I got contacts! Or: Contacts vs. Glasses

someone tell the story about an amoeba eating momus's eyeballs

"So, lads, when I was still just a teeny tiny single-cell organism like you, I found myself a cozy ol' Scottish art provocateur to reside in..."

i had contacts but then 5 years ago i had to wear glasses for a day and my then-gf told me i looked hot w/glasses and i have not looked back if you will since that day

glasses>>>>>>>>>>>contacts

i wore glasses today because a) i got a trial pair of new contacts about a month ago and keep forgetting to buy the year supply and b) i was up to 5am and no way was i putting in contacts!

it feels incredibly weird to drive without glasses

as soon as i got the contacts in for the first time at the vision place i put my glasses back on my face

lol

ive been so lazy about contacts i ended up going back to glasses. contax are kind of a pain in the ass

I'm so happy for you, Roxy, but I really really really really got to HATE contacts and I hope they work better for you than I.

my exroomate can put them in with one hand in one second, it is amazing

both at once? I've not gotten that good
best thing about me and my contacts is both eyes are the same scrip and have been for almost a decade - they stabilized my eyesight + I don't have to pay attention to that L R crap

I have had good vision all my life, but this year *ahem* I found that print seemed a bit blurry to me. I was told that I could have lasic surgery but it would not be 100% effective with aging eyes. I could have contact for one eye to correct the tiny bit of distance problem I have or just wear a pair of reading glasses; which is what I opted for. I kind of like them and people tell me that I now have the sexy secretary or librarian look (and I am clinging onto those opinions for dear life!) Really though, I don't mind the glasses, except that I can't seem to adjust into them for any sort of distance; thus I find I have to put them on my head constantly whic is a pain, or I try to go down steps and find that my depth perception is off so I take them off or cling to the hand rail which is not my preference. Contacts seem like the ideal, but I go batshit if I have my bangs in my eyes or a tiny speck in my eye, so I cannot imagine what it would be like to have a big ole thang in my eye even with the lube goop they come with.

downside of glasses is that "mysterious stranger" red shades are now a no-go

huh?

http://xs128.xs.to/xs128/08243/glasses2490.jpg

i never wear glasses other than first thing in the morning and right before bed. contacts are pretty dope imo.

I've never really considered getting contacts, based on stories I've heard from friends they just seem too much of a hassle. Also, since I've worn glasses ever since I was 9, they've sort of grown to become a part of me. If I take my glasses off, my friends say I look weird.

so, how long is too long?!

i've had mine in almost 12 hours

I've heard that these days there special contacts that you can even sleep with.

"there are"

I never understood how people can get used to sticking foreign objects under their eyelids... glasses all the way.

best thing about me and my contacts is both eyes are the same scrip and have been for almost a decade - they stabilized my eyesight + I don't have to pay attention to that L R crap

Aye, me too, it's a whole lot less hassle.

I've been wearing contacts almost daily since I was a teenager (I'm now in my mid-30s). You get incredibly used to them, I can put them in without looking in a mirror, take them out while drunk. The amount I've spent on them, I'd have been way cheaper just getting my eyes lasered, but THAT makes me way more squeamish than poking about it my eyes.

I can't put contacts in.

I got v v frustrated learning but when the lady left me alone I was fine after a couple tries. Her method was stupid.

I might get lasik this year. My insurance covers it.

I can only agree with you, Nhex. I once considered getting some contacts, feeling it was in some way connected with me being more adult and responsible. I went to the opticians to have some indoctrination, I mean help with how to put them in, get them out - get used to having them in sort of thing.

By the end of which, a small but interested crowd of people were standing at a respectful distance from the desk where I had been 'getting used to having them in', my face was tear-stained and my eyes looked like I had been on a five-day whisky bender funeral tour of close relatives, interspersed with viewings of Bambi and Brief Encounter. My fingers were all but bloody with eye juice, my eyes themselves were a pair of small, gritty, sightless gonads, which nevertheless contained universes of pain and as I stumbled out of the opticians-so-called, sightlessly pawing the air in front of me, I vowed never again to do anything based on the premise of 'growing up'.

'Oh, it's easy.'
'Oh, you'll get used to it.'

Lies. All lies.

By the end of which, a small but interested crowd of people were standing at a respectful distance from the desk where I had been 'getting used to having them in', my face was tear-stained and my eyes looked like I had been on a five-day whisky bender funeral tour of close relatives, interspersed with viewings of Bambi and Brief Encounter. My fingers were all but bloody with eye juice, my eyes themselves were a pair of small, gritty, sightless gonads, which nevertheless contained universes of pain and as I stumbled out of the opticians-so-called, sightlessly pawing the air in front of me, I vowed never again to do anything based on the premise of 'growing up'.

this, aside from "bloody with eye juice" (???), is pretty much exactly how my experience was except i grew up and put the things in

I got v v frustrated learning but when the lady left me alone I was fine after a couple tries. Her method was stupid.

yeah, the only bad thing about contacts ever was that the lady at the optometrist's office told me the completely wrong way to take them out when i first got them. like any contacts wearer ever would have said, "no, you're doing it wrong."

this, aside from "bloody with eye juice" (???), is pretty much exactly how my experience was except i grew up and put the things in

Silver-tongued deceiver. Velvet-gloved recusant. Contacts sock-puppet worming insinuations at the behest of your authoritarian paymasters.

My fingers 'all but bloody with eye juice' - as in not quite, but near as dammit, although I admit it looks a little runic like that.

"bloody with eye juice" is the weird part, not "all but"

Hmmm. Now you put it like that. I think I meant something like the 'vile jelly', but so sore and red were my eyes from all the rummaging around that I felt SURE that there must be blood in it.

Mum's still got the same pair she had when she was 18. Not just the same prescription, the same pair. If I could do that, (my eyes haven't changed for about 10 years anyway) ie not buy the one-a-day 'costs-for-life' ones, then I'd maybe consider it, if it weren't for the fact that I'd fall asleep with them in and wake up with one suspicious bump on my forehead, and another down my cheek!

tru story:

my dad had the same pair of old skool "hard" contacts for like 27 years. he is a protestant minister and used them as a sermon illustration one day and two days later one of them broke, forcing him to get with the times and get soft cotacts.

he's (jokingly) convinced that members of his congregation prayed for him to get new contacts after that sermon.

I'm stuck with contacts at the moment cos I lost my glasses last week in a Christmas Party mishap. I don't mind them now I have the daily ones, I tried monthly ones 10 years ago and they stung my eyes really badly, something to do with my tears being a slightly unusual pH according to the optician. The daily ones are fine though for some reason. Although I'd rather just wear glasses most of the time. I mainly just have them for going to punk gigs so I don't have to worry about getting my glasses knocked off by crowdsurfers (which has happened a few times before)

'Oh, it's easy.'
'Oh, you'll get used to it.'

Lies. All lies

Ha. If I ever need vision correction -- and I think that day is looming -- these shall be my watchwords.

I can't even bear to watch Mrs Fiendish put hers in or take them out. The idea of touching my own eyes makes me tense up and want to vomit.

But you DO get used to it! I've been doing it almost daily for nearly 20 years, and I've never once hurt myself while doing it.

(one for the "out of context" thread there)

Aargh, brr, no <flails wildly> fuck that noise. Not a chance.

Yeah after a while your eyelids lose the reflex to shut when you try and put the lense in and it gets much easier.

<flails so hard he falls over>

contact lenses >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> glasses

but then glasses don't rly suit me

i feel ten times more confident and able when out and about in contact lenses, tho, plus they're great for sport

I'd wear contacts if I could - I always seem to sit on my glasses, or break them when I fall over drunk and that makes me angry. I'm ALWAYS pushing them up my nose. I often lose them angry angry. And when it rains and when I am on my bike and I can't see through them and when I walk into a hot place after being in a cold place and they get steamed up and and and.

