Ideas for Blogs

These days it's hard to remember anything. Or if I do 'remember' something I question whether it was a dream, a thought not put into action or me in an alternate universe. For instance, I was writing to a friend last night who I have not spoken to in a couple of years. We recently reconnected via email and FB. I started writing "I called you the other day but your phone rang and rang." I paused and thought "Did I really call her? It's been my intention to call, but did I follow through on this day?" Maybe I was just trying to remember her phone number. I mean, most people have voice-mail - and when I was writing that statement it suddenly occured to me that I didn't remember hearing voicemail, how many times the phone rang before I hung up - Did I get distracted by my daughter before dialing or after the phone started ringing? So, instead of sounding like I was making something up that sounded phoney, I erased the sentence. I gave it some thought after I went to bed, and I still don't know whether I tried calling. No, it wasn't on my cell phone so I can't see my 'numbers dialed'. However, this gives me more of an excuse to use my cellphone. I have one, but it doesn't even take pictures. I think it texts, b/c I've rec'd a few from nieces and a sister-in-law. I was at a Home Show the other night and we had the chance to decorate our cell-phones with a word or a little scene of birds or butterflies. I took out my phone all excited and ewww. It was like the first time in 4 years I looked at! It was ugly. Too ugly to add a cute anything to it. I immediately wanted a new phone. Ok, I wanted a new phone for my birthday (fall), Christmas (Dec, in case you forgot), Valentine's day, but I never got one. ...Then I forgot about it (I really did!) Now it's all about the new phone so I can put my cute saying on it! I'm very shallow sometimes.
In my mom's group we used to have a book club. We revived it, sorta, although some of us read the books, the meetings never really get off the ground. So, when i joined Goodreads and I compared books with friends there was one that sounded familiar but I just couldn't remember the plot. Nor did it sound like something I would pick up to read. I emailed her about the book. She wrote back saying she read it because *I* thought it was a great book and would be good for our bookclub! That was MONTH'S ago and I still can't remember the book, why I read it, why I thought it was so great for bookclub.
Despite everything I just wrote, I'm really not as bad as I seem, as far as I can remember (joke, insert chuckle). It's just that I used to remember everything. Never had to write an appointment down, or learn anyone's name more than once. I think I need to start doing Sudoko or crosswords - something that will challenge my brain more. As an older SAHM my days are spent doing such mundane things. I do think it's important to play with my daughter, but sometimes it takes suspension of my so-little-used-brain cells that I can feel the atrophy set in as we're playing Little People, Polly Pockets, Chutes and Ladders or anything else. Her brain is growing, mine is shriveling. My husband is hardly stimulating conversation...which is one of the reason's for this blog. I remembered (tada!) when I was in the shower today how little me and my husband have to say to each other and it was an idea for a blog. Last night lying in bed I had a couple of ideas for blogs too, which I think I remembered at the start of writing this entry, but now I'm forgetting. Really good ideas - I know they were. But, I have to write them down, or else they're gone forever. Ok, brain, work (I'm not in the shower or trying to sleep so I'm having trouble with recall):
-What a relationship does to a marriage. When is it positive, when is it not? (Hint: from experience, the first few months are bliss, but it goes downhill from there)
-How your child views you when you're a SAHM (I USED to be a contender!)
-Reviewing childhood thru their eyes.
-...But the world is sooo different now
-Everyone needs family around, and what happens to people who don't
-Only child Stuff - not good, not bad, but it's sure different from what i had
-Naps
-Serious problems in a relationship
-Relating to younger mom's - easier than I thought, but still lots of differences
-Making Demands (thank you Mel Robbins for enlightening me) Walking the Talk
So, will I refer to this list next time I write? Maybe. Maybe I'll have such new wonderful ideas that I won't recall the above, or how to find this entry. Either way, at least I got something out of my brain and I hope this makes room for new information.
Happy Spring!