4/17/2022

 

Weekly Update 4/17/2022

Happy Easter

I made a huge purchase this week. I had a regular check up last week with my hearing aids. I have had more and more trouble hearing things, and the background noise was becoming more and more intolerable. I asked at the checkup if I should have my hearing re-tested to see if I've had more loss, and if that is the case, could the hearing aids I have be adjusted. Well, I have lost another 50% of my remaining hearing, so I got new hearing aids. These are not inexpensive, but in the short time that I’ve had them, I have noticed a significant improvement, not only with hearing, but they are also more comfortable.

Funny story – kind of. I had the hearing aids out as I was just home alone one evening, watching tv. I began to hear a faint beep beep beep. Since the new hearing aids are rechargeable, I thought perhaps they were trying to communicate that they were fully charged. I put them in my ears, but the beeping only got louder and it did not stop. I went outside thinking that if it was a problem with the hearing aids, the noise would remain the same. It went away. OK, brilliant detective that I am, I knew something in the apartment was beeping at me. I looked at all my smoke alarms, but I didn’t think it could be them; they are all wired and no longer need batteries. I was going to put in a maintenance request, but decided to go to bed and see how things seemed the next morning. As I turned off the light in the apartment, I noticed my oven was flashing at me, desperately trying to get my attention. I had baked cookies earlier, and forgot to turn the timer off. Since I didn’t have my hearing aids in, I couldn’t hear it, but once it was dark, I could see the light. I’m an idiot. I was going to call maintenance to turn off the timer on my stove. At least I didn’t embarrass myself by doing that.

I zoomed with Adrian on Saturday. He is such a darling little baby! One book I had for him was peek a boo. He liked that a lot. That was not a book I borrowed from the library, but one that I’d found in a book store, so I’ll be able to read that to him again. When I did go to the library to pick out some books for him, it was toddler story time, and the children were gathered outside on the lawn. It looked as if they were having a great time, clapping and jumping while the librarian read to them.

I attended two lectures this week, via zoom. One was the Historian of the Georgia Historical Society, Stan Deaton, about the history of race in America. The other was through TLC and was given Christopher Hendricks. He is doing a six part lecture series on American Architecture. Both were excellent.

A very frightening thing happened when I got home Thursday night. My garage is in the same building that my apartment is in, but it’s down a hallway. When I went from the garage to the hall, I saw a HUGE possum waddling near the walkway. Being as cool and calm as you know I would be when seeing that, I began to yell. Another resident (male) came out and took a photo of it, and we both reported the vermin to security. There was a trap set up the next day, but as far as I know, nothing has been captured.

I had to get domestic this week. I was asked to bring dessert to the Easter meal that Heidi invited me to attend. I would think that by now she would know that I’d be glad to bring wine, but anything involving me being in the kitchen would be iffy at best. But I made two icebox pies: a key lime pie and a coconut / pineapple pie. I also took a bottle of wine. To try to dress up a little, I made a bunny pin for my t-shirt. I only want to sit with my tv or my books, but I proved that I can still do a craft and make a pie. The dinner with friends was very nice indeed.

In addition to the zoom with Adrian, I saw photos and videos of him coloring Easter eggs and investigating the things in his first Easter basket. He’s adorable!