Happy Ears

Last year I think I have purchased about 20 million headsets for my son. OK

, maybe not  that many but it sure feels like it sometimes. He has had just about every kind that we can afford that Amazon had to offer. From the red ones, blue ones, black ones, fancy ones, plain ones, etc...you name it he probably has had it. So, when the last pair mysteriously broke as he put it I told him he would have to save up for another pair. I thought this would teach him to be more responsible for things and not be so careless with them. I don't know how many times I have found them lying on the kitchen floor or dangling from the computer after he was done. Not that he didn't have some help with them mysteriously breaking my nephew who is on the computer more then the law allows at night had a hand in that too. He is much older then my son but just as careless with things. 

Well, I gave my son this ultimatum a few weeks ago and he has managed to save some of his Christmas money that he got from his paternal grandmother minus a few dollars he was determined to spend at the dollar tree on a couple items he had to have. So, after weeks of "suffering" hearing his cartoons that he watches online and a couple of games he plays on my Facebook page and of course all the stuff my nephew manages to watch and laugh loudly at, my ears couldn't take anymore.  I must be getting old cause lately they can't take a lot of noise. lol I asked my son how much of his Christmas he had left and he showed me. I told him it was time to buy more headphones. I told him I would pay the difference. 

This place is very small and since the computer has to live in the kitchen for now, the biggest room in the house and not too far from the living room, or what is called the living room, since we do most of our living in the kitchen it seems most days, the noise level can get pretty bad with the computer and the television  just a few feet from each other. My mom likes the TV louder then I like because she is older and can't hear as well so with that TV loud and the computer on blast it was more then my ears could take. I really do miss sometimes when we used to live in a bigger place where the TV was  actually far from the computer and noise and my ears didn't bleed every time someone turned one or the other on full volume. 

Last night I was trying to listen to a show and my son was in the background listening and watching his show and I was so thinking about when the headphones were coming that I ordered. I guess it would have been faster just to go someplace like Best Buy or Radio Shack to get some but since we don't have a car and waiting on someone to take you where you want to go or waiting on a bus is something that I really didn't feel like doing in this instance I decided to order online and wait the 3-7 days that they said it would take to arrive at my doorstep. That way I can just open the door, open the box and plug them in and be happy as a clam on the beach. Thankfully this morning I got a text that said they have been shipped and are on the way to my front door. I almost did the happy dance when I read that. Pretty soon there will be less noise in the house for my old ears to listen too. Yippee. 

I was happy until I came into the kitchen to get my last chocolate cupcake I have been saving and dreaming about eating since last night. I could just taste the chocolatey goodness melting in my mouth and me enjoying every single bite of it. My one time a week where I have little treats except that one time when I got candy at the dollar store the other day but my son ate most of that little bag so that doesn't count in my world too much. So, I came looking for my cupcake stashed in the cuts of the kitchen where I thought nobody looked. I put it in the fridge behind the veggies. Nobody looks there. Or so I thought. It was gone. A thief in the night stole my chocolate goodness.  Well, I know who the certain thief was because the evidence was all over their face in the form of chocolate. But, that is okay. I guess you just can't have everything and besides I know where to get more and know how to bake more if I want to. 

I am just happy my noise level will go from a loud roar to a softer roar by this time next week. My ears are looking forward to it.