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Posted by Phil on July 6, 2007, at 16:03:52
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Phil, posted by Dinah on July 6, 2007, at 15:38:38
I'm hitting 54 soon. I can't even fake cool anymore.
Yeah, I never saw it coming. I think the depression and isolation that I dwell in has really made the years fly and I have very few life experiences to show for it.
Despite it all, I still feel fortunate. Don't ask me why. lol
Posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 16:36:23
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Dinah, posted by Phil on July 6, 2007, at 16:03:52
Within certain well defined limits, you can get cooler as you get older, so long as you started from a very low base.
Posted by Bobby on July 6, 2007, at 18:49:55
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Dinah, posted by Phil on July 6, 2007, at 16:03:52
you can sing along with the music in the elevator.
Posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 20:27:41
In reply to one of the benefits of getting older, posted by Bobby on July 6, 2007, at 18:49:55
Gee, I've got a long way to go before I can do that.
I'm very nervous in elevators, looking at the floor number, thinking of terrible conversations I could start with complete strangers, along the lines of...
"Do you ever feel like we are part of a criminal conspiracy?'
or
'Can you explain projective identification really quickly for me?'
Posted by fayeroe on July 6, 2007, at 21:13:02
In reply to Re: one of the benefits of getting older » Bobby, posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 20:27:41
> Gee, I've got a long way to go before I can do that.
> I'm very nervous in elevators, looking at the floor number, thinking of terrible conversations I could start with complete strangers, along the lines of...
> "Do you ever feel like we are part of a criminal conspiracy?'
> or
> 'Can you explain projective identification really quickly for me?'this thread has made me laugh so much that i've steamed up my trifocals.......no line ones at that.....i hate them.
i had to get an autofocus camera when i turned 41. i was depressed and in denial for six months. i would have sworn that roll of film was just fine...and then i realized that everyone was very, very fuzzy.....i even went to an opthalmologist and begged him to tell me that i had a "condition" that he could magically cure. he was a friend and he almost rolled on the floor and said "you're old, get over it".......
fayeroe
Posted by Phillipa on July 6, 2007, at 21:40:29
In reply to Re: one of the benefits of getting older, posted by fayeroe on July 6, 2007, at 21:13:02
Seriously I got bifocals in my 50's and spent thousands of dollars as I could not adapt so I got PRK lasix surgury and had the distance corrected to what turned out to be 20/l5. Better than 20/20. I could have had it done for reading only or one eye for reading one for distance but getting used to that is like being drunk as they used a contact like that and I ripped it out as soon as home. What happened was good and bad as I could see imperfections in me and my house and things I'd never seen before but for once I could walk around and not bump into walls as the bifocals and I didn't get along no lines too. I had about l0 pair of prescription ones. Now three years later I'm noticing some blurring I have read that enhancements are needed by older people some early some late I think I need one haven't had my eyes examined for the three years since the surgery. Doesn't hurt at all . One eye at a time. No halos after about two weeks . I think it was $l000 per eye. I was spending more money on bifocals. Best investment I ever made. Seriously consider it as in three years they can do it even easier and probably the price is down. Love Phillipa
Posted by Tabitha on July 7, 2007, at 1:40:41
In reply to Gonna have to get bifocals I guess, posted by Dinah on July 6, 2007, at 14:54:49
They ought to come up with a better name. "Bifocals" sounds so much like orthopedic shoes or something. There must be some high-tech sexy description that would work.
Posted by fayeroe on July 7, 2007, at 8:03:40
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Dinah, posted by Tabitha on July 7, 2007, at 1:40:41
i hereby appoint you to rename them. and please don't forget trifocals.......makes me think of trifecta...(sp)
Posted by Poet on July 7, 2007, at 12:04:28
In reply to Gonna have to get bifocals I guess, posted by Dinah on July 6, 2007, at 14:54:49
Hi Dinah,
My eyes created their own bifocal contact lenses. I see far out of my right eye and close out of my left eye even though my contacts are prescribed only to correct my near sightedness. As my eye doctor says if it works leave it alone. Though I do have those drug store reading glasses for low light and really should have prescription ones. Sigh. I hate getting old. I hate having to wear glasses/contacts since I was 10, too.
Poet
Posted by Kath on July 7, 2007, at 14:11:48
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess, posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 15:14:15
Did you like the movie Declan?
Kath
Saw "Shooter" last night with Mark Walberg (I think it's Mark)?
It was really good. (NOT if you can't handle shooting, explosions, & bad people) BUT it was a good plot & very well done. The "Making of Shooter" extra was also really interesting.
How are ya Dec?
luv, Kath
Posted by Sigismund on July 7, 2007, at 15:54:07
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Sigismund, posted by Kath on July 7, 2007, at 14:11:48
Hi Kath
It was fantastic, but had been cut down to 3.5 hours.
So I ordered the 5CD version that was shown on Swedish TV, which must be at least 10 hours long.
There's all this lovely stuff about identity and suffering, like you always get in Bergman, but to make the movie hang together most of that has been taken out.
[I remember the funeral prayer (from over 30 years ago) which no doubt had Scandanavian intellectual jokes.....it was this amazing prayer at the bedside in "Cries and Whispers", and the prayer was essentially an address to God about His relationship to those whom He had abandoned. It had all the cadences of a liturgy, no faith to speak of and a lot of religious sensibility (right up my alley, in fact).]
Fanny and Alexander is like a fairy story with good and evil characters and spiritual powers and ghosts.
I remember seeing Mark Wahlberg in "Boogie Nights". That was the first movie I saw Phillip Seymore Hoffman in.
I've been feeling a bit better lately, thanks Kath.
