{"id":429,"date":"2015-08-31T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/31\/i-had-one-job\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T18:01:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T18:01:17","slug":"i-had-one-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/31\/i-had-one-job\/","title":{"rendered":"I had one job"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Or, to be more accurate, I had one small list (in my head) of things to be done yesterday. \u00a0It was Sunday, not much was required of me. \u00a0I needed to:<\/p>\n

-Get some paperwork signed for my son’s school
\n-Buy my son safety glasses (he attends a technical high school and he needs them for shop)
\n-iron his shop shirts
\n-wash and vacuum the car
\n-make tacos for dinner since I promised them to my daughter<\/p>\n

I didn’t do any of it. \u00a0Now, before you picture me sitting on the couch happily enjoying a lazy Sunday, let’s make one thing clear. \u00a0I didn’t choose not to do any of it. \u00a0I forgot to do it all. \u00a0As in, literally did not remember one thing. Well, I did feed my family dinner, but they did not get tacos because I had forgotten to buy the taco shells. \u00a0Of course. \u00a0Which brings me to my question. Where has my brain gone and can I please have it back?<\/p>\n

I used to be the person who never forgot anything. \u00a0I was the organized one, the on-time one, the one who had my act together. \u00a0Lately, I am the one who barely remembers what that was like. \u00a0I know after I had my kids there was the expression “baby brain” for the new moms who couldn’t think straight. \u00a0Maybe there is a similar expression for people my age. \u00a0How about “middle-aged-mom brain”? \u00a0Or maybe “over-stressed -mom brain” \u00a0Or maybe we should just go with “slightly-insane-mom brain” \u00a0None of them quite have that catchy ring to them that I want. \u00a0My son just says I am old and that is why I forget. \u00a0Of course, there speaks the teenager who routinely forgets to hang up his towel after his shower.<\/p>\n

I think I need to go back to using a paper planner. \u00a0I was much more organized when I used to do that. \u00a0Am I the only one who has trouble with calendars and lists on my phone?<\/p>\n

So today I have another list of things to do. \u00a0Of course, it is much longer since it is Monday, but I am writing it down so maybe I will get some of it done.<\/p>\n

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Oh, and one more confession, I took a shower yesterday and forgot to wash my hair. \u00a0How does one do that? \u00a0I didn’t realize until I was completely dressed and combing my hair out and it wasn’t tangled.<\/p>\n

So if there are reports of a dazed woman with greasy hair wandering through town while clutching a list in her hand, that would be me. \u00a0I apologize in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or, to be more accurate, I had one small list (in my head) of things to be done yesterday. \u00a0It was Sunday, not much was required of me. \u00a0I needed to: -Get some paperwork signed for my son’s school -Buy my son safety glasses (he attends a technical high school and he needs them for shop) -iron his shop shirts -wash and vacuum the car -make tacos for dinner since I promised them to my daughter I didn’t do any of it. \u00a0Now, before you picture me sitting on the couch happily enjoying a lazy Sunday, let’s make one thing clear. \u00a0I didn’t choose not to do any of it. \u00a0I forgot to do it all. \u00a0As in, literally did not remember one thing. Well, I did feed my family dinner, but they did not get tacos because I had forgotten to buy the taco shells. \u00a0Of course. \u00a0Which brings me to my question. Where has my brain gone and can I please have it back? I used to be the person who never forgot anything. \u00a0I was the organized one, the on-time one, the one who had my act together. \u00a0Lately, I am the one who barely remembers what that was like. \u00a0I know after I had my kids there was the expression “baby brain” for the new moms who couldn’t think straight. \u00a0Maybe there is a similar expression for people my age. \u00a0How about “middle-aged-mom brain”? \u00a0Or maybe “over-stressed -mom brain” \u00a0Or maybe we should just go with “slightly-insane-mom brain” \u00a0None of them quite have that catchy ring to them that I want. \u00a0My son just says I am old and that is why I forget. \u00a0Of course, there speaks the teenager who routinely forgets to hang up his towel after his shower. I think I need to go back to using a paper planner. \u00a0I was much more organized when I used to do that. \u00a0Am I the only one who has trouble with calendars and lists on my phone? So today I have another list of things to do. \u00a0Of course, it is much longer since it is Monday, but I am writing it down so maybe I will get some of it done. Oh, and one more confession, I took a shower yesterday and forgot to wash my hair. \u00a0How does one do that? \u00a0I didn’t realize until I was completely dressed and combing my hair out and it wasn’t tangled. So if there are reports of a dazed woman with greasy hair wandering through town while clutching a list in her hand, that would be me. \u00a0I apologize in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-mutterings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}