I am the proud new owner of prescription sunglasses, a move I felt I had to make since I have been refusing to wear my contacts now for about five years.

It is impossible to convey exactly how huge (and impractical) this shiny red case is. It's like the size of a small Japanese car. How am I supposed to fit this in a purse?

Not that I would actually have gotten them, but my optometrist ruled out my getting the huge, fashionable glasses that are in style now, because my prescription is so bad, the lenses would have had to be super thick. Mike jokes that my glasses are so thick, I can use them to kill ants by focusing the sun's rays. When I told him I was concerned because I thought my prescription had gotten worse, he said, "To what? Seeing-eye dog?"

You can kind of see how fat the lens is here.

These seem to working well, but the front part is so heavy, that they tend to slip down my nose a lot.

How come I haven't heard any discussion yet of the most pressing issue of the day: when are we going to see the new Harry Potter movie??