adventures in grocery shopping

sounds more fun then it was I'm sure, but I am also getting quite a lot of the what else did you hear today emails too, so here ya go: yesterday i went to fred meyers (by my self) and i would be in some isle then i would hear a man's voice talking all the sudden. now i can recognize its a person talking noise, but not identify the words yet. so, i would turn around and look and find i was the only person in the isle, and i though wow you must be picking up people from an isle over or something. finally found everything on the list and got lucky enough to find my favorite teller was working, so i told her you know, when your deaf a lot of people seem to sneak up on you know? so, I'm sure there are lots of times when I've been asked to move my cart out of the way by people wanting to go past me in the store where i just you know people talking to the back of a deaf person do not get acknowledged so, i was really excited to think i may hear something like that. and i asked her if the store had a you know something like a "attention Kmart shoppers the blue light special is in isle 49 or something" ( my grandma worked at k-mart for many many years before she retired, and this is just one of those off the wall things i remember about that) :) anyways she said, no that the store didn't do things like that, then she thought about it some more and she said there is an intercom inside there, but it says thing like clean up on isle 10 customer service to the loading dock and things like that. so, anyways. the thing I'm noticing this weekend is its easier to pick out individual noises and try to identify them when its quiet and I'm alone. my family is noisy. haha. and they always always have noisy things ON. the TV is ON if one of them is home. Tim says by the way the reason the blinker on the turn signal sounds twice as fast as the blink is you hear a noise for the green color to appear and you also hear a noise when it goes away... to me it is the same click tick type sound though, i can not tell which noise is for which motion. also, if I'm stopped say in a center divider and i can hear it ticking, if another car passes me from the oncoming traffic while i wait, as that car goes by all i hear is the swish sound of that, it drowns out the ticking noise. if I'm moving and going to make a turn without stopping. i don't hear the ticking noise at all, the tires on the pavement drown it out. people keep asking how i am dealing with the noise here and there and different things. but, this is what i have is not a hearing aid, it does not produce any noise, its a sound processor that transfers what i am allowing it to hear to my brain. the level of noise i hear was set by a computer in the audiologists office. so, i have a low program ( lets in very little noise) a medium, lets in a little more, then a loudest version. then i have a volume control so in each program i can make it louder or quieter. I find i am running on the medium settings or the loud settings most of all. so probably when we go back i will be getting More. i have all the sounds that anyone else hears but, for me they are a jumble of noise. i can pick out people really well from the background noise. and music is not coming through yet, a couple of times i thought i could hear a rhythm but, not actual music the way you think of it. So that's about it for this morning. more later, gotta make some time to play been way too busy cleaning this weekend. :)

Driving

So, yesterday was day 4 and i drove my self to work. so, after i dropped J off at school the inside of the truck got noticeably quieter. haha. ( he is never silent) and i was stopped at this sign watching a snow plow go by and i heard this ticking noise and i started looking and thinking and i figured out it was the turn signal. ( it ticks faster then the light blinks though) ( which when i started telling this story to Tim last night he had a really technical reason why, which went right over my head. :) ) Another thing i have noticed is the water, when you run water in the sink at work . ( a small pottery bath type sink ) it is not nearly as loud as when you run it in your kitchen sink, (mine happens to be stainless steel) oh my gosh and the toilet flushing drowns out any other noise while that is going on. haha. This morning I washed some dishes in the sink with my ear on and could not believe how noisy that was. kind of interesting, so it took a LONG time to do it, more then normal anyways. Gonna go grant some wishes and color some that have come to me. More later,

Last Sunday's Cards

these first three cards were done with elyzbells images ( a winters song) that were wishes granted to me. I colored them and the garden snowmen images a while back and just got around to making them into cards last sunday. the sentiment is from Amuse, and punched with the word window punch, then layered to a scrap of chocolate chip cs, the image is punched with a mega circle then layered to an giga circle punch of scrap textured pp, the snowflake pp, is from the Basic Grey line figgy pudding in the 6X6 pad size. the edges of the soft sky mat were cut with mini scallop deco scissors. ( I am totally scalloped scissor challenged) The ribbon and ric-rac are unknown ( RAKs from an eBay seller) this card is 4X6 in real life.

On this one she's punched with a blue size plain circle punch then the mat (basic grey polkadots) is with the mega scallop punch, shes colored with prisma pencils and theres a bit of diamond stickles i smeared it with my finger where the snow is at her feet. the Filigree Background is heat embossed with Pink Crystal stamp n stuff powder ( its very sparkly in real life) The just a note is stamped with palette noir on a scrap of pink basic grey pp ( these are from the blush line in the 6X6 pad size) and punched with an blue size scallop rectangle.the pink textured cardstock is from Bazzill and the ribbon is may arts. this ones an odd size 5 inches by 6 inches on the mellow moss card base. tfl.

this version was done in greens. the background pp is from diecutswith a view, the mello moss cardstock is stamped with palette noir for the A muse sentiment. the ribbon i *think* could be basic grey but, not positive on that one, Shes colored with Prisma Pencils and this one is small like 4 1/4Inches square.

