Confession Time! ((ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT))
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Glinda1971 wrote: »
@Glinda1971 I always think of Glinda the good witch when you post
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xMrBunglex wrote: »Arg.
I confess that I've been fighting getting readers for a few months now. About a year ago it was like a switch got flipped in my head. I suddenly couldn't read magazines, ingredients on packaging, and audits at work were giving me headaches.
Soooo I finally went and bought some $20 Foster Grant readers at the store...and it makes all the difference in the world. DAMMIT.
I had 20/16 vision growing up & through adulthood, but now at age 46 it's official...I'm the reader-perched-on-the-head-guy.
DAMMIT
Isn't that awful how it seems to happen overnight? At 45, I'm the little old lady in the store holding a pill bottle about 2 feet from my face so I can read it. LOL0 -
i hide m&m's in an old margarine container so my son and husband can't find them. I don't binge on them but I want to know they are there when i want a treat. I even count the darn things out so I can log them0
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I'm with you both. Last Friday I was asked to take pictures with someone's iphone. I didn't have my specs with me, so I just pointed it, pressed the button a bunch of times and hoped for the best.AngryViking1970 wrote: »xMrBunglex wrote: »Arg.
I confess that I've been fighting getting readers for a few months now. About a year ago it was like a switch got flipped in my head. I suddenly couldn't read magazines, ingredients on packaging, and audits at work were giving me headaches.
Soooo I finally went and bought some $20 Foster Grant readers at the store...and it makes all the difference in the world. DAMMIT.
I had 20/16 vision growing up & through adulthood, but now at age 46 it's official...I'm the reader-perched-on-the-head-guy.
DAMMIT
Isn't that awful how it seems to happen overnight? At 45, I'm the little old lady in the store holding a pill bottle about 2 feet from my face so I can read it. LOL
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I have a stash at the back of the pantry which contains little baggies of weighed Reece's pieces, Cadbury buttons, mini eggs and various other snack-sized treats that my kids would go through in seconds if allowed access.rosehips60 wrote: »i hide m&m's in an old margarine container so my son and husband can't find them. I don't binge on them but I want to know they are there when i want a treat. I even count the darn things out so I can log them
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xMrBunglex wrote: »Arg.
I confess that I've been fighting getting readers for a few months now. About a year ago it was like a switch got flipped in my head. I suddenly couldn't read magazines, ingredients on packaging, and audits at work were giving me headaches.
Soooo I finally went and bought some $20 Foster Grant readers at the store...and it makes all the difference in the world. DAMMIT.
I had 20/16 vision growing up & through adulthood, but now at age 46 it's official...I'm the reader-perched-on-the-head-guy.
DAMMIT
Oh, I'm so resisting this myself! Exactly the same for me. I'm 43 but recently I struggle to read packaging and the names of the color on the bottom of nail polish. So far, I'm taking the approach that my eyes are not getting bad due to age, but the darn print is getting smaller! Solution: I carry a small magnifying glass in my purse. I'll resist buying readers for as long as I can. My whole life I've been the only person in my family with perfect eyesight. So depressing.0 -
MissLaaber wrote: »Accents: in my opinion, small-town Canadians (from anywhere) have a very different accent to city-dwellers and it's very noticeable. I've lived my whole life in urban Alberta and my accent is apparently geographically untraceable (depending on who I'm talking to, I've heard everything from "California" to "oh, were your parents Scandinavian?" to "did you grow up in England?" in my life) but I think there is a very distinct accent for rural Canadians (and, obviously, for French-Canadians and a couple variations for East Coasters too.)
It's not quite the same was what people think of as a "Canadian accent" (which usually sounds more like Minnesota to me when I hear it played for laughs on TV) but it's definitely a thing.
If you want to know what a rural Canadian accent sounds like...
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Any Canadians used to watch DeGrassi?? I was obsessed!! Where Drake was little Jimmy before he hit it big. And I know people love to hate him but I will always love the Biebs! Also, all the crap they give Robin about being Canadian in How I Met Your Mother is hilarious- love that show!
I never saw that Degrassi, but I'm obsessed with the original Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High (the ones from the 80s, which played in reruns constantly in my childhood.) An ex-boyfriend gave me the complete box set on DVD years ago and I watch it when I'm sick all the time, haha.
