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Just Call Me Imelda!

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Now I realise that shopping addiction is nothing new, and I’m definitely not alone, but I need to confess – My name’s Kate and I’m a glasses-aholic! My eye wear wardrobe is as vital to me as Manolos are to Carrie Bradshaw. Glasses always had a fatal attraction for me, and then I discovered my Online Optician and it’s getting worse!!

Look One is my chic and efficient office girl look – every little helps to impress at work! To go with my sharp suits and court shoes I’ve got a sleek gold metal eye glass frame, very simple and classic, or the secretarial look of a black plastic cats eye frame. If I get fed up with those I’ve got a rimless pair in bronze!

For evenings I can do flirtatious or glamorous – black geeky frames if I want to look edgy and cool, or a silver metal frame with jewels on the arms for something more grown up. I also have a fabulous Marc Jacobs frame with cut out bits at the sides, perfect for side long glances!!

For summer hippy days, I’ve got a big retro plastic pink frame with smoky lenses that are clear at the bottom. These are not dark enough for the beach, for which I have a huge tortoiseshell frame with swirly bits on the sides.

Now I’ve just taken up yoga, so I must order a pair for that. Summer’s coming, what would I wear for picnics? Hmmm….must get online and get some serious shopping in!

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Help – My Arms Got Too Short!!

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

As if I didn’t have enough to worry about, what with the grey hairs, the inexplicable sprouting hairs, the dreaded wrinkles, I am now incapable of even reading a newspaper without help. I was even examining my shirts in case my arms had actually shrunk, because I was having to stretch things further and further away to see small detail.

Disaster! I couldn’t even read the small print on the Viagra (!) – but at least there was a simple solution, not as drastic as dying my hair or having anything waxed. I had an eye test, and the optician explained that I am now presbyopic. Sounds painful but the only discomfort was to my wallet, and I invested in some prescription glasses for reading.

As we get older – more mature as I prefer to think of it – the eye ages too, and the lenses inside the eye loses the ability to focus on detail. The optician did cheer me up by saying it happens to everyone and of course things could always be worse! I’ve since visited an online optician and ordered some reading glasses from them too – you can never have too many pairs and I leave them all over the place.

My reading glasses are now a way of life, and I like to think my groovy metal frames have a certain sophisticated elegance to them. Now where did I put that Viagra bottle….

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