Goggles.

When I was growing up, my eyesight was perfect, much to my disappointment.  It seemed like the 'cool kids' at school were getting smurfette glasses and other cute spectacles and oh how I wanted to wear glasses so badly.  Looking back, thank GOODNESS I didn't wear glasses!!!!  I needed all the help I could get, and glasses would NOT have been helping me out.  At all.  My mullet was all the thanks I needed, and I rocked that for like 6 years.

My parents and sister wore glasses though, and often I'd see their glasses sitting on a counter or something and they'd be SO dirty that I'd ask if they could even see through them.  I remember cleaning their glasses when I found them in that condition because I couldn't believe they could ever see anything.  And when I was finished they'd be sparkling.  Not a spec of dust.

I got my first pair of glasses about 10 years ago.  I was having trouble seeing what the professors at college were writing on the white board.  Granted, I was sitting in the back row and they insisted on writing in red marker...but none the less at spring break one year (yep no fancy vacations for me, I was so broke I just went home every spring break!), I asked my parents if they'd take me to the eye doctor, and the eye doctor agreed, no reason to move closer to the white board, glasses will solve the problem!  So I've worn them off and on for the past 10 years.  Recently I think my vision has gotten worse, and I find that I love to wear my prescription sunglasses and I have a pair of glasses that I like to wear at my computer and for driving at night.  It seems like I have terrible night vision and the glasses really help.

But one of the things that I hate about wearing glasses is that they are ALWAYS dirty.  I've become my parents and just put them on, even if there is a big smudge on them.  Even when I try to clean them, they're smeared and a mess, and after a while I just give up and put them on!  If only I had the 10 year old version of myself standing around here to give my glasses a good clean for me every day, I'd praise her for getting them so clean and then tell her to eat her carrots!