More things you don't know about yourself - February 25, 2009
On my driver's license, still a New York license, though I haven't lived there for ten years, my eye color is listed as hazel.
I don't remember being very aware of what my face looked like when I was growing up. I used to cover it up in an insane amount of makeup, and when the acne got bad, I switched to not looking in the mirror, which is a habit I still have. Along the way, somebody told me I have hazel eyes, and so that's what I always say I have.
So, I'm thinking, what's so damn wrong with looking in a mirror, you know? It seems to me, if you have a problem with your own corporeality, and it's so bad you avoid reflections of your body and face, isn't the next best course of action to just stand in front of a fucking mirror and get over it?
That's what I did today. It sucked, I must say, but I did learn a very interesting thing about myself: I do not have hazel eyes. They are not hazel at all. They're like that slate blue color baby's eyes are at a few weeks old with some bits of green in the middle.
I'm thirty two years, one month and eleven days old, and I just learned what color my eyes are.
Posted by The Bunny at 11:23 AM
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I don't especially enjoy looking at myself in mirrors, but it's better than photos or video. I always look, for some reason, at least an order of magnitude worse in recorded media. Hearing my voice is even worse for me, though I've never really pinned down why.
Also, holy shit our birthdays are close together! I turned 32 on January 13th. So, uh, happy birthday insane, yet strangely appealing, woman with the very enjoyable blog.
Posted by: Fargo at February 25, 2009 11:51 AM
I would check that off as a step towards personal enlightenment.
Posted by: Caitlin at February 25, 2009 12:18 PM
I have the same color type. Getting it right on my Driver's License has always been a failure; I keep putting down GREY but it ends up as green or hazel.
Posted by: not a doktor at February 25, 2009 07:17 PM
My eyes are listed as hazel but they're blue-green as well. I've seen pictures of you Bunny, you're hot! I don't think that you know how hot you are so I thought I'd let you know.
Posted by: Phil at February 26, 2009 02:06 AM
My eyes are listed as hazel but they're blue-green as well. I've seen pictures of you Bunny, you're hot! I don't think that you know how hot you are so I thought I'd let you know.
Posted by: Phil at February 26, 2009 02:06 AM
My eyes are listed as hazel but they're blue-green as well. I've seen pictures of you Bunny, you're hot! I don't think that you know how hot you are so I thought I'd let you know.
Posted by: Phil at February 26, 2009 02:06 AM
The next step is to try this: get the mirror and stare into your eyes for 5 minutes or so. Some say you can see your soul this way. Kind of scary experience...
P.S. Maybe you should consider changing the sketch of you up there on this blog with the new eye color ;)
Posted by: dephlector at February 26, 2009 02:10 AM
I have "brown" eyes. Red and green : ) Took me a while too. I also watched a friend's eyes change from green to blue about a week ago. It was pretty cool because it happened in less than a second and I was watching the whole time.
Posted by: Wayland at February 26, 2009 03:46 AM
blue with some green (or vice versa, i suppose), especially when the blue is a shade clearly not the one that's called "blue-eyed" is one of the two main things most people mean by "hazel-eyed". (the other is a weird blue-green-brown-gray mix that seems to shift colors depending on what's providing contrast (i.e. a shirt)).
Posted by: Aaron Davies at February 26, 2009 09:07 AM
So the eye color in the caricature of you at the top of the blog is wrong.
Posted by: Tara at February 26, 2009 10:11 AM
I've always had brown eyes. Period. Then about two years ago, I noticed that depending on what I'm wearing or how I do my make-up they turn green. Now they turn green more often than not.
I think it's more about perception than anything else. I'm still going to put brown on my license.
Posted by: Stormie at February 28, 2009 09:06 PM
Are those titties in the background picture of you and your two dogs?
Posted by: Machine at March 7, 2009 10:40 AM
Posting this for no good reason except it might make you smile.
Just a little blast of nostalgia from what should be a shared memory for our generation. Plus, it'd probably be fun to work the heavy bag to.
Posted by: Mike N at March 10, 2009 04:17 AM
You are a fucked up bitch Erin Tyler...
Posted by: Mike at June 23, 2009 11:52 PM
We have so much in common- minus 15 years. I just keep hoping I don't mutate into a wayward bustie, like yourself.
Keeping my fingers crossed (for both of us).
-Metamorphette
Posted by: Metamorphette at August 12, 2009 06:28 PM
