Dear Tom and Gi,
I'm officially starting with the Saturday posts now for these videos,
because as of Monday, I become Wednesday!
Yes, rehearsals for Addams Family start on Monday, and I've had my first schedule through to tell me what I'm doing and...
Ahh! I'm so excited!
And I shall be vlogging as much as I'm allowed to, and I will be posting them on Wednesday for...
'Wednesday's Wednesdays' or 'Watch Me Wednesdays' or 'What's Happening Wednesdays'- I'm not entirely sure yet!
I'll see how I feel on the day and see what happens.
But today, if you have been following my twitter and my instagram, something...
I'm going to say life changing, happened today.
I think- I think life-changing is an appropriate thing to say for this, because today...
I got my glasses!
I am officially a glasses-wearer. I don't have to wear them all the time, just for when I need them.
But I am slightly short-sighted, so things far away for the last year have been getting progressively blurrier.
So, I went to the opticians and it turns out, I need me some glasses.
And these are the ones I chose! So I - I tried about forty pairs in the shop!
I tried blue ones, I tried red ones, I tried yellow ones, I tried black ones, I tried brown ones.
I tried square frames, I tried, like, Dame Edna Everage frames, I tried Harry Potter ones,
I tried every type of pair of glasses I could possibly find in the shop.
And I finally settled on these ones, and it turns out, they're very similar to yours, Tom.
I think I must have just had the memory of your glasses in my subconscious, when I chose these.
But, I'm really happy with them!
I can't - I keep looking in the viewfinder, because it's really - you know, I've tried on other people's glasses before,
but usually, I can't see through their glasses because they've got worse eyesight than I have,
so I put them on and look in a mirror and all I see is a fuzzy blur, and a vague outline of me.
But obviously, these are my prescription, so I can see through these, so it's really weird to see myself... looking like Professor Trelawney.
There's a few things I've learnt today since having my glasses. I mean, I've only had them for like, six hours,
but already I'm like, pro glasses-wearer.
Oh my god, just taking them off, you can see the difference in my sight. I'm like, whoa.
HD, oh god. HD, hey there.
Number one! The first thing, I put these on, on the train home, and felt like I had a superpower.
Which is really bad, because normal sight shouldn't be a superpower!
But all of a sudden, I realised just how much I'd actually been struggling
just reading things like train signs. I put these glasses on and I was like,
"I can read that sign! That's in English, when all this last year I thought it was in Swahili, because I couldn't read what it said!"
The second thing I've discovered is that I feel much more like myself wearing glasses, which
probably sounds weird and I probably don't have a reason or explanation for that
I just feel more...me.
They feel...good. *laughs*
And the third thing I have realised is just how much I look like Professor Trelawney.
Like I knew there was a vague resemblance when I cut my hair off all short, but now..
NOW! *camera clicking*
I'm really annoyed that I didn't have these in time for going to the theatre the other day
I went to see my friend, Dale Hodge, in Jersey Boys
He was phenomenal, the show was amazing, but we were in row P of the stalls
and I knew immediately that I wasn't going to be able to see anyone's faces for the show
and that was proved by Dale coming and it taking me about a minute to realise it was him.
But I've got them now, so I don't need to worry.
I'm going to see a show in a couple of weeks? Oh, no! next week? A week today!
I'm going to see another show.
These will definitely come in handy.
If I give you a little close up of my glasses which are already slightly grubby
Nice little, sort of, tortoise shell frame and the sides are just black and they're really lightweight.
And they are made by Silhouette! Ooooh!
A lot of people have asked me if I am going to have to wear contact lenses for onstage.
My eyesight currently isn't bad enough for that. It's just for when I need them for when things are far away .
And for making videos to show off my glasses.
Um, I should be fine. If my eyesight gets progressively worse and worse and worse and worse
throughout the years, then I might need to start thinking about contacts, but currently as it stands
I shall be contact-less for the shows that I'm in.
Tom! Tomorrow is your turn to do a "Dear Carrie" video and seeing as I now wear glasses, I better be your 'I've been this person'
or I'll be sincerely angry. Wait! I'll give you a-
Ready just screenshot this, ready?
There we go!
I am now, officially, a four-eyes.
*laughs*
Today I look like this:
and I shall see you next Saturday.
Oooh...*ding sound in background*
Bong!
*click click*
*muffled chatter in background*
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