But my eyelids disagree.

I wore contacts for years without incident. I wore them too often and wound up with something called corneal vascularization in which blood vessels grow where they aren't supposed to. Stopped wearing them so much and it cleared up.

Three years later out of the blue I developed something called Uvitis that they think is related to my contacts. Basically I just developed an intolerance to them which is sad because I feel much more confident in contacts. I've been in glasses only for about three months now and am getting used to it but still miss the lenses.

RIP ENBB's contact lens wearing days. *sniff*

glasses, cause it's a whole nother accessory! i just got some new ones at this place (beware the embedded music file)

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=193275110

they're from around 1910, steel oval wireframes

I'm with grimly on this, the whole idea of sticking something in my eye makes me feel like throwing up/passing out. But being a short-sighted glasses wearer has advantages - without the glasses I can see very tiny details, which is useful for electronics work. It's almost like having a super power.

i had contacts but then 5 years ago i had to wear glasses for a day and my then-gf told me i looked hot w/glasses and i have not looked back if you will since that day

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, December 19, 2008 8:41 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ sounds like a keeper

then-gf

Glasses all the way, been wearing them since age 7 and I feel naked without them. Besides I am too much of a filthmonger and I'm sure amoebas would eat my eyeballs.
I generally think people look better wearing glasses.

there are some straight-up wimps on this thread

glasses are nice and i just spent $$$ to get new ones but you can see way better with contacts

you can see way better with contacts

yup. my dad's an eye doc and that's what he always tells me too

it's pretty obvious if you think about it ... no space between the eye and the lens + no peripheral vision issues = you can see better

I can see better, and I look better w/ contacts.

(I look less like JarvisC with them)

Yes, clearly. Also all the dirt and grease that gets on glasses, so you have to be continually with the wiping etc.

Ah, but can you look over the top of your contact lenses at someone, eh? Eh? Oh, wait, that's a really annoying thing to do.

Lasses with glasses, lovely

as soon as i got the contacts in for the first time at the vision place i put my glasses back on my face

lol

When I tried them, my face looked so wrong without glasses.

Contacts!

I really got into glasses about ten years ago going with vintage frames, librarian look etc. I was always complimented on my spec-look. But they started giving me headaches and I got tired of having shit always on my face so I went back to contacts.

WILL NEVER SWITCH AGAIN!

No headaches. I swear I can see better. No carrying around a case to switch out my prescription sunglasses with and it feels like people can actually see my face now. When I switched a friend said, "Have you always worn eye-makeup?" "uh, yeah"

I've been wearing a pair of Ray Ban 'Buddy Holly' frames with prescription lenses for about a year now. I generally like them, although I'd like the option of not having anything on my face and still being able to see well. I was thinking of getting contacts, but what I really want to do is get Lasik.

No carrying around a case to switch out my prescription sunglasses

This is one of the things I hate most about wearing glasses.

I'm so glad there's contact love on this thread, people are always preaching about how glasses are better and more stylish and more genuine somehow blah blah spare-me-cakes. I like my glasses, too, for when I'm being lazy. But for a really confident day when I care how I look, I feel so much better without them.

Although, truth: I have a couple of friends who NEVER wear their glasses out of the house and I kind of wish they would occasionally, they're so cute.

back in the day contacts were a pain, but not anymore. I take them out in a flash, squirt solution on them for a few seconds, put them in the case. Done.

disposable? I have daily b/c when I wore contacts before I generally got irritated by them. Having fresh ones each doesn't do this.

