Ways in Which I Am Losing It
Wow. I’ve really been, shall we say, “absent-minded” lately. Leaving my car keys sitting on the treadmill at the gym, going to work without my lunch… (in the first instance, a good samaritan turned them in at the front desk; in the second, I was hungry all afternoon.) Let’s look at a couple other recent examples. Several weeks ago, Elisabeth talked about Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks on her blog, and included some quotes from the book. It sounded really good, so I immediately requested it from my library (a copy had to be transferred from a different branch.) When it was available, I went to pick it up! As soon as I held it in my hand, I realized… I have already read this book. Yep! I read it about a year ago, and had completely forgotten all about it. SIGH. I brought it home anyway, thinking that maybe I would re-read it, but never did. I returned it to the library, unread… or at least, unread this time… or whatever. Moving on. As we all know by now, Sunday was the first day of Pumpkin Palooza! I made pumpkin waffles to celebrate. Here’s the photo: Hmm, you might be thinking. Nice can of pumpkin there! The REASON I included that in the photo is… that was the pumpkin that was supposed to go in the waffles. Yep! I made my “pumpkin waffles,” and when I took my breakfast over to the table, there was the can of pumpkin, unopened. I FORGOT TO PUT THE PUMPKIN IN MY PUMPKIN WAFFLES. HOW could this happen? I’m supposed to be the Crazy Pumpkin Lady! This was an epic fail. Although- the waffles were okay. Not great, but okay. I still put in all the pumpkin spices so that kind of counts… right? You can see the problem. Possible solutions include: Pay more attention to what’s actually going on instead of thinking about the book I’m reading all the time, Have myself committed, and/or Start getting more sleep. I’m thinking I should start with a combination of 1 and 3. These points are actually related, because I keep staying up too late reading. But my book is so good! I look forward to reading it all day, and once I start, it’s hard to put it down. Well, we all know sleep is important, so I’ll try. It would be nice to get through a few days without doing anything stupid. How is your sleep these days? Have you made any glaring errors lately? Top photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash