VegemiteGrrl's Home for the Absent-Minded

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".

foresky?

about a year ago mr veg fixed our garbage disposal so that instead of having to open the cabinet under the sink & flip a switch to turn it on, there’s now a start button on the sink itself.

we have had this for a year.
i have used it regularly.

today i went to use the garbage disposal & for some goddamned reason i opened the cabinet & under the sink & flipped the switch.

nothing happened. i flipped it on and off a few times & i told mr veg the disposal wasnt working .

i showed him & he was like “yeah because you turned it off” - he flipped the switch under the sink back on (because it powers the sink button), and pushed the button on the sink & away went the garbage disposal.

and then i was like WHY THE FUCK DID I EVEN DO THAT AAAAAAAGH WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME

i swear i think i am losing my fkn mind

i’ll be calling the nursing home tomorrow to check myself in

<3

Yeah no that is extremely relatable.

Last week, opened the fridge to find a nice half-container of butter pecan ice cream soup. Checking this thread, it wasn't the first time.

How long before my aging brane can no longer notice that it is aging, is what I want to know

ATM I am keenly aware of how my memory has degraded and how daft I have become

Constant high stress plays holy hell with your ability to fix a memory in place. It's not a sign of permanent degradation of your mental abilities.

I have less stress than I've had at any other point in my life. There has been permanent degradation of my mental abilities. It's science, man!

(strokes chin thoughtfully) Have you tried blaming the internet?

I'm over 40, of course I have