If Anyone Sees My Brain Laying Around…
Like many moms have discovered, there is such a thing as pregnancy brain. There is also such a thing as exhaustion brain (mom brain?), when your brain just can’t keep up with daily demands because you are getting no sleep. No, this isn’t yet another post complaining about being tired. I figure my son slept well once upon a time, he’ll sleep well again*, and in the meantime, I can laugh at the idiotic things I do in my sleep-deprived state.
When you’re tired, you’re just not functioning on all cylinders. You make errors in judgment; you miscalculate. I went to the doctor for myself in the midst of Influenza-palooza 2013 and pulled into a too-tight-but-fine parking spot. Wanting to do better, I inched back out…and nicked the sideview mirror on the support beam in the parking garage. I knew it was there, I was even watching for it—hence why I “inched” the car out…and I still hit it. Oy.
Then the other day I wanted to make some chocolate milk. But alas, the chocolate syrup was missing. Where had it gone? I would have remembered had I finished it off and thrown it away (even in my current state I remember to write down groceries to be bought), and my husband insisted he didn’t toss it or hide it from me. After considerable searching the fridge, it was to be found later, in the cabinet, next to decidedly unrefrigerated oatmeal and pasta-stuffs.
But my biggest doofus move? Okay. So I went to the bathroom. I specifically remember not zipping up my jeans–and I specifically remember thinking “I’ll do it later.” Because of all the things you procrastinate, why shouldn’t zipping up your fly be one of them? I have no idea. So, of course, one public daycare trip later, I realize that I’d forgotten to zip. And couldn’t for the life of me remember what I was so busy doing that I could manage to button the top button of my jeans, but couldn’t manage to finish the job and zip them up.
What bonehead moves have you made in a sleep-deprived state? —Erin
*None of my tried-and-true tricks are working! They don’t write a book to tell you what to do when all your baby wants to do is practice standing all night long.