YESS DEGRASSIIII! My step-dad worked the lighting on the show when I was young so I got to be on set occasionally, which leads me to say that Drake is AWESOME. Or well was, I dunno but he humoured little me so he's good in my books haha
That's the one I don't know! I only know the low-budget ones with the "Wake up in the morning, feelin' shy and lonely, gee I gotta go to school..." theme song and Joey Jeremiah playing keyboards in the Zit Remedy and Shane getting Spike pregnant and those stupid twins. All I know about the remake is that Drake used to play a character people refer to as "wheelchair Jimmy."
i used to watch the degrassi w/spike on pbs!0 -
xMrBunglex wrote: »Arg.
I confess that I've been fighting getting readers for a few months now. About a year ago it was like a switch got flipped in my head. I suddenly couldn't read magazines, ingredients on packaging, and audits at work were giving me headaches.
Soooo I finally went and bought some $20 Foster Grant readers at the store...and it makes all the difference in the world. DAMMIT.
I had 20/16 vision growing up & through adulthood, but now at age 46 it's official...I'm the reader-perched-on-the-head-guy.
DAMMIT
Oh, I'm so resisting this myself! Exactly the same for me. I'm 43 but recently I struggle to read packaging and the names of the color on the bottom of nail polish. So far, I'm taking the approach that my eyes are not getting bad due to age, but the darn print is getting smaller! Solution: I carry a small magnifying glass in my purse. I'll resist buying readers for as long as I can. My whole life I've been the only person in my family with perfect eyesight. So depressing.
I admit I am 44 now and about 6 months ago I gave in and bought a pair of readers. It was a sad day but on the upside I have gotten some compliments on how well they suit me 0 -
Today is my first day back to this site in over a year and half. Starting all over again and it sucks but I know it can be done.0
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I'm hoarding calories for steak and a baked potato for dinner.
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@quiksylver296 sure you do.
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I'm hoarding calories for steak and a baked potato for dinner.
Enjoy it! We're out of propane for our grill right now and I keep forgetting to buy it so we haven't had steak in ages and I'm jealous. I bartended my way through university at a steakhouse so I have developed a serious appreciation for a hunk of rare filet 0 -
Glinda1971 wrote: »
@Glinda1971 I always think of Glinda the good witch when you post That's a good thing because she's awesome!
That's where my name comes from - my favourite character from my favourite movie when I was a kid. I thought she was beautiful.
She was pretty cool in the book too.
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riderfangal wrote: »xMrBunglex wrote: »Arg.
I confess that I've been fighting getting readers for a few months now. About a year ago it was like a switch got flipped in my head. I suddenly couldn't read magazines, ingredients on packaging, and audits at work were giving me headaches.
Soooo I finally went and bought some $20 Foster Grant readers at the store...and it makes all the difference in the world. DAMMIT.
I had 20/16 vision growing up & through adulthood, but now at age 46 it's official...I'm the reader-perched-on-the-head-guy.
DAMMIT
Oh, I'm so resisting this myself! Exactly the same for me. I'm 43 but recently I struggle to read packaging and the names of the color on the bottom of nail polish. So far, I'm taking the approach that my eyes are not getting bad due to age, but the darn print is getting smaller! Solution: I carry a small magnifying glass in my purse. I'll resist buying readers for as long as I can. My whole life I've been the only person in my family with perfect eyesight. So depressing.
I admit I am 44 now and about 6 months ago I gave in and bought a pair of readers. It was a sad day but on the upside I have gotten some compliments on how well they suit me
51 and just bought my first pair to actually carry around with me in my purse. I've had a pair at home for the really fine stuff like pill bottles and threading needles for a couple of years.
I always thought people wearing readers looked so wise and knowledgeable, I'm not unhappy to join their ranks. And I have the perfect long nose to wear them, right at the end so I can still look over them. Lol.
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riderfangal wrote: »xMrBunglex wrote: »Arg.
I confess that I've been fighting getting readers for a few months now. About a year ago it was like a switch got flipped in my head. I suddenly couldn't read magazines, ingredients on packaging, and audits at work were giving me headaches.
Soooo I finally went and bought some $20 Foster Grant readers at the store...and it makes all the difference in the world. DAMMIT.
