Argggh, I am an Idiot

[hmb]

Today started so well, and has gone downhill fast. Got the children ready for school, and was patting myself on the back, that the breakfast things were cleared up, and I had even had time to clean dd's shoes. The car had to go to be serviced, and I had arranged a lift back with a friend. All was going swimmingly, when I left her car, to go into my house, and I was mentaly giving myself a nice cup of coffee, when I realised that my house key was, you've guessed it, on my car key ring, back at the garage. Dh is not contactable today, and so, after much faffing, I am back in the house, 2 hours after I left it.

I have come to the conclusion that I didn't pass placenta after I had given birth, it was brain!!!!!
Please tell me I will get a handle on my life soon??

Agree with batters i am afraid, i have lost track of the times i have put milk in the cupboard and coffee in the fridge etc etc.

My great one is putting something in the oven, forgetting about it until i can smell burning.
Leaving baths on to flood bathroom. I could go on.

Glad I'm not alone in doing bonkers things ... twice I have stuck the bathmat down in the bath and turned the taps on only to forget to put the plug in (it's underneath the mat). Then when I come back 5 minutes later I wonder why there's hardly any water in it ....

DH is forever retrieving my keys from the front door when he comes home from work.

Snap, SoupDragon - I had to swap keyrings because at one stage I was even doing this when there was a luminous yellow coin purse attached to the bunch. Thank goodness ours is the sort of neighbourhood where you could garden in the nuddy and no-one would even notice.
So, hmb, it's definitely not just you!
I read somewhere that it's possible that dwindling supplies of a substance called DHA in your brain during pregnancy reduces its capacity (the DHA is being passed to the baby for essential nervous system and brain development). Most of us don't eat enough oily fish, especially when you get scares about toxic compounds in tuna and parasites in shark...
You can get DHA in various fish oil capsules and I notice that increasingly you are encouraged to take it during pregnancy. I have definitely felt slightly more compos mentis since I started taking BIG fish/evening primrose/flax oil capsules last year.

It's not just you. I got a letter today saying I had not sent my tax return.

I DID, I remember quite clearly posting it....didn't I?

At my most crazy, when DS was 6 months old, I was picking up my grumpy parents from Heathrow, taking DS with me. I cleaned up their flat and having just enough time to get to the airport started getting my things together only to find NO car keys, anywhere. But I had just driven there, anyway searched high and low including pockets and nappy bag etc. burst into tears. Irate parents call from airport, I manage to get a chauffeur company to get them. They arrive bad tempered, I cry again.

Call out AA about car keys, they have to tow car away etc. In the end my DH found them in my coat pocket (the one I had searched umpteen times). Burst into tears again for several hours..

clucks correct me if I am wrong but something in the recesses of my brain tells me you like me work in the tooth industry...am I right? Could it be over exposure to mercury????
Rhiannon and I have discussed this in the past....

The mercury probably set it off, but at the time I think I was still on mat. leave...

Also, during my previous pregnancy, suction regularly broke down and I was having to use portable and clean it out with gluteraldehyde (or similar toxic substance)myself...Hope the kid turns out OK.

I used to class myself as a person of slightly higher than average intelligence..... until.... ... I was slicing cheese and I fancied eating a bit. The slice dropped out of my fingers onto the floor and I carried on to bite my finger instead!!! Hmmm.

Didn't take handbag with me recently when went to pick up child from school as was intending to come straight home. Halfway home I decided to go to M&S and went into pay carpark. Having taken ticket, parked and got out of car, remembered no handbag, ie. no money etc. Luckily bank was still open, persuaded them of who I was (no ID) and got some money to buy stuff but more importantly to pay way out of carpark.