I've been told though that dailys are pretty much the same as the weeklys so you can store them. I never keep a pair more than a couple of days though.

i have the weeklys and i wear them sometimes for a month at a time, no big deal

I wanted contacts SO BAD when I was a teenager -- classic self-image issues in middle school, essentially. Ended up hating my glasses, my look, everything, ninth grade being the pits (the acne really kicked in then too). So I started going without my glasses at school as a means of demi-protest, as I wanted to prompt my folks into letting me give contacts a shot. In the summer after ninth grade they agreed and from there on in I wore (and loved) contacts pretty much straight through the rest of high school into college and grad school, using glasses as a backup. So for that reason alone I loved contacts, they helped me through a rough stage.

But around 1995 I developed some sort of a callus on the inside of my left upper eyelid due to the lens, which basically meant that every time I blinked there was a stab of pain in that area, like a speck you couldn't ever get rid of. After talking with my eye doctor I decided to switch back to glasses full time, and haven't looked back -- it also helped that the person I was seeing at the time said she thought I looked great in glasses. That never hurts!

I've gone back and forth between glasses and contacts - 3 major long periods of wearing contacts with big chunks of glasses wearing due to poverty (early on), too much air travel (mid), and now because I need multifocus progressives and was traveling too much and working outside in sandy/dusty/windy environment which made contact wearing a pain. Every time I've returned to contacts, I've loved them. I've never had trouble putting them in, but have had the occasional big problem taking them out.

i used to get infections like that all the time, Ned, when I wore non-disposable lenses. i'd also get this weird sensitivity to light. horrible crusty stuff on my eyes in the a.m., too. thankfully, the technology is much better now than it used to be, knock wood.

r.i.p. mysterious stranger

I wear glasses (my prescription hasn't changed in 10 years so I have like 5 pairs.) Contacts are a pain in the ass frankly.

Agree that the prescription sunglasses thing is kind of lame, but I hardly ever need to wear sunglasses.

i've worn glasses for a long time now and i'm cool with it (and i know i'm on record as a glasses patriot), but i'm starting to wish i had the option for contacts. i seriously don't think i could deal with putting them in and taking them out though, i have eye issues.

also i was hanging out with this chick last week and she was all "oh hey, you look really nice without glasses..." :/

everybody has "eye issues" at first! it's called reflexes. you get over it quickly. wimps.

I miss my soft contacts so fucking much. Stupid kerataconus.

I always think about getting contacts, just for a change -- I mean, I've had glasses on my face non-stop since 1992 and don't really look bad without them -- but I think it's just too late now: the adjustment hassle and the expense never seem appealing when you can just grab the same trusty old glasses off the nightstand. My vision's not particularly bad anyway, so I can still go without glasses for short periods if the need arises.

Why would I care to get over it though? I like glasses. Only time I wish I had contacts is when I play basketball and even then sometimes I'm glad to go for the Kurt Rambis look.

xxpost

otm

Yeah, exactly: "getting over it" seems like a big investment when your glasses are, like, right there, and you're already used to them. Same with all the care / cleaning / re-ordering of disposables, etc. It's one thing if you try contacts early, but once enough years have gone by of wearing glasses, you're just ... a lot less likely to bother changing, you know?

Why would I care to get over it though?

― Alex in SF, Friday, December 19, 2008 10:25 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you can see way better with contacts

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, December 19, 2008 6:56 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I dunno, maybe part of the reason I love contacts is that my eyes are bad. "Can't read signs or recognize faces" bad. I put my glasses on my bedside table and in the morning when I wake, one hand appears from under the covers and gropes around until I find them and put them on. Going without my glasses is never an option, even at home in good light for close work or etc, so contacts allow me not to be 100% dependent on something that can fall off, get broken, get rain-speckled, fog up, be misplaced, and so on.

I mean not that you can't lose contacts, but not while they're IN your eyes.

do you wear tiny glasses or something?

I'm just saying if that's your main reason for not getting them, it's not a good reason. If you're happy with glasses, great. They were more of a hassle than contacts, for me.

