I'm going to be scary when I'm 80
I shudder to think what my poor children or the staff at the old folks' home are going to do with me when I'm old. I sometimes feel like I've already lost so many of marbles, there really aren't going to be any left at all by that time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apples.jpg
Let me give you a little illustration: I saw a recipe awhile back in a magazine for an apple-ginger crumb-topped pie. It looked delicious, so I determined I'd make it for either Thanksgiving or Christmas. At Thanksgiving, I went with pumpkin and chocolate instead, so now that it's Christmas time I get to try the new apple pie recipe.
I knew that I went to the store and bought a whole bunch of apples, along with everything else on my list.
And then two days ago I found myself looking at the fruit bowl and realizing that there were only a couple of apples left. Not nearly enough for a pie. Now how in the world did we manage to eat all those apples already? I thought to myself. I bought a ton of apples, enough for snacking and baking, I know I did!
Or did I? Did I just think about buying lots of apples but not actually do it?
And so I went to the grocery store again (I feel like I've been at the grocery store practically every day this week) and bought more apples.
And then, as I got home and was putting the groceries away, I thought, I'll hide these apples in the vegetable drawer of the fridge. That way my family won't eat them all before I have the chance to make a pie for Christmas.
But when I opened up the vegetable drawer (which is clear, by the way. I can see what's inside it every time I open up the fridge) I couldn't put the apples I'd just purchased into the drawer.
Because the original apples that I purchased earlier (and wanted to save for the Christmas pie) were already in there.
D'oh.
If only such a thing were a rare occurence.
But it's not. Just this week I also ordered the wrong quantity of some craft supplies I needed for a Christmas present I was making, which left me a week before Christmas frantically calling all the craft stores in the area to see if they carried what I needed.
And then there are memory lapses like this. And this.
No, sadly enough, absent-minded misadventures seem to be less an occasional lapse and more a way of life for me.
So...now I really have a lot of apples.
But apparently only two or three marbles left rolling around in my head.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apples.jpgLet me give you a little illustration: I saw a recipe awhile back in a magazine for an apple-ginger crumb-topped pie. It looked delicious, so I determined I'd make it for either Thanksgiving or Christmas. At Thanksgiving, I went with pumpkin and chocolate instead, so now that it's Christmas time I get to try the new apple pie recipe.
I knew that I went to the store and bought a whole bunch of apples, along with everything else on my list.
And then two days ago I found myself looking at the fruit bowl and realizing that there were only a couple of apples left. Not nearly enough for a pie. Now how in the world did we manage to eat all those apples already? I thought to myself. I bought a ton of apples, enough for snacking and baking, I know I did!
Or did I? Did I just think about buying lots of apples but not actually do it?
And so I went to the grocery store again (I feel like I've been at the grocery store practically every day this week) and bought more apples.
And then, as I got home and was putting the groceries away, I thought, I'll hide these apples in the vegetable drawer of the fridge. That way my family won't eat them all before I have the chance to make a pie for Christmas.
But when I opened up the vegetable drawer (which is clear, by the way. I can see what's inside it every time I open up the fridge) I couldn't put the apples I'd just purchased into the drawer.
Because the original apples that I purchased earlier (and wanted to save for the Christmas pie) were already in there.
D'oh.
If only such a thing were a rare occurence.
But it's not. Just this week I also ordered the wrong quantity of some craft supplies I needed for a Christmas present I was making, which left me a week before Christmas frantically calling all the craft stores in the area to see if they carried what I needed.
And then there are memory lapses like this. And this.
No, sadly enough, absent-minded misadventures seem to be less an occasional lapse and more a way of life for me.
So...now I really have a lot of apples.
But apparently only two or three marbles left rolling around in my head.
8 comments:
We may have been separated at birth. I bought a jar of super-neccessary peanut butter today, and found 3 more jars waiting in the pantry at home. Same story with sticks of butter. And Eggs. It's like I don't know up from down over here. At least we have fun, right?!
I am with you. I did that the other day at Costco. It is not a good thing. At least we can all be a bit looney together :)
I am begging Santa this year for one of those little devices you attach to your car keys that beeps when you clap your hands. At least I'll have a prayer of finding them in the morning.
It is called having three children five and under. Your marbles will return when they move out.
Nana
I hope we get put in the same nursing home so we can swap stories. If either of us remember any of them!
I can't tell you how many times I've come to put the wash in the dryer only to realize I forgot to push the start button.
I've gotten pretty good at eyeballing when food is done; I never remember to set the timer.
That just makes me giggle! I will visit you when your old and crazy my absentminded friend! :)
what do you do? You might as well laugh at yourself! It feels frustrating to be so absent-minded. Maybe we'll get our brains back in a few more years... Hope you got the supplies you needed for the Christmas presents!
teehee
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