Post a Random Fact About Yourself
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I enjoy baking cookies. Chocolate Chip are my special ones, but I do others. For Christmas I bake a lot and give cookies as gifts!
I love lemon protein bars. It's a new obsession. That, and Electrolyte water.
I can cook Minute Rice in 58 seconds.
yes, but there's all the oil and benzine and carbonated fluorides they used to have for coolants. Highly toxic stuff.
Same here =) But the last years I've had less and less time for it. The prob is that we have lots of gingerbread sorts that need to rest and mature for a month so that you must start baking in November. They are hard as rock first and gradually get soft. Theoretically they keep for a year at least. Practically, none has ever survived till after Epiphany LOL.
Cookie-fact about myself: my mom declared that at 80 she'd go into baking retirement. So from this year on I'll have to bake all the cookies for the whole family (up to now we shared). Last Christmas I did a test run with the sorts I hadn't done before and even my sis praised them =)
I'm fairly tall so many times when I'm in the grocery store I get asked to get things for people off of the top shelf. I've been asked to do this so often that I have just started moving things toward the front of the shelf if I happen to walk by and see something hard to reach. I didn't even realize I was doing that until the last time I drove my mother to the store. She noticed I was doing that and told me the store should be paying me. 
I have perfect color vision in a family of colorblind people.
What must be awful is to have an absolute pitch in a family of tone deaf people.
^my family are all very musical but I have a colleague who likes to sing along to the radio. If she hits the correct tone it's purely by accident. It's almost worse than the dentist's drill.
Random fact about myself: I always sleep with my mp3 player on, loaded with audiobooks. Can't sleep without them. I have very acute hearing and the tiniest sound wakes me. The audiobooks drown out other sounds and the monotonous mumbling is soothing. Also, the books keep me from thinking: without books I start musing about problems and the future and then I can't sleep.
Random fact about myself: I always sleep with my mp3 player on, loaded with audiobooks. Can't sleep without them. I have very acute hearing and the tiniest sound wakes me. The audiobooks drown out other sounds and the monotonous mumbling is soothing. Also, the books keep me from thinking: without books I start musing about problems and the future and then I can't sleep.
I didn't realize we worked together?
I sleep with a fan running, because the white noise helps me sleep. Yes, all year 'round. I have relatives who sleep with a radio on, but I can't do that because my brain focuses on the lyrics and that keeps me awake. (Same principle as turning on the radio when driving late at night in order to stay awake.) I've never tried books, but I imagine it would be similar to the music lyrics. (Plus it would bother me when I did eventually fall asleep that I missed part of the story!
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I'm fairly tall so many times when I'm in the grocery store I get asked to get things for people off of the top shelf. I've been asked to do this so often that I have just started moving things toward the front of the shelf if I happen to walk by and see something hard to reach. I didn't even realize I was doing that until the last time I drove my mother to the store. She noticed I was doing that and told me the store should be paying me.
I'm with you on this. I'm 6ft 7.
Alas, your doc is right about not being able to do anything against it. There are a lot of people who have tinnitus. Maybe we should ask around in the chronic desease thread. Someone might have a trick that helps enduring the whistling (I use ear plugs or audiobooks).
I'll be offline the next 3 days. This is the reason:
I've been on every single JDS so far but for 2 colleagues it'll be their first one. It's fun but also a lot of work: last week and today we sampled fish. The next days we'll sample insects, worms, DNA, silt, molluscs, plants and algae. Pretty stressful, so don't wonder if I'm not online. I'll drag myself home and drop into bed. Not sure if I'll manage to get my clothes off...
I'll be offline the next 3 days. This is the reason:
I've been on every single JDS so far but for 2 colleagues it'll be their first one. It's fun but also a lot of work: last week and today we sampled fish. The next days we'll sample insects, worms, DNA, silt, molluscs, plants and algae. Pretty stressful, so don't wonder if I'm not online. I'll drag myself home and drop into bed. Not sure if I'll manage to get my clothes off...
^ depends on the frequency, Disco. I have a very low pitched tinnitus on the left side (like the sound of a tank in neutral gear). The ear plugs make me hear the sound of my blood flowing and that drowns out the deep hum almost completely. Unfortunately, I have acquired a second tinnitus on the right side (thanks to my deaf dad who is too stubborn to get a hearing aid and turns the TV up to brain-singing levels). That one is a classical high-pitched one and there the ear plug trick doesn't work. However, the sound gets masked quite well by audiobooks =)
I didn't realize we worked together?
I sleep with a fan running, because the white noise helps me sleep. Yes, all year 'round. I have relatives who sleep with a radio on, but I can't do that because my brain focuses on the lyrics and that keeps me awake. (Same principle as turning on the radio when driving late at night in order to stay awake.) I've never tried books, but I imagine it would be similar to the music lyrics. (Plus it would bother me when I did eventually fall asleep that I missed part of the story!
Ambient music. Almost never any lyrics and cames in many forms (noise, drone, space, melodic, rhythmic, etc.). On my smart speaker nearly every night. Sometimes I leave my noisy PC on at night. It has four active fans and is completely exposed (no enclosure) for the white noise aspect of it. I used to sleep with a fan but my ex hated it so I ended up stopping.
I hate tinnitus and I hate being hyper-sensitive to certain types of sounds.
I have quite a bit of hearing loss due to loud concerts when I was a teen and working in loud environments like machine shops, yet I can hear distant sounds of distress that no one around me can hear. Same with sounds that aren't native to my familiar environments. Anything out of the ordinary will catch my attention even if no one else heard or noticed it.
Random fact about me: Not so much anymore because I believe electronics are more protected now, but I used to be able to hear when a TV or radio was on yet not making any sound. No, I take that back. I can hear when my more current 4K TV is turned on.
When I was at school, about 14ish, one of my friends pointed out that he knew when I TV was on in a room before he entered it. And I found that I did too. It wasn’t a sound as such, more like a sixth sense.
Kinda, yeah. Then again, I could swear there was a high pitched sound, but not always.
I've had mine for years and it no longer bothers me. I only hear it when the room is silent but only for a few seconds and then I stop paying attention to it. I also hear it when I wake up, there is no tinnitus in my dreams, so it's a good test to know if I am still sleeping.
