Where Are My @#$^%@#$% Glasses??

My two favorite pair of readers. I cringe when TH
wants to borrow a pair.

I have required glasses for many, many moons, but I have a love/hate relationship with them. I've tried contacts -- hard and soft -- and have considered lasik. However, when I went for a lasik evaluation, they told me that I have cataracts and will need to have them fixed in a couple of years, so I might as well wait. Cataracts! Woohoooo!

In the meantime, I have bifocals...the no-line kind. And readers. But I have a hard time reading with the real glasses; I have to hold my head and/or reading material  just right, and it takes for-fucking-ever to find and keep that just right spot. It basically pisses me off. For awhile, I had the distance-only lenses in my glasses, but I couldn't see the radio or clock or my phone (only at stop signs or lights, promise) for shit. So I had the distance lenses replaced with the bifocals for glancing purposes only.

Not THIS huge, but big enough to
screw up my readers!
(photo: Sky High)

I have my real glasses for distance and glancing, and readers for...uh....reading. I buy the cheap ones and sprinkle them around the house because The Husband needs them too, and I can't possibly allow him to use mine because his head is HUGE (chock full o'brains, of course). He (or rather his HEAD) stretches them out, and these are the cheap ones, not the fancy-schmancy ones that pop back no matter how HUGE your head is.

Before I made jelly today, I went through a mental checklist to make sure I had everything I needed: plum juice, sugar, pectin, jars, funnel, hot jar picker-upper-thingie, and GLASSES. I may have made jelly a bazillion times, but I still have to read the recipe, for cryin' out loud! 

Do you have to constantly search for your glasses? Or are you one of the lucky (ie young) ones who have great vision?

Have you been there?