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The other day our cable went out. So I got out our portable DVD player. I was looking high and low for external speakers I had for it because the sound is so low on that player. DH asks what I'm looking for and I tell him. He asks "can't you watch our DVD player on the TV when the cable goes out?" Duh....of course you can.
By the way, I found the speakers today! They were on the top shelf with my Christmas stamps. I had them behind the stamps so they wouldn't go all the way back so I can reach them easier!
I constantly walk around looking for my cell phone...Problem is, I'm usually talking on it while I'm looking for it. My kids just look at me like I'm nuts!!!!
I do that all the time with my glasses. I see close up better without them so I am constantly putting them on my head and then I go looking for them!
I drive my parents to appts and use their van since its easier for them to get in and out. When we are coming home we drive past my place first and I'm constantly wondering who's at my house since there's a car in my driveway. Duh...its mine cause I'm driving theirs! Lol
So, yes being tall and having long hair been there and done most of
those on a daily basis... got another one though,
I have bi lateral cochlear implants. ( these sound processors
(look like big hearing aids on the outside)
hook up via a magnet to another magnet under the skin
where the fiber line is to the audio nerves) anyways...
every.other.single.time I reach in the dryer to get the clothes out
I am reminded that
my dryer door is metal because, one side of my head
will all the sudden jerk me right up to it if I get
too close. :mrgreen:
and or I lose sound on the right side because,
it becomes airborne and decides it wants to
hook up to the dryer door more than me.
Truck door jamb is metal too :lol:
This is the most silliest thing because, someday I *hope*
I am trainable enough to keep my head away from the doors.
hasn't happened yet, but hope springs eternal, eh?
PS it's only been 8 & 7 years and counting with these lol
Stacy, yep that would happen to me… Dawn and Kathy, my phone and glasses are my most lost (yet on my person) items I have. It's bad when you have your husband call you so you can find your cell phone and your back pocket or purse ring. At work we have ID cards and mine is on a retractable cord; we also have safety knives that connect to a holster via a spiral cord. I am aways getting these stuck on something and then I can only walk so far away until I'm like "oh".
Every day and in every way I just keep getting stupider and stupider!! I was finishing a pocket letter a week or so ago and couldn't find the sticky ribbon sheet I was going to insert in the back. I knew I cut two but the darn thing had just disappeared! After a complete cleaning of my desk it was no where to be found! Well...guess what...I found it this morning...stuck to the scarf I had around my neck at the time!!!!!! Go figure!!!!! I know there are gremlins living in my studio but that little trick was just mean!!!! LOL
I lost my glasses once. Looked EVERYWHERE. Wore sunglasses for most of March to drive (in Illinois, March is often grey & drizzly). Finally gave up and went to Pearle Vision and got a new pair of glasses.
Six (yes, SIX) years later I found them. Tucked behind a container on my ribbon shelf in my craft room. At that point, I just left them there. A few weeks ago I did a deep cleaning / purge of my craft room and tossed them. Dated style and old prescription.
I am loving this thread. Makes me smile if not really LOL and nod a lot.
On my person that I look for...keys and glasses.
Stacy...what a story! I hope you dont burn your cheek on a hot dryer door!
Kathy I would not have gotten that either about the DVD player. I dont get that stuff. Hulu/Tivo/DVR/boxes to stream/linking to tablets to watch movies/ and on and on...piles of electronics, wires that years ago could have lit up a whole building...no.
I have extended wear contact lenses that I can wear continuously for up to a week. I usually wear them for 4 or 5 days, then take them out for a few days and wear my glasses instead, then wear the contacts for a few more days before tossing them.
Yesterday afternoon I put back in the pair of contacts I'd worn last week. I noticed that things weren't quite as clear and sharp-looking as they usually are, but just chalked it up to my eyes adjusting from glasses back to contacts. I woke up this morning with a pretty nasty headache, and my vision still was a bit blurry. About 45 minutes ago, I finally got the idea to try switching my contacts.
Yep. When I put them in yesterday, I'd put the right contact in my left eye, and the left contact in my right eye. Apparently I mixed them up when I put them in the case, because I distinctly remember putting the one from the "left" compartment into my left eye.
Not only can I see better now, but my headache is finally subsiding...
And I thought you were going to say that you put a set of contacts in over top of another, or wore your glasses with your contacts in.
The cashier at Walmart tonight told me that about a year ago she lost her phone. They had just finished up inventory and she had an expensive smart phone. She figured someone found it and kept it, or that it got thrown out in the cardboard recycle or trash. It is inventory time now and one of the workers found her phone last night in the shelving somewhere. She couldn't believe it; she called to see about getting it reactivated because she has been doing with a cheap one since losing the other.
I don't have any current "uh-oh" moments to relate, but I did knock myself out cold playing doubles racquetball on a first date in college... Two black eyes and a goose egg in the middle of my forehead for a couple of weeks (so pretty!). We won, though!
As far as the glasses go - when I need to take them off (they're readers) I pull them down below my nose, still hanging on my ears. It looks totally ridiculous, I'm sure, but I don't lose them OR my hair...
Ok, I have one...... On Saturday, DH gives me a small list for the grocery store. On the list is : magazine.
me - what kind of magazine?
DH - magazine is short for magnesium - I couldn't remember how to spell it.
So, I'm ok with that, and head to the store - get him a small bottle of mag. tablets.
Several hours later:
DH - where is the magnesium you bought me?
Me - on the kitchen counter, by the frig.
DH - I don't see it - where is it?
Me - On the kitchen counter - right hand side.....
DH - come find it, please.
So, I'm in another room, walk towards the kitchen, pick up his chapsick from the floor and carry it into the kitchen and place it beside the bottle of magnesium, with a nice loud slap.
DH looks at me - that's not what I wanted. ME = that is what you said you wanted.
DH - no, not that - you know that other stuff.....in the white container.....
Me -what are you looking for that is in a white container? DH - you know, that stuff
I use.... Me - you mean Epson Salts? DH - yes - that stuff.......
sigh....... Yes, ES is a type of magnesium, but who calls it that????
I told him to take his new mag. tablets.....
It was pretty funny...He wanted the ESalts for the garden....
__________________ Karen - proud owner of 3 cats and a 80 lb, German Shepard Owner of an unorganized scrappy place I CAN ONLY SHIP IN THE USA
Where have I seen this before? ! She is hilarious and that story was too! Wonder where it was filmed because it looked like my uncle in the audience! LOL
One of the funniest threads ever (and I yes, I can relate to most of them!)!
One to add: couldn't find my cellphone, was about to ask my son to call me so I could find it when I realized I WAS SPEAKING TO HIM ON MY CELLPHONE! At least I caught myself before I asked :oops:
My goal was to make two anniversary cards today. I had the panels completed for the front of the card … this involved three die cuts and some dry embossing. I placed those finished panels in a plastic bag until time to adhere them to the card front. Then I began working on the layers that I planned to place inside the cards. I silver embossed the sentiment and a floral image and die cut that out. Then I die cut a layering panel to adhere the sentiment piece to. Then it dawned on me that the panels I had made for the inside of the card would only fit in a landscape design …. the panels I’d made for the card front would only fit a portrait composition. A-r-r-g-g-h! What a goof! These senior-moments are tough! Lol But I was determined to save the sentiment panels and make them work. Thank goodness I was able to use smaller dies to re-size the sentiment and layer panel for each card, so all is well.
__________________ Rita
God demonstrated His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us ... being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. Romans 5:8 & 9
My goal was to make two anniversary cards today. I had the panels completed for the front of the card � this involved three die cuts and some dry embossing. I placed those finished panels in a plastic bag until time to adhere them to the card front. Then I began working on the layers that I planned to place inside the cards. I silver embossed the sentiment and a floral image and die cut that out. Then I die cut a layering panel to adhere the sentiment piece to. Then it dawned on me that the panels I had made for the inside of the card would only fit in a landscape design �. the panels I�d made for the card front would only fit a portrait composition. A-r-r-g-g-h! What a goof! These senior-moments are tough! Lol But I was determined to save the sentiment panels and make them work. Thank goodness I was able to use smaller dies to re-size the sentiment and layer panel for each card, so all is well.
