Embracing Silver When You're Still Blond
Hi, #silverbloggers! Phoenix here with my first entry. I am the ripe old age of 42 which makes me a Xennial, lol, and found out that I was eligible for this community from a post by the lovely @lizelle. :)
I'm one of those people who has always been mistaken for younger than I am, so I only recently stopped getting called diminutives in public. Shortly after my 40th birthday, I bought a lotto ticket and got carded (you have to be 18 here), and laughing, I pulled out my ID and told the cashier I was 40. She told me she had thought I was 13. I looked like this:
So I'm more used to giving people the grumpy cat glare for treating me like a kid than I am worried about grays, lol. Don't think I have any of those, though I am blond, so they'd probably be pretty stealth if I did.
So I wasn't sure what I might write about for the theme of "embracing silver," but after a moment, I had it. I went to the optometrist the other day and got a new prescription for my glasses. I've always been farsighted so that's not new, but this is the first time I'm getting progressives!
The glasses I ordered
This is also the first time I knew I needed new glasses not because I was getting a headache on the regular (my usual sign due to eye strain), but because I couldn't read the fine print anymore or thread a needle with ease. 😂 Telling that to the doctor, she was like, "Yeah, after 40... "
I actually discovered a life hack the other day, trying to read a can of cat food to determine if I could give some to Yuan (because he's allergic to fish so I have to check ingredients): I took a photo of it with my phone and then zoomed in on the photo. It worked!
Gotta keep this glorious belleh happy
So I hope my new glasses work well for me. Usually I just wear the up-close prescription all the time and put them on the tip of my nose in librarian pose if I have to. ;) Progressives users, do you like them? They certainly were more expensive, but still cheaper ordering these online than simple glasses through an eyewear brick-and-mortar place ever was.
So there's my "embracing silver" moment I had this week, ha ha. Thanks for inviting me into this community and have a great week! :)
I wonder where the hivesilvergold is. There was a steemsilvergold community. I hope that many no longer use steem.
Lol to be fair you look a day over 16 in that picture...I can understand how they'd mistake you for much younger
It doesn't help the matter when some of my clothes come from the children's department because of my size. 😂
LOL, I also do that trick with fine print but I've always been short-sighted; have to take my glasses off to thread a needle, so my eye sight did not change after 40 although it is most people's fate! That fine print really is impossible on some packaging so I also do the same trick; quite handy when needing to read specs on the back of appliances etc.
Thank you for your tongue-in-cheek contribution @phoenixwren ;)
Ha ha, good to know I'm not the only one! Really the print is so small on some things, and then they go and put it in a not-very-contrasting color to boot. 😂
Until pretty recently, folk thought me younger than I am. I,too, have very little silver thanks to maternal genes. Had I had my father's genes, I'd have been silver by 25!
Thanks for your contribution!
Yeaaaah, I'm in-between my parents I think. On my mom's side they are all thick haired, sometimes curly hair, and dark hair. On my dad's side is baldness - my father, grandfather, and my brother since he was a teenager all had baldness, and even my grandmother apparently had bald patches toward the end of her life (I never met my paternal grandmother). I have thankfully a full head of hair, but it's baby fine and kept the same color my whole life. My older sister has the hair from our mom's side, and my younger brother from our dad's side - I'm the middle child and am in-between. 😄
I found progressives impossible to get used to, so I went back to using two different pairs of glasses. Funny thing is, by the time I turned 45, I no longer needed the glasses for long distance (near-sighted), now I only use reading glasses. Apparently, that is not that unusual, according to my Doc.
Huh! Well if I find them unbearable I can order another pair just as reading glasses like I have been using. My distance number did change I think ...I seem to remember being 20/15 and this time it said 20/20 for distance.