Where is my mind?

I'm beginning to feel concerned for my mind. This past week I have been such a complete space cadet. When I tell Jeremy my concerns, he says "your brain is just kid-fried." I hope that is it and that I'm not losing my sanity before I turn 30.

Example 1.

On Friday, I drove to Dallas to meet up with some friends of mine (Pidge and Jared), and also Jeremy, who has been in Duncan, Oklahoma. I printed out directions to my friends' house and noticed that our ink was a bit low, or else our printer is a bit wonky. The point by point directions have alternating backgrounds, to make it easier to read. But with our printer issues, ever other point was invisible. I didn't realize this until I was already a good ways on the road. I called my brother when I was in downtown Dallas and I said "she said she lives about 15 minutes from downtown." He looked up the directions and said "um...no, I don't think so." As it turns out when I asked my friend if she lived near downtown, she assumed I meant downtown Fort Worth. She assumed this because I actually have been to her house before, but I apparently never pay attention to anything and had no idea where she lived. So Drew gives me the directions and I keep moving along. I put on my headset and called an old friend and talked to her for a while. I end up getting lost because I wasn't paying attention to the signs while on the phone with her. I tell her that I have to go because I'm a little lost. I call my friends that I'm meeting to ask where I am, and I'm way away from where I'm supposed to be. So, my friend tells me where I'm supposed to go, and he stays on the phone with me to make sure I am going the right way (he can tell that I clearly need help.) So we're on the phone and he says "now, look for a restaurant called Burger Box on your right, and turn right after that." I'm driving along and I am telling him the signs that I'm passing. He says "what?! How did you miss Burger Box?!" Take the next right!!" Eventually I make it to their house.

Example 2.

When we go to leave their house I grab the Nissan keys off of my friends' counter and I go outside to start the van. It won't start. It is doing that thing where it won't turn at all, like the wheel is locked, so I turn the wheel to try and unlock it. Nothing. I tell Jeremy, and he takes a shot at it. While he's doing that, I walk back to my friends and tell them that we can't start the car. Jeremy says "well, I see what the problem is... you were trying to start our van with Pidge's Sentra keys. Where are our keys?"
"I don't know." Then I reach in my pocket, and there they are. (I do deserve a little leeway for this. Our keys look identical, except that we have one additional silver key on our keychain, and they have none.)

Example 3.

Jeremy and I decide to take in a movie (Iron Man 2) at the IMAX. When we leave the car, I decided to leave my phone in the car because I didn't want to carry anything (a novelty because I'm usually toting three kids and all their stuff.) When we get to the theater, I told Jeremy I was wanting some caffeine so I stayed in the food court while he went to secure some seats for us. I get my drink, and go to the ticket guy. I give him my ticket and he points to the left and says "last one on the left." So, I turn left and go to the theater at the end of the hall, and I see the "Iron Man 2" sign above the door, and go in. The movie had already started and I'm trying to peer through the dark, walking up one aisle and then down the next. I can't find him. I feel really sad at this point because this is our weekend away from everything and I've been away from him all week, and I just want to be next to my Jeremy. So, I sit on the front row, in the best spot for him to find me or for me to find him if he comes down the aisle looking for me. So, I watch the movie, looking closely anytime a person would walk down the aisles. After about an HOUR of this, Jeremy comes into the theater with a look of pity and amusement (probably exasperation too, but he wouldn't admit it.) He holds out his hand for me to come with him. Apparently when the ticket man said "all the way down on the left", he meant that when the hall ends with one Iron Man 2 screening, it curves to the left, and there is a whole seperate area with the IMAX theater in it. Oh wait, we were watching an IMAX, right. So, you would think I would have noticed that I was sitting in a theater with an average screen, but NO. You would be wrong. It was like I had forgotten about the giant screen we were supposed to be seeing this movie on, because I was so busy thinking about Jeremy and constantly wondering where he was and why he hadn't seen me when I was walking around. As it turns out, Jeremy had gone into the IMAX and there were no two seats together, so he waited there for me to come. When I didn't come after a while, he walked around the lobby looking for me. He called and called and texted my phone that he knew I had left in the van. Later he was like "I was hoping you would come out to the van and get your phone", an idea that had never crossed my mind since I assumed we were sitting in the same theater. He said that he was just walking around looking for me, and then he saw that second theater with Iron Man 2, and he KNEW I was in there. We ended up going to a different viewing of the same movie that started at 3:05, or something. So, I watched Iron Man 2, one and a half times. (Lesson learned: never leave your phone in the car. Never.)

Example 4.

Jeremy bought a netbook, and it came in the mail last week while he was gone in Oklahoma. When it came, I was trying to hurry out the door with the kids, so I opened it quickly and plugged it in so it would charge while I was gone. Later I unplugged it so I could take it for a test run, but when I unplugged it it shut off. My first thought was "oh great, it's messed up, just like the netbook Jenna got for Christmas." She had had the same problem-- where it wouldn't hold a charge so she could buy a new battery for it, or return it. I told Jeremy about this and he said "well, look at the manual and see if there is something you're supposed to do with the battery the first time you use it." I did look at the manual and there IS something you're supposed to do with the battery the first time you use it.

"Powering on your Eee PC
These are only quick instructions for using your Eee PC
1. Install the battery pack..."



D'oh.