Okay, its no joke when you literally start to think you are losing your mind…Ever since I was pregnant ( we are talking 3 yrs ago people) I have not been myself, well actually, I have become a new, different self, which, in A lot of ways has been great, But in the area of brain power, remembering important things, and day to day shit, I have gone so far away,( did I just say Shit? I’m leaving it) that there is no coming back. I’m talking, if I was scored on a scale of 1 to 1,000 for my memory these days, I would score a -7. Its really gotten that bad. ( Grant can vouch for this story) I use to be so awesome at remembering important things, Family birthdays, friends birthdays, friends family birthdays. I have completely turned into one of those moms, that if its not written down, its lost in the deep abyss of toddler/working mom/wife/blogger/whatever, land. I am going to give you a few examples of what I am talking about, I’m not proud of these, especially the first one, but we are all family here right? check your judgements at the door, or at least laugh quietly amongst yourselves and pretend that I’m OK. SO, here we go…As the anniversary of 9/11 quickly approached last week, I was rocking Liam to sleep, and just as he was dozing off, I began to think of that horrible day, which lead me to think about the weather, remembering what a cool, crisp morning it was and then ( and this is the embarrassing part, and I am being 100% honest) I thought to myself, wow..was that like February when that happened, I don’t remember snow on the ground, no it must have been fall 🙁 now, in my minds conversation, it started with “wow, I can not believe its been 10 yrs since 9/11. What the EFF YOU SEE KAY ( that’s me using my mommy spelling so I don’t offend all of my new followers)
I was going to give you example number 2 that just happened last night, but reading back the first one, there is no need, if you don’t understand where I am coning from after reading that, then just move on down your blog reading list, come back to this one later this week.
Right now the things I should be doing are as follows, and if you are part of my to do list, I’m sorry, I promise I am on my way: ( this is just my personal list)
1. Layouts and Space planning along with Tile/Hardwood selections for client: TAG: Heidi House
2. Layout ideas/Styling and paint colors for Love-Brown House ( and send back her belly belt that she let me borrow 3 yrs ago, especially now that she is going to hatch number 2 in 18 or so weeks)
3.Switch my Electric company!!
4. Make super awesome wood/metal bookshelves for Liams room
5. Paint dining room/hallway grey and add white stencil
6. Create/buy/ refurbish light in Dining room
7. Clean and organize entire house so MA and Dad believe that we dont live like pigs when they stay with Liam in October for our big Napa Getaway!!!
Now here is another perfect example, as I was thinking of my list, I had 10 things I needed to write down for this post, and now I can only come up with 7.
Anyway, when I came across this, I fell in love, I did have brief moment of thinking: will I actually use this?? Then I thought I have no idea, but I love the THOUGHT of me using it, so lets try. As I have mentioned in other posts, this is the year for me to get organized, so here is another small way !
Write it. Do it. Erase it.
its either that, or continue to drink at least 3 bottles a wine per week.
Please share, you crazy ,lovely readers, how do you keep your head on straight?
Love
K
My laugh wasn’t really a laugh so much as a “that’s totally something I would do” thought. My husband has been keeping a list of the things I say and do that make no sense. At least you can blame pregnancy. I laugh and appreciate that for what I lack in occasional common sense, I make up for with a really good sense of humor! Just last week I was talking about breakfast and blurted out “I love napkins.” I meant to say “I love pancakes.” Good thing my friends know me so well!
I keep my head on straight with lists. And they are everywhere in my house. And no two lists are the same. But at least I know where to look for which kind of list (grocery, to-do, work stuff, random stuff, family stuff, etc.). And even then things fall through the crack. I’d love to find a simple, portable, cute, non-blackberry/iPhone way to keep track of all my lists!
I am all about the dry erase calander…between my 2 jobs..gravies school stuff..and our limited social life if it isn’t written down it doesn’t get done……bills are on a totally separate calendar. So those don’t get forgotten either:p
wine. that’s the only word I can come up with. (i’m sure it doesn’t help but it certainly can’t hurt!) love you. love this post!
Jenna, I feel the same way!! I need something more modern than a paper calender, too bulky, and not my phone, I am still looking..I love Napkins too 😉
Lacheis ~ Dry Erase might be the solution! I did just “Pin” something on Pinterest thats a DIY dry erase board, maybe I will try it, Thanks for the tip!
Tiny By Design~ Wine is actually a given, I regret posing htat as a question because you and I both know that Im going for the wine everytime hahah!! Love you too!!
I have a To Do app on my iphone that I put EVERYTHING. It’s broken out into different categories. like home, shop, call, errands, packing, belle&beanzer, etc. Sometimes within that, there are different lists. I spend a little time every sunday pulling the ones I’ll get done that week into my DO IT NOW list. The rest, I just let go for the moment to free up brain space. It’ll be there on the list for the following week.