I've done something similar to that. Also, I typically make card fronts and adhere them to bases, so I stamp my white bases on the back with "Handmade By" and sign it before I actually make the card. Of course, I stamped it for a portrait front, and had made a landscape front. I just let that one go, with my name stamped on the side instead of the bottom.
__________________ Bugga in OK
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." Dalai Lama
Love this thread! I have a funny about my dad bless him.
He wore glasses mainly for reading, and he had a chain around his neck, as he kept losing them when they were on the top of his head, anyway, he was also partially deaf (though we were convinced some of it was more selective hearing!) You had to be facing him when you spoke as he partially lip read, which as a teenager was the worst thing ever, as you could not grumble or mutter as teenagers are prone to doing. It always made us laugh as he would say "where are my glasses so I can hear you"....normally swinging from his neck, filthy dirty as they were a great 'landing area' for crumbs etc. He would put them on and then take them off, hand them to you and get you to clean them so he could hear you!
People thought it was funny when I told them I didn't hear as well when I didn't have my glasses on! I told them that I thought that because lip reading plays a part, that was why I couldn't hear as well! Must be true! LOL
Love this thread! I have a funny about my dad bless him.
He wore glasses mainly for reading, and he had a chain around his neck, as he kept losing them when they were on the top of his head, anyway, he was also partially deaf (though we were convinced some of it was more selective hearing!) You had to be facing him when you spoke as he partially lip read, which as a teenager was the worst thing ever, as you could not grumble or mutter as teenagers are prone to doing. It always made us laugh as he would say "where are my glasses so I can hear you"....normally swinging from his neck, filthy dirty as they were a great 'landing area' for crumbs etc. He would put them on and then take them off, hand them to you and get you to clean them so he could hear you!
(Happy memories)
Sweet story about your dad, Jukie.
Cathy, I had a favorite aunt that I would call often on the phone. She would always say, "Wait a minute, I can't hear you. I have to get my glasses."
__________________ Bugga in OK
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." Dalai Lama
I do this all the time. I go looking for something and can't find it. I look later in the same place and its there! I was looking for a marker to give a friend. I knew I just saw it and was pretty sure where but when I looked through that storage box I couldn't find it to give her. She left and I looked again and it was there all along! She thought it was hilarious when I texted her.
I do this all the time. I go looking for something and can't find it. I look later in the same place and its there! I was looking for a marker to give a friend. I knew I just saw it and was pretty sure where but when I looked through that storage box I couldn't find it to give her. She left and I looked again and it was there all along! She thought it was hilarious when I texted her.
Yes, I hear you! Everything at my house hides in plain sight!
__________________ Bugga in OK
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." Dalai Lama
Just this week my car and house keys decided to hide. I looked EVERYWHERE and was beginning to panic. Finally I asked my dh to help me look. He found them right away. They were on the kitchen counter where I had just looked earlier in my search!!
__________________ Rita
God demonstrated His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us ... being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. Romans 5:8 & 9
My son texted me to see if I would come fish with him. I grabbed my gear and took off. When I got home I remembered I had placed my motion sensor light on the back of the car in the sunlight so it could get a good charge. I haven't seen my light since! I drove down the road hoping I would see light somewhere along the way, but alas no light! :twisted:
I also decorate the inside of my cards quite elaborately. More than once I have happily finished the inside and realized it was upside down in relation to the front of the card / and no way to rectify - but that's the beauty of handmade cards! Now I try to do the inside before the front, or put things on a panel and glue the whole thing on last, so I can quickly remove it if I make a mistake.
With regards to glasses - I got my first glasses about 10 years ago - my husband chose them for me and they were beautiful and expensive. They were only readers though / and if I took them off I could never find them. I kept meaning to get a chain so they could hang around my neck - but did not do so soon enough. I usually just latched the glasses leg over the "v" of my shirt. Sure enough, one day at work I bent over to flush the toilet (after peeing) and they slipped down into the toilet and were flushed away! I even tried to grab them at the last minute in the toilet (eeeek!) but no luck! I was so upset I went crying (literally) to the head guy (I did wash my hands first) and asked if there was some kind of catcher in the pipes that could have saved my glasses. He looked at me like I was crazy. I still miss those glasses - never found any others quite so pretty. Boo hoo - haha!
