A New Face For RuJu
My two small children mean the world to me. My entire life revolves around them. As I'm sure it does for most moms. But their are times, when they can be soooo bad...and do things they REALLY REALLY shouldn't, that make me SO mad.
I, much like most of the people in the US, don't have very good insurance....and vision is not covered at all. I have terrible vision. I can't see squat if it is more than a foot in front of me. I NEED my glasses.
I usually wear contacts during the day, in the evening I wear my glasses. And I actually do sleep with them on my face. I'm so paranoid that I'm gonna wake up to an intruder and not be able to see him.
Anyway, my (almost) two year old son got his grubby little fingers on my glasses. Snapped them right in half. So, husband drilled holes into what was left of the nose piece, and twisty tied them back together. Then I wrapped some tape around it.
So...great. Works fine. Not good if a contact tears and I have to leave the house in them, but good enough for now till I scrounge up some money for new ones.
Ha! Thats what I thought! A few weeks after the initial break my kids were playing in my daughters room. I went up to check on them to find a completely trashed room. So, I started cleaning it up. And what do I find on the floor under a mountain of toys?!?!?! One eye frame from my glasses...lens still intact...but missing other half and arm! Ugh!
I cleaned the rest of the room and managed to find all the pieces to my poor little glasses except for one arm.
I reassembled them as best I could...but without an arm glasses are really next to no good. I needed to be able to see, it was the eve of three kings day and I was wrapping presents for the kids. The right side of my glasses kept flopping forward....pulling the rest of them off my face.
WTF! Stinking kids!
Like I said, I was wrapping presents, so the tape was right there.....so, I did what I had to do and taped them to my face.
I did this for another week.
(below is a picture....I wasn't going to include it....but Jen and Gir encouraged me to do so)
I, much like most of the people in the US, don't have very good insurance....and vision is not covered at all. I have terrible vision. I can't see squat if it is more than a foot in front of me. I NEED my glasses.
I usually wear contacts during the day, in the evening I wear my glasses. And I actually do sleep with them on my face. I'm so paranoid that I'm gonna wake up to an intruder and not be able to see him.
Anyway, my (almost) two year old son got his grubby little fingers on my glasses. Snapped them right in half. So, husband drilled holes into what was left of the nose piece, and twisty tied them back together. Then I wrapped some tape around it.
So...great. Works fine. Not good if a contact tears and I have to leave the house in them, but good enough for now till I scrounge up some money for new ones.
Ha! Thats what I thought! A few weeks after the initial break my kids were playing in my daughters room. I went up to check on them to find a completely trashed room. So, I started cleaning it up. And what do I find on the floor under a mountain of toys?!?!?! One eye frame from my glasses...lens still intact...but missing other half and arm! Ugh!
I cleaned the rest of the room and managed to find all the pieces to my poor little glasses except for one arm.
I reassembled them as best I could...but without an arm glasses are really next to no good. I needed to be able to see, it was the eve of three kings day and I was wrapping presents for the kids. The right side of my glasses kept flopping forward....pulling the rest of them off my face.
WTF! Stinking kids!
Like I said, I was wrapping presents, so the tape was right there.....so, I did what I had to do and taped them to my face.
I did this for another week.
(below is a picture....I wasn't going to include it....but Jen and Gir encouraged me to do so)
Finally I couldn't take it anymore and made an appointment for new glasses. I opted to go to America's Best....cause it's cheaper right...? WRONG! My glasses were NOT 2 for $50. They were $350!!!!! I will not make that mistake again. Granted a lot of the cost is because I had to get 'special' lenses, otherwise I would have been walking around with 6 inch thick glasses.
They are really cute tho.
My Baby Phats. These will not be worn anywhere near children. They are strictly for times when my contacts hurt or whatever and I need to wear my glasses out. (they were $300 of the $350 total)
...and the cheaper of the two pairs. I don't even know what brand they are, they just say 'made in china' on the inside. Cute still, black and pink with white stripes at the sides.
4 Comments:
and they look really nice on you!
i can relate. i've got poor vision (which i'm planning to fix *naturally*) and am sitting here typing with crooked glasses on that have been sat on, stepped on, dropped, etc. i've worn (or was supposed to wear) glasses since the age of 2 and have always been rough with them. sometimes intentionally, cause i despised wearing them so much.
oh! and they've pulled that "special lenses" stuff on me too. can never get the cheap glasses that are always advertised!
enjoyable read. :-)
Isn't it awful! Gah. I went in thinking I was gonna get a deal. pfft.
poor you :(
At least you look good now, right? urgh...to false advertising.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THE TAPE PHOTOS! You are so great. I was laughing my butt off looking at them.
LOVE LOVE the new ones - they're "PHAT" LOL!
I'm still giggling! I love you girl!
Jen
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