this is for the lady who answers my phone at work, she's big time into snow and snowflakes and such. ( her b-day's in a week ) this card is 5X7 in real life, the birthday tag is stamped with colorbox fluid chalk ink in Ice Blue I punched it with the large su tag punch then trimmed the edges with an friskars mini pinking deco scissors. the chocolate chip cardstock is the size of the large su tag punch. The snowmen are stamped on Georgia pacific 110 and colored with prisma pencils. the ribbon is from American Crafts. the blue textured printed paper is a scrap of from the robins nest cloud blue watercolor hammered. the tag is up on pop dots. tfl

When its not one thing...

its a half a dozen others. on the last post i did i had just finished eating dinner before i typed it. and then when went to get ready for bed i found my body was busy making red spots... I looked like i had chicken pox or measles or something... then they started to swell and my face and tongue swelled so, i was awake from 5 am tuesday till last night when we went to bed at home. the best guess the dr.'s in Portland have is that eating shellfish ( shrimp ) while taking antibiotics caused a food allergy reaction. still covered with the spots. but, my tongue is not so bad and the soonest i can see my regular person here is next tuesday am. ack. I'm trying really really hard not to scratch my skin bloody. the best way to put how i am hearing is like hearing your radio on but, its not quite on the channel all the way so it mostly sounds like gibberish. I can tell someone is talking but, its not instant for me there is a slight delay from when they say it to when i hear it so its like an echo effect. and Ive tried watching the tv with the cc on and did you know the words are not real time either, so you cant watch the face and the words at the same time listening they don't match. you guys probably already know that though. haha have a good day, I'm letting dh take me to work today we have about 12 inches of snow in our driveway last night when we pulled into it.

All Hooked Up

Trying to get the words under this photo on the lap top took a considerable amount of time, this post is coming to you all from the hotel :) got hooked up this afternoon, only have 4 tones so far. so a lot of things tend to sound the same, voices, the tv. I can hear them but, i cant really tell what they are saying yet, there is not enough choices in the noise that i hear. tomorrow i get 3 programs in the morning and then two weeks to play with them before it gets changed again. its utterly amazing how quiet it is when you knock it off your head too. (yep done that already more then once) there's not quite enough room behind my ear for the processor and my glasses at the same time, some day the two of them will push my ear out more and share better but, not today. I heard Tim's truck start, and that sounded normal, we had the tv on a political baloney channel before dinner and could hear clapping noises the right way. knew instantly what it was, the hard this is all the high pitch tones, its been almost 25 years since I've heard those tones so they sound really strange. when she first turned it on i was like i cant believe i am really hearing this, (noise) you know i had so many people telling me not to expect much at the beginning, so just hearing the silver wear rattle at dinner was an amazing thing. i did do some new cards the other day on sunday afternoon but, so far they are only uploaded to my split coast galley. I activated the free trial of office (photo manager hides in tools of that by the way) but, it does not let you edit your photos from it. so looks like office (vista compatible) just hit the top of my shopping list for on the way home. anyways, just wanted to send out a quick up date.

long time no posts...

This super cute card came to me from Sandy I've had it and the cards below for some time now and just got around to photographing them all yesterday.

This one was an Christmas RAK from kitty at scs.

This one is another SCS RAK card from Linda ( Studbo )

These came to me from Meg, Nancy and Deb ( Ladies we have been swapping atc together for a few years now)

These cards came to me from Ladies at the Stamp Shack. ( In case your wondering i only took pictures of the hand made cards) :)

These cards came to me from Ladies at two peas ( stampers )

These cards came to me from ladies at the sunroom scrappers library.

This cute stamp was in my stocking, so its just on cheap white cardstock with olive ranger archival ink with some red stickles on the heart. there is some clear stickles on the red cardstock scallops and they are about 3 inches square. ( going to have a head start on Christmas next year haha)

This was the first card made from scraps of the cards below. there are some challenges at peas ( a week ago?) that were to use things you hoard, and to make Christmas Thank-you cards. ( these cards have been done for a week but, no they still have not been mailed)

This one i may set aside as an "Christmas Card" for next year. its 5X7. the Joy is stamped on curious iridescent cryogen white cover stock with versafine satin red then heat embossed with clear detail powder. the ribbons from May Arts, the PP is from SEI Holly Lane Sugarplums. it has a bit of gold bling on it. I tend to hoard shimmery papers and cardstocks.

These were the first 3 thank-you's i had done, i ended up liking the fourth card best and ended up with 7 like that.

the pale green shimmery cardstock is ( i don't remember) haha but, the same store that sells the cryogen white sells it. ( so does paperzone in Portland) The Thank-you (SU) is stamped on an mini die cut from an red sizzix die with 12 little tags on it. ( I have never used that either) the red ribbon is offray and the gold thread is SU.

the green cardbase is bazzill cardstock.

Okay so since the last time I posted, i started getting really itchy, then on monday am ( New Years eve) i woke up to my ear being swollen like a balloon, the ear dr.'s here are on Vacation (or in surgery all day) and the surgeon in Portland was also on vacation. so i went to a walk-in clinic and that diagnosis was a) I'm either allergic to the antibiotic ointment, or b) may be infected) or c) both. this was not too productive, but i left with an prescription for antibiotics and by the third dose my ear was looking like an ear again. its still tender at the very top of it and not as itchy. I think its growing all new skin. the only part that still a little sore and tender is the part where your glasses would sit on the top of the ear. I haven't been wearing mine much, but i may have started too soon with them. who knows. Two more days... we go back to Portland for the hook up on tuesday the 8th. :)