I’ve hit another one of those bouts of near-constant heartburn where my throat burns so much that I feel like throwing up almost all the time. I’ll get heartburn every day off and on for hours for about a week, then it will gradually subside until the next random attack within a couple weeks or so. I’m thinking about this because I’m sitting in the office where I don’t have any Tums or any other sort of antacid. This happens to me a lot, actually. I’ll be at the office thinking “I really need to get X for the office since I don’t have any here and obviously need it” then I leave to go home minutes or hours later and forget to pick it up on my way. The reverse is also very true. I’ll be at home like in the shower or kitchen and think “Gee, we really need X” or “I’m running out of X; I should get some on the way to work” but then never actually do it. The things I’ve needed at the office for a while and just kept forgetting to get until recently were: lotion, pads, tampons, pain medicine, and napkins. The things I need at home and keep forgetting about are: shampoo, conditioner, and laundry detergent…I think. I know it makes sense that I could just write all this down on a Post-it note or in a day-planner or something like that, but once it’s in my satchel, it’s as good as forgotten. That’s one of the major reasons why I write so much stuff on my hands. As I’m driving, I can see my hands and say, “Oh, I need to drop off the rent check” and stuff like that. The problem with this system is winter. Why? Because I’m wearing gloves outside and in the van! It’s friggin’ cold!! I’m not about to write on my gloves, and so I forget stuff.

Another problem with remembering things is the simple fact that I’m going from one place or the other and therefore don’t think about the other place so much. When I leave work, I leave most of it behind and stop thinking so much about it because I just want to be at home and relax for a while. When I’m at work, I’m not thinking all that much about home because I’m busy doing work. Somewhere in the drive between the house and the office, my brain shifts and I lose whatever was just there. I guess it’s kind of like having a dual-boot system. Once I shut Windows down and load up Linux, all the Windows programs which were running are gone now and not running in my brain, and the reverse is also true. It’s not that the programs and data aren’t still there (unless I didn’t save, hehe), it’s just that they’re not operating at the moment and therefore can’t be accessed.

Yup, well, I’ve turned a random thought that I need to get some Tums for the office into a long, drawn-out, and quite possible boring musing about my brain and its lack of general functioning. Oh well. I just felt like typing something other than e-mails anyway.