I need new lenses, myself. I've been sans contacts for a year now--eye infection in December '02--and really want to have contacts again. I miss peripheral vision (mine goes out to a really wide angle) and cheap, cute sunglasses. I'm also in very bad need of new frames for backup glasses--when you have to use clear nail polish to cover the base metal on the insides of your frames (because the "gold" coating has been gone for over a year), your frames are too old. I think I've had these frames since about 1994! I want Sexy Librarian frames (you know, something cute and understatedly naughty).

My sympathy on the needing close-up correction. My dad didn't need it until he was about 48. Mom was always farsighted and astigmatic--she started needing a *distance* correction a couple of years ago.