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AN Community => AN Community => Topic started by: Keri on June 15, 2009, 09:51:29 am
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Now I've done it. My son graduated from high school last week and after graduation I held on to his diploma because I thought he would lose it. It has to be turned in to his USAF recruiter tomorrow. Well, I've lost it. I've spent all weekend looking for it (my son and husband are away for a week long trip). I called the high school and it takes 3 - 4 weeks to get a new one (he ships out to basic training in two weeks).
Oh, I'm not going to blame this on my AN!!! although my brain is fuzzy sometimes. Maybe middle age??? Maybe both? I'm so scattered!
Time to get back to looking for it.... maybe I'll find some of the other stuff I've lost lately too! Maybe I'll find my mind, which I feel like I've lost, in that stack of paperwork.
Thanks for listening.
Keri
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Keri~
I just read this on FB too! I do this stuff ALL the time - I just say a little prayer that God will help me remember where it is...I know some may think this is too trivial for God, but I like to keep Him busy in ALL aspects of my life! ;D Of course, then I have to always remember to say "thanks!"
Good luck!
K
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I'm w/Kaybo! I lose stuff and make myself crazy trying to find it. Prayers go up and usually things turn up...thanks be to God! Except of course an insurance check for $$$ that never turned up :-[ ,but they were very sweet about re-issuing it. :) Take a deep breath and retrace your steps. It probably got mixed in w/something else. Good luck!
Priscilla
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Thanks! I do believe too that God cares about the little things and I can pray about this. This 'little thing' may turn into a big thing, though, because I just talked to his USAF recuiter, and if I don't have the diploma there by tomorrow, he DOES NOT go in the Air Force. It takes too long (3 weeks) to order it from the school before he's supposed to ship out.
So here I go back to looking and praying!
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Oh good grief. Wouldn't a letter from the principal or school board president perform the same function?
Sara
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you would think... but they have their rules that are very ... military and strict but that's OK because...
I FOUND IT!!!!! yeah, finally !!
and in the process of turning the house upsidedown, found a few other missing items as well!
Thanks everyone. Now I have to go turn my house rightside up.
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Keri ~
Congratulations on the found diploma!
I think everybody forgets stuff and when we get a bit older, we forget a bit more often. Back in 2005, I went nuts looking for the title for a car I had owned for 15 years and wanted to sell. I knew I had put it somewhere for 'safekeeping' - but couldn't remember where. It was maddeningly frustrating! I finally found it by calming down and thinking hard about my original idea of where to put the darn thing for 'safekeeping'. I blamed the incident on the passage of time and 'age'. This was a year before my AN diagnosis but, like you, even on hindsight I didn't blame the AN. It was just plain old forgetfulness. It happens occasionally - to everyone. Even to my 29-year-old son. Go figure. :)
Jim
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Is there a saint of lost things? Thanks be to God for the timely finding of things that are important! Yay God!
Priscilla
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Hi Keri,
SO GLAD you found the diploma!! Please in all fairness to us worryworts, where was it???? In the fridge?? In the car?? The dog got it?? Don't leave us hanging!!!
Jackie
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Kerri, glad you found it but yes where was it? I would understand easily. I finally found my lost zinnia seeds in amongst a bunch of music CDs. Just where you always stick your seeds right? That area on top of a dresser is where new items frequently go so it's not as bad as it sounds. I think they were on top and fell in.
I hope it goes well for your son. As a side note, the relative who got married in April and husband are back to Iraq in Oct. 2nd time for them. Cheryl R
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sorry... it was in HIS ROOM (so i didn't lose it after all)! on the left side of his desk which contained a lot of important stuff related stuff to his senior year that i never even saw), behind the doggie bed. his room is a mess. i put on my facebook status that he needs the military to get his unorganized self in shape!
in the process of tearing up the house looking for his diploma, i found my daughter's ipod and a few other important items ! and i organized some paperwork that was taking over a room.
keri
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Hi Keri,
I was reading through these posts and was getting worried for you. I am glad you found it. I haven't even been treated yet, and I forget things and misplace things all the time. Sometimes I feel as if I literally get mental blocks where my mind is just plain not functioning. Pretty scary. Congratulations on your son's graduation. My son also graduates from high school this year and off to University to study film.
Vivian
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Is there a saint of lost things? Thanks be to God for the timely finding of things that are important! Yay God!
I remember a nun telling us this when I was a child. St. Anthony is the saint for lost things. This is the little prayer she told us. Don't know why, but I've always remembered it....
"Tony Tony look around..
Something's lost and must be found."
:D
Cathy
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I have a theory, of course I have theories about most things (some which work out well, others not so well)... It's the aliens. My theory is that when we temporarily lose stuff it's not our fault but the alien's.
When you go to look for something that turns out to be temporarily lost, you usually go to the place you remember putting it and it's not there. When you finally find it, it's in a place you don't remember putting it. I'm thinking the aliens take stuff, beam it up to study it, then put it back. The problem is they're aliens and don't always remember to put it back where they got it.. afterall they are about the size of an 8 year old and when was the last time an 8 year old remembered to put something back from where they got it.
So, in reality, it's not our memory problem, it's the alien's memory problem.
What I don't understand and don't have a theory for though is why are they so dadgum interested in my car keys, they seem to take those about every other day.
..take care... tim b
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oh tim....you are so funny!!
K ;D
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Do we sometimes talk about this??
I don't remember . . . ;) :D
Jan
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Hi Keri,
Just catching up on some reading here.
Your not alone having things come up missing! Those aliens have been hitting my house too! ;)
Glad you found the diploma! :D
Scarlett
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Yes, in this case the alien's name was Scott, and if you saw his room you would think the aliens attacked it!
I'm now going to go turn the diploma over to the USAF so they can deal with the aliens! (before it's lost again)
Thanks everyone!
Keri
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Thanks, Cathy. St. Anthony is the saint I was trying to remember..Love the verse!
Priscilla
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so that explains it!. . .my car keys have been missing for days. I hope they return them soon. I have a spare but if they take that too I'm sunk! Keri, so glad you found your son's diploma. Get used to the "military" way of doing things. They hardly eve make sense. And just as a warning, my son did get pretty organized and clean after boot camp, but then he was deployed to Iraq and after a year in the sandbox came back a bigger mess maker than ever. But he's getting married next month and then it's HER PROBLEM not mine, haha.
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Keri,
I'm glad you found your son's diploma -- I'm sure it was driving you crazy. It figures that HE put is somewhere and didn't tell you. As for Tim's theory about aliiens, my mom always said the Blue Men took things when she misplaced them. Hmm, I wonder if these blue men were aliens? :D
Wendy
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Well, the grey ones do look a little bluish under flourescent lights...er, I mean, IF there were grey aliens, or, er, maybe I've said too much...never mind...
..take care...tim b
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Forgetfull/lose stuff........last week it was earrings....this week it is a SHOE! ONE shoe??? Have looked everywhere even the yard....Grandchildren, gardener, Housekeeper have helped me.....now please this is ridiculous. Makes me nuts!!!!!!! What do you do with one shoe? I love these new shoes....wanted to take them on a trip.....guess not. Perhaps if I buy another pair it will show up?
Judy
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Or maybe you will just lose the opposite shoe! I still haven't found my earrings that have been missing for almost a month now. It just makes me crazy to think about.
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I lost (no, it wasn't me - she tried them on and then "flung" them somewhere) the shorts to Addi's basketball uniform! I have turned this house upside down. I went & bought as close as I could to match, thinking that would make the others show up. NOPE, still haven't turned up...& she doesn't match the rest of the team!! Thank goodness it hasn't affected her playing!!
K ;D
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I still haven't found my earrings that have been missing for almost a month now. It just makes me crazy to think about.
Check your sink's drain traps. I accidentally washed my wife's expensive diamond earrings down the drain a few years ago, never to be seen again. I had given them to her as a birthday gift. Fortunately, our homeowners policy paid us their replacement cost. Suffice it to say that I won't make that mistake again. :)
Jim
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Check your sink's drain traps. I accidentally washed my wife's expensive diamond earrings down the drain a few years ago, never to be seen again. I had given them to her as a birthday gift. Fortunately, our homeowners policy paid us their replacement cost. Suffice it to say that I won't make that mistake again. :)
Jim
I know your wife (and luff her dearly! :-* ) and I know for certain you WON'T be making that mistake again! ;) BTW, you said your name was (insert name here)? ;)
Phyl
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yes, many of my things also get lost when i put them in a safe place.
Judy... did you find your shoe??
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Oh yeah...the "safe places." My safe places are infamous in my family. Once I was going out of town and was concerned about leaving some jewelry behind, so I put it in a "safe place." Found it 2 years later! Nothing is safe around me ;D.
Priscilla
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Noooooooo shoe yet!! I keep looking everyday........I miss my shoes.....I love them...want to wear them...Sooooo comfortable and pretty too! Yesterday needed to wear a watch.....No watch ( a very expensive Rolex that was a very special gift) It doen't matter whether it is expensive or not ....I just WANT it. I have always been organized to a fault and often wished I didn't strive for perfection in this area.....not close to it now...still not happy. Perhaps I should just pile everything important into a backpack pack.....put it on....know where it is...unless I forget I have a backpack on. Geeeez this is annoying. Papers are the worst........searched all day a few days ago for airline e-ticket....it was pinned to bullitin board over my desk.....in plain site. Go figure!
Judy
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Whenever I put something in a safe place I always tell my wife. She does the same with when she puts something in a safe place. It`s amazing how can remember where someones else safe place is rather than your own. ha ha! Mickey
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My housekeeper is my best "safe place" keeper. She is so funny.....when I can't find something when shr isn't here.....I call her and she races over....has her hands on it in a minute.....but not the shoe this time. She has hunted more than me.
Judy
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It's nice to know I'm not the only one who can't remember what "safe place" I put things in. Now unless it's for one of them, I always telll my kids where I put something when putting it in a "safe place". Thei rmemories are much better than mine and it gives them a good laugh at my expense when I have to ask them.
One time I bought my youngest daughter earrings for her birthday and put them in a "safe place". I ended up finding them two years later and giving them to her for Christmas -- of course for the birthday in question, I ended up having to buy another pair.
Wendy
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I remember when I was young my mom got me a game for Christmas, put in the "safe place" and couldn't find it til Easter. . . . and she's never had a AN. At least we have a good excuse.
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Looking for sunglasse today..you can guess where they were the whole time i looked.Asked my son to help me look..Um Mom they are on our head?????called me Blondie. ;D