Senioritis?

To me this isn’t a senior moment, but an ordinary moment that makes me rue having certain of my mothers genes, or something.  Though not with coffee cups.  I tend to use a currently favored, usually oversized, cup over and over, day after day, so no room for grabbing a second cup in there.

However, there is the problem of forgetting whether I already sweetened it, if you distract me for the slightest bit of time before the whole sweetening and lightening process is completed.

On a scarily related note, the night before last I had a dream, or more accurately a nightmare, in which I showed unmistakable indication of developing Alzheimer’s.  I’ll take the senior moments and the “doh!” slips of the brain (like pouring soad into the coffee instead of a glass, for instance), but please, not that.  Never that.

1. Well, I’ve got four identical coffee cups, so it’s an easy mismove for me to make. Though it seems things like this never used to happen to me until recent years.

   I’m even worse with the clothes dryer. I have to go empty it immediately when I hear it buzz, or else I’m apt to find the clothes still sitting in the dryer two days later…

   Posted by Paul Burgess  on  06/29  at  01:22 PM

2. The one that worries me is forgetting, utterly and unrecoverably, what I am saying in mid-sentence.  I haven’t been doing that lately the way I was for a while.  Just the more normal forgetting of words.  I regularly end up descibing the meaning of a word I want in place of the word, or using some near-synonym with the caveat that it’s not the right word for what I was trying to say.

   Posted by Jay  on  06/29  at  01:30 PM

3. Hey, you KNOW me, I’ve done that for ages with movie titles or actors’ names, or book titles etc.  I think we’re normal.  There have been a couple of brain researchers within the past year on Charlie Rose, and they say that it’s something to do with the way our brains store and retrieve memories.  Unless a memory is forged under strong emotion, if a connection isn’t reinforced often enough, eventually it’s gone, and you have to round-about to the definition first. 

   Hey, does Google have a reverse look-up for words? 

   Posted by  on  07/11  at  08:49 PM

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