Instructions, Meat Loaf, Audiologist and Reading.

• You know, if you had asked me did I prefer instructions as pictures or written I would have said pictures. But it turns out that pictures only really confused me. I was looking at the instruction book for my Dyson vacuum yesterday trying to figure out how to empty the container with all the dirt. {I actually had done this before entirely by accident and had emptied it all over the floor. } So, I looked at the nice drawings of how to do all these things with arrows and various other aids and eventually figured it out. Then I went to the back of the book where the instructions were written in words and in small print and were obviously an afterthought and found that  I understood that much more easily! I thought maybe it was easier because I had already looked at the pictures, so I first went to the written instructions as to how to get the extension part out from the handle and then did it. I am, apparently, NOT good at getting instructions from pictures…
• I just finished making a meat loaf and had a couple of slices in a sandwich for lunch. I will have about half the rest with mashed potatoes for my evening meal.
• Tomorrow I go to have my hearing checked. And in a week I go to have my glaucoma looked at again. I am taking the same medication in the same amount as I did when I was in Vermont but this prescription is not just liquid like water but a gel which I drop in my eyes once a day. At first, I didn’t like it because I was used to the drops, but I decided to give it a fair chance. After almost a month, I now prefer it. No more liquid running down my face!
• I have finished reading the first three Poldark books by Winston Graham and discovered that the eponymous Jeremy Poldark of the third book has turned out to be Ross and Demelza’s son.  I am now watching the television series made from the books and am spending a lot of time muttering, "NONONONO!!! It didn’t happen like that!" I am also now reading Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire series. Yes, I know they are a TV series but I haven’t watched any of them yet and probably won’t.

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier. It is not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson