Well Jeff is off work for a few days so I thought what better time to share a few…ummm…pictures…cause he won't know I did till he goes back to work…hee!hee!
As you know, or maybe you don't know, but when Jeff and I met in 1983 we were carnies. Yep, he worked at the Haunted House and I worked for Peter Lind and Peter had several Ontario Pork Food booths and I ran one with a couple other girls running the other ones, and we set up at fairs. We traveled around Canada at such events as The Calgary Stampede, Edmonton Klondike Days, Toronto CNE, and every little po-dunk fair in between. So since Jeff worked the rides, he was more of a carnie then me at first. Cause I got to stay in hotels, and he had to sleep in the back of a semi trailer.
When we first met he looked like this:
and it was love at first bitesight! (hmmm..now that I think about it, that might be where the whole vampire fetish started)
Now after talking on our breaks for 2 or 3 days and never seeing him without his make up, I invited him to a party, and he said yes…OMG! did I have butterflies in my stomach.
When I got to the party, I saw that he was not as scary as I thought, and kinda cute to boot.
After a little make-up remover, this is how great he cleaned up. Lucky eh?
How about that for a "How I Met Your Mother" episode? Well she was frying me up some schnitzel and I mosied on over in my scary face makeup, and it was love…sing along with me….
So I picked up my trifocals today, and that means… I am going to blow chunks all over my keyboard. Everywhere I look it is blurry, except for the computer screen, but I don't want to look out of the corner of my eye, or ugh…and if I look down and move my head, it's like I am on the Stampin' Up! cruise to the Mexican Riviera and we all know how rocky that was. So something has to be different. I called and left a message with my Doc.
I may know part of the problem though. Ya see I got progressive lenses (is that when the trifocals blends? if not that is what I meant) and my lenses are not that big, perhaps I should go back to the glasses I wore in 1987.
Look at those babies? My girlfriend Sharon says "what glasses? – I can't see your glasses, cause the windshield is in the way!"
The sad part is, I wore these from 1984 – 1989. What was I thinking? I mean the Doctor where I bought them kept saying "are these for you?" and I was like thinking -well I work outside all day (being a carnie and all) and they would turn into sunglasses, and then maybe people would just think I had aviator sunglasses on and that I did not really NEED glasses. As I sit here with my trifocals on that I can not even SEE OUT OF!!!!
Maybe my cheeks helped me see, do you think? Or maybe my top lip, causing less strain on my eyes….cause those darn glasses took up most of my lower face!!!
So stay tuned to the eyeglass saga, as I can't go on like this…perhaps I need contacts and readers instead, I have no clue, but I could just cry.
Rhonda is coming back over tomorrow though, that will make me smile, and we will put the finishing touches on our Summer Smash Stamping Bash projects. I will post those after the event is over.
So I am gonna sign off for now. Thanks for stopping in!
Hugs, Di
OMG!!! What a good laugh for the day. I guess I am not laughing at you…it's more like with you!! 🙂 Your old glasses are sooo humongous!!! But you have to remember, that really was the style. But, do you ever look around and see people that still haven't updated their style of glasses?? I wish I could show you a current picture of my in-laws. Yep, both of them have glasses just like your windshield ones, and it is 2008!!! I just got progressive lenses, but they are just bifocals. It has taken me about 4 months to get use to them, but I think I am finally there. OK… didn't mean to write a book, but just wanted to thank you for the laugh.
Hi, diana. You crack me up with those HUMONGOUS glass. Oh, the laugh of the night. Thanks for sharing!
Girly!!!!!!! I've seen the photo of you in those glasses before!! But it ALWAYS makes me laugh so much!! I'm Belly Laughing! I do believe they should have wipers on them cause any spit talkers were bound to hit those babies!! Really I Love those pictures of you.
BUT let me tell you, you have never shown me a picture of Jeff in his Carnie Makeup!! Very Cool! A bit scary bit kinda intrigingly sexy. I can see your attraction! And I love the photos of him all cleaned up!! But I do have a special place in my heart for Jeff!!
Great Blog Day Tuuts
I hope you feel better,
Love Ya
Da BFF
Tracy
What fun! thanks for sharing the story of how you met.
