ahhh, ocular apparati...don't get me wrong, I'm totally glad I can see, it's just the madness of the whole thing that gets me.
Yesterday I'm standing in line at snoasis (shut up naysayers) and some teenage girl was in line ahead of me with her friend and her brother and she was pretty loud and vocal saying, "OH MY GOODNESS, YOU HAVE THE COOLEST EYES! YOUR EYES ARE AMAZING! LOOK AT HER EYES!"
I'm not one to turn down compliments in any form but this was a smidge embarrassing for some reason. Maybe I thought I liked being the center of attention and I actually don't. Maybe It's just when I'm the center of breaking the sound barrier adolescent attention that gets me.
This past Christmas when I was in the Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert, people came up to me every day saying, "what's wrong with your eyes? are you alright? have you been crying? I have some visine if you want..."
that pendulum swings and swings people. sometimes you're up, and mostly you're down or falling downward.
I went to the eye doctor this week and was telling him how frustrated I am by the redness of my eyes and the dryness (of my eyes) and the overall wishing I didn't have to be at the eye doctor and that I could have laser surgery already (on my eyes).
After lots of 'which is better, 1 or 2, 2 or 3, 3 or 2...what's the smallest line you can read?', he gave me information I had long suspected and now am positive of....I am a freak.
He's pulls out a pad of pre-printed eyes on paper so he can show me the position of every other human being's eyelids and then tells me, "you see how the lid normally covers a little part of the colored circle on the top and the bottom?....well yours don't...your colored circle is totally all exposed to the air at all times which would definitely cause them to be dryer than normal."
The word normal was used twice in that sentence to describe what I am NOT.
awesome.
question 513 in my life list of questions. "why is it impossible to take a good picture without looking like someone's coming at me on a secluded road at night with their brights on?"
mystery solved.
I can't imagine that there are any of you who have failed to notice this anomaly but feel free to stare next time you see me to gain your own witness.
As if being legally blind and unable to live or function without contacts or glasses wasn't enough...
NOW I'LL NEVER BE A TEEN MODEL!!!
the humanity.
My one consolation is that my offspring seem to have gotten nicely hued eyes minus the side-show factor...Gabriel has just informed me that if he were writing about his eyes he would do it in two words, 'round and brown' and that I seem to be writing an awful lot...he thinks he's such a poet..so funny. hilarious.
men.
So I'm going to Mexico City on Wednesday with my husband who is exceedingly handsome with his new erinsanchezcutsmyhair haircut. He has business for half of one day and then we're staying 5 more days to have a celebration of the fact that we have been married for five years (on the 26th).
My parents who are so nice are coming to take care of the girls and, whereas last year I got all squirmy to leave them when we went to Puerta Vallarta (again for Gabriel's work but pretty convenient for vacating), this year I feel a strong sense of the get on the plane and look forward toward rest and mental health vibe.
I'll say hi to Frida and Diego for you and make a sacrifice at the Aztec temple on your behalf...don't even think I'm joking.
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I had, I think, a similar problem with my eyes. I don't think it is solved, not sure.
When I wanted contacts back in 1988 the doctor would not allow me the privilege because my eyes were too dry. Apparently my eyes did not close when I slept. So she gave me a sticky oily glue type thing to seal my eyes shut when I slept for a year. It was gross and got all over me by morning. And washing it off was hard because it was oily and I was lazy. When my eyes stopped being so dry I was allowed to have contacts, but then I stopped using the glue. Needless to say, all through high school I was called in to the counselors office to ask questions about my drug habits, the whites of my eyes were always bright red from irritation.
In fact the whole time I had contacts I had red eyes (14 years), but then I got Lasik and like a miracle my red eyes are gone and I also lost an ugly growth on the white of my eye right next to the iris (Lasik didn't do that, but getting rid of the contacts helped get rid of the irritation).
I still wake up with dry eyes since my eyes don't shut when I sleep, but I use eye drops now which makes my eyes feel like they are in heaven at an eye spa.
What kind of options did your doctor give you?
Whoa, that was wordy. I guess I haven't had anyone to talk to today.
You know what? I love your eyes. And I have always loved your eyes. And in every picture that I own of you, you look stunningly beautiful and if anyone sees any of these pictures they comment on what beautiful eyes you have.
So there you have it. End of story.
Kim - wow, that's quite an eye saga..hopefully I can have the surgery and not sleep with my eyes open!
Aim - thanks, missy...
Yes, you do have very pretty eyes. Now you know why you have that deer in the headlights thing, though. That's so awesome!
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