Without the Glasses
I'm still not 100% used to being without glasses, but I am getting there. The contacts only feel like bugs wiggling on my eyeballs for maybe the first half hour of a fresh new pair. That is progress, people.
Probably the weirdest things are the phantom feelings of having my glasses on. I'll feel them pinching the bridge of my nose or behind my right ear, and I'll reach up to adjust them. The glasses that are no longer on my face. And I'll smack my temple or poke myself in the eye and look like a complete fool, because I can never do these sort of things while in the privacy of my own home.
Cool things about not wearing glasses:
- Putting on makeup is a breeze now that I don't have to have my nose pressed against the mirror.
- Pink sunglasses.
- I don't have to remove my glasses to put on a hooded sweatshirt, but that doesn't stop me from trying and poking myself in the eye.
- My eyes are so pretty!
- Falling asleep while reading no longer forcefully and painfully pushes my glasses into my face.
- And I don't have to spend fifteen minutes after a nap searching for the glasses B kindly took off my face but I can't see where they are because I don't have my glasses on.
- No noseprints from the dog or the husband.
- My brothers can no longer lick their thumbs and rub saliva on my lenses; now they will just get it in my eye.
05 JAN
2006
2006
6 Love Notes
I always push my non-existant glasses up on my nose! So yes, I poke myself in the face, too.
I hear you on this one. I am always trying to push them up on my nose.
John is so lovely in the morning when he can't find his glasses. I wake him up now, so he can put them away.
I love 'em. When I fall asleep with them in, they glue themselves to my eyeballs. In the morning they come off like masking tape.
i do the same thing with my nonexistant glasses. i will feel them slipping off the top of my head, and end up looking a little strange, reaching up to adjust them, only to find they are tucked safely away in their case in my purse.
I hope that you don’t sleep with them in. I used to sleep with my contacts in because it was easier then dealing with them late at night or early in the morning. My wife always told me not to. My next eye doctors appointment, the doc took pictures of my eyes and showed me how it was wrecking my eyes. I hate to say it but AGAIN my wife was right.
No, I do not sleep overnight with them in; they feel awful enough by the end of the day. But I have been known to fall asleep during a movie or while reading on the couch.
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