If I only had a brain. . .

I thought that the "brain farts," memory lapses and stupidity would go away once I had the baby. Apparently, it stays around forever. I even went out and bought a pregnancy test because I thought, "surely I can't be this stupid for no reason!!"

Alas, such is the life for all moms. Here are a few examples of my day to day encounters with my brain just taking a break.

1. (memory loss) Adam and I were at the hospital in Ft. Worth and we were picking up Ann that day. I drove my car to Ann's, got her keys and took her car to Ft. Worth and then when it was getting to be too late, I took Adam's car back to Ann's. Well. As you can see, there was a lot of key exchange in there. First of all, I put my keys in Ann's glove box. So, when I had to leave, I had to take Adam's keys and Ann's keys to the garage. First mistake, I got all the way out to the parking garage with just Adam's keys even though we had JUST TALKED about how I needed both. Trudged back up to Ann's room, got her keys and I was supposed to call Adam when I was at the front of the hospital so he could come down and get her keys from me. Well. Next thing I knew, I was almost to the highway and had completely forgotten our rendezvous. Had to turn around. Missed my turn. Had to track around one way roads. I was so pissed. My brain took a vacation there.

2. I was at work receiving a patient from OR. In report, I was told he had an art line. I proceeded to set up my entire art line only to remember when I was done that "doh! They come out with their own setups here." I've been working there for two years. I know this. And somehow I reverted back to my BUMC days where we had to set up our own art lines. I quickly wheeled this into my room and luckily no one said anything!! lol

3. A conversation after getting home last night from dinner:
Me: ::looking sad::
Adam: What's the matter?
Me: I have to get Emma to bed and now my ice cream's going to melt
Adam: Baby. . .
Me: What?
Adam: Put it in the freezer. . . ?
Me: ::thinking:: Oh right. That 19th century invention that keeps things cold for you. I wanted to mash my forehead into a wall, saying "stupid, stupid, stupid!"

It is soooo annoying to be spacey and dumb and retarded when you weren't the first 25 years of your life! I think I'll start taking omega 3 like everyone says.