The geeky couple

The kids are asleep so hubby and I finally have some geeky time. That’s the time when both of us sit on the bed with our laptops and do our thing whether it’s extra work (ack!), surfing the net or blogging.

We do love to hang out and watch movies a lot but when we have some down time at home, we’re pretty much attached to our laptops. We both wear glasses so we call ourselves the geeky couple. Among other things we’ve called our dynamic duo, it’s a name we adopted about something and something years ago.

I’ve been wearing glasses since I was in highschool, he’s been wearing glasses since gradeschool. He liked watching TV when he was a kid. I liked reading books close to my nose while lying down on the bed. Not to mention both my parents have less than perfect vision.

I used to think wearing glasses was cool. I remember some of my schoolmates would wear glasses with ordinary lens just for porma. We all thought wearing glasses, at least stylish and thin framed ones, made us look smart.

But when I got older, it felt more like a hassle to have to bring it out whenever I have to read something. I chose not to wear one anymore even if it meant I’d have to squint  and squint.  It didn’t help that someone once told me I looked like a lola with my glasses on. And these were not cheap prescription glasses, they were an expensive pair that I carefully picked from the optical boutique. Definitely uncool. So off to the drawer my glasses went.

Now that I work online, I have no other choice but to wear glasses again. It’s literally a pain in the neck if I don’t and I read much slower with my naked slightly blurred eyes.

Good thing hubby also wears one so I’m no longer just a lola, I have my lolo with me. (A good-looking and smart one at that.)

I imagine we’d still be like this when we’re wrinkled and gray. With our granny glasses on and our laptops on our bed, we’d be drinking milk and cookies while surfing the internet.

Tagged as: glasses, life, Marriage