VegemiteGrrl's Home for the Absent-Minded

Listening to Led Zeppelin at work. Caught myself just before I attempted to forward an email to Robert Plant. And, no, the name of the intended recipient wasn't even close.

― The Size Of A Medium Grapefruit (Old Lunch)

"Thanks you for the sales breakdown for October. I'm not sure what your company does exactly, but you seem to be doing quite well. October was always a big sales month for us, too, what with the holidays just around the corner. Five or six of our albums actually came out in either October or November, and that wasn't an accident. Cheers, mate, and continued success--Robert."

Today I nearly sent an e-mail in which I'd mis-typed the word 'customer' as 'cumster'.

The cumster. The cumarino. The cumski.

Last Thursday it snowed a lot, and I had an appointment...got in the car, drove through hazardous conditions, made it with just a few minutes to spare. Parked in the very slippery, snowy parking lot, and realised I had forgotten to change into my snow boots. I was wearing CROCS.

This morning while I'm standing around waiting for the elevator, K, from the stroller, goes "Shoes!"

yeah, she wasn't wearing any

Perhaps not as bad as the time last year when I put her in the bath with socks on

Dropped a UPS package in the US mail slot yesterday.

y'all are bringing your A-game, makes me teary

ugh, went to go and get some ice and instead I got a scoop of my dog's food. I noticed then faced with the cup/dogfood incongruity. Worse for my dog, I suppose, who thought he was getting bonus food.

our cats' litter tray is in our bathroom. beside the toilet we have a little basket in which we keep a little scoop we use to pick up their poop and drop it in the toilet, saving us from the odour which rolls across the house like a foul brown fog every time a cat takes a dump.

frequently, i find myself scooping up the poop, turning towards the toilet, and then instead of dropping it in the toilet bowl i drop it in the basket instead, sometimes necessitating an ugly cleanup operation. on one occasion i even managed to drop the poop in the basket then drop the scoop in the toilet.

So I'm sitting at my desk at work this morning sort of vaguely wondering why I'm hungry at this time of day and suddenly it occurs to me that I forgot to eat breakfast

*looks down at wallet*
'That's odd, my debit card is missing'
*looks back up again*
'Oh, hang on, it's in the ATM I'm standing in front of'

Surely it can't get any worse than this.

it does

microwave & washing machine are in the same room in back of our house

*puts food in microwave, wanders off
*microwave beeps
*walks back into room & opens washing machine
*sees machine empty, looks around at microwave
*ohhhhh

i also washed my clothes without detergent yesterday

things are going well

I nearly trashed a brand new washing machine last week. I forgot to remove the transit bolts so on its first spin cycle it starts making an unusual racket and violently juddering along the kitchen floor out of the washer bay. The worst thing is it is the second time I have done it and even when connecting it up I thought "note to self: don't forget the bloody transit bolts this time".

oh jeez

bought sausages. ate one and a half before i wondered why they taste so goddamn awful, and realized they were vegan fake-sausage. ate another one and a half anyway.

Today I completely forget dinner plans made with friends until ~10 minutes before we were supposed to meet, while already sitting down to dinner at home.

Put a tray of food in the oven upside down, spent 10 minutes picking potatoes out of the space between the oven door and the oven window, went out for sushi instead.

I can't even imagine how you would do this. Did you flip the tray at some point from table (or whatever) to oven rack?

tonight i left my mind in a cab but it's OK bc i still have my Samsung Galaxy and my headphones

Just a sort of not-concentrating last minute flip. I don't think I could replicate it if I tried.

xp if you've uploaded your mind to the cloud, then it's not a problem.

I was at the office and thought they'd installed electric, automatically opening doors, but it turned out it was just someone opening the door on the other side.

lol

haha that's true snoball

You might lose your memory of all mental activity since the last backup but, meh, it's the weekend so how much likely to be lost really?

not much good point.

the other night i went out and met some fun people at a bar. i said something like brb and went outside to find a smoke, leaving my wallet on the bar in good faith (i know.) well the bartender, who i was talking to as well bc he was friends with the others, comes out to find me, literally walks down the street thinking i had skipped out on my tab. he was so patronizing that i didn't tip him and left, after pointing out that my wallet was right in front of him the whole time. not sure what pissed me off more - his attitude or the fact that i was stupid enough to leave my wallet unattended.

- lost my favorite dead uncle's hat after 26 years (probably left behind at the movies)

- left razor's power cord in Chicago hotel room

- AM/FM pocket radio i bought a couple months ago just to listen to ballgames during the summer now missing

could be the meds :/

:(

that sucks Morbs

That old classic, switching on a kettle with no water in it.

I have on my to do list to fill up the tea kettle every night before bed just so I can avoid that.

That other old classic, putting water in the kettle but then not switching it on, and several minutes later wondering why it isn't boiling.

argh I do that one all the time.

I have on more than one occasion started panicking and thinking I've lost my keys when I'm sitting in my car and looking through my bag and can't find them.

The keys I would have used to get into the car.

left my nice waterproof jacket to dry on the grass at a festival and now i have to carry a stupid umbrella around. i'll probably lose the thing too.

left my electro-classical guitar out in the back yard for two days and nights. my housemate found it and brought it in - it was dripping wet. amazed it hadn't been stolen.

the same day i found my guitar all wet, i realised i'd left £15 worth of food shopping on the train home.

Lost my keys yesterday. $80 to replace car keys these days is some bullshit.

Is it one of those weird fancy keys? My last car was a 2000 VW Golf and it had this square remote for the locks with a key that flipped out of it and the guy who sold me the car was like "This costs approximately $1,000,000 to replace so don't lose the key."

And I never did.

The End

Got out of the car at lunchtime & then spent 5 min looking through my bag for my keys

...that I was holding in my hand

August 7: Freaked out because I forgot to pay rent, so I dropped off a check at the office.

Today I asked landlord why they still haven't cashed my rent check.

Answer: I had already paid rent on August 1, and they'd been meaning to ask what to do with the August 7 check.

This explains why I was so inexplicably broke for the last few weeks!

lol but d'oh

I'm very happy about it b/c I have a whole month's rent back in the budget!

The last year of working full-time/overtime + school half-time/full-time has fucked my mind.

I had an orthotics appointment set up this week for the same day as a dentist appointment--dentist at 11:30, orthotics at 4:30. With such a large gap, I moved the orthotics to 3:00 when I was there for the initial consultation. I got home, realized the dentist was for 1:30, so I called them and moved it back to 4:30. This morning, I realized I had Jays tickets for the same day, and had arranged to meet someone at 5:00. Called the orthotics place, moved the appointment to a different day. Now I realize the Jays game is in fact on a different day and not a conflict; I could have left things as is.

I promised the girl this morning that under no circumstances would I try to reschedule yet again. So I'll leave things as is.

I often find myself starting eggs on the stove, then turning to do something like make coffee, then turning back around for some other reason and saying "Oh, I have eggs on the stove!"

At work today I flushed the toilet and nearly put my hands in there to wash them.

I have bruises all over because I rearranged my bedroom furniture Sunday afternoon, left the bedroom in the night to use the bathroom that night, and attempted to get back in bed where it previously was.