Glassware

I woke up on Friday morning and logged into work.  I noticed that I was having a hard time reading my emails.  The words just weren’t making sense.  I figured I needed a few more minutes to let my Diet Coke kick in when I started to get the tell tale shimmery light in my peripheral vision.

Anyone who gets ocular migraines knows exactly what I am about to describe.  It isn’t a migraine in the commonly understood sense (vicious headache, nausea) instead it’s like you are going blind in the weirdest fashion.  It’s like looking through a kaleidescope of broken glass.  It starts with the feeling you can’t quite focus then out of the corner of your eye the light starts shimmering in a jagged way and it slowly moves until it’s affecting your entire vision.  Then you get bone tired and have a slightly bruised feeling in your brain.  The only thing you can do, or at least I can do, is go sleep for an hour.  When I wake up it’s entirely gone.

Keeping with the glass theme, thankfully unbroken here, I wanted to photograph my collection of etched glasses.  The tall martini glass is part of a set of six a friend of mine gave me years ago.  They are exquisitely pretty.   When I am having a particularly rough day the only thing that will help is to have a drink in a really pretty glass.  This is the glass I reach for.

The smaller ones are actually part of a new collection.  I wanted to have smaller glasses on hand for dessert wines and when people wanted to have a shot of something.  I thought etched, stemmed glasses would be more civilized than regular old shot glasses.

The thing is they are tricky to find.  I don’t want a matched set.  Part of the charm, I think, is that fact they don’t match.  You would think it would be easy to find the odd aperitif glass in antique stores but I rarely do.  At least in my neck of the woods.  If I find them at all they are always in sets.

I’m going to have to reapply myself to this effort.  I just discovered a new antique mall in Sacramento that is thousand and thousands of square feet.  Certainly I can find one or two there.