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Wed 17 Oct, 2007 04:35 pm
I used to be able to keep everything in my head. Tasks, appointments, phone numbers, etc., were all kept in my head. My life became a bit (actually, a lot) more complicated this year and I began to keep a day planner. Now, everything goes into my day planner. The problem with keeping everything that used to be in your head in a book is that when the book goes missing your life goes missing along with it.
My book is lost and so am I. My house is clean because I've just spent the day turning it upside down looking for my day planner. I've no idea if I was supposed to be spending my day doing other critical things because I've trained myself to not keep all those bits and bytes in memory. I know I have a meeting tonight and my chiropractor's office called today to remind of my appt tomorrow, but beyond that I'm clueless.
All family members have been put on alert to keep an eye out for the missing book. I imagine it will show up in some strange place that I would never imagine it to be but in the meantime, I'm lost.
Please let me know if you find me. I'm green, about 5" by 7" and spiral bound. My life depends on it.
Thanks!
shewolfnm wrote:Car?
Trunk?
nope.
I've done the, "Where was it the last time you saw it" thing a thousand times. It was on my desk, right where it always is.
home desk or office desk?
not in the laundry room.
office desk, but my office is in my home so it really could be anywhere around here.
The planner is green? on a green rug? on the floor behind a chair? behind your computer?
with those keys I lost going from my car into Dys and Diane's house two yeara ago?
I swear I'm going to get one of those writing board calendar things, but they're so ugly..
slid behind the desk?
do you ever take it anywhere? pick it up and pace while on the phone?
(I sympathize, I can imagine how panicky I'd get if I lost my calendar...)
JPB - small kids? I can't remember.
Osso, I have a set of missing keys somewhere in my sister's house.
Not anywhere in the office that I can tell.
I'm a pile person. I have an A pile (things I need to do asap), B pile (things I was supposed to do asap until bigger fires took their place, and a C pile (things I said I would do that haven't turned into a fire yet). I've sorted through all three piles in case it got tucked into one, through every bookshelf in case it was put there by mistake, through every waste basket, recycling bag, laundry basket, bathroom and kitchen drawer/cupboard... NADA!
I don't carry it around and I'm trying to imagine when I may have done so. Nothing is coming to mind (but then I've just lost my mind because it's in the book).
This is NUTS!
littlek wrote:JPB - small kids? I can't remember.
Osso, I have a set of missing keys somewhere in my sister's house.
Nope, teenagers. There's a note on my desk that the younger one put there when she took a phone message. I instantly assumed she'd put the book somewhere when she left the message. She says not.
Osso, I've got tons of keys around here that don't go to anything I can identify. I can send them to you.
Elves. Gotta be elves.
When this sort of thing has happened to me (and this sort of thing has happened to me), it usually turns out that I overlooked it while overloaded on adrenaline. Once I've calmed down, it turns out to be in a semi-obvious spot.
So I say go have a glass of wine, watch some silly TV, chat, whatever, then come back and go through your office again.
(You've asked the girls? Maybe they're planning a surprise party for you and wanted to see when you're available, or something...)
sozobe wrote:Elves. Gotta be elves.
When this sort of thing has happened to me (and this sort of thing has happened to me), it usually turns out that I overlooked it while overloaded on adrenaline. Once I've calmed down, it turns out to be in a semi-obvious spot.
So I say go have a glass of wine, watch some silly TV, chat, whatever, then come back and go through your office again.
(You've asked the girls? Maybe they're planning a surprise party for you and wanted to see when you're available, or something...)
Elves?
hmmmm, one of my staff members was here yesterday working at my desk. Maybe she scooped it up with her stuff when she left. I'm pretty sure I saw it here last night but it's worth a shot...
There, that's promising...
email response ...
Sorry, I just checked my bag and no day book. I remember seeing it on your desk yesterday. I think I saw it after lunch also.
Ah, yes - piles. The teacher I'm student teaching with is training the kids not to put piles on her piles.
Desk drawers?
Top of the refrigerator, left there for just a second, while perusing?
Tucked in the freezer, after some of that wine?
Answering a different phone, getting book, rushing off, giant dog takes book?
behind pillow on sofa?
The Evil Organizer Thief came to your neighborhood?
I've Found Me!!!!
Hurrah, hurrah!!! I was tucked between some reports we were working on yesterday afternoon that I'd filed away in the filing cabinet.
WHEW!!
Fortunately, the only things on it for today was my class this morning, which I knew about and was the reason I didn't know I was missing until this afternoon, my meeting tonight, and a bunch of phone calls that I was supposed to make today. Never made the phone calls and now I have to leave for the meeting but the sun will rise tomorrow!
There you go!
Great!
The suspense was killing me...
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