I had 20/16 vision growing up & through adulthood, but now at age 46 it's official...I'm the reader-perched-on-the-head-guy.
DAMMIT
Oh, I'm so resisting this myself! Exactly the same for me. I'm 43 but recently I struggle to read packaging and the names of the color on the bottom of nail polish. So far, I'm taking the approach that my eyes are not getting bad due to age, but the darn print is getting smaller! Solution: I carry a small magnifying glass in my purse. I'll resist buying readers for as long as I can. My whole life I've been the only person in my family with perfect eyesight. So depressing.
I admit I am 44 now and about 6 months ago I gave in and bought a pair of readers. It was a sad day but on the upside I have gotten some compliments on how well they suit me
51 and just bought my first pair to actually carry around with me in my purse. I've had a pair at home for the really fine stuff like pill bottles and threading needles for a couple of years.
I always thought people wearing readers looked so wise and knowledgeable, I'm not unhappy to join their ranks. And I have the perfect long nose to wear them, right at the end so I can still look over them. Lol.
The final straw was after I had picked up a prescription for my son and when I got home I couldn't read the directions lol0 -
xMrBunglex wrote: »Arg.
I confess that I've been fighting getting readers for a few months now. About a year ago it was like a switch got flipped in my head. I suddenly couldn't read magazines, ingredients on packaging, and audits at work were giving me headaches.
Soooo I finally went and bought some $20 Foster Grant readers at the store...and it makes all the difference in the world. DAMMIT.
I had 20/16 vision growing up & through adulthood, but now at age 46 it's official...I'm the reader-perched-on-the-head-guy.
DAMMIT
Definitely less aging using the glasses than squinting though. A guy I work with who is in his late 40s is always holding up his iPhone and squinting at it, makes him look older than he is.0 -
xMrBunglex wrote: »Arg.
I confess that I've been fighting getting readers for a few months now. About a year ago it was like a switch got flipped in my head. I suddenly couldn't read magazines, ingredients on packaging, and audits at work were giving me headaches.
Soooo I finally went and bought some $20 Foster Grant readers at the store...and it makes all the difference in the world. DAMMIT.
I had 20/16 vision growing up & through adulthood, but now at age 46 it's official...I'm the reader-perched-on-the-head-guy.
DAMMIT
My condolences. I've been fortunate in that I'm so severely nearsighted, my vision has actually been balancing out more towards normal as I age.0 -
lilaclovebird wrote: »Anyone remember this confession?lilaclovebird wrote: »No real time to catch up. I have a few confessions then I have to get to making my rounds.
#2- I totally have the hots for my co-worker/supervisor and I struggle with the moral dilemma of holding to my own personal code of ethics and keeping my feelings(lust) to myself.
Yeah...I'm totally dating my coworker/supervisor now....
We are doing well at keeping work and our outside social activities separate.
Judge me if you must, but it is not against policy and things are going great so far. Taking it day by day.
That being said, I can never go back to dating *kitten*. This man values my time, responds promptly to texts and phone calls, and makes me feel desirable and wanted. Now that I have had someone who treats me with respect and kindness, I can never go back to anything less.
That is awesome! Glad you found someone who treats you right!0 -
riderfangal wrote: »riderfangal wrote: »xMrBunglex wrote: »Arg.
I confess that I've been fighting getting readers for a few months now. About a year ago it was like a switch got flipped in my head. I suddenly couldn't read magazines, ingredients on packaging, and audits at work were giving me headaches.
Soooo I finally went and bought some $20 Foster Grant readers at the store...and it makes all the difference in the world. DAMMIT.
I had 20/16 vision growing up & through adulthood, but now at age 46 it's official...I'm the reader-perched-on-the-head-guy.
DAMMIT
Oh, I'm so resisting this myself! Exactly the same for me. I'm 43 but recently I struggle to read packaging and the names of the color on the bottom of nail polish. So far, I'm taking the approach that my eyes are not getting bad due to age, but the darn print is getting smaller! Solution: I carry a small magnifying glass in my purse. I'll resist buying readers for as long as I can. My whole life I've been the only person in my family with perfect eyesight. So depressing.
