when I was young I always wanted to wear glasses.  I know, odd but true.  I remember wearing fake glasses, with and without lenses, to pretend.  It's now trendy for people, kids and adults alike, to wear fake glasses.  I guess that means I was a trendsetter, just about 2 decades before everyone else jumped on the bandwagon.  However, reading in the dark and squinting at everything (my feeble, juvenile attempts to weaken my eyesight) were in vain as I never ended up needing corrective lenses.

Flash forward to February 2010 (yes, I remember).  I'd been getting annoying headaches for a while, mainly in the evenings.  Amy, probably tired of my complaining suffering, finally suggested that I see an optometrist.  Plus I didn't do so well on the vision test when I was renewing my driver's license.  On a day off I went.  Turns out I needed glasses.  Imagine my surprise, and of course my delight!  Although my vision wasn't horrible, the doctor did state that I was farsighted, more so in my left eye.  Finally, after 29 years of waiting, I got a prescription for glasses.  Technically the glasses were for reading and computer use, however since that comprises 95% of my day I decided to wear them all the time (remember the delight of the long-awaited arrival of the glasses).  Plus this would save me the trouble of taking them off and putting them on numerous times a day.

So, my wish was granted and two years later I don't regret one bit needing glasses.  In fact, I still love them!  Weird, I know.  I need to get new ones though as my current ones are scratched and have definitely seen better days.  One thing I wasn't prepared for with glasses was how difficult it is having 2 small children who easily and accidentally knock them off and send them flying!  We shall see if little Stella sees me in my current glasses, or if she gets the new and improved look.  Laziness and lack of time have prevented me from visiting the doctor.  So I'll wait, happily in my glasses.  Do you or did you ever wish something odd upon yourself suck as compromised vision?  Don't worry, it's not weird at all!  :)

The much-anticipated and much-loved glasses!

All is well, bespectacled, in Drosche Land.