Harry Potter

It is done, only took me a total of approximately 12 - 12 1/2 hours. But it was good enough that I got grumpy at Bryan from interrupting me from time to time. :) He is reading the last 50 pages, right now. :) I'm excited to talk about it. However, my hand has unfortunately lost feeling in my thumb, index finger and middle finger from holding the book for so long....That good. :)

Monday monday

Well here it's Monday again. *whew*

I'm excited for this week just because I will start working again this week. I start my new job on Wednesday, at that point we'll be able to get a better idea of what hours I work. Nonetheless, I'm excited not to be at home all day long to the point that I get cabin feverish. 

Today however, was just interesting. :) For me anyway, probably boring for you guys


Bryan and I went to our spinning class today and it truly HONESTLY kicked our trash today. We came home and slept for about 3ish hours. We were just THAT tired. I start feeling sick during it, and was still feeling sick after. When I woke up from the nap, I had a HUGE headache (I would say migraine, but it my WHOLE head, not just one side like migraines normally are). It hurt so bad that I could feel every heart beat. I tried sleeping again, but that didn't work. Then my ears started ringing so I took both hearing aids out to see if it would help. I already have an open sore in one ear that's been there for QUITE some time, so I try to leave my hearing aid out for that ear anyway. So I really was completely deaf all day. 

I started cooking green beans at 3:30 in order to prep for dinner. I started dinner at 4:00, I looked at the bottom of the recipe, and realized that it will take an HOUR LONGER than I had planned on. This is important because Bryan only has 30-40 minutes in between work and night class tonight that he is at home, and that's when we eat dinner. So dinner was no longer going to be ready on time. I was already using all of the pots and pans that we have, but I somehow managed to switch them into bowls and pots and pans, back and forth to be able to make spaghetti as well (with meat and heating up the sauce in a pan). So that was...hectic. I realized as I was cooking that if something was smoking from one of the burners, the smoke alarm could very well be going off. I really need to get a flashing light smoke alarm, since I don't know if I would be able to hear the smoke alarm without my hearing aids. It is loud, but...loud enough? Right as I was finishing up the spaghetti, Bryan came home, but I didn't hear him. Scared the crap out of me when I saw a body right next to me as I was pouring the meat sauce onto the pasta. I thought I was going to drop the hot pan. 

We eat dinner, he leaves, I do the dishes once more today just because I used so many bowls and pans, it was a HUGE pile. Then I go to take some empty milk jugs and soda bottles out to the garbage. As I'm walking back in, (note our apartment has a TON of diversity, hardly ANY white people, this means a lot of people who don't speak English that well). This African guy is standing there with two HUGE duffel bags that are full, and a jug of Tide. He gets my attention, and starts talking to me, but it's not English, he's actually telling me he doesn't speak English. But he wants to know something. Me, not wearing my hearing aids, and not able to understand him because A - he doesn't speak English and B - his accent makes his lip shapes entirely different than what a English speaker would make for different vowels and such. He's saying one word over and over and I just can't get it. Feeling horrible because he probably thinks that his English sucks and there's no way I can understand him, I say I'm sorry, I can't hear, and I point to my ear. He says ok, and nods, and obviously understands. I walk two steps, then it hits me. WASH! I turn around and say "wash?" he said YEAH! So I led him tot he wash room, but it just makes me feel so dumb when I can't understand people, and just what a day to not wearing my hearing aids...

I'm now just sitting and taking a break while I'm waiting for the ORIGINAL dinner to finish cooking (we'll eat it for dinner tomorrow, so that means no dishes or cooking for me tomorrow, YAY!). I'm reading Harry Potter 5 (order of the phoenix) to try and catch up before the book comes out at midnight friday night/saturday morning. I'm excited, but I've got a lot to read if I want to finish book 5 and 6 before reading 7. 

Off to reading I go.....