Now I started with the lined trifocals and HATED them – no matter where I looked I saw a blurry line. The progressive lenses have a sweet strip down the center that you have to get used to looking through. It gets blurry when you look out of the corners of your eyes. Also – you grow accustomed to automatically raising and lowering your head until you see right! Believe me, sad as it sounds, its so much better than the lines. But it takes some time – so Good luck!
I had a lovely pair of those glasses to in the mid-eighties! My hair was much higher than yours though! I was 5'2" in high school (now 5'0 w/out hair spray)! Thanks for sharing that cute story!
Oh ya, the good ol'days of the HUGE GLASSES!! I am not laughing at you Di, I am laughing with you as I, also have a few of those pictures with the bad glasses. Let's just say that mine were a little more of the Sopia Loren style. LOL! I am glad that era is over.
I'm having a crappy night so I had to come back to your blog for a Pick Me Up Laugh!!! And another look at "My Sweetie Jeff!!"
I just LOVE todays entry!!
BUT as Funny as those Dang Glasses are, that is it!! Look beyond the Looking Glass perched upon your nose and It's My BFF!!! Diana you look the same today as you did all those many years ago. You don't age a bit!!
I Love Ya Sweetie!! Give Mr Gibbs a Kiss from me tonight!!
Da BFF
Tracy
That was an interesting story about how you met… kind of funny. I laughed though when I saw the picture of your big glasses. I had a pair of those too! Everyone did!! Thank heavens the style changed hey? You need wipers on the front of those things. I have bifocal progressives and they weren't too bad to get used to. Give it a couple days and if it doesn't work, you can go back to switching glasses while they exchange your lenses. You'll soon get used to holding your head at a certain angle! I have to put mine down to the end of my nose to lay in bed and watch tv! Then they're uncomfortable there so I mistakenly push them back up where they're supposed to be and .. well, there ya go..
Aloha Di, I love your blog – its full of informations, your creations are great and most of all you are so funny. I love your story of how you and your husband met!! I have the same problem as you – I too wears a pair of glass with progressive lenses and know how you feel. I just got mine last month and still in the adjustment period. Hope that you'll be fine with your eyewear pretty soon!!!
Oh sweetie, you are both ADORABLE!!! Well…wait a minute…maybe Jeff is not "adorable" in his make-up…haha! I love these old pics….the glasses are a HOOT…good protection, I say! 🙂
Hope you're getting used to your trifocals now! {{{BIG HUGS}}}
I think I just peed my pants from laughing so hard. The 80's were so hard on all of us.
Just wanna tell you ; That explains everything!!!! JK! But, I totally see why ya luv him! Now you?? That is the question! JK!!! He is a lucky guy! And you a lucky gal but, the real question is will he dress up like Edward this year??? That would be awesome! LUV U!
Diana, a carnie, eh! Good friends of our own the Thomas Carnival (winter quarters here in central Texas) and used to go into Canada until several years ago. Now they do fairs in Montana, the Dakotas, just finished Utah State Fair in Salt Lake City and are headed to Ft. Smith, Arkansas. We have worked in their food joint, The Midway Grill, in Franklinton, La at the Washington Parish Fair–hardest I have ever worked in my life. What a coincidence. I love your work and have your website as one of my favorites. Thanks for a great story.
Best, Charlotte
OMG Diana…those pictures are classic!! Love the glasses. My husband and I were just having a conversation about how big his glasses were at one time and I told him he was lucky I dated him lookin the way he did. LOL! Thanks for the chuckle 😉
Hi Diana — Love those crazy, humongous, glasses — huh. Anyway, the first pair of progressives I bought gave me the same problems. My boss said I looked like a bobble head doll reading my computer screen. So I bought a cheap drugstore pair for computer and reading (what then the purpose of progressives?) Anyway, the next pair worked fine and no more bobble head and I can see outta all 3 areas. The problem was the store that made them did not get it quite right the first time. Have your place triple check them. The "sweet spot" for reading is small but can't be too small or you look like I did bobbing up and down, back and forth. I've had 2 more pair over 6 more years and they are perfect. In any event, there also is an adjustment period — don't trip on stairs. Good luck.
Ok, I know you posted this a long time ago, but if you were a carnie, you MUST read Water for Elephants. I just finished it and it is GREAT! (It also has the attraction that Rob Pattinson is starring in the movie version that is filming right now. Can't wait to see that!)
Cheers, and best wishes for convention!