WFMW: Another memory aid
My memory is toast. That’s why I blog; because I’ll forget my children’s names and faces if I don’t. It’s much easier to remember one url than all the details of the past 2 years of my life. My friend laughed at me today for looking up my own recipe on my blog, but this is my life. If I didn’t blog it, I would forget. I store my brain online, so I can access it whereever I go. Now I don’t have to remember to bring it with me.
Case in point. I nearly just forgot what I was going to blog about and got lost on that little rabbit trail of blogging rationalization.
I recently took 2 courses of prescription meds. Don’t ask why; just understand that I can’t remember to take vitamins more than once a week and be astonished that I agreed to take a pill every 12 hours for 10 days. Due to my memory - or more accurately, my lack thereof - I completely bungled the first course, which explains the necessity for the second course.
I managed without missing a single dose by using a trick I learned from a friend (yes, the same friend who mocked me for storing my brain in my blog). I set the alarm in my cell phone to go off every 12 hours with the loudest, most obnoxious ringer I could find. Alarms are pretty standard on cell phones now and they are quick and easy to set. As long as I can remember why my phone is screaming at me and I have the discipline to get up right now and put the pill in my mouth, I am home free. Now I can remember to take vitamins.
Unfortunately, vitamins still make me puke. Which just might be better than what the prescription meds did to me, but that’s another story.
And that’s my little Works For Me Wednesday story. Read more or share your own in the comments.
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Hey, I resemble that remark!
Thank goodness for cell phone alarms! I’ve been taking a prescription 4x/day for the last 4 years, and I still forget if I don’t take it the very MINUTE my alarm goes off!