I admit I am 44 now and about 6 months ago I gave in and bought a pair of readers. It was a sad day but on the upside I have gotten some compliments on how well they suit me
51 and just bought my first pair to actually carry around with me in my purse. I've had a pair at home for the really fine stuff like pill bottles and threading needles for a couple of years.
I always thought people wearing readers looked so wise and knowledgeable, I'm not unhappy to join their ranks. And I have the perfect long nose to wear them, right at the end so I can still look over them. Lol.
The final straw was after I had picked up a prescription for my son and when I got home I couldn't read the directions lol
Mine was helping the SO pick out an OTC sinus medication and he hands me the bottle to check if it contains acetaminophen (which he's supposed to avoid) and I couldn't read the ingredients.
Is this why reading glasses are often stocked in the pharmacy area? Lol.
And the SO now has his own bifocals!0 -
I work in a workshop-type environment, with crafting supplies and very old machinery. If I'm alone at work I like to dance around for extra steps, and yesterday someone caught me dancing with the industrial stapler.0
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For the last few years I've worn one contact lens for distance vision and one for near vision. The last few days, I've been wondering what I'll do now that my middle vision is crap, too!0
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Finally caught up! Rather than owning a page, and trying to find all the things to quote, a few thoughts:
I love how nice and supportive everyone is here.
Pink ladies are totally my preferred apple.
Totally skimmed the dog-poop eating stuff. I'm still recovering from having to clean a horrible vomit-diarrhea mess that happened after changing Wilbur's allergy medicine. Just thinking about dog-poop brings mental sights and smells that I'd really like to forget.
I love fantasy books and just started reading GoT. I'm bummed that the series isn't complete though - I thought it was
I'm a binge reader and like to get through the full thing. I did the full Harry Potter series in a summer, and most of Wheel of Time. I still have the last two Wheel of Time books to finish - I binge read all of them up to that point and then he died! (Maybe I should confess that I am totally annoyed he didn't try to wrap up the series a little quicker - loved them but I feel like he was dragging it out on purpose.) LOR is OK, but not my favorite. Hobbit was one that was really hard for me to get into.
I'm jealous of all you good eyesight people. I've worn glasses/contacts since I was 10. I just had my check-up and I'm at 20/575 now.
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WestCoastJo82 wrote: »Finally caught up! Rather than owning a page, and trying to find all the things to quote, a few thoughts:
I love how nice and supportive everyone is here.
Pink ladies are totally my preferred apple.
Totally skimmed the dog-poop eating stuff. I'm still recovering from having to clean a horrible vomit-diarrhea mess that happened after changing Wilbur's allergy medicine. Just thinking about dog-poop brings mental sights and smells that I'd really like to forget.
I love fantasy books and just started reading GoT. I'm bummed that the series isn't complete though - I thought it was I'm a binge reader and like to get through the full thing. I did the full Harry Potter series in a summer, and most of Wheel of Time. I still have the last two Wheel of Time books to finish - I binge read all of them up to that point and then he died! (Maybe I should confess that I am totally annoyed he didn't try to wrap up the series a little quicker - loved them but I feel like he was dragging it out on purpose.) LOR is OK, but not my favorite. Hobbit was one that was really hard for me to get into.
I'm jealous of all you good eyesight people. I've worn glasses/contacts since I was 10. I just had my check-up and I'm at 20/575 now.
I read the Hobbit 6 months ago and was bored out of my mind.
Confession - cold and rainy here today and I was up at 4.30am and I feel like I've been eating all day. Will definitely be over again today. I swear I spend my days making up for the last day I went over...0 -
malavika413 wrote: »I work in a workshop-type environment, with crafting supplies and very old machinery. If I'm alone at work I like to dance around for extra steps, and yesterday someone caught me dancing with the industrial stapler.
Hahaha! I'm sure you made their day!0 -
riderfangal wrote: »riderfangal wrote: »xMrBunglex wrote: »Arg.
I confess that I've been fighting getting readers for a few months now. About a year ago it was like a switch got flipped in my head. I suddenly couldn't read magazines, ingredients on packaging, and audits at work were giving me headaches.
Soooo I finally went and bought some $20 Foster Grant readers at the store...and it makes all the difference in the world. DAMMIT.
I had 20/16 vision growing up & through adulthood, but now at age 46 it's official...I'm the reader-perched-on-the-head-guy.
