Glasses

I really need glasses. My recent pounding headaches are evidence of this. I have trouble with seeing anything far away making driving at night or reading words off a screen very taxing on my eyes.   The problem is I hate how I look in glasses. Other people look fine in them, but I look retarded in them. Maybe it is the nerd complex that I am trying to get out of now that I am grown, or perhaps it's my self esteem plummeting to the earth when I put a pair on. My other glasses mysteriously disappeared and fortunately for me the prescription was no longer valid.  One problem with the glasses situation is my size. I have a small face which puts me in the child or teen sizes. Is it wrong for me to be embarrased a little at the thought of wearing the same size glasses as my puny 11 year old?  I have been to five different glasses retailers and my picky self is displeased with every single pair I try on. I did find an acceptable pair at one store, but they did not take my insurance. Today I went to another place and there may be some hope there. They did have a lot of choices, but my children were being far too annoying for me to continue on my search. So until I search again, no glasses yet.  Maybe a second opinion is what I need. My husband and best friend seem to know what actually looks good on me so I may have to just let them pick the darn things out.

Testing nightmares

I have the unfortunate pleasure of  testing 464 children for the state of Colorado (luckily not by myself). I have some amusing observations from today alone that leave me utterly exhausted. First of all, since when does "one" mean color in every bubble on the page. Then i had a student get up during the test and try to help his non English speaking buddy to do better.....seriously kid sit down!! One child thought his shoe was more important than the test and since he was given the opportunity to test...well we have to leave him be. Then what do you do with the test that little kindie what's his name who drew flying robots and monkeys all over his test....yes you guessed it, you get a giant eraser and get erasing. Then there are the not so know -it-alls who are done first and absolutely refuse to check their work eventhough you know that they got them all wrong. Well until the fun begins again on Tuesday I am going to rest and hopefully I will not repeat test items in my sleep.