Sophie's New Grill and the Genetics of My Brain Disorder

We're hookin' up all the girls with new grillz, and yesterday Sophie went first. Ella will be next on Thursday (Eva is still in the consultation phase). I think Sophie made an excellent choice going with the neon green bands!

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It was both comforting and disturbing on Saturday when my sister called to tell me about how she had just driven away from a gas station with the pump nozzle still in her car. Down the street a little bit from the gas station, she checked her side view mirror before changing lanes, and there was the nozzle, still in place, with the hose dangling on the road behind it.

How does a person forget to put the nozzle back in place before driving away you ask? Well, she decided to go inside to get herself a Diet Coke while her gas was pumping, and then just hopped in the car and drove off when she came back out. Sounds about right to me, which is disturbing.

It reminded me of the time I accidentally left the car running in the parking lot at UNR, outside the speech therapy building. I was running late getting Sophie to speech therapy that day, so as soon as we arrived, I whipped right out of the driver's seat, opened the back door and helped Sophie put her shoes on and fixed her hair. Then, I rushed her into the building, signed-in, and looked around for her therapist. After the session was finally underway, I relaxed in the darkness of the observation area and watched Sophie in therapy. About fifteen minutes later, I decided I wanted to play around with my new i-pod, so I went out to the car to retrieve it. What a shock it was to discover that in my haste to get Sophie into the building, I had forgotten to turn off the car.

Janene and I are fascinatingly similar in our brain dysfunctions. We talk about it all the time, and constantly come up with self-improvement plans that, of course, we will start the following Monday :) And when our husbands are together and compare wife notes, the complaints are identical. It gets a little scary.

I've had some success over my struggles this week though. Last night for instance, I made it to bed at 11:30, and that was in the face of my lying brain telling me it would be a good thing to stay up again! Also, I have a new planner in which I have actually written something. I bought a thin one, as to not overwhelm myself. And Matt bought me a very thin Moleskin notebook to write lists in as well.

I've had those all too familiar failures however. It's often a case of the mind being willing but the brain being weak. I WILL NOT give up though... at least not until I am faced with the next tempting distraction, which could present itself at any moment :)

But for reals peeps, this is my goal for the week: 11 o'clock bedtime everyday!!!!!! My heart just skipped a beat as I said that out loud.