need fashionable but affordable eyeglasses?

Have you noticed how much it costs to get a new pair of prescription glasses fitted? I was at my regular optician’s and decided to browse the hundreds of frames while waiting for him to get back from lunch. There were a couple of pairs I liked but when I heard how much they would cost me, I instantly decided I didn’t like them after all !

Why is fitting out a new pair of glasses so expensive these days? Hello and welcome to Zenni Optical where I hear you can get your eyeglasses almost at cost price. Since these guys are the manufacturers, you’re guaranteed of getting your glasses at factory price minus all the overheads that jack the prices up.

I’ve just read the detailed review entitled “Cheap eyeglasses are a reality. Check out Eric’s review of Zenni Optical” at Examiner.com by a happy customer and I’m really tempted to get my glasses from them if they service international orders.

If they do, it’s certainly happy news for families who are constantly in need of quality eyewear and trendy frames but don’t have an entire fortune to splurge on what has now become a fashion item, especially for teens.

fashionable medical wear

Alright, first you have the medical professionals going high tech with pocket PCs and what not, and now it seems they’re into high fashion too. I met a cousin over the weekend who recently graduated as a doctor. Yes, she’s the bold and brainy among us!

She had a whole bunch of us mere minions gathered around her as she mesmerized us with stories of her course and now her new job. She showed us photos of her working her rounds and treating patients. Nothing unusual about that. But what really surprised us was that her koi uniforms are brightly colored in chic prints and quite frankly, if she hadn’t told us, none of us would ever have known she’s a doctor!

Yep, apparently, medical professionals have turned fashionable these days with their brightly colored koi scrubs. Even the koi scrub pants are just like what you would wear to lunch with a girl friend, not to a medical job!

It impressed the heck out of us. If you’re a medical professional, you should seriously check out the Scrubs and Beyond website which is where she and her colleagues order their unconventional attire which I dare say would brighten up anyone’s day!

one celeb and his wierd fashion sense

I’m not sure how often celebs or rock bands, to be more precise, go shopping or where indeed they do their shopping but sometimes they just wear the lamest outfits.

Like there’s this guitarist in a certain up and coming rock band (we won’t mention names here ) who loves to wear this tuxedo vest on stage. It makes him look like a waiter, not the hot guitarist he is, know what I mean? But obviously to him, that tux is a treasured item in his wardrobe as he seems to wear it ever so often.

I know, I know, one man’s fashion is another man’s poison, right? Still! I think he has a pretty odd fashion sense. I’m guessing he needs a fashion consultant maybe? Just sayin’.

12 days of funky holiday deals

Say yay to funky colors and mismatches that will make your eyeballs spin round twice in their sockets !

Zany – set of 3 you can mix and match any which way you like

Starting November 30, 2009, Miss Matched will feature a different holiday deal every day. How cool is that! Be sure you check in every day. Deals end December 11, 2009.

The Black Friday, Cyber Monday mood continues with free shipping on orders of $75 & above. Offer is valid for orders within the continental US and ends December 11, 2009.

two weddings and a need to shop

My cousin’s getting married soon and we’ve been invited, well, sort of. We’ve been invited to the lunch but not the banquet. Of course I’m thinking of giving the whole thing a miss since they’ve given the impression that we’re not ‘really’ welcome.

At any rate, I thought I’d take my daughters shopping for some presentable clothes as we have the wedding of an in-law coming up to which we’re all invited.

We saw a few nice pieces including some Free People shirts but we didn’t have time to try them on as we were rushing to get the music shop to get our guitar strings changed. So we’re going back this weekend to shop some more and hopefully we end up some pieces that we fit.

trinkets and such

Still on the topic of planning orlando vacations and such, I found some stuff which we bought on vacation way back when and my daughters were thrilled. They’d been too young then to fully appreciate the trinkets but now it’s like they found gold!!

Now those trinkets are hanging proudly on their backpacks. I hope I haven’t started a new craze of collecting trinkets which didn’t use to cost very much. But since they’re so popular with teens these days, they’re priced more like collectors’ items. Duh!