Forgetful

Get me....two posts in two days!!  Although it did take me 10 minutes to work out how to post.  And it make me think that with age certainly comes memory loss.

I am well aware that I can't remember my own name half the time.  It scares me at my age that I can start a sentence and genuinely forget half way through what the end of the sentence is.  Its alright when your talking to your children as they are not listening anyway,  but when its a work colleague or friend its mortifying.  Trying to scrape the cesspit of your memory to recall what it was you were actually talking about is painful.

I often wander aimlessly around the house knowing there was something I was supposed to do but failing miserably to remember what.  Looking around at inanimate objects hoping something, anything will trigger my memory.  It doesn't and I usually remember at 3 o'clock in the morning....

I lose my car keys daily.  Every time I lose them I swear that next time I will put them somewhere safe and the next time when I am searching for them  I think "next time I will put them somewhere safe".  And the cycle begins all over again....

My mum reckons that Sudoku will keep my brain active and due to this exercise my memory will stop failing but I bloody forget to do it.

I have five children and I am already calling all of them by every name but their own.  I have  been known to hold a conversation with one of the boys,  all the time calling him by the wrong name and not noticing it until the end of the conversation or until someone else points it out to me.  

During my whole pregnancy I blamed it all on the "baby brain" phenomenon that everyone talks about.  I got away with murder with that simple explanation but now there is no excuse.  I just don't remember.  Simple.

I can see myself sticking post it notes around the house just to gently remind myself what things are actually called.  And maybe I could get the children to wear name badges....

Its depressing really but there is no end in sight.  I have memory loss and its irreversible.

So, if I dont post for a few days you know that I have forgotten to.