Larel otm (I have terrible eyes, too). Contacts can break/get lost, too, but I always have at least a half dozen spare sets on hand.

i think the worse your eyes are, the more contacts will help you.

Contacts must be better, I firmly believe this. But I am a wimp, I'm afraid. It's another world.

if you're like nabisco and you can walk around without glasses and be okay--fine. but those of us with awful vision get more bang for the buck with contacts

Yeah! I mean, I can stumble to the bathroom in the middle of the night without my glasses, but if the toilet paper isn't where it usually is or I'm at someone else's house and I don't KNOW where it is, I may need my glasses to find it.

Which is what glasses are great for, the whole 4-minute "just need to see for a sec, no hassle" thing.

but once enough years have gone by of wearing glasses, you're just ... a lot less likely to bother changing, you know?

Like I said I went ten years before changing and it was because I was sick of fumbling, cleaning, headaches, etc. For me, the change was so welcome it outweighed the expense. I don't find re-ordering them that much of hassle and I always keep an extra pair in my make-up case. def. takes up less room than an extra set of glasses.

Like Laurel said I'm so blind that if something had have happened to my glasses while out and about someone would've had to drive me home!

yeah every so often i'll be so tired/drunk at night that i'll forget to bring my glasses with me to bed and put them on the nightstand, and so the walk to the bathroom in the morning is an adventure.

I always wonder if people with super-awful near-blind vision who wear glasses are looking at a panel of clarity surrounded by a giant vertiginous blur -- for me the difference between through-the-glasses and the periphery is, like, being able to read the address on the building across the street.

Yeah, if you're in that area, the "you can see better with contacts" argument is like someone trying to sell you new TV that's 0.01% crisper than hi-def -- kinda "I'm fine, thanks"

super-awful near-blind vision who wear glasses are looking at a panel of clarity surrounded by a giant vertiginous blur

Pretty much, yeah.

What really put me off glasses though was my eyes being so bad, even as a kid, that I needed thick lenses and could never get the cool, fashionable frames. This was even with paying xtra for thinner lenses and "rolling and polishing".

I wouldn't be able to find my car, let alone drive it.

You contact lens wearers are so lucky. Just hope your eyes don't turn on you like mine. I'm getting sad reading this thread now. :-(

The worst is losing your glasses and not being able to find them b/c you can't see. And then you have to call someone in to find them for you. Sad. :(

ENBB, I'm hoping technology will progress to the point that perhaps I won't have to worry about this later.

I loved contacts from my first year of college to last summer, when I was working outside in a windy dirty environment and started wearing glasses again. I would like a pair of really cute glasses, but can't afford them, so when I care about how I look I still wear the contacts. As far as function goes, either one is fine. (As far as the drunk problem, when I'm drunk I just never remember to take contacts out, and then in the morning I'm like "why do my eyes feel like this?" Don't think if I've ever gotten drunk wearing glasses!)

xpost haha Susan my mom does that all the time! They're usually on the kitchen table or something.

What Susan said, I have to get my husband to go and find my glasses for me if I haven't left them by my bed because I can't see to find them.

You contact lens wearers are so lucky. Just hope your eyes don't turn on you like mine. I'm getting sad reading this thread now. :-(

― Lady Gorgorrand (ENBB), Friday, December 19, 2008 10:41 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I always wonder if people with super-awful near-blind vision who wear glasses are looking at a panel of clarity surrounded by a giant vertiginous blur

Actually, you know, I really don't notice the world outside my glasses. Maybe because it's kind of un-interpretable so there's no point. Except for peripheral things like movement or light/dark contrast.

I also used to pay extra for the "hi-index" lenses so they wouldn't be so thick! I don't think they're to the point where they make my eyes look weird, especially not that we don't wear such enormous frames anymore and the edges don't have to be as thick.

two of the best things that ever happened to me:

1. getting contacts
2. getting disposable contacts

he may be a virgin but he can see clearly

i think i fumbled that joke

GLASSES FO LIFE

Ah, but can you look over the top of your contact lenses at someone, eh?

