What was I trying to Remember??

I saw this chart today and it fits me except for the sleeping and working part.  I don't need much sleep and I'm usually busy until 10 or 11 pm at night and wake up every morning around 6 or earlier.  So my "sleeping" is much less than my "working".  But.... I do spend a lot of time looking for things, or helping Jim look for things he loses.


I blame the problem because I have so much info in my brain that it short circuits and makes me forget things.  If I would just take time to put things where they belong instead of laying them down to come back for them later, half of my problems would be solved.


Just when I have a permanent home for things and know where to look, we move!  That has happened 4 times since 1990.  We had a very big house in Albany, GA and I think that's worse than having a small space.
Too many places to put things.  Just when I had "permanent" homes for things and could remember where I stored things, we sold our house and moved to the farm near Elba.  For about 4 months we lived in a very small, 2 bedroom mobile home (our guest house) while we remodeled the lake house to live in.  Most of our things were in storage.  I just went out and bought things I couldn't locate if I needed something I couldn't find.
Then in the fall we moved into our 2 bedroom lake house.  We just left most everything in the guest house when we got our things out of storage.


At this stage, I had 2 or 3 of almost everything in the kitchen.  There was no excuse for not finding things I needed.   Not so.   We didn't have enough storage in the small lake house and had to store a lot of things and what I needed was always in a box someplace.


Six years later we decided to sell the farm and move to town.  Again we had to store a lot of things until our house in town was completely remodeled.  Not only did we have a guest house to move things out of but we had the lake house contents and things from storage.  All I can say is I'm glad it was Nov. and not income tax time!


We got settled in our new home in town and I immediately started putting things away where we could find them.  We now have one kitchen, very small, without much storage space.  I know where everything is in the kitchen.  If I can't find what I need, I look in a box on the shelf in the laundry room where the overflow is stored.


Our problem now is mostly with locating things we carry around in our hands (coffee cup, etc) and especially Jim's pipe.  We find them in the most unlikely places, usually several hours later.  We have to laugh at ourselves and chalk it all up to "getting older".   Maybe others don't have this problem.


I spend a lot of time reading on ways to improve your memory and what foods to eat to have a sharper mind.
Those things I can change, but getting older just happens and you can't stop it!


P.S.  I will be 76 on Thanksgiving Day, and entering the last quarter of my life. I have a lot of things left to do so I must get busy while I can still see, hear and walk.  Two weeks ago I renewed my passport for another 10 years - just in case I need it.