Interior design: music for the bionic ear!

Very exciting weekend ahead with the Bionic Ear Institute’s concert taking place in Melbourne on Sunday!

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Sunday 13^th February, 2011

Where: Fairfax Studio @ the Arts Centre, Melbourne

Times: Choose from: 5:30 pm or 8:00 pm

Prices: $25 adults / $15 concession

Also an optional 7 pm lecture for all ticketholders, limited space available (first come, first served). Lecture will cover how the music was made along with some of the issues encountered.

Buy tickets here: http://www.theartscentre.com.au/whats-on/event.aspx?id=2403

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Musings of a bionic mum-to-be

Recently my mother-in-law gave me an interesting newspaper clipping about the sorts of things new mums stress about when it comes to their babies. The top 10 list of worries included things like how to set up a routine for the baby, how to recognise the different types of crying, how to balance the time spent with grandparents, manage sickness, etc.

Being bionic, my personal worries are a little different to these, so I thought I’d share with you my own little list. ;-)

Welcome waves

Not long after my processors were switched on, I held up a conch shell to one of the coils to see if I could hear the sound of the waves. Nope. I hadn’t really expected it to work, anyway. I think that captured sound has more to do with the vacuum that’s created when you hold the shell to your outer ear and block the ear canal. I’ve always loved the sound of the waves and would forever listen to the sound through conch shells during winter, waiting impatiently for summer to begin when I could hear them for real.

CI moment # 114257

I vacuum the entrance hallway while Jase stands in the adjoining dining room.

Me (turning off the vacuum cleaner and facing Jase): could you please do me a favour?

Jase (cheeky grin): maybe

The end of an era

Today I say good bye to my sporty little two-door coupe; the Mitsubishi Lancer I’ve been driving since the age of 20.

It was a wonderful car, never left me stranded, never had any mechanical issues. But alas, a two-door car is not very baby-friendly so it’s time to say farewell.

One comforting thing about the Lancer though – I knew all of its ‘sounds’. I drove this car when I had normal hearing. I drove it when I wore a hearing aid. Drove it deaf, without an aid. And I drove it with bionic ears.

Happy New Year!

Yes, I’ve emerged from a happy, dreamlike state of Christmas splendour, New Year’s festivities and family birthday parties!

So many happy moments to lose myself in, but I confess there were moments when I stepped back from it all and quietly marvelled at how far I’d come.

Christmas cheer!

Of course I have been waiting all year to decorate my processor covers for the Christmas season. My friends and family who know how much I love Christmas would have been completely disappointed me in me if I didn’t spread some Christmas cheer come the 1st December.

Now I haven’t yet written a single card (getting there, getting there), and my tree isn’t up because our bed is in the lounge room (more renovations, almost there), but the one thing I did have ready by the 1st December: my processor covers!