The Word is Mightier Than the Eye
I don't think I have mentioned my creepy eye thing here.
I have a creepy eye thing.
It's not that something about my eyes that are creepy, they are just extremely... empathetic. And there is something about everyone elses' eyes that are Really. [EXPLETIVE]. Creepy.
Watching someone mess with their eye? My eyes tear up. Thinking of someone messing with their eye? My eyes tear up. Listening to someone talk about the one time three hundred years ago when they messed with their eye? My eyes tear up.
Those who know and love me love to exploit this weakness of mine with much humor and laughter and tears and fists planted into soft bellies. My husband has a long list of Favorite Ways To Bug Valette, and 99% of those are eye related.
Like a story of getting one of my long hairs stuck to his eyeball and feeling it as he pulls it off ever so slowly. I would get him back by kneeing him in the 'nads, but I do want children by him some day, something that he lords over me every time I mention pain via family jewels.
There's a scene in Pitch Black where that dude injects some happy juice into the corner of his tear duct? Dear Lord, I didn't have enough time to shut my eyes in the theatre. But you had better believe that I do every other time I have seen it.
And I know, intellectually I understand that it's all in my head. My eyes don't really hurt when I see someone trying to get an eyelash from their own eye. If it's all in my head, then surely I can overcome that. I can force my body to react differently. Surely.
I just paid somebody a whole bunch of money to poke things at my eyes. And then teach me to poke things at my eyes. At the end of the two hour process I had gathered my own little cheering squad behind me, telling me I was doing good. I knew they were lying, but it still helped.
Contacts. In my eyes.
Holy mother of God.
2005
11 Love Notes
Don't be a wuss, I wear contacts all the time and it's never hurt me. Except the one time I lost my vision, Ha Ha!
1 sensitive amen...contacts suck
You're calling me a wuss? Mr. Too Cool For School, who would rather wander through adolescence blurry eyed than wear a STUPID pair of glasses? At least I knew what the first person I kissed looked like.
While not to the same extent, I also have an unnatural attraction for not doing things to my eyes. Lenses are nice and external, and have the added benefit of blocking bits of crap from getting into your eyes.
Why someone would shoot lasers into their eyes is a mystery best left to others.
I plan on being a customer for lenscrafters for quite sometime, thankyouverymuch.
I guess I shouldn't tell you that my favorite thing to do behind the teacher's back was to flip my eyelids inside out. The girls would freak and eyelids would return to normal before teacher turned around.
Weird things you remember when someone opens their anxiety closet.
Man you did not have to pay anyone...I am sure one of your brothers would have gladly helped for free....
I thought I was the only person with that problem. I can't even watch someone put in contacts or take them out without tearing up.
Stories about getting poked in the eye make my eyes water so bad I have to leave the room.
And the eye doctor... just forget it. It takes every fiber of my being to concentrate long enough to let him look in my eyes with his little flashlight.
so, do we get to see pictures of you now that you aren't wearing glasses? i mean, like an actual picture of you. not a reflection of you in a picture of something else.
I just posted a picture of my eye, but you probably are wanting something that would help you identify me at an airport or someplace similar.
I can't believe that you did that!
Wow, it wasn't but 10 minutes after I'd finished chipping the last hard yellow chunks of eye sleep cheese off the inner crease of my right eye that I read your post.
Sorry to hear that sharp fingernails flicking chunks off other peoples eyes might gross you out. :)
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