VegemiteGrrl's Home for the Absent-Minded

When the absent-minded reach conclusions that satisfy them, best let it be

I totally expected to look in my hand at that moment to find the broken fob had disappeared.

I did look in the mirror to see I had aged 25 years, but that happens every morning now LOL.

I was talking to Mr Veg last week & forgot ***mid-conversation*** what we were talking about.

O_O

Ugh I do that a lot, especially lately. Menopause is a bitch!

Texted my wife, turned off the computer, put my jacket on and walked toward the lobby on my way home.

Get a weird feeling and ask the receptionist what time is it? "It's 3:08."

Like most, I usually don't leave until five.

So here's the weird parts to all that:

• I think my Android phone has done something funny. It said something about updating the time zones and then said it was only 3 pm after restarting. Out of frustration, I manually set it to five.
• I walk across the office and see that sales is still here. Sales is never here after five on Fridays. Think nothing of it.
• Check my computer and see that it's on Pacific Time too for some reason. Think that our office's whole IP address must've got messed up somehow, but eh, I'll mention it on Monday.

Serious as a heart attack on all of those. I wasn't trying to be cute.

I mean, I guess I really wanted to go home a few hours ago?

Got some fancy noise canceling headphones and put on some vaporwave bullshit
Go to the kitchen and wash my coffee cup and filter, put it to the side for later
Go back to the living room, sit on the couch
Few minutes later I notice my kid yelling at me and waving his arms to get my attention
“Dad! The waters still on!”

(ignore the subtext of this which is that neither me or mr veg can stand to be wrong ... our conversations oftendevolve into did not/did too)

Pulled up Chris Cornell’s cover of “Patience” to play for Mr Veg last night & was like “Hey check this out!”

Mr Veg: you’ve heard this. I showed it to you sometime this summer
Me: I have never heard this
Mr Veg: sure you have!
Me: (getting annoyed)Nooooo. i havent heard it thats why i’m playing it for you😬
Him: you probably forgot, you have definitely heard it
Me: GODDAMMIT I SAID I HADNT HEARD IT DONT YOU THINK I WOULD REMEMBER IF I HAD 🤬

matter is dropped

somehow comes up again today at lunchtime.
devolves in a similar fashion
I mime choking Mr Veg bc I am convinced he’s gaslighting me

He’s like, dude i remember we watched it on the tv together. See, I even sent it to you
& pulls up a text message he sent to me
“hey check this out! + Cornell video link”
sent July 29 of this year

O_O

... i stand corrected

am now VERY concerned at the state of my memory loss :(

Just take it slow, and I bet it'll work itself out fine.

looool

ah we've had that conversation a lot!
I used to have the better memory, now I just shrug and at least recognise that I've probably forgotten more than I'll ever know.

actually my 'new' thing is there are certain people/celebs I can never remember if they're actually dead or not. I know there's a thread. But I really couldn't tell you if, say, Patricia Routledge was alive or no. (I just looked it up; she is).

yeahy hate that, keep finding people on the relevbant threads saying this perosn just died and me thinking id heard it several years ago.~}May just be significant birthdays .
Or is it me slipping between uinverses

About an hour into the work day, I realize that my keys were not in my back pocket. Oh crap, did I lock them in the car?

Yup. Also, the car was still RUNNING.

One amused cop later, I've got my keys back.

we are all slipping through universes

Recently went into the kitchen to make some tea. We have this old vintage Nally Ware set I got off my grandparents and I use the green one for teabags and the smallest one for sugar:

https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/203064322997_/Vintage-Nally-Ware-Canisters.jpg

Went to put sugar in my tea and found a pile of teabags in there. Which Barney had stuffed in, on top of the sugar already in the bloody canister.

often when I'm cooking I keep earnestly opening the fridge door with a solid plan to get something I need and then drift off somewhere and wonder why I'm stood in front of open fridge.

sensory overload and doing too much at once, probably, rather than brain damage. I rather hopefully tell myself!

^ Same here except I tack on anxiety about keeping the fridge door open at the right angle on its hinge so that it doesn’t automatically start to close and hit my arm while I’m trying to get at the sour cream

It wasn't the first time I cracked an egg and emptied its contents directly into the trash, and I'm certain that it won't be the last.

Absolute favorite thread <3

Certain seems a bit strong for this thread xp

Making scrambled eggs, put some pepper in the eggs

[Five seconds pass]

Ew, there's a weird dark peppery thing in my eggs, better take it out

Disrobing for a shower
Turning the water on
Putting on clean socks

https://epn.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/best-water-socks-1.png

All too often, as soon as I get into the shower, my brain says "Are you still wearing your glasses?"

So far, my brain has been wrong, which I'm clinging to as proof that I'm not senile yet.

Don't you wear your glasses in the shower? Maybe it depends on how shortsighted you are?
I find it helps to be able to see.

I'm very shortsighted and I don't, don't really need to see much. Also helps me ignore how filthy the shower is.

Go to the kitchen to make coffee
Notice the coffee jar is almost empty
Refill the coffee jar from master coffee stash
Put away refilled coffee jar
Notice there is no coffee in the coffeemaker

As I think I said before about something I posted here, this may be more for a general-stupidity thread; it's a fine line.

I moved into my house a little over a year ago. For the first few months, the dryer worked fine. The last few, though, it seemed to increasingly take forever--up to an hour to dry one load. Tried different settings, nothing worked. I was ready to buy a new one. Tonight, though, I noticed for the first time where the lint catcher is. I used to empty that vigilantly with my old dryer, but this one is a little less conspicuous, and it's the kind of thing I don't think of on my own. The lint was so backed up, I thought at first it was some kind of filter. Took me 15 minutes with a screwdriver to get it all out. I assume that was the problem.

In an AirBnB in Tokyo I wondered why the washing machine took a long time to drain, noticed it had a lint trap, which when opened contained what looked like a felt brick. It worked rather better after removing that.

Just cut the drying cycle from 60 to 20 minutes. It's another Festivus miracle.

My sister just pointed out something I was thinking too: I'm damn lucky I didn't set the whole house on fire.

IN the past few months we have lost 3 coffee glasses, a good knife, and the bottle of white vinegar.

The knife turned up hidden in thr bottom of the slot for scissors in the knifeblock.

The vinegar had been put under the sink among all the cleaning products.

The coffee glasses have *disappeared*.

Barney thinks hes done all this and now worries he threw the cups in the bin lol.

been there :/

For those of you thinking “hm, yes, I must empty my dryer lint trap more often” I offer you these words of wisdom: change your furnace filter.

amen

Good thing it's early and I'm fully awake...I just ordered something on AbeBooks and noticed I'd accidentally put a collection of John Updike's Rabbit books in my cart a few weeks ago. I sometimes look at the most expensive version of whatever I'm looking for on there just for fantasyland kicks; this happened to be more than $3,000. Caught it immediately, of course; if I'd been ordering at two in the morning, who knows.

Not sure if I took a shower earlier but the wet bath slippers by the door seem to indicate that I did

the other day Mr Veg caught himself pouring milk into the water reservoir of the espresso machine

i cheered because i was happy to not be alone in my dumb weird behaviour lol

We've been using a bunch of different eco-friendly gels and tablets for the washing machine and dishwasher for a while now so it's amazing that I've only just got them mixed up. Washing machine gel pack in the dishwasher = suds all over the kitchen floor.

I moved in with my dad for one year, my senior year. He lived in the city, I had been living with my mom in the sticks with no cable, no sewer system and certainly no dishwashing machine.

To this day, he still brings up the time he asked me to load the dishwasher and start a run before I went to school. And how surprised he was at all the foam and bubbles on the floor when he brought his sleepy ass down the stairs at 10:30 am.

I had no idea that you weren't supposed to just squirt enough Joy dishwashing liquid into the little box and leave it like that!

um, real books don't have backlights, in going to need to turn the bedside light back on in order to read it.

otm

it would seem so

I have never yet actually done it, but sometimes when looking at an illustrated book or magazine I have the momentary urge to put two fingers on the paper and zoom in.

omg i caught myself doing that ages ago
i hate admitting that out loud

Vaguely related to that, I quite often 'click' my front door keys - as if they're my car keys and I can open the front door remotely.

i occasionally "flip swipe" actual paper pages without thinking about the fact that i am not on an ipad

I just had to google "opposite of foreground".