Sunglasses!

For ages I wore sunglasses over my real glasses, so I would always wear the biggest jackie o fuckoff sunglasses green stamps could buy. as dorky as this is, it kinda became my "thing"!

Someone at my local coffee place today who I have known for years did not recognize me without my glasses!

"Sunglasses!"

Then you look like the Risky Business poster. Fuck that.

it's a look!

Haha, I was talking to people at work yesterday about how I used to wear sunglasses over my prescription glasses, and they all laughed at me :-(

I always think I look tremendously different in glasses, but no-one ever notices. I never actually notice whether people wear them or not, so I've got no idea why people would notice me wearing mine or not. Seriously, if you did a straw poll of whether my mates wear glasses or not, I might struggle to tell you with many of them.

anyone looking to buy new frames & lenses for super cheap, check out our discussion on this thread:

These Eye(glasse)s

Only one of my eyes has bad vision, so I wear one contact. It's reaaaaaaaaaally nice and convenient. And cheap.

However, I am in the market for a cheap monocle.

I was wishing I only had one bad eye this afternoon when I was putting my contacts in.

In high school I wore contacts pretty regularly, but I'm not sure if I've worn them since I started college. Just can't be bothered, and I am okay with the way I look with glasses.

Only pain in the ass is getting shit (dirt, dandruff?) on my glasses and having to clean them off.

I have a pair of glasses I wear on the reg and a spare pair in the glove compartment of my car so I know exactly where to stumble to if the key pair gets lost.

Believe me, Roxy, you'll get used to putting them in. No one could be more awful then I was for the first few weeks I had contacts. During the first week it usually took me 15 minutes or so to get them both in (this is when I wore them in both eyes), and invariably I would end up with bloodshot eyes. After a month or so, it gets easy enough, and after a few months, it's unusual to have more than one "try" for each eye. You'll get there.

opted for glasses today due to time issues

they're not annoying me too terribly

My vision is so bad that when I wore glasses they made my eyes look really small and weird. If my vision wasn't as bad as that I would've probably continued to wear glasses, but now I much prefer contacts.

http://byaki.net/uploads/posts/2008-12/1228513077_byaki3-0.jpg

so i no longer have glasses at all, see sefap thread for info probably, but anyway i have to wear contacts 24/7 now so i have to put them in at all times cause im blind as a bat

DESPITE WHAT I JUST SAID i woke up late today and drove to work without contacts which was V V DANGEROUS

still haven't put them in actually, everything looks like a monet

Can put them in in less than a minute now.

Do contacts ever stop feeling dry? How long does it take for eyes to "get used to them"?

i have worn glasses for 26 years and never once did i think about getting contacts

My vision is worse than -5.00, and wearing contacts was like chucking away a Zimmer frame. If you're wavering, do it now. You'll get used to sticking your fingers in your eye in a couple of days. I've been wearing contacts for nearly twenty years, and never once have I thought of going back,

totally used to the contacts now. and i've slept in them overnight: nothing happens!!!!!

y'all we need to start a fund for roxy to have glasses!

It would be nice to have glasses to read with and stuff when I'm getting ready for bed. And when I'm in a rush, to drive in. Alas.

i like gals with glasses

so buy me some

i can send you my old ones

uh

thanks but no thanks dude

old glasses are kinda gross, sorry

apology accepted

roxy have you checked out those online sites - omg i LOVE LOVE my glasses from them. i will webmail you pix of my ones if you interested.

wait what sites

www.zennioptical.com

www.goggles4u.com

you can spend as little as $8 on pair - including lenses and frames

lol @ goggles 4 u!! thanks rubes

These Eye(glasse)s

ok i had no idea what pappawheel looked like until that thread

roxy i just emailed you

Ok, so how do you know if one of your contacts is on backwards? I guess you just have to take it out and use the "burrito method" (this is actually what they called it at the eye doc place when I was getting contacts. More of a "chalupa method" IMO).

the edges will curve downwards. it won't look quite right. it's sort of tricky. look at it one way then flip it inside out and look at it that way

put it on your finger: if it's a perfect looking circle, you're good to go. if the edges look a little fishy or curvy then you've got an inside out contact

http://www.obrigcontactlenses.com/images/insideoutlens.gif

and yeah you pretty much gotta take it out and look at it. if it's super uncomfortable you should take it out anyway

I tried contacts once about 10-15 years back... I never had a problem putting them in/poking myself in the eye, I got used to that pretty easily ... but my big problem was stabilising the image correction.

I have severe astigmatism in one eye (and possibly a bit in the other, I forget) and I think the misshape causes problems for me. Every time I'd blink with contacts in, they'd get moved by my eyelids, sort of sliding about on my eye then settling back. And every time that happened, my vision would blur up.

I actually couldn't *see* properly in contacts. How to shot that not happening? I donno :( Also, I feel nekkid without glasses on anyway.

I also had that inside out worry frequently rox!

Yeah, I know how to check, Que. I meant can you tell something's wrong without taking them out.

I think if they feel weird/itchy/sharp, they're possibly not in right, thats what I recall it feeling like.

sorry i was being totally gabbneb about contact lenses

sent from your Blackberry

i don't want to know what "being totally gabbneb about contact lenses" means, b/c i fear that i am the exact same way o_O

OK never mind i just read mr. que's post ... i am not like that.

In the middle of the night, night before last, I took my left contact out of my eye, placed it inside Victor Hugo's Les Miserables (before Cosette goes to the convent) and squashed it within. I have no memory of this, but I know that I did it.

used to wear them, but my astigmatism got worse and i started having the same issue as Trayce. i don't really miss them much, though.

If mine are inside out they hurt like BLAZES. There's no mistaking it.

Mine are just annoying if they're wrong side out.

i think it's time to admit to self and world that i need to wear some sort of corrective lenses all the time :/
like my eyesight has deteriorated or simply reached that tipping point where blurred vision is functionally impairing my life
it sucks!
i think my problem with my glasses, and i've had glasses for several years but usually wear them on my bike or watching movies or at shows really but time spent with them on has increased in past year, my problem is that i can't get over that there being something between my eyes and the world, or at least something visible.

i am just slightly afraid of contact lenses! and the bother of them.
really, i want lasering! but am not $$ enough right now :/

I couldn't function without contacts because I'm vain. However, they come off the second I get home from work, and I never sleep with them on no matter how much I've had to drink.

vanity is def an issue, I admit to that

Never had problems with contacts. I wear them at most nine hours a day (work) and on weekends I wear my glasses on my errands before popping in at night. Basically, any situation that requires me at my prettiest.

couldn't wear them at work - not if i'm staring at a computer.

the issue is when one is on holiday (or if it's sunny), and you want to wear them at the beach or to wear shades, but you also want to wear them at night when you go out

Oh, especially when I'm at the pool. I need to wear sunglasses, hence the need for lenses.

see, this is why I wld get lasered in the eyes
but I have friends who wear their contacts all day and into the night! I'm pretty sure

When I wear mine I put them in as soon as I wake up and take them out just before bed. I've never had a problem with them at all. I think different people just tolerate them differently.

when i first wore contacts in my early 20s i thought they were a huge pain in the ass & fell back into wearing glasses pretty quickly. but i kinda think most glasses designs now are boring & unstylish for dudes at least, i switched to contacts recently & its 1000x easier than i remember it being

and yeah you pretty much gotta take it out and look at it.

And how can you look at it if you don't have it in?

I only need glasses for reading, but boy, do I need them: print turns blurry without - but I can't see anything in the middle distance with them on, so I keep taking them on and off....... half specs, or would that be nearly as pretentious as a monocle?