Hiatus

I was away on vacation for a good part of June (and was super-busy @ work before I left), which is why my posts have been sparse...

I have some tid-bits to report & will do so as soon my head stops spinning!

A 'New' Sound

Hubby & I were driving yesterday evening in my car with the sun-roof open. As we're exiting our condo development, I hear a "whump-whump-whump" sound. I look up out of the roof, don't see anything, and start to worry that something is wrong with my car. (I'm a girl without a clue when it comes to car troubles.)

"What is that noise?" I ask my husband.

He looks up & says, "That's a helicopter."

It was quite a unique sound because it seemed muffled, but close by. Turns out it was a LOUD helicopter, FAR AWAY in the sky.

Cool!

:-D

I'm the Only One

Just recognized Melissa Etheridge on the radio...yes, her voice is well-known & easy to "spot" but it took *ME* -- with my CI -- a split-second to figure out who it was.

Yay, me!!!

:-D

Clarification

I wanted to clarify something for all you readers out there...

My CI processor is almost always set at the lowest volume possible and I have it switched to the "whisper" setting about 85% of the time. Hence the reason I hear all sorts of random sounds/noises all the time.

If my posts sound like I'm complaining, that is not my intention AT ALL. Just like a normal-hearing person, sometimes I notice different sounds on different days... and just like a normal-hearing person, sometimes the sounds "bother" me more.

Regardless, I am more than grateful that I have such a powerful CI and would not change a thing about it!

Grrr.

I wish my laptop fan wasn't running so loudly. Having to listen to that incessant hum gets really annoying after a while.

Yes, I'm in a bad mood, which isn't being helped by the fact that my CI works so well!

<sigh>

Sarah

I was driving home tonight & had the radio tuned to 102.7FM only because NPR stops broadcasting news at 7pm.

Well, it's a good thing I did this because it allowed me to have a lovely CI moment: I recognized Sarah McLachlan's "In the Arms of an Angel" within *SECONDS* of it first playing!

I was proud of myself, if I may say so.

:o}

Tick-tock whoosh bzzz

Things I've been hearing at an increasing rate:

1. The ticking of the clock on the wall...wow, it's loud.

2. Cars whizzing by outside...people don't get speed limits.

3. The fan in my computer...it keeps overheating, so maybe that's why I hear it so much.

It sure is a noisy world!

}:-O