I have contacts on the brain because, as it turns out, the older you get, the less compatible you are with them, and I. Am. Pissed. LOL And btw, HOW DO YOU HAVE 27 CONTACTS IN YOUR EYE????
Loved going down memory lane! Got my fist pair in college, hard, and boy do I remember popping them out, putting in mouth, popping them back in. Soft lens tech was such a blessing. Wore them for the next 35 years, (not the same lens - smile) but, finally in my late 50s, I got frustrated by the fact that I now had to wear reading glasses on top of the contacts (and went through a rather difficult patch in my life when I cried a lot - and lenses kept getting mucked up by mascara), so I finally went back to glasses. Can't even imagine now going through the daily routine of cleaning, putting them in, taking them out.
OMG, I will never get over watching Heather pop one in her mouth. LOL Yeah, I'm with you - I've got glasses everywhere, PLUS the contacts, and I still can't see. And now my eyes are super dry, so, I'm sure I'll give up shortly. For all the money I spend on them, I could have several pairs of prescription sunglasses.
As a member of our species chosen to survive the looming apocalypse, my vision is still at least 20/30. Of course, the apocalypse will likely blind me now -- karma -- eliminating my one advantage.
Five minutes of it -- one day when I have time (oh, ok). I want to make popcorn and have the whole experience. The acting and dialogue are already stellar LOL I thought, "OMG, Arnold is the best actor in this."
So I'll say this, with all seriousness: the acting is actually superb, but it doesn't come to life until after the first act. The first third of the movie is actually a satire of the eighties action movie canon. The second third is a sci-fi slasher film, and the final third is a survival horror film.
I won't pressure you to watch it every week from now until forever, but when you're in the right mindset give it a fair shot. The initial reviews were bad as well, but 35 years later Predator's considered an all-time great action flick and its influence is everywhere in modern media.
I got contacts in High School because I was tired of looking like a giant dork. I wore them religiously into my 30s. These days, I only wear them on special occasions. I consider LASIK sometimes but I am inherently lazy. And the idea of someone cutting my eye is terrifying.
I'm too astigmatic for LASIK, which, also, NO THANK YOU, EYEBALL LASER.
I'm the same, I always wore them, and then slowly slacked off and now it's maybe 3 days a week so somebody can see my eye make up. My eye dr. the other day was like, essentially, "Why do you bother?" And I can see her point LOL
Contact lenses are wild to me. I've been wearing them since I was 18, but my eyesight is so terrible and changed so frequently, I had to get fitted for glasses every six months when was a kid. My eyesight getting worse and worse and therefore my lenses getting thicker and thicker each time. I look like I was wearing thick glass coke bottles over my eyes.
I was recommended to wear these night time hard lenses that RESHAPED my cornea or some part of my eye during the night, so I could see during the day. And to remove them I had this little suction thing that I placed on my eye to pull it off. Utter madness. Usually by 6pm in the evening I'd have to wear glasses because my eyes would literally just get worn out and my vision would slowly blur. Like a cinderella story for my eyeballs - come midnight I was just a chunky glasses wearing freak.
Well now that you mention that, decades ago my ma was determined to be in with the in crowd and so we had to have a boat and she wanted to go water skiing ( hey, it was the early 60s and time to party?) and of course she wiped out as new skiers do after a bit of fun and later noticed she lost her contact assuming during the a water skiing run. Well, a month or so later, when I was a tweenie bopper at the time, so, maybe not all there, (possibly even now), she went to the eye doctor with a sore eye socket. You guessed it, the lost contact (before plastic contacts) was jammed up behind the top of her eyelid, unseen, no pun or double entendre implied, much. Doc found the contact. end of story. and...
Fun fact, I learned to party at the end of that decade. Nothing learns an individual more about partying than being in H.S. in the late 60s. Long story, so forget that.
Ooooo, I remember the suction thing and the reshaping. It is, the whole thing is bizarre and vaguely medieval. I’m seriously considering just giving up. They’re expensive and uncomfortable.
LOVE this, Bev...made me laugh out loud! ;)
I have contacts on the brain because, as it turns out, the older you get, the less compatible you are with them, and I. Am. Pissed. LOL And btw, HOW DO YOU HAVE 27 CONTACTS IN YOUR EYE????
