Well, it does matter when you...
...wear your yoga pants inside out, to class. A week later, you not only put your yoga pants back on inside out, BUT you put them on BACKWARDS as well! THAT one I caught before I went out the door. NOT the former.
...forget you have chicken roasting in the oven. The timer goes off; you intend to go check right away, but get sidetracked by work you are doing on your laptop. You don't have a strong sense of smell, so you don't actually smell the burning until you finally get to the kitchen and then the ALARM goes off in your head. The ONE in the kitchen hadn't gone off yet. Thankfully, the bottom of the roaster was well done, but the chicken was edible. A good friend tells you she has done pretty much the same thing, so then you don't feel so stupid. You put it down to "multi-tasking." We WOMEN do that SO well, don't we?
...follow your sister to her cottage, some 10 kilometres up the road from the meet-up point, only to realize half way there, that the license plate of the car ahead of you looks like it is from Québec. Should be NB. You think your eyes are playing tricks, but you still keep following the car until it turns into someone's drivway in a small street, NO WHERE near the lake. OOPS! You manage to make it to the lake by yourself, and your sister rolls in five minutes later. Why is she late? She was behind you, because she doubled back to your starting point, watching and waiting for you there. Meanwhile, yours truly had been following another car. Duh! Plus you have the temerity to try to tell her, AT FIRST, that she was going too FAST! How is that possible, when she was behind you????
...ask a friend someone's last name, and five minutes later, you ask them the SAME question!
... despite reading the recipe three times, add a half teaspoon of baking soda instead of baking powder to a small, two serving birthday cake, and serve it to your friend Nancy, for her 61st birthday. YUCK! She was too polite to make any negative comment, but you whip up another one in no time and enjoy THAT Mud Cake Brownie, lighting up the only two birthday candles you have, showing 83 OR 38 years of age!
... NOT remembering your recent canoeing adventure where you left your keys at the WRONG place, (NOUNOUNE!) you start to walk away from your locked up car at 4:00 am in the morning at the airport, WITH your keys IN hand. SUDDENLY a light bulb flicks on in your head AND you remember that you are SUPPOSED to lock the keys INSIDE, so that the one who calls you NOUNOUNE, can come by and pick up your car later on. DUH!!!!
CONVERSELY, it does NOT MATTER when you...
roll out of bed every morning, not too much hurts in your aging body, and you are ready and raring to face another day.
Age should never be the question Lovely Lady. We have all done the same or similar things. Like the time I turned the oven on to cook Jeanies meat loaf and I was hiding her birthday cake in the oven. I was so proud of making it but what a mess it was when I smelled the melted candles.
ReplyDeleteIt is totally how our mind works that keeps us young at heart. Stay adventurous, laugh, live and love. Never be afraid to laugh at yourself. I just shake my head and smile now at my foolishness. I really like your postings. Keep it up. HUGS