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Monday, June 30, 2008

Purple Birth Control Glasses


Imagine these eyeglass frames...in light purple. That's what I'm wearing these days.

This is a funny story about my glasses. It seques to a recipe for bread I tried this weekend.

Last Thursday, Randy had an eye appointment at Lenscrafters. While he was getting his eyes checked, I inquired about repairing the frames of my glasses, which I basically bent out of shape when I fell in Paris.

The nice man said sure, we'll be happy to fix those for free, ma'am.

Bend. Bend. Shape. CLICK. BREAK. He looks up and says, I seem to have broken your frames. He left to speak to a manager, then comes back and says, I'll find some frames here that will fit your lenses, at no charge, and we'll fix those for you.

What I ended up with is purple birth control glasses. Free glasses, sure, but I'm not sure I like them as much as my old ones. But I'm stuck -- I got my glasses in Milledgeville, where they're still under warranty, and I won't be able to get them fixed until next week. And if they can't fix them, I may be stuck with these purple birth control classes.

Sigh.

In case you don't know why they call these "birth control glasses," well, they render the wearer so unattractive...well, I hope you can "see" what I mean.

Randy's glasses, on the other hand, are lovely. I wish I could show you a picture of our new looks, but his computer doesn't have a place for my compact flash card. You'll just have to imagine. This is not, I might add, an indictment against Lenscrafters. They were very nice.

Seque: Easy Sandwich Bread

Elizabeth Barbone, of www.glutenfreebaking.com, does baking seminars all over the U.S., and last week, she shared a recipe on the Delphi Celiac Site for her Easy Sandwich Bread. It is! Easy. And it is delicious. Out of the oven, it was crusty and tasty, and non-GF dinner guests thought it was great (either that, or they were too polite). Yesterday, I ate a slice with peanut butter. Still moist and tasty. I am considering a tomato sandwich today...we'll see. At any rate, I am very excited about this recipe. It is a perfect everyday bread!

I would like to share this recipe with you, but out of courtesy to Elizabeth, who hasn't given me permission to do so, I won't...right now. But if you really want to know this simple recipe for a loaf of GF bread, email me, and I'll forward you the Delphi Celiac Listserv message (and that, I don't think, violates her rights).

Edited to add: My bud Carrie, the Ginger Lemon Girl, sent me Elizabeth's blog address, which has the recipe posted. So if it's there, it's now here:

Much love, and happy Monday!
Ging

6 comments:

Bill said...

Just the visual is making me laugh!

Joy Peterson said...

That is funny! and I am sure that the glasses aren't that bad...but they were free...

Carrie said...

it is a great bread ging! the bread recipe is on her blog, so you can link to it for people from there!

carrie

Carly said...

This post is hilarious!!! Love it and Im kinda digging the purple frames as well. G's family lives in Waycross so we will make a short pitt stop there to say hello before traveling to Fernandina.

Tiffany said...

I hate when that happens to my glasses! Although my glasses have never been broken by someone else, I know that all to familiar click sound! Sorry about the ugly purples :(

I'll have to check out that bread recipe. I'm always looking for a good one :)

Karen Miller Russell said...

Seriously, I'm driving to M-ville to see this.