Jessica, what size is D in Keens? I have some 12s in good shape ready to be passed along. (Casper has enormous feet, but Dillo has tiny ones - he wore these this past summer.)

He's a 12 right now but the way he's been eating lately I fully expect another growth spurt before we hit sandal weather.

Somehow, instead of needing bifocals, my nearsightedness is getting better? My prescription has changed for the better 3 times now.

Last week my eye guy took my distance perscription down slightly in my contacts so that I'd buy a little more time before I need reading glasses with them. My nearsightedness is very mild at this point, and with my glasses I can just lift them up. It may have something to do with that.

I'm solidly in bifocal territory - close-up vision is going, faraway vision has always been gone, and the happy medium where everything is crisp and lovely and legible is rapidly becoming a happy very very small. I already have a prescription for reading glasses (drugstore ones no good because of the astigmatism), but I think I'm going to just beg my eye doctor to bifocal me -- in no small part because I REALLY REALLY REALLY do not want to have to deal with more than one pair of glasses.

My coworker is making me want to smack her. She can't shut up about how fat she is, which alone is super annoying, but she's also 20 lbs lighter than me (and the same height) &, roughly, 50 lbs lighter than my boss. And she has no idea how rude she is being. Ugh!

Oh, dear.

Of course, I have my own sulk on right now because I'm definitely heavier than I've ever been before (the extremely lovely Zulily dress I just got is way prettier and better-quality in person than it looked online, and is a size that would have fit beautifully just a couple of years ago but now won't even zip up -- and, of course, Zulily=no returns) and feeling shapeless and desolate but, objectively, I know damn well I'm still smaller than lots of people so I try not to bitch about it. But I hate feeling constantly winded and stiff and no longer at home in my own skin.

Whine, whine, whine, and meantime other people are having surgeries and personal and family crises and STFU, me.

I do sort of wish I was OK with waering one of those elastic band that holds your glasses on, because they do slide down my nose a lot.

Do you just need the parts that go around your ears a little more bent? Because any glasses store should do that for your for free if you walk in and ask.

I was all right with wearing glasses; when I got to the point I needed two ... well, three ... different prescriptions, I was still OK. Then I developed cataracts and my eyesight began going (did you know - they also distort your color perception? turns out everything had a yellow hue with them). So ... I had the surgery and I'm all right with the result - I don't need glasses to walk around, where before I was so nearsighted it wasn't safe to walk around without glasses. I do need glasses to read; I may have to continue wearing glasses when driving. The downside is that, because they give you replacement lenses with two different prescriptions, I can't read anything without glasses ... which is why I stand in the grocery with one eye squinted closed trying to decipher labels. And, for me, it exacerbated an existing eye condition. There's a slight - very slight - chance I'll lose the sight in my left eye. BUT! without the surgery I'd be blind in both eyes before too long, so it was something I had to do.

Do you just need the parts that go around your ears a little more bent? Because any glasses store should do that for your for free if you walk in and ask.

When they are more bend, they just form painful grooves behind my ears from sliding forward.... I think I have an oddly shaped skull.

When they are more bend, they just form painful grooves behind my ears from sliding forward.... I think I have an oddly shaped skull.

Huh! OK, then, I dunno.

Sophia, I can totally relate. Fitting glasses on me takes many visits and millions of adjustments and they still slip down too much.

Fitting glasses on me takes many visits and millions of adjustments and they still slip down too much

I used to have that problem until I caved and started buying really expensive frames.

I really really hope I don't need glasses, because I have no idea how that and the allodynia are going to cohabitate.