Amnesia and other memory issues are often associated with brain injury. Believe me, that’s frustrating enough, but I’m regularly losing my train of thought too. I don’t know if it shows in my writing, but I can completely forget what I was doing or talking about.

Where was I….. Oh yes

If I go to get something, say a sponge, it’s not unusual for me to have forgotten what I needed it for by the time I pick it up. Or I might not even make it that far; I might get in the room but have no idea what I came for. This scenario happens quite a lot as I often spill a little tea when carrying 2 mugs. It’s not a lot, and downstairs is a hard floor, so there’s no long term damage. But it still feels like bad manners to not clean up after myself. Instead it often waits until someone else observes the stain and comments on it.

I know you can set reminders for yourself for lots of activities, but it’s the impromptu ones that I can’t. Couple that with rubbish observation skills, and it can be a miracle that I get anything done.

It can even affect shopping and budgeting.

Like many people I don’t like to overpay for things, so I shop around. (Online. I hate going into actual shops, mostly because they’re full of other human beings who have their own agendas to worry about.) For example my Bengal, Dexter, can be a bit of an eating machine. Apparently it’s normal for them to have larger appetites than your regular moggie.  But he’s also fussy. There are so many brands of cat food that have been tried and rejected, it think it’s fair to label him a diva!  But he has settled on Sheba fish flakes pouches. They’re easy to get hold of, but when you have a guy like this it gets expensive. I call it his Leopard fuel (because Bengals come from the Asian Leopard.) As soon as he has eaten his pouch he’s off out to give the  squirrels havoc.

So to try to minimise the cost of owning a furry eating machine, I order his food online. Which is fine as long as I OBSERVE that his stocks are depleting, and THINK  to reorder it. So this went wrong this week, and I didn’t complete my order, because that thought went AWOL, and so I had to go to a physical retailer to make sure my mini Leopard didn’t starve. And I was shocked to find the same product is 75% more expensive now in stores when no special offers are on.  I know we need to support physical retailers, as they are shutting up shop fast due to poor sales and our online habits, but that’s too much of a difference! I opted for Whiskas, as he will just about accept as long as I make it only an occasional substitution.