Great. Now I Need New Glasses.

My eyes have been kind of painful for about a week. Nothing I couldn't handle; I thought it was because I'd been wearing sunglasses too much and it was making my eyes sensitive to light.

So I quit wearing the sunglasses, figuring it would help. And then I go to my friend's church this morning, where they have a projector screen. We're sitting in the back...and lo and behold, guess who's squinting to see the screen and getting a headache from the effort?

The headache means my eyes are working too hard to see, which means my glasses are no longer working as well as they should be, which means I probably need new lenses and fast...because the headache and eye strain will only get worse the longer I let this go.

And since my glasses are coming up on their fourth year of life in July, most likely I should suck it up and get new frames, too. The frames on glasses aren't meant to last more than about 5 years if you wear them all the time, although my first pair held out for 6 years (until they fell off my face onto the floor, breaking in two. Turns out they had rusted clean through the section that holds the eye frames together.)

Unfortunately it's the weekend and so I have to wait till 8 AM on Monday to start getting this fixed. Means I have to spend the rest of today and tomorrow with a headache or taking pills to combat a headache. Fun, fun.

I'm pretty good at knowing the difference between eye strain and a standard stress headache, and with this one my eyes feel like they're pulling in opposite directions (which most likely means that they are) and like I'm fighting to see through someone else's prescription (if you've ever tried on someone's glasses and felt your eyes struggling to cope, imagine doing it all day long with your own. Now you get it.)

I'll keep the old pair, of course. The frames are still good and can be kept for parts (mostly those tiny screws that go in the temple bar) or in case my new frames are damaged, I can still put the new lenses into the old frames and keep living.

That's about all that's going on in my world. I hate being reminded that I have to wait for anything, and that goes double when my eyes are killing me.

Ta,
Bec