Remember my little microscope? I lost it. Okay maybe saying 'lost' is not entirely accurate. I put it away. You know, put it away because everything should have a place so I found a place and put it there. It didn't belong where it had been hanging out, even though I knew where it was when it was there. Today I decided I needed it.
I must have walked around the house for at least 20 minutes, checking shelves and drawers and going back to the places I had discounted with "I wouldn't have put it there" time and again. It was to the point where I was saying to myself "okay, think like me. How do I think? Where would I think was a good, logical place for a microscope?" Not - "think like the cat, where would she have hidden my sock?" Not - "think like my son, what would he have done with the barbecue sauce?" No, "c'mon, think like me. Like me, how would I think?" Because of course I am a separate person from myself.
Clearly I think crazy.
Oh yeah, I did eventually find it. It was in a place where obviously I had stashed it thinking - "this is a stupid place but it's not where it was before so it must be better." And to continue that thought "and I'll remember it here."
NOT.
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I just had a brain cluster... that is a memory of a thought.
ReplyDeleteI almost always find something else I had lost when looking for something else. One time I had my hair bag open on the counter and my son came in and set his keys down and kept going. I had finished a cut and put everything back and put the bag back in my closet. We searched for about 3 hours for his keys until I had him go over in his head where he might have set them down. Then I remembered having the hair bag (shoe box) open on the counter and went to it and got the keys. I find you can't think like other do, especially not like a cat but good luck with that one, k.
I spend a lot of time looking for things that I just saw a "few days ago". Story of my life, I just saw it but don't remember where I saw it.
ReplyDeleteYears ago I knew where everything was.. These days I rarely remember where anything is.
ReplyDeleteIt causes a lot of frustration and wastes a lot of time :(
Frustration - absolutely!! And then "what was I thinking when I put it THERE???"
ReplyDeleteOh do I ever have those days. I put something away never to see it again. I once "lost" a gold bracelet, and searched for it for over 3 YEARS. I "found" it one day when I was cleaning out my camera bag. I would have never thought to look there for it. When I did find it, I remembered wearing it to my nieces wedding, and taking it off and putting it in my camera bag. But do you think I would have remembered that while I was looking for that bracelet? No, never.
ReplyDeleteOh that sounds so familiar. Unfortunately when I try to think like myself, it never works. I am still trying to find things that I stashed over 5 years ago. And to make it worse, I have moved since then.
ReplyDeleteHow is your cat doing? Did the rescue remedy help?