Absent-minded without the professor part

Do you ever feel, um, like your brain is a bit....wooly?  I feel that way a lot these days, and I often feel like I'm the only person who is walking around in a bit of a fog.

So, while I'm really sorry for the incident that spurred this on, and I do hope that the gremlins return the tax refund check to Karen, can I just say that reading the comments recounting absent-minded things people have done are warming my heart?  Thank you, people.  I really do have a different perspective on life here.  Other people's houses are messy!  Other people forget important, obvious items they really need!  I am not the stupidest person in the universe (well, maybe it's a tie, but at least I'm not alone out here). 

Of course my brain is so foggy that I can't even think of the obvious stupid things I've done recently short of completely spacing important telephone messages and whoops, calling my boss (a VP) and colleague (a dean in her busiest season) to a meeting and then playing hooky that morning to wait for the DirecTV guy to install my satellite.  Because, you know, priorities. 

Got any good ones?  Or are you not in the running for the endowed chair of the absent-minded department?

Comments

[Stacie]

I put the bread in the refrigerator and the mayonaise in the cabinet :)

[Lee Ann]

In my efforts to become the Dr. Madame Director, a.k.a., d.b.a., Chair of the Department of Redundancy Department, I forgot to renew my membership in the Absent-Minded Department. I did, however, manage to remember to put the coffee pot in the fridge and stash my paycheck in the Papers To Read Much Later When They Have Expired file pile.

Iced espresso, anyone? I won't even charge you for it ;-)

[Deb]

Let's see . . . you mean OTHER than apparently, accidentally throwing away my package from my KR secret pal?? Nope, haven't done anything absent-minded lately!!

[Cara]

Happens to me all the time. I'm running around like a chicken looking for my glasses - can't find them anywhere - wait for it, wait for it - THEY'RE ON MY FREAKIN' FACE!

Thanks for the link to Karen. That Inconceivable TV show sounds like a prescription for suicide. Thanks NBC! I needed that!

[ru]

Hey- what happened to those other two cartons of milk I bought yesterday? Oh. Still in the trunk. Reminder to self- maybe it's time to clean out the trunk if a whole bag of groceries can be overlooked while unloading. It's not like that one time an avocado rolled out of the bag and reached perfect ripeness while I drove it around for a couple days. I was kind of pleased that time.

[amysue]

I sent a sick kid to school not once but twice in the past 10 days. In my defence she begged me not to miss MCAS and her fever was only 99.8 when I sent her last Weds. Imagine my surprise when the nurse called to come get my kid with the nasty cough and 101.3 fever. She checked out ok at the doctor and by this Monday was OK so I let her go back to school and yesterday was called to pick her up because of her hacking cough...sigh. I am a bad mommy. But I did remember the Pink Kahuna ice crea, so all was forgiven...