Posted by Racer on July 7, 2007, at 16:27:37
In reply to one of the benefits of getting older, posted by Bobby on July 6, 2007, at 18:49:55
Posted by Dinah on July 10, 2007, at 17:41:30
In reply to Re: one of the benefits of getting older » Bobby, posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 20:27:41
lol. That actually sounds like fun. :)
Posted by Dinah on July 10, 2007, at 17:42:27
In reply to Re: one of the benefits of getting older, posted by fayeroe on July 6, 2007, at 21:13:02
:)
That's almost exactly what my therapist said. And come to think of it, it was when he was my age.
Posted by Dinah on July 10, 2007, at 17:43:51
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Dinah, posted by Tabitha on July 7, 2007, at 1:40:41
We'd make a fortune if we could think of a good name and sell it to the eyeglass companies. :)
Posted by Dinah on July 10, 2007, at 17:46:20
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Dinah, posted by Poet on July 7, 2007, at 12:04:28
I was thinking of you the other day. How is the new job going?
I was sooo happy to get my glasses, but too vain to wear them all the time. Looking back, I was right. I looked horribly geeky in those awful fifties tip tilted frames. Especially since I wore them in the seventies.
Posted by Dinah on July 10, 2007, at 17:48:59
In reply to Re: one of the benefits of getting older, posted by Phillipa on July 6, 2007, at 21:40:29
I don't doubt it. My prescription is sooo expensive now. And my frames were too, I guess. I was insistent that this time I was going to get rimless.
So I have a fortune in my distance glasses, and now the bifocals. I was going to refuse to get them, but I can't do my work.
My eye doctor says that I can get laser surgery if my prescription stays stable for a year. However, my prescription has never stayed stable for a year in my entire life.
Last time, I wore my reading glasses all the time, and my eyes actually got stronger!
Posted by Sigismund on July 10, 2007, at 19:52:13
In reply to Re: one of the benefits of getting older » Bobby, posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 20:27:41
>'Do you ever feel like we are part of a criminal conspiracy?'
or
'Can you explain projective identification really quickly for me?'I'd rather a yes and a no, than a no and a yes, and would be really chuffed with a yes and a yes before we reached the 25th floor.
Unless you meant Fanny and Alexander, which was fun too.
The whole thing is on its way....12 hours of Ingmar Bergman!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Sigismund on July 10, 2007, at 19:58:21
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Poet, posted by Dinah on July 10, 2007, at 17:46:20
I had a pair of sunglasses that had wings on the outer tops in 2 shades of grey.
They were quite odd and I was surprised when I was congratulated for being so defiantly (un)cool.
See, anything can happen.
Posted by Poet on July 10, 2007, at 20:45:19
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Poet, posted by Dinah on July 10, 2007, at 17:46:20
Hi Dinah,
Not to brag, but I was the seoncd person in the seventh grade to get John Lennon granny glasses. Sorry, I had to brag, I have so little to brag about. Really, that's true.
Until last week Tuesday I would have said work was great, but I made a mistake and someone caught it and threw it in my face and one of the other attorney's face. And it was brought up again last Thursday. Like no on else makes a mistake. Though probably no one else panics and wants to call their therapist. Besides that things are okay. See post on Work.
Poet
Posted by Poet on July 10, 2007, at 20:45:57
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess, posted by Poet on July 10, 2007, at 20:45:19
Posted by Poet on July 10, 2007, at 20:49:17
In reply to Re: one of the benefits of getting older....Dinah, posted by Sigismund on July 10, 2007, at 19:52:13
Hi Sigismund.
I love Ingmar Bergman. Wild Strawberries is a particular favorite.
Poet
Posted by Sigismund on July 10, 2007, at 20:58:54
In reply to Re: one of the benefits of getting older....Dinah, posted by Poet on July 10, 2007, at 20:49:17
Hi Poet
1970 was a good year to start university.
Wild Strawberries was one of those movies (I saw and forget) that was shown in a local theatre.
I don't think they have stuff like that these days.
I do remember the impact of the prayer by the bed after she dies in Cries and Whispers.
Posted by Poet on July 10, 2007, at 21:09:05
In reply to Ingmar Bergman » Poet, posted by Sigismund on July 10, 2007, at 20:58:54
Sorry, Sigismund, I posted my reply to Dinah though you found it. Think I've had too much wine? Nah, not me.
When I was 18 (senior year of what we call high school) a local TV station ran Ingmar Bergman movies. I really think that is what got me interested in studying film when I went to college. A degree in film history isn't worth much money wise, but darn it I watched some really great films, silent, foreign and American.
Poet
Posted by Dinah on July 11, 2007, at 9:34:53
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess, posted by Poet on July 10, 2007, at 20:45:19
> Hi Dinah,
>
> Not to brag, but I was the seoncd person in the seventh grade to get John Lennon granny glasses. Sorry, I had to brag, I have so little to brag about. Really, that's true.That is fair grounds for bragging. You were one cool (oh drat, I can't remember the time appropriate slang for young lady.)
> Until last week Tuesday I would have said work was great, but I made a mistake and someone caught it and threw it in my face and one of the other attorney's face. And it was brought up again last Thursday. Like no on else makes a mistake. Though probably no one else panics and wants to call their therapist. Besides that things are okay. See post on Work.
>
> PoetI live in terror of making mistakes at work (that darn OCD). But that terror probably contributes to the greater mistake of being too afraid to do things, and also being way too slow. Everyone does make mistakes. I've made whoppers in my time. Good bosses use it as a learning experience.
I'm glad it's going well otherwise.
I got the bifocals. :( And now live in terror that I chose too trendy a frame and will end up looking back at my photos (thank heavens I don't allow myself to be photographed) with well deserved horror.
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