Today has been a crap day, and for one reason only: I broke my glasses. As in, stepped on them and the part where the lens is screwed in came apart ...it could have been easily fixed if the screw was replaced but the bugger refused to budge. So I had to buy new glasses.

Buying new glasses is ALWAYS an ordeal. Having to buy them when you're in a foreign country? A little bit more so. Finding a pair of frames that would fit with my lenses was, I was told, like "finding an needle in a haystack." I didn't know my prescription so I had to set up an appointment with an optometrist, and finding frames that I like is never easy because a) I'm picky and b) I have a small face. The entire process took about three hours, cost more than I want to think about it (but really, it's not like I had a choice. It was either pay, or don't see anything), and basically gave me a headache from the stress.

Here is the end result: