It’s a gift, and a curse.
I was blessed with a very good memory. Well, some call it a blessing. I call it The Curse of a Thousand Gnats. Why? Because that’s what it feels like, to have so much stuff floating around in my grey matter. Seriously, who cares if actress Jennifer Tilly is a poker champion? Or that there are 119 grooves in a U.S. quarter? Or that there are 20 kisses described in the Kama Sutra?
Ok, that last one may be helpful. Don’t ask how I know.
The other day, we were visiting my sister’s and Hubby remarked that the only other people he personally knew to have owned boxer dogs were his grandparents.
Hubby: She was a very nice dog. Gypsy.
Me: No, her name was Queenie.
Hubby: Are you sure?
Me: Yep. I never met Gypsy, only Queenie.
Hubby: Crap, I’m losing it.
And it’s not just useless trivia and random memories. It’s remembering what my 23 year old niece was wearing the last time I saw her, when she was a toddler. It’s remembering the last view of my grandmother as we drove away. It’s remembering the scent of the flowers at a friend’s grave.
But it’s also remembering the first time Hubby kissed me. And it’s also remembering the nail polish I wore on my wedding day as Hubby slipped the ring on my finger. And it’s remembering the joy at holding each of my babies in my arms for the first time. Sometimes memories serve to remind us of the wonderful successes and even the tragic failures we have experienced so that we may better appreciate the paths we have chosen.
I just wish sometimes I could stop remembering that the shoelace tip is called an aglet 😉
August 8th, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Yeah, it sucks.
A baloo is a bear. A yonker is a young man. That is from the standardized tests that we had to take all through out school…. Got lot’sa other stuff up there too. I just can’t remember it all.
August 8th, 2012 at 3:09 PM
ASVAB FTW!!
August 8th, 2012 at 12:44 PM
I love useful/useless random facts! The tip of a stamen is called an ather, and the collective noun for owls is a ‘parliment’….. (And for crows it’s a ‘murder’)…… I love collective nouns 🙂
August 8th, 2012 at 12:51 PM
Oh, the collectives are the most fun!!
August 8th, 2012 at 1:16 PM
I’d rather remember useless facts than risk forgetting the blessed ones. I’ve forgotten too many of those, myself.
August 8th, 2012 at 3:05 PM
The trick is to keep them from getting jumbled up 🙂
August 8th, 2012 at 1:16 PM
I’ll trade y’all. I can’t remember crap. Which makes it really hard at work, for instance, knowing I’ve fixed an issue before, but unable to remember exactly *how*.
August 8th, 2012 at 3:05 PM
You should keep a journal 😉
August 8th, 2012 at 3:44 PM
Heh. I forget to write stuff down.
August 8th, 2012 at 3:55 PM
THIS! Plus 1,000,000!
I started writing repetitive stuff down (when I remember to do it) and it’s amazing how much easier it is, when something pops up again. One Note is a wonderful thing, as long as you are descriptive when writing things down.
August 8th, 2012 at 4:38 PM
I see a wall of Post-Its™…. 😉
August 8th, 2012 at 2:01 PM
I love a good joke. I can hear the same one over and over, but it’s always new and funny, ’cause ICRS.
What is the root word of ‘aglet?’ I mean it’s such a useless little piece of whatever. Really it is.
August 8th, 2012 at 3:06 PM
I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW!!!
I can’t deal with another useless fact 😉
August 8th, 2012 at 4:52 PM
Well, think about it a bit — ag-let.
I’ll cover my ears.
August 8th, 2012 at 7:20 PM
You are sooooo dead… 😛
August 8th, 2012 at 8:59 PM
tee hee…
August 8th, 2012 at 2:27 PM
remember that time at band camp…………………
August 8th, 2012 at 3:06 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
No 😛
August 8th, 2012 at 7:20 PM
I’m surprised no one has gotten the movie reference in the title of the post.
*sobs*
August 8th, 2012 at 8:41 PM
Only one of my top 10 movie series of all time… you have excellent taste 🙂
I can’t remember much. I have gotten better at writing things down at work at least so I don’t have to ask the same questions over and over. I remember broad strokes from my past, but specifics like scents of flowers or nail polish colors or outfits? Not so much. And don’t ask me to remember when anything happened. I have a spectacularly rotten sense of time. Movies that came out 3 years ago seem like 3 months ago to me. Heard something last week? May as well have been a month or a day ago. My brain doesn’t seem to associate time with events.
August 8th, 2012 at 8:51 PM
YAY!!! Someone knew it 😀
August 8th, 2012 at 10:52 PM
Are you talking zombie apocalypse type movies or is there a chick flick with a deeper context?
I used to be nearly eidetic memory-wise – and it pissed off my college buddies during tests – but somewhere along the line it petered out. Now I’m stuck with a time-sense that is ridiculous. I wonder if the two are inversely related…?
August 9th, 2012 at 7:47 AM
I referred to Alice in Resident Evil, LK 🙂
And I do think it’s inversely related. Hubby has a sense of time that borders on the creepy, too. Of course, he can’t remember what he did two days ago…
August 9th, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Thanks Aggie, now I will never for get what a shoe lace tip is called!
August 9th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Glad to oblige! 🙂
August 9th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Like you, I have the same memory, and I grew up with boxer dogs. I can remember the past, and visualize it, like it was yesterday. Might be a good thing, might be a bad thing. Hell if I know.
August 9th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
A gift and a curse, see?? 😀
August 9th, 2012 at 5:21 PM
If I didn’t already know what aglet meant, I’d assume you were referring to your kids.
August 9th, 2012 at 6:04 PM
Heh! Good thing I did know 🙂
August 10th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
About some things my memory is so good that sometimes I have to feign ignorance in order to keep from pissing too many people off.
August 10th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Been there… and have many t-shirts 😉