DAMMIT
Oh, I'm so resisting this myself! Exactly the same for me. I'm 43 but recently I struggle to read packaging and the names of the color on the bottom of nail polish. So far, I'm taking the approach that my eyes are not getting bad due to age, but the darn print is getting smaller! Solution: I carry a small magnifying glass in my purse. I'll resist buying readers for as long as I can. My whole life I've been the only person in my family with perfect eyesight. So depressing.
I admit I am 44 now and about 6 months ago I gave in and bought a pair of readers. It was a sad day but on the upside I have gotten some compliments on how well they suit me
51 and just bought my first pair to actually carry around with me in my purse. I've had a pair at home for the really fine stuff like pill bottles and threading needles for a couple of years.
I always thought people wearing readers looked so wise and knowledgeable, I'm not unhappy to join their ranks. And I have the perfect long nose to wear them, right at the end so I can still look over them. Lol.
The final straw was after I had picked up a prescription for my son and when I got home I couldn't read the directions lol
Mine was helping the SO pick out an OTC sinus medication and he hands me the bottle to check if it contains acetaminophen (which he's supposed to avoid) and I couldn't read the ingredients.
Is this why reading glasses are often stocked in the pharmacy area? Lol.
And the SO now has his own bifocals!
The realization hit me one day at the grocery store when a very elderly man asked me what the expiration date was on a half gallon of milk. Without any hesitation I took it and thrust out my arm as far away from me as I could as I removed my sunglasses and said, "I think it says the 8th." I'm sure I looked just like he would have had he tried to read the date. Sad.0 -
Confession: one of my main hesitations to buy reading glasses is that I have an affinity for expensive sunglasses. I wear them all the time and I'm guilty of not taking them off when I'm inside the grocery store or running various errands. Currently, I'm contemplating an awesomely fancy pair of purple Gucci shades that retail for $325.00.
Take those off to put on a pair of readers?! Hell no. I'll stick with my fancy shades and not be able to read. Vain.0 -
WestCoastJo82 wrote: »Finally caught up! Rather than owning a page, and trying to find all the things to quote, a few thoughts:
I love how nice and supportive everyone is here.
Pink ladies are totally my preferred apple.
Totally skimmed the dog-poop eating stuff. I'm still recovering from having to clean a horrible vomit-diarrhea mess that happened after changing Wilbur's allergy medicine. Just thinking about dog-poop brings mental sights and smells that I'd really like to forget.
I love fantasy books and just started reading GoT. I'm bummed that the series isn't complete though - I thought it was I'm a binge reader and like to get through the full thing. I did the full Harry Potter series in a summer, and most of Wheel of Time. I still have the last two Wheel of Time books to finish - I binge read all of them up to that point and then he died! (Maybe I should confess that I am totally annoyed he didn't try to wrap up the series a little quicker - loved them but I feel like he was dragging it out on purpose.) LOR is OK, but not my favorite. Hobbit was one that was really hard for me to get into.
I'm jealous of all you good eyesight people. I've worn glasses/contacts since I was 10. I just had my check-up and I'm at 20/575 now.
I've read all the books you mentioned and just finished Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind (there is a continuation of the series called the Richard and Kahlan Series). Now I'm reading the Green Rider Series by Kristen Britain, I'm a binge reader and a huge bookworm. Lol0 -
WestCoastJo82 wrote: »I'm jealous of all you good eyesight people. I've worn glasses/contacts since I was 10. I just had my check-up and I'm at 20/575 now.
I was in the 20/625 range, contacts since age 10, and got lasik. Best $5K I've ever spent. I was in my late 30s when I got it done so they slightly undercorrected one eye to prolong my close vision.Confession: one of my main hesitations to buy reading glasses is that I have an affinity for expensive sunglasses. I wear them all the time and I'm guilty of not taking them off when I'm inside the grocery store or running various errands. Currently, I'm contemplating an awesomely fancy pair of purple Gucci shades that retail for $325.00.
Take those off to put on a pair of readers?! Hell no. I'll stick with my fancy shades and not be able to read. Vain.
I have an affinity for very cheap sunglasses
considering how careless I am with them. I throw them in my purse without a case, they fall on the floor in the car several times a week, I forget they're in a pocket and sit or lean on them. 0
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