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—Sizzle, I’m pleased to report that I’m not losing my mind.
Good news
—Indeed. I have two recent proofs. First, you know those colored exercise bands I use?
I’m colorblind, but yes, I have seen you attack the closet door handle
—Right. I realized the blue band wasn’t enough of a challenge! I needed to move up in the band hierarchy. So I thought I would go on the Big A and buy more bands . . .
—And then I thought . . . didn’t I do that already? I had a sort of muscle memory . . . open site / start search / exercise bands . . . so I held off . . .
—But if I had already bought bands, where were they? Where did I put them? I mulled this . . .
—After a day or two, I could think of three places where the bands might be . . .
—A day or two after that, I forced myself to start looking for them, beginning with the easiest place, which was also the least likely.
—And there they were, five of them, in their elegant black felt bag.
—As if that weren’t enough, I moved up not one, but two levels!
Yay Debby!
—Yes! I don’t like these bands as well as the longer ones—
—But I bought them, and found them, so I’m using them.
—Now, second . . . C, my financial advisor, in her year-end letter told us to be sure we had a Durable Power of Attorney (from our state) in place and to provide her with a copy. I try to be a good citizen for C, since I have so little money for her to advise upon, so eventually I got out the big binder with all my will and trust papers, and of course I have a DPA, which runs 11 pages, so I’m sitting there, wondering if I can get away with scanning just 9 pages for C, and then I think . . .
—Don’t I have these will & trust sections digitally . . . ?
—So I go to my somewhat-trusty laptop, and there, under Will / 2022 / Final PDFs is what I need to send C!
You’re amazing, Debby
What a relief. But just as important I am, occasionally, when I need to, able to remember things.
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Well done, Debbie! I had a similar situation the other day and felt victorious when I remembered! I can’t remember what it was at the moment but that’s ok ☺️
Of course you remember. You are a smart cookie!