Spring is here and not here. After the loveliness that was 70 degrees on Thursday and 60 on Friday, it was snowing for most of today. Today is Easter. The forecast calls for intermittent snow showers for the first half of next week as well. I'm just so done with snow. I get so angry and stressed when I see flakes start falling even though I know ( Read more... )

Hooray for spring!

I got my hearing aid on Wednesday. The audiologist was wonderful. She practiced talking on the phone with me by going in the other room and took me into different environments and showed me how to adjust the controls. After putting on the aid, the tinnitus in my left ear stopped completely. I sat in the car in the parking lot and cried. I'm not ( Read more... )

On top of the stomach virus, a couple days ago I seem to have also picked up the sore throat and icky nose that the daycare kids were passing around. And the combination just knocked me out. Like I was literally sleeping most of this past weekend. Saturday was okay -- I made leprechaun pancakes and milk and hunted for leprechaun gold coins in the ( Read more... )

So after I got back from the trip, I wrote a long entry and then it was deleted before I hit save. I'll try to reconstruct what I can, but, well, certain details may have been forgotten ( Read more... )

Did a full day of painting today with a lunch break to go clothes shopping. Felt incredibly indulgent. Also, we're leaving for my husband's uncle's house in Florida on Wednesday. Alice won't stop asking to go on the big plane to Forda ever since I told her about it on Friday. I'm feeling antsy and understand her. Mama wants to leave RIGHT NOW too ( Read more... )

I've been thinking recently about my collections. A year ago, Dustin got frustrated and said, "Your collections are driving me crazy!" and I was baffled because I had no idea what he meant. When I asked him he said, "Well, you collect change in jars, you have a shelf of music boxes, you have sea shells in a wooden box, and then another wooden box ( Read more... )

I'm considering a hearing aid for my left ear. The audiologist thinks correcting the 20-23 db loss in the mid-range might help me hear better and could possibly "turn down" some of the ringing in my left. I guess hearing loss on the other side might make it try to overcompensate with tinnitus more? But ... Dustin read that once you start on aids, ( Read more... )

Good news: finally finished art accounting for Sept-Feb, and if you add up all expenses (including the new printer, but exclude labor), I'm still slightly net positive. If you exclude the printer, it starts to look like a real part-time minimum wage job. So cool ( Read more... )

My good napper quit being a good napper. Saddness! Ashcloth! Yesterday her two hour nap that starts at noon started at noon and lasted 45 minutes and today nothing. I spent over an hour tossing her back in her bed over and over before giving in. Then a 5 she fell asleep mid-sentence for 20 minutes ( Read more... )