Monday

Had an Audiology appointment today, so I could hopefully have new ear moulds. Especially my right one, as this has been the only ear mould I’ve had since I first started wearing it in 2002. So its done me well.

I asked if there were novelty ones available, like a butterfly or glitter ones, after discovering from others that these are available on the NHS at their hospital. I discovered they are also available at mine too! Yipee!

She shown me selection I could pick from, but I stuck with the butterfly one, after seeing this was still available. They will let me know when they are ready to collect. Can’t wait

I’m also excited about something else too. I’m waiting for a couple a tops from Speak Up Shop, that I know have been shipped. Can’t wait! Will model them here. So watch this space.

Speak Up Librarian Shop

Sarah from Speak Up Librarian has started a new venture, I include the link here but it’s also under shopping on the right hand side and it looks good.

http://www.printfection.com/speakuplibrarian

Good luck Sarah, and all the best with your new venture.

Honest Scrap Award

Sarah from Speak up librarian has gave me an Honest Scrap Award. So after reading what this is all about, which if you click on the link below you can too, I have now done mine.

http://speakuplibrarian.blogspot.com/2009/09/honest-scrap-award.html

So here is 10 honest things about myself.

1. I only eat chicken and fish. I don’t eat any other meat. I used to not eat meat at all at one time when I was in my teens at school.

2. When I was 18 years old, bus drivers used to think I was still at school and charge me half fare on the bus, till I told em I was 18. People used to think I was mad for being honest about it. They used to say I should have got on for half fare while I could. When I was in my 20’s, I still found people used to think I was 19 or some other young age. Thankfully, buying a drink from a pub was never a problem.

3. 23rd October this year, will be 2 years since me and Richard have been going out together. I discovered after a few months going out with him, that it was love at first sight for him from the first day he met me.

4. I make hand made greeting cards, so this comes in handy when it someones birthday in the family. I don’t have to go to a shop for a card. I went into self employment in my spare time for a year doing this as well once.  Although it was by accident, I enjoyed the experience gained from it.

5. I struggle with my confidence. Its always something I’ve battled with from time to time. Hopefully I’m slowly getting better.

6. I’ve recently started doing a home study course with the Writers Bureau, called Writing For Children. So I may come out with 1 or more books for children in the future. I have 1 or 2 in the pipeline I’m working on.

7. Although I’m animal mad, I know my limits and would never overcrowd a home with pets. 1 or 2 are enough. But since Lady passed away I don’t have plans to have another pet, as I have other things to occupy me. So having a pet would not be fair at the moment.

8. I like a variety of music, but mostly I play stuff with a good beat like R& B.

9. I don’t like racism or people that behave like a thug.

10. I would never go to a school reunion. My years at a Comprehensive School were not the best years of my life. My life started when I left with GCSE’s.

Hope you liked the 10 honest things about me. My Honest Scrap Award now goes to:

http://funnyoldlife.wordpress.com/

So here are the rules!

1. Link back to the person who gave you the award

2. Forward the award to other bloggers

3. List 10 honest things about yourself.

Have fun!

Had a dumb moment

Yesterday I had a dumb moment. I bought myself a top up on 3 and went to key in my voucher number, so I could credit my phone. (never got round to phoning em about my debit card not allowing me yet to top up)

Well I keyed in my voucher number as before when I did this (accept this time was the wrong way), and thought its not recognising my number! So after a few more careful attempts, I went back into the shop to see I really had been given a 3 voucher, and told me where I could get help if I still had the same problem. Had another go, but still the same. Had to leave it for time being otherwise I would have been late for work otherwise.

Later I had another go and still the same, not being recognised. So rang 3 customer service and explained my problem to the nice lady who served me, and who’s voice is familiar to me, as when I have rang customer service before, this person has been the same one.

I discussed my problem. Gave her my voucher number. Did not work as I thought. Gave her the serial number, which shown it had not been used yet. Giving her my voucher number once again. At this point getting frustrated and confused as well as struggling sometimes to hear well, and also understand her accent in parts. But although I was feeling frustrated, I still stayed calm, except for when I said I’ve paid £10 for a voucher I can’t use, and not happy. We had been working on this for about 10 minutes or more. Going over on things and asking same questions, including are there any other numbers on the voucher question again, which I said no as before.

Then finally I clicked and said s**t! Which I immediately apologised to her and said this swear word was not aimed at her, but myself. As the penny finally dropped and I just discovered what I did wrong. There was another number….thee voucher number needed to key in to add my credit. Durr!

She immediately said to me don’t worry about it, this happens all the time. I told her this does not usually happen to me, and its not as though I have not topped up this way before. But she carried on reassuring me, and I thanked her again for being patient with me. While we were on the phone. I gave her the right number off the voucher so she could credit my account. Again I thanked her.

Where was my brain that day?  I can only assume to recent events which is another story, that somehow my brain was left in the bottom of the toilet, or it was at home somewhere.

I’ll make sure I won’t be doing this again when topping up.

Once again thank you to the lady at 3 customer service!

