You may think that claiming that I can stand erect and walk on two feet is setting the bar kind of low. That’s obviously not my only talent. I assure you, I’m not a one-trick pony. I also have opposable thumbs and reasonably good diction.
Now that we’ve established that I can walk and talk, and I have fine motor skills, let’s look at higher cognitive functions. Okay, you in the back, I saw your eyelids drooping. Don’t worry. This should be slightly more interesting than a lecture on Trust Accounting and the Internal Revenue Code.
I read a great blog yesterday about right and left brain thinking. I have no data to back it up, but I believe that menopause causes part of your brain to melt. Either I have become more self aware since menopause, and accepted that my left brain has always ruled, or my right brain died a terrible death a few years ago and I didn’t notice. Maybe a little of column A, and a little of column B.
I admit that I was a logic snob for most of my life. If I ran out of hand cream, I would reason that face moisturizer had many of the same ingredients and would help with the dry skin on my hands. Yesterday I awoke to find a reminder stuck to my refrigerator door. Note to self: buy hand cream tomorrow so I won’t have to use lube again.
I would call that abstract thinking. Who cares what’s in it. After all, you put it on your hands…and stuff.
The fact that I gave up a good paying job to write full time proves that I am learning to accept my creative side.
Dammit! I forgot to buy hand cream.
Karla, this could be the start of a bestselling book for menopausal women: MY HORMONES MADE ME DO IT….
The possibilities are endless.
My brother’s cat has opposable thumbs. 🙂
A friend of mine went into menopause at 28 years old. It’s been an experience.
“Note to self: buy hand cream tomorrow so I won’t have to use lube again.”
I’m falling about laughing at that!
OMG! That is too funny.
I’m not sure how one confuses lube with handcream, but I have used handcream on my face before…just doesn’t do the same effect as face cream…
Now you have me picturing you using lube on your face. I guess you shouldn’t knock it until you’ve tried it.
Bowing to your cognitive thinking while chuckling at your forgetfulness, I believe you probably have it all figured out. I’m thinking you should mentor someone……a hand model perhaps?
Keep me rockin and rollin’ over here. I love it.
Terri
I’m trying to picture what using lube instead of hand-cream does to getting through the day. Doesn’t it make everything slip out of your hands (as it were)?
Driving – turning the steering wheel, car goes straight ahead
Shopping – money just slips through your fingers (don’t need lube for that to happen…)
Eating – have to eat with fingers as cutlery shoots across kitchen
etc…
I’m picturing forks flying all over the kitchen. It would be an easy way to identify those people who are out of hand cream.
I was wondering why your keyboard was so sticky…because you were out of hand cream, obviously.
Let’s just say you don’t want to borrow my laptop right now.
Nice.
I wonder if my right brain will die a horrible death when I hit menopause. Hmm. Oh, well. Who needs creativity anyway.
I think it depends on what kind of lube you’re using. If you use the water-based kind (like KY)? I don’t think that would work very well. It dries out & gets globby. Yuk. BUT if you use the nice silicone-based kind…I think that could work….
…wow…my hands are really dry…I need to do something about that…
You’re hilarious. I haven’t hit menopause yet, but I think each time I gave birth some of my brain cells were stolen by passed on to my children. I have to write myself notes too, though I’ve never used lube as hand cream. Did it work well?
I used the water based, so it got sticky pretty quickly. I wouldn’t recommend it. WTH Am I Doing seems to have more expertise (personal experience?) on the matter of lube.
I am so lame.
I misplaced the email you sent me directing me to this post. Because I am all kinds of organized and on top of things over here. Ahem.
Things keep slipping through my mind and through my fingers.
Annoying.
Pretty sure it’s the lube.