There are days that I feel like a moron. Just in general. And then there are days that I feel like an adoption-related moron. Today is one of those days.
You see, I’m busy addressing and stuffing envelopes for BigBrother’s 2nd birthday party. Yes, I’m on bed rest, planning a birthday party for just about two weeks before LittleBrother’s due date. Apparently I am some sort of glutton for punishment. Or, as I said, just a general moron.
I don’t keep an address book. I lose it if I keep it. So I keep addresses in various places on my computer. Why not all the same place? Again with the moron thing. I know most addresses by recollection. I have a thing for numbers. Well, okay, this isn’t entirely true. And I will explain.
I can remember phone numbers and zip codes with ease, especially in comparison to how easily I forget peoples’ names. Oh, yes, I stink at the name game. I don’t know why, but I do. But phone numbers and zip codes are my specialty. But that’s where it ends with numbers. Why? Well, for example, for four years now, I have been transposing two numbers in J and D’s house number address. I honestly cannot remember whether their address is XYZ or XZY. So, I’m waiting for D to log on so I can ask her, for the second time in as many months, what their box number is.
Yeah? Write it down? I’ve had it wrong, as in both ways, on my computer for four years. I don’t know which is right. If I write it down with pen, I fear writing it down wrong and then trusting that for another four years. Ah, transposing numbers! You’re why I struggled in my math classes! GRR!
Anyway. I know their zip code. And their telephone number. That counts, right?
3 Responses to “But I Know Their Zip Code”
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that absolutely counts! i’ve got the opposite problem i know J&Ms house number and street but the zip had never stuck in head. And I’ve been trying for 6 years. As for phone numbers well I used to be good at remember them but since I got a cell phone that skill is out the window too.
Wouldn’t it be great to live when you could just address a letter to a persons name and their town and it would get to them.
I’m good at phone #’s too, but not names.
Hope your son’s party is lovely.
Address book?!–PPFFFTT – That’s what I got my mom for. If I had a book, I’d just lose it anyways.
Hope the paty is superb. Can’t wait to hear about it.
Thinking about throwing PooWee a 1 yr party. Sounds like work, but I think it will make up for not having a baby shower and take the “saddness” out of the day for me. Plus, I figure his father’s family and my family can finally meet. Who knows, got abit of time yet.