I can see clearly now, the frames are gone...

This was my favorite pair of glasses ever. I first got glasses in first grade, and my eyesight kept getting worse and worse all the way through the end of college. I am legally blind without corrective lenses, and I thank my lucky stars for the lens technology that allows for things such as "extra super thinly ground", which actually sounds to me more like hamburger for the calorie conscious than a marvelous tool in the avoidance of coke-bottle lenses and the resultant nose dents and obligatory childhood teasing.

Suffice it to say, I've had many pairs of glasses. While this one was by far the best, and sort of suited my personality a bit too, I really do prefer contact lenses. They never fog up when entering a building, they don't collect rain or beads of sweat, and they make me feel much more transparent. I like knowing that when people look me in the eye, they can see my eyes, and not just their own reflections and some weirdly distorted facial features.

And it occurred to me recently, while bemoaning yet another scratch on my really-expensive-to-replace lenses, that I actually have the discretionary income to purchase contact lenses again. What a revelation.

Good-bye, nosepad that won't stop spinning on its axis!
Good-bye, inability to find non-geeky sunglasses!
Hello, glassesless Jess. Hmm... she might take some getting used to. It's been awhile.