Face Blindness... & Saturday Saturday Saturday!
What a beautiful day today is weather wise. So much to do. Took my friend, "A" shopping at garage sales today. She got 30 dollars worth of baby clothes for her litany of grandchildren and great grand children. In return she treated me to spinach quiche at the Ram's Horn. So now I don't have to do lunch or be concerned about protein for breakfast either. Neat. I am finding my glucose levels are lower when I focus on proteins. Just have to watch the fats in the proteins. Carbs are easy. They are everywhere. Today's was in cereal early on, and in the fruit cup that came with the quiche. I left the toast.
Got home. Left car outside and started on clearing off the offensive non straight shelves that take up too much room in the one car garage. Cat is mad because the car is not in there so he has no chance to even think about jumping to the gaping hole in the garage ceiling. Too bad, kitty.
Audrey is going to come by later to claim shelves. I will let her help me dismantle them and dust them off from the drywall dust that accumulated on them I decided that I need to change clothes to do that anyway. But all the stuff is off and sitting on the garage floor waiting for me to figure out other ways of storing it in the garage. I am thinking that maybe now I will have room for the garden cart that is in the basement. That will give me more room in the laundry room. AND give me a place for the garden stuff that I really do need to have in a more convenient place to the outside.
These things must be done slowly and with much thoughtful planning. The gaping hole scenario gives me the opportunity.
While in the restaurant I was approached by an attractive thin lady with short hair. I decided that I would do my face blindness speech right away to save time. Unfortunately this was one person who did not believe me. Makes me sad because it turned out to be N. the sister of a friend of mine. Unfortunately I feel that I have offended N. previously, and would like tomake it up, but I guess it is not to be. So I thought it best to put a link here for faceblindness since it is a little known condition. If interested, check here. http://vision.about.com/od/sportsvision/p/Face_Blindness.htm
You can also google the words face blind and get a slew of references on the web. I have taken the test online which is tedious, at least for a face blind person, and came out in the 80th percentile. If you score in the fifties you are moderately face blind. I guess 90 to 100 percent would be where that lady that was on TV would score. She had to ask her hubby what he would be wearing when they met for lunch. I am not that "bad" at least. Its just people I don't see all of the time, or people who show up where I don't expect them to that cause problems for my recognition abilities.
I feel bad about N. but then I started to realize that my life is pretty full anyway. While I would like to see N. once in a while, would I or she for that matter really have time. Well, at least if I see her in the next month or so I will recognize her. She did remind me that her sister P. is having her 65th birthday next month and I have to get her a cute card. But I am still sad that I have this condition. Sad for what it has cost me all of my life, and sad for what it does now. But Our God is Able to take care of this need. After all, He made me. He knows how to make me work.
1 comment:
Thank you for inviting me to your journal and what an interesting place to start. I am sad to admit I had never heard of face blindness so this was very interesting to me. I am a nurse and wonder sometimes if I have had a patient or 2 that has that.
I read your old entries and the bead making looks like fun and something interesting to do on those cold winter nights. I always have some old scrap papers or wrapping paper left. Maybe I will make my son a new curtain for his bedroom wall.
Once again, nice to meet you,
Julie
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