Loved going down memory lane! Got my fist pair in college, hard, and boy do I remember popping them out, putting in mouth, popping them back in. Soft lens tech was such a blessing. Wore them for the next 35 years, (not the same lens - smile) but, finally in my late 50s, I got frustrated by the fact that I now had to wear reading glasses on top of the contacts (and went through a rather difficult patch in my life when I cried a lot - and lenses kept getting mucked up by mascara), so I finally went back to glasses. Can't even imagine now going through the daily routine of cleaning, putting them in, taking them out.
OMG, I will never get over watching Heather pop one in her mouth. LOL Yeah, I'm with you - I've got glasses everywhere, PLUS the contacts, and I still can't see. And now my eyes are super dry, so, I'm sure I'll give up shortly. For all the money I spend on them, I could have several pairs of prescription sunglasses.
As a member of our species chosen to survive the looming apocalypse, my vision is still at least 20/30. Of course, the apocalypse will likely blind me now -- karma -- eliminating my one advantage.
I mean, you KNOW everyone wandering the post-nuclear desert is blind. The white eyes and whatnot. (Have you seen the classic, The Omega Man?)
How's your hearing?
True! I have seen The Omega Man, and my hearing is actually better than my vision, so there may be hope for me yet.
Speaking of movies, did you get to Predator yet?
Five minutes of it -- one day when I have time (oh, ok). I want to make popcorn and have the whole experience. The acting and dialogue are already stellar LOL I thought, "OMG, Arnold is the best actor in this."
So I'll say this, with all seriousness: the acting is actually superb, but it doesn't come to life until after the first act. The first third of the movie is actually a satire of the eighties action movie canon. The second third is a sci-fi slasher film, and the final third is a survival horror film.
I won't pressure you to watch it every week from now until forever, but when you're in the right mindset give it a fair shot. The initial reviews were bad as well, but 35 years later Predator's considered an all-time great action flick and its influence is everywhere in modern media.
I got contacts in High School because I was tired of looking like a giant dork. I wore them religiously into my 30s. These days, I only wear them on special occasions. I consider LASIK sometimes but I am inherently lazy. And the idea of someone cutting my eye is terrifying.
Anyway, great story. Hilarious, per usual. :)
I'm too astigmatic for LASIK, which, also, NO THANK YOU, EYEBALL LASER.
I'm the same, I always wore them, and then slowly slacked off and now it's maybe 3 days a week so somebody can see my eye make up. My eye dr. the other day was like, essentially, "Why do you bother?" And I can see her point LOL
Contact lenses are wild to me. I've been wearing them since I was 18, but my eyesight is so terrible and changed so frequently, I had to get fitted for glasses every six months when was a kid. My eyesight getting worse and worse and therefore my lenses getting thicker and thicker each time. I look like I was wearing thick glass coke bottles over my eyes.
I was recommended to wear these night time hard lenses that RESHAPED my cornea or some part of my eye during the night, so I could see during the day. And to remove them I had this little suction thing that I placed on my eye to pull it off. Utter madness. Usually by 6pm in the evening I'd have to wear glasses because my eyes would literally just get worn out and my vision would slowly blur. Like a cinderella story for my eyeballs - come midnight I was just a chunky glasses wearing freak.
Fantastic, Bev slices into the horror genre as if at the edge of horror.
Not for weak stomachs. 👀
I can’t figure out how this didn’t destroy people’s eyeballs
Well now that you mention that, decades ago my ma was determined to be in with the in crowd and so we had to have a boat and she wanted to go water skiing ( hey, it was the early 60s and time to party?) and of course she wiped out as new skiers do after a bit of fun and later noticed she lost her contact assuming during the a water skiing run. Well, a month or so later, when I was a tweenie bopper at the time, so, maybe not all there, (possibly even now), she went to the eye doctor with a sore eye socket. You guessed it, the lost contact (before plastic contacts) was jammed up behind the top of her eyelid, unseen, no pun or double entendre implied, much. Doc found the contact. end of story. and...
Fun fact, I learned to party at the end of that decade. Nothing learns an individual more about partying than being in H.S. in the late 60s. Long story, so forget that.
Ooooo, I remember the suction thing and the reshaping. It is, the whole thing is bizarre and vaguely medieval. I’m seriously considering just giving up. They’re expensive and uncomfortable.