Hi, #silverbloggers! Phoenix here with my first entry. I am the ripe old age of 42 which makes me a Xennial, lol, and found out that I was eligible for this community from a post by the lovely 
I'm one of those people who has always been mistaken for younger than I am, so I only recently stopped getting called diminutives in public. Shortly after my 40th birthday, I bought a lotto ticket and got carded (you have to be 18 here), and laughing, I pulled out my ID and told the cashier I was 40. She told me she had thought I was 13. I looked like this:
So I'm more used to giving people the grumpy cat glare for treating me like a kid than I am worried about grays, lol. Don't think I have any of those, though I am blond, so they'd probably be pretty stealth if I did.
So I wasn't sure what I might write about for the theme of "embracing silver," but after a moment, I had it. I went to the optometrist the other day and got a new prescription for my glasses. I've always been farsighted so that's not new, but this is the first time I'm getting progressives!
The glasses I ordered
This is also the first time I knew I needed new glasses not because I was getting a headache on the regular (my usual sign due to eye strain), but because I couldn't read the fine print anymore or thread a needle with ease. 馃槀 Telling that to the doctor, she was like, "Yeah, after 40... "
I actually discovered a life hack the other day, trying to read a can of cat food to determine if I could give some to Yuan (because he's allergic to fish so I have to check ingredients): I took a photo of it with my phone and then zoomed in on the photo. It worked!
Gotta keep this glorious belleh happy
So I hope my new glasses work well for me. Usually I just wear the up-close prescription all the time and put them on the tip of my nose in librarian pose if I have to. ;) Progressives users, do you like them? They certainly were more expensive, but still cheaper ordering these online than simple glasses through an eyewear brick-and-mortar place ever was.
So there's my "embracing silver" moment I had this week, ha ha. Thanks for inviting me into this community and have a great week! :)