Speaking of when I wasn’t well…. here’s a picture I taken of flowers, my boyfriend Richard bought me, to cheer me up when I wasn’t well.

Closing down Lady’s blog today

A short post to let you know Lady’s blog will be closed down today. I’d like to say thank you again for reading this blog and also for leaving comments.

Cats act as ears for deaf woman

Click on the following link to read story how her cats alert her to things. I think this is rather clever. My cat Lady who I not long lost, started to alert me to a few things around the home, when I first got my flat. But not as much as these cats do for this lady. 

My cat had not been trained, and she was a stray before I had her. She showned no signs of acknowledging my deafness, until we moved into my first flat. Prior to that I lived with my Mum when I first had her. When I started observing her body language, she used to let me know when the post came through my door, and listen when the downstairs neighbour came in or out of his flat.

 http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/main.asp?SectionID=6&SubSectionID=6&ArticleID=61761

Hope the weather is nice Saturday

I’m hoping the weather will be nice this Saturday, but I hear from my boyfriend Richard, that apparently they’ve gave out rain. But hopefully like sometimes it does, the weather will do an opposite. Me and Richard are going out on our first day trip together, to Skegness.

I plan to walk on the beach bare foot, and maybe a paddle in the sea, if the weather turns out good.

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Update: Weather turned out to be lovely when we were at Skegness. There was the odd shower but nothing to complain about, and not enough to get soaked. It was mainly dry.

It started to get really hot where we had to take our coats off towards the end of the day. It good day out that we both enjoyed.

It may be a little quiet…

It may be a little quiet here on the blog for it bit, but I won’t be away long. I’m having a long weekend away at my boyfriends place. Hopefully will feel refreshed by it, but I’ll also be working on my virtual house warming party for you blogger’s that visit here. So hopefully you will like it. And it’s just for fun. I need that at the moment. Not done it before and never heard of it until Sarah suggested it in a comment on my previous topic. …so I’m working on it! And hopefully it will be on here soon, either the 20th May itself or after….you’ll have to keep your eyes peeled, or you will miss out.

Take care and bye for now.

On hopefully a happier note…

They’re maybe slowly a light at the end of the tunnel. I rang about a flat advertised for rent this morning. I’m to phone him anytime next week, at a convenience to suit me, and if he’s at the flat at the time I phone him about it then, I’m welcome to go down and view it and go from there. He did not want me to see it until in a better state, so I could see it at it’s best. A new kitchen has already gone in and central heating is going in next week I’m told.

Although this is good news for me, I’m not getting excited yet. I’ll wait till I see it and go from there. I don’t want to get my hopes up and be let down again. But because I don’t even have a tinge of excitement like I normally would, then I ask myself I must be really low. So probably wise in deciding to have those ant-depressants.

Hopefully light in that tunnel will come one day.

As you know…

As you know from earlier posts I’ve not been happy with myself for a long time. This is going back now a couple of years, but I went on a particular downer last year, because of grieving for my hearing loss which totally surprised me, as I’ve been wearing hearing aids since 2002. It was only because of going to my appeal for my DLA that because there was stuff I had to, or may have to raise, I realised their was stuff hidden up there in my head I never even thought about myself as well as tell my Mum, regarding exactly how I feel about my hearing or the feelings I have now.

As you also know from earlier posts I’ve been having counselling (the one the G.P. referred me to), and it’s coming up to my last one next Wednesday. My counsellor this week recommended I at least think about taking anti-depressants, because of how I am mentally and overall health being affected because of the situation I’m in at present, and the stuff I’m having to deal with that has come out in my counselling sessions over the last few weeks, with also my problem neighbour not making it any better.

With it being going on along time for me, my session this week she did most of the talking, so she could explain to me how the brain works etc.. and that it was normal to feel how I am, because what’s I’ve had to deal with in my life and the situation I’m in that’s going for a long time. So what I’ve been experiencing I realised I was having more symptoms cropping up that is linked to how I am. The counsellor also explained that how I’ve been upset etc.. in my sessions and how I’m still tearful now, that it was ok to take them but it was also up to me if wanted to, but to think about it at least especially as my last session is next week, and not being able to remove myself from my current situation.

I’m not one for taking tablets if I can help it, but I realised I may have to, so I booked an appointment with my G.P. and seen him today about them, (my boyfriend came with me, to give me support) and raised my concerns regarding if I was to have them, getting emotional as I was trying to speak…. again. After having chat and any questions I had it was down to me whether I have them or not. G.P. reminding me I’m the one in control here and there is no pressure to go on them. But he said to me if you want my honest opinion from how I see you now, and what you have said, taking them would help you at this current time. I’ve decided to take some anti-depressants, so after deciding that, I had to tick a sheet that had a few questions on it regarding how I’ve been over the last 2 weeks, and I’ve had to make another appointment for 4 weeks time, to review it from there. I have enough tablets for those 4 weeks. I was told not to expect to see any results in myself till 2 weeks or after, and to take them every day even if I start to feel better in myself.

So from tomorrow morning I will start taking them. I never thought I’d end up here.