VegemiteGrrl's Home for the Absent-Minded

Not really "absentminded" but re accidental touching on public transport I was on one of the sideways seats on the bus this morning and I fell sideways onto the guy next to me on the backwards-facing seat when the bus stopped suddenly, TWICE.

WTF, no idea what was different this morning vs any other time I've sat there. The second time I thought "fuck this, maybe I'll stand", and it was almost my stop anyway, so I just got up, pressed the button, and stood until my stop. But perhaps someone thought I was so ashamed that I just got off and walked all the way into town.

I often blank people accidentally, due to a combination of being short-sighted, getting a kind of nervous/hurried tunnel vision when I'm trying to get somewhere, and not being good at faces. People from the bf's work have been all "oh I saw your gf at the shops but she ignored me", when I met them once a year ago and can't remember what they look like at all!

It seems weird that the guy didn't...say anything? For 10 seconds!

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he was some suited City type so maybe not v reactionary. I think the combination of sheer weirdness of some guy just holding yr hand apropos nothing/busy train/me jumping about a foot backwards when I realised said everything that needed to said about the situation. :/

Names are the worst for me. I've just started in a new office (hence I can post to ILX and not do my job instead of lurking!) of about twenty people and I only remember my boss and the receptionists name. Why can't you make them stick?

I often blank people accidentally, due to a combination of being short-sighted, getting a kind of nervous/hurried tunnel vision when I'm trying to get somewhere

Argh yes this, thats one reason why I didnt spot the boy, I was just in this "well hes not here yet" zone and didnt even scan the room. I've also been accused of blanking ppl before when I had no idea I'd done so. I enf up thinking I'm all like:

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/8300000/Fran-black-books-8377083-516-296.jpg

ah crap wrong tag. well anyway.

Lovely italics, though.

I get terrible anxiety when I have to meet someone in a public place, for the same reasons as a passing spacecadet. Like if I have to meet people in a restaurant and they are seated before I get there, I'm just terrified I'm going to get way too close to a table of strangers before I realize they are not my friends.

Recently I've been playing softball with my friends at a park where you have to walk across a big field before you get to the three baseball diamonds. Sometimes more than one of the diamonds is occupied, and I'm walking across the field hauling a bucket of balls and two bats (which somehow makes me feel even more ridiculous in this situation), and at some point you really have to commit to which of the three diamonds you are walking towards, but at that point I am almost never certain which group of people are my friends. Sometimes I'll get really close and start feeling really confident and then the first person who comes into focus will be some complete stranger that one of my friends invited that week, and the interval between seeing him and realizing that I know everyone else there is full of this horrible sinking sensation...

Just walking towards people who can see you from a long distance away is enough to induce self-consciousness, and you end up doing those little bursts of jogging that don't actually make you go any faster but at least make it look as though you're putting in some effort: having to do it with a big weight dragging behind you would be much worse.

forgot password, ffs. again. i forget a lot.

requested pwd change, changed it. i'll remember it now!

prompted to login. can't. pwd is wrong. waht?

try again, nope. variations don't work. caps lock isn't on, wasn't on before.

requested another pwd change. ffs.

2nd time this wk. 2 difft sites.

imo nobody should ever be admonished for flubbing or forgetting a password

one day the lord supreme king of devils woke up and said 'FUCK YOU ALL I'M INVENTING PASSWORDS'

Normally park our car in garage overnight. Lately garage has been full so have to park in the driveway. Am horrible at remembering to lock the damn car. The other morning, go to car to discover someone has Been Through It.

Only spare change was taken (as far as we know) but WOW am I a ridiculous flake and in SO MUCH TROUBLE with my husband.

AM: Wake up late b/c I set the alarm to 7:00 pm, so I have to take a cab to work.

PM: On the bus ride home I get an email from a Groupon-like company that screwed up and was offering me a voucher for $10 of take-out food, good tonight only. I say hooray, free dinner! and order an $11 pizza from the place by my house. Right as I hit Submit, I remember that I hadn't entered the discount code. Instead of *free* dinner, I spent $11 unnecessarily.

I wonder if anyone on the bus heard me exclaim what I dumb bitch I am.

I have developed a terrible habit of forgetting to take the filter out of the cofeemaker when I brew coffee. Mr Veg had to have a ~serious talk~ with me about it a few months back. and I've been SO much better! And then...I made a pot of coffee on Sunday morning. And the filter sat in the machine til Monday afternoon when Mr Veg went to make coffee.

;_;

back to square one

stupid brain

In other news, I made myself some popcorn in the microwave today. And for some reason, absent a decent sized bowl it seemed to me that a ziplock back would be a good receptacle. The unpopped kernels melting through the plastic was my first indication that this was a terrible idea.

