Not dead, only sleeping.

I know it’s been ages, life sometimes has a habit of flying by when you are looking the other way, preoccupied with other things.  So what has been preoccupying my little head these days I hear you ask?  Ok I don’t hear you ask at all, since my assumption is a) nobody but my mother is likely to read this blog, and b) unless you are in the same room, I am hardly likely to hear anything.

Actually, whilst I am on the subject of hearing, even if you WERE in the same room as me I doubt I would hear you.  I had a proper bout of man flu a few weeks ago, I kid you not,  it felt like snot was actually leaking from my eyes!  The end result has been that I have nothing more than a muffled drone in my right ear, and have done for weeks,  A trip to the doctors with her magic ear syringe should do the trick, and that’s all booked up for Monday.

Having no hearing in one of my ears, reminds me of my Grandmother.  She lost the hearing in one of her ears, and I remember as a kid, how we always had to be on her good side, if we expected to be heard.  or on her bad side, if we didn’t want to be!  I remember once seeing an advert for hearing aids in the Daily Mail, and without thought, filling in the coupon on behalf of my Gran, requesting further information.  I forgot all about it until a rather distraught call from my Grandfather, who had basically had to forcefully eject a hearing aid salesman from their home, after some hours of arguing with the pushy man, that a hearing aid could not cure her deafness.  I shall take that guilt to my grave!

My Gran now is pretty much totally deaf, and since the onset of Alzheimers,  barely lucid.  I always make a point of reminding her when she forgets my name, that I am her “favourite”  grandchild,  though I suspect that if she ever recalls the “hearing-aid-gate” incident I will fall swiftly down the pecking order.

So, apart from the man-flu, life has been busy, since my last blog, I have moved house, and moved jobs.  I do like to get the stressful things over and done with in one go.  I think the phrase is – “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” . What a load of codswallop that is!

So the job, yes after 13 and a bit years at Big Blue, I was finally tempted to jump ship to that dirty upstart Dell!  Only time will tell if it was a good move or not, but I have 2 teenage daughters and an ex-wife to keep, so I need to keep the pennies rolling in.  Daughter 2 starts a new chapter of her life in college starting her A -levels, and I am sure she will do very well, Daughter 1 has been doing her A-Levels for a year now, and has also been learning to drive.  I  have taken her out a couple of times, and chastised her for her heavy right foot, constantly berating her for her tendency to go over the speed limit.  This of course is something that I now truly regret, as 2 weeks ago, I received a letter through my door advising me that I had been clocked speeding along my local road.  Grrrr!  Luckily I had the opportunity of taking a “Driver Awareness Course”  rather than getting stuck with the endorsement and fine.

So this week, much to my daughters mirth and my own chagrin  I attended a half day workshop where I learnt how to drive more aware.  And as for my daughters teasing?  Luckily I was able to turn a deaf ear.

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