Girls who wear glasses

So, I am proud to be Ms. 4-eyes. I've worn glasses since the tender age of 5, and so they are quite a big part of who I am and how I see (ha) myself. I did go through that one experimental phase during the end of high school and the beginning of college where I tried out contacts, but who hasn't tested those waters? I ended up deserting contacts after they provided me with nothing but heartache and blurry, chapped eyes.

Yes, you read that correctly, chapped eyes. You may laugh now. Of course, there was some awfully technical medical term for my condition, but the gist of it was that contacts dried out my eyes to such an extent that I couldn't see 10 feet in front of me or read my textbooks comfortably and I looked like I belonged in the crowd at a Bob Marley concert. I gave those up quickly and returned to my beloved spectacles and haven't looked back since.

Leslie is a very good friend and accompanied today for my hunt to purchase new glasses, since it had been 4 years since I got my last pair. We spent probably 1.5 hours snatching pairs up and trying them on, only to return them to their rightful homes and then try them on again once we forgot about them. During this whole process Leslie discovered some rather fashionable large, black plastic frames that made her look like a New York fashionista. I eventually discovered a pair of brown frames that were pretty cute and didn't want to sit on my face properly. This is how I realized that one of my ears is higher than the other, and I am pretty much a freak of nature. I ended up ordering those glasses and now I'm going to begin my ear stretching exercises of pulling one ear up and one ear down in an attempt to balance out my face. I will look very not lame doing this indeed.