Dedication

[LiquidBlue5000]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Up until a few years ago I wanted brown contacts. I'd have them except I wear hard lenses & I won't go to soft ones. My friend Jen always screamed at me "You idiot! Every normal person gets blue contacts, & you want to get brown to cover your blue eyes up!" My eyes are such an odd dark blue shade (and I like light blue eyes, like most folks) and I refer to them as smurf**** blue.

- Jake

i knew a guy once who used to wear brown contacts... his eyes were very light blue, but it didnt match the rest of him.. he had dark brown hair and olive skin... he was so/so looking with blue eyes, but when he put his brown contact lenses in, he was smokin'... true story

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Up until a few years ago I wanted brown contacts. I'd have them except I wear hard lenses & I won't go to soft ones. My friend Jen always screamed at me "You idiot! Every normal person gets blue contacts, & you want to get brown to cover your blue eyes up!" My eyes are such an odd dark blue shade (and I like light blue eyes, like most folks) and I refer to them as smurf**** blue.

- Jake

Don't you dare! I'm with Jen -- dark hair, blue eyes? You're a rarity. DON'T, YOU IDIOT! Smurf**** blue -- lovely. How in the hell do you get hard contacts into (and out of) your eyes and why in the world do you prefer them?

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

i knew a guy once who used to wear brown contacts... his eyes were very light blue, but it didnt match the rest of him.. he had dark brown hair and olive skin... he was so/so looking with blue eyes, but when he put his brown contact lenses in, he was smokin'... true story

I always think it's striking when darker folks have light eyes, so I'm having trouble picturing it as a bad thing.

- Jake

[LiquidBlue5000]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

I always think it's striking when darker folks have light eyes, so I'm having trouble picturing it as a bad thing.

- Jake

i do too... but they looked weird on him for some reason... like they were fake or something... the brown eyes looked more natural for him... when he didnt have them in, he looked as if he was wearing blue contacts... and he looked stoned...

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

Don't you dare! I'm with Jen -- dark hair, blue eyes? You're a rarity. DON'T, YOU IDIOT! Smurf**** blue -- lovely. How in the hell do you get hard contacts into (and out of) your eyes and why in the world do you prefer them?

My hair isn't that dark. Not compared to my parents' and brother's. In my mind I'm still the little kid with blond hair, Charlie in the candy factory.
I've worn hard lenses (well, gas perm these days - I miss the old glass ones they don't make anymore) for almost 33 years. They were a bar mitzvah gift when I was twelve. I wore a temporary soft one for a week a few years ago and HATED it. The bending, the fragility, the huge lens going into the eye. Yuck.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

i do too... but they looked weird on him for some reason... like they were fake or something... the brown eyes looked more natural for him... when he didnt have them in, he looked as if he was wearing blue contacts... and he looked stoned...

Poor guy. Didn't Toni Morrison write The Brownest Eye for him?

- Jake

[LiquidBlue5000]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Poor guy. Didn't Toni Morrison write The Brownest Eye for him?

- Jake

.. yes, i believe so

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

My hair isn't that dark. Not compared to my parents' and brother's. In my mind I'm still the little kid with blond hair, Charlie in the candy factory.
I've worn hard lenses (well, gas perm these days - I miss the old glass ones they don't make anymore) for almost 33 years. They were a bar mitzvah gift when I was twelve. I wore a temporary soft one for a week a few years ago and HATED it. The bending, the fragility, the huge lens going into the eye. Yuck.

- Jake

I still think it's hysterical that you were blond while the rest of your family has darker hair.

Congrats on the bar mitzvah -- here's some contacts, kid Don't your eyes get dry with them in? I wear special contacts so my eyes can take more oxygen in -- I was having some issues with lines forming. I can't imagine having something hard in my eye.

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

I can't imagine having something hard in my eye.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

I still think it's hysterical that you were blond while the rest of your family has darker hair.

Strangers thought I was adopted. My mom got sick of it & started frosting her hair in the '70s (somehow I guess she thought it looked natural )
and that's when my hair started getting darker. I was rebelling from the start.

- Jake

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

- Jake

How did I know you'd go there?

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Strangers thought I was adopted. My mom got sick of it & started frosting her hair in the '70s (somehow I guess she thought it looked natural ) and that's when my hair started getting darker. I was rebelling from the start.

- Jake

You rebel, you. Well do you at least look sort of look like them now? I think I looked more like my parents when I was a child. Ask Meredith how much I look like NO ONE in my entire family. My mother has long blond hair (it's not as blond as it used to be--she frosted too), is a few inches shorter than me (i'm Sasquatch compared to her) and my dad is my height (maybe an inch taller), a little heavy with curly dark brown hair (grey as well -- and he's balding a little too).

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

How did I know you'd go there?

I keep forgetting, are you supposed to be Uma or Michelle (or Swoozie ) in Dangerous Liaisons?

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

You rebel, you. Well do you at least look sort of look like them now? I think I looked more like my parents when I was a child. Ask Meredith how much I look like NO ONE in my entire family. My mother has long blond hair (it's not as blond as it used to be--she frosted too), is a few inches shorter than me (i'm Sasquatch compared to her) and my dad is my height (maybe an inch taller), a little heavy with curly dark brown hair (grey as well -- and he's balding a little too).

I don't look like my parents, but I look like all four grandparents - especially both grandfathers - and none of them look anything alike.
Supposedly I look a lot like my mother's father's father, followed by my mother's father.

- Jake

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

I keep forgetting, are you supposed to be Uma or Michelle (or Swoozie ) in Dangerous Liaisons?

- Jake

Michelle, thanks. Remember, I later make an appearance in a red dress on a piano a year later