Oh, stress is such a factor in memory loss. I found during our recent move and worrying about the animals during our trip, that I was a basket case memory wise. Luckily, my husband was driving or I might have ended up in Alaska!

chatty, tape a note to your forehead. That's what I do.

Dianne, are you sure you didn't?

I saw 13 below for Minnesota on last night weather report, Brrrrrrrr!!!! Sounds like Alaska to me.

Dotsie that sounds good unless you never look in a mirror....Or remembere that saying; I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached, well?

chatty, you're too funny.

This is not my first time at the board but i registered to give my first post, because I found chatty to be hillarious!

Thank you for the pick me up guys!

welcome angelng. I hope you'll go to the Welcome forum and introduce yourself. Looking forward to getting to know you.

Dotsie maybe angelng would like to be my PR person, I seem to need one lately....anyway thanks to her for joining our wonderful family, all the way from Australia too.

[ February 22, 2006, 10:38 PM: Message edited by: chatty lady ]

Loved reading these posts, ladies. A bit of humor, a bit of wisdom, a bit of good old-fashioned advice. All offered with helping another gal in mind.

Well from my own experience, stress or even merely having a good deal on one's mind, can lead to that 'oh, oh...what am I looking for again?' feeling. And yes, during menopause I found it wise to jot down what I wanted to pick up, at the store, or what I needed to make certain I accomplished the next day. My Mom used to do the same thing. My daughters, both in their early thirties also make the lists.

I had the same experiences in my youth, but never weighed them with too much importance. I think as we mature, and we experience some hitch with the memory, we are apt to panic a bit, fearing it may be more serious, may have to do with our aging, and we may be gripped with the fear of this state becoming the norm. Not to say we need not be aware of very real, or serious experiences, for instance, forgetting where we live. An experience such as this and it's off to the doctor, for sure! But for most of us, the temporary memory lapses are not serious, and we need not allow them to affect our well-being.

Funny thing about memory...we each tend to remember past experiences as they related strictly to us. Another person's memory of something that happened years ago, that may have involved us, may not register with us at all, simply because for us, it didn't warrant our particular remembrance effort. Then again, we may also have what my husband has, as to memory; selective only.

Okay it's back to catching up with everything on the Forum. For the last couple of weeks some nasty virus has had me in its clutches, and today is the first day I've felt like myself again. I so long for warm weather, clear skies, Spring! Will it never arrive!

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Jeannine, I am also waiting for spring and we haven't even had a bad winter. Maybe another month around here.

List making is how I get by in life. You will find them in the car, office, kitchen, posted to the back door, anywhere They need to smack me in the face.

I also set timers as reminders. If I need to be somewhere in an hour and I'm afraid I'll forget, I set the timer. I have one in my office and one in the kitchen. My office timer is portable. I've been known to take it outside with me in the garden so I don't get distracted and forget to be somewhere on time.

Sometimes the timer goes off and I say, "now what did I set that for?"