Jesus christ what is wrong with me. It scares me sometimes, if I'm like this now what am I going to be like when I'm ACTUALLY senile (assuming that I'm not already, lol)

bag not back

bag never come back, bag melt ;)

lol

paper bag popcorn is pretty good though. supposedly you can even staple it shut because the staple is somehow smaller than the wavelength of the microwave or some nonsense but can you trust alton brown who is probably laughing at all the exploded microwaves?

I make paper bag popcorn all the ding dang time! I don staple the bag be aside I'm scared to and also one of those little folder-over self-staple moves keeps it closed fine.

WOW Lookit them thumb-typos.

Paper bag popcorn is exactly what I was doing - <3 it so much

Except I think I put the bag in the wrong side up because half the kernels didn't pop? I think they got trapped in the bottom fold of the bag somehow. Popcorn fail x 2 :(

i was told recently that it's the edges of mental objects that catch alight in a microwave (or something like that) so putting staples in a microwave would probably be a bad idea

I had a travel mug that was plastic with a metallic inlay...I had a VG moment and put it in the microwave to heat up my coffee and wooo did I get a pretty show

:O

xp to self

metal NOT mental

Begbies

I have developed a terrible habit of forgetting to take the filter out of the cofeemaker when I brew coffee. Mr Veg had to have a ~serious talk~ with me about it a few months back. and I've been SO much better! And then...I made a pot of coffee on Sunday morning. And the filter sat in the machine til Monday afternoon when Mr Veg went to make coffee.

;_;

back to square one

stupid brain

I always do this :P I am bad people

Never mind that Begbies lol

haha

I belong here. :)

Wondertwins, activate

on various hols i've forgotten/lost my wallet x2, didn't have my licence or the right type of licence x2, lost keys to campervan, missed flights, forgotten knives packed in carryon luggage, slept in the rain outside the gates of an airport that closed at night, and left my passport and wallet on the table in the cafe in stansted for six hours while i slept on the floor seventy yards away. This is all in the past three or four years, i'm amazed anyone still travels with me tbrr

we welcome u, dmac

tks but i can't stay i think i left my niece in the recycling bin

lol

how the fuck do you become a responsible, organised adult? how? just learned that i've apparently not paid any national insurance contributions for three years. i don't know how that happened. i don't know HOW i was meant to be paying them, or how i paid them before. literally no idea. i don't really know wtf they even are. i feel like at some point in their early twenties everyone went to some sort of life skills class that i wasn't told about

you're not alone, i'm 38 and i only just found out i've been paying $thousands per year in tax because i have a savings account

xp Same class that runs straight after antenatal classes which teaches blokes how to regrout a bath and make terrible puns.

Go upstairs for a wee. Wife asks me to bring back slippers. Two tasks, both very simple. Come back without slippers, every time.

what is most important, wee or slippers?

That depends whether you're me, or my wife. Slippers are generally in the bathroom, though...

I was burgled a couple of weeks ago. They stole my best bike (left the other two) and my flatmates' laptop. That was all, I thought, until I was looking for my camera on Saturday. My camera which sits on my desk in my room with two other cameras, immediately visible when you walk in the room, and yet I didn't notice all three had been taken.

:-( sorry to hear that ledge.

thx man. could've been worse, was insured and they didn't trash the place - didn't even touch anything else. just feel like an overpriviliged idiot for not even realising the cameras had gone.

sucks

how the fuck do you become a responsible, organised adult? how? just learned that i've apparently not paid any national insurance contributions for three years. i don't know how that happened

Lex if its anything like it is in Aus (ie superannuation or a health fund thing), isnt the company you work for meant to help organise paying into a fund? Like how they take out income tax? I'd have no clue how much money was going into mine, I trust my payroll ppl to be doing it!

Lex, aren't you a freelancer? Did you perchance start freelancing three years ago? I imagine it's like any other taxes - if you're self-employed, you are responsible for paying all the taxes/mandatory contributions yourself since you do not have an employer that would withhold those things from your check.

Have you paid any tax the last three years, lex? That might be a bigger matter.

Last night I putt a cigarette behind my ear so i could go outside and smoke it. In getting ready I looked down to grab my tea and it falls into it. Plus side: leave it to dry, tea-flavored cigeracchi.

i've been paying $thousands per year in tax because i have a savings account

wait... what?

Lex, shouldn't an accountant be handling the tax BS for you? I've heard it's that a freelancer's taxes are an unpleasant matter. It was terrible enough doing my taxes when I was a waiter that I gladly hired someone (who saved me a thousand or two a year).

My contribution to the the thread's topic: tonight was the second time I tried to unlock the door of the apartment 1 floor below mine. The elevator stopped at the wrong floor and I auto-piloted to the door while reading mail. I hollered "Sorry sorry sorry!" and ran to the stairwell. Poor Unit 505 - I would pee my pants if someone came rattling at my door unexpectedly.