Crazed and Confused?? I dunno...

Sick little Ollie...taking it easy today

My little dog is not feeling well...so...today...in the midst of the craziness of the Christmas Season...we are being quiet....if I am not still...he is not still....so I'm still....time for a blog post. (A quick trip to the Vet for an x-ray and meds....he'll be all better soon!)

I truly believed I was going to "escape" aging.  Everyone else was going to do it...but not me.  Guess what?  I'm going to do it....albeit unwillingly...but I have discovered it will come regardless of my opinion.

It's happening quickly...but I am not alone...others tell similar stories...but that doesn't soothe away the frustration of my not behaving like the "old me"....not to be confused with the "new" old me.  I feel like I live in a CONSTANT state of confusion...spending quite a bit of time just looking for things I have "lost"!!

The last few weeks  have been extra disorienting (and btw I've checked w/my Dr....I do not have early onset alzheimers....thank you Jesus)....so many circumstances have come up...I'd thought I'd list them...and show a picture of the "lost things":


Lost keys, selector, Y card and water bottle

• I lost my car keys....for a week.  As you can see...they are loadedup with cards and even a coin purse attached...it is NOT small....even so...took a week to find them...in the GARAGE....on the counter BEHIND the temporarily stored house rugs (replaced by Christmas rugs)....

While my keys were lost I had to get a  new "Y" card from the YMCA...it has my photo ID check in # on it and I have to give it to them each time I come.  The nice woman had it made up for me while I worked out and had it ready to go as I left.  I put it in my Y bag (blue)....then lost IT again 

BROWN purse vs BLUE Y bag, and yellow Y ID card






the lost heart (can't MOVE this photo down where it SHOULD be..
even tho' I could 10 minutes ago....have I forgotten the "technique"?
who knows....

because I looked for 3 days in my purse (brown) ....only to remember TODAY (a week later) that it was in my Y bag....but I didn't need it because I had already found my keys....crazy

• I lost the TV selector for our bedroom...I enjoy having the news on the mornings after coffee so this selector is important to me.  But one day we had a  TV "hooked up" in a new room.  The Tech asked me for the "remote" (most people call them remotes....we don't).  I gave  him all the selectors in the house so he could "choose" which one worked on this particular TV...he got it  "up and running" and left. 
•  We were packing to go out of town that day and when we returned 3 days later...no selector.  It was missing for 4 days...no morning news for 4 SOLID DAYS (don't ask why I can't watch it on any of the other 4 TV's...just don't).  I look EVERYWHERE...I crawl on my stomach allllllllllll around my room...I check the closet....I search the ENTIRE house...nothing.  So as ADD people do...I move on....I'm unpacking my garment bag (don't say anything about waiting 4 days)....there it is. 
•  Yep, I packed the selector in the garment bag...it went out of town with us and home again...uh huh!
• I lost my water bottle...yep, been carrying it TO AND FROM the Y for about 7 years...it's a habit....it's been gone for 3 days...found it...in the YMCA lost and found...yep...just left it behind....uh huh...crazy.
• I lost my Christmas Book.  Been capturing memories and photos in it since 1996.  I keep it in the closet on the shelf in a BRIGHT GREEN box....looked for it for 2 weeks. Searched EVERYWHERE....found it...on TOP shelf of the closet...in plain view....uh huh...crazy.
• I lost my phone the other nite for about an hour.  Was working on Christmas cards with the Mistah...he doesn't like noises so as I was texting....getting address updates I had to silence the phone (or I'd get "the look" and the "sigh")....left when we were finished then spent the next hour searching the house for it....FINALLY found it upside down under the chair in the SAME ROOM I looked in 5 times.....uh huh....crazy.  (Upside down and on silent prevents lights and sounds to appear when "calling it"....grrr....finally with all the lights out in the room....I could see the "glow"!
• Yesterday I put Laundry Softener into the Laundry Soap "cup"...yep...filled it up....my laundry was sooooooooo soft (not sure about the cleanliness)!
• I ordered gifts for the "out of towners" last week online.  Was checking this week on their "shipping status"...could find no evidence (via email) that I ever ordered Aunt Sondra's even tho' I thought FOR SURE that I did.....checked the inbox, deleted box...EVERYWHERE....nothing...until I check the "internet orders" box (which I thought I checked too)...there it was..it's been delivered....argh.
• And, ...my favorite crazy moment (bc it seemed to NEVER end and I was doing it to myself).  Last week I had all the outside windows cleaned.  My job was to clean the inside...eventually.  So as I am passing by the room with the big picture window and notice how cute Kippy is sitting in it...I also notice "whoa...that window is D-I-R-T-Y!!!"....so I go into the kitchen to get the cleaner instead I look for my phone to take a picture...it's in the car....  I go back to take the shot and remember the window...I snap the photo...walk back to the kitchen for the cleaner and instead jot down on note paper (where I've been capturing the crazy happenings)...about Kippy...I go back once again to the room WITH NO CLEANER....but I get a great shot of Kippy..then I tell my self...go straight to the kitchen..."do not pass GO"....



PURPLE laundry softener vs GREEN laundry soap

• Only 1 mystery remains (and I'm not sure why I can't "Move" the pictures on this blog like I did just 5 MINUTES AGO...so the necklace picture is "up top").  This has been going on for 4 months.  I bought the bobble necklace (above)....was getting ready to go one morning...got all dolled up...jewelry last....was ready then popped back in the bathroom one more "mirror check ... and voila....only thing on the necklace is the chain.  Yep...gone...the floors are either tile or wood....it would have made a "crashing noise".....I've searched the whole house on my stomach....gone...so with MUCH reluctance and frustration...I just bought it again...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

• 8-4-2....I still remember the gate code for girls beach weekend... I am NOT crazy.
• In my defense....it is Dec. 19...Adrianne's birthday was celebrated....all Christmas shopping is  done and wrapped (for home and out of town)....house is decorated inside and out...Christmas photo clothes coordinated, taken, created, envelopes addressed and mailed complete with Christmas stamps and return address labels.  All of the Mistah's staff have their gifts, including his "white elephant gift" exchange, food is here for Christmas and house is clean, laundry is done, and the annual cookies, brownies and rasberry tarts have been baked, packaged and delivered to the 6 guards and 3 neighbors...maybe my head is just too full with "lists"....yeah....that's it!

the end.