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Losing Things...
My glasses. So i left up my christmas sotcking 3 years ago- everytime i come home-i put them right there upon entering the house. lol
I lose everything keys are a big one but since I started hanging them up its been relativeley easy to find them!Glasses every now and then try to keep those babies close I feel stupid when I gotta ask the wife to come look for them cause Im blind! lol well I couldnt be a Mole with 20/20
I lose things several times a day. On my desks. Without ever leaving my office. It upsets me terribly because it was just RIGHT HERE, and now I can't find it.(I should note that my desks are very messy.)
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Last time this happened I broke two glass pitchers, lost my phone, my gym card, and locked myself out of my car at the gas station.
My husband lost his job, and I am losing my mind, trying to make sure we don't lose our house.Does that count?
My library assistant is constantly on the look for things that I've lost. She looks for my clipboard or my coffee or the book I was about to read my class about 57% of her work day. I'm horrible.
RA, your key problem has a keen solution, but my problem is that I'm never CONSCIOUS of where I'm putting my keys. I've solved this by tying a giant silk scarf to my keys. I never lose them, anymore.
RA, your key problem has a keen solution, but my problem is that I'm never CONSCIOUS of where I'm putting my keys. I've solved this by tying a giant silk scarf to my keys. I never lose them, anymore.
I lose everything...it's really quite annoying.Clothes, books, important documents, small appliances, among others.
I recently lost a pair of shoes, and it just baffles me as to where they could've gone.
It's not like I take them off outside the house, but I have looked for months, and they are lost.
It's a possibility that I have a multiple personality disorder that I am unaware of.
It's a possibility that I have a multiple personality disorder that I am unaware of.That is so intriguing. Do you find yourself missing periods of time as well?
I've lost my copy of Norton Antivirus. I don't want to switch to something else. I LIKE Norton.I hate most when you lose things and you KNOW "they're here somewhere"!
Sarah, there are some federal programs now to help mortgage holders who are struggling. Have you been able to get any info about that kind of stuff?
I lost a pair of running shorts. Anyone seen them? They are light blue with black trim. How does one lose their running shorts? I don't remember coming home from a run shortsless.
I feel so organized, reading this thread. I don't tend to lose things. I always put my keys in my purse, and my purse gets hung in the same place when I come home.I think if I lived alone, my cereal would be alphabetized...
Sarah (message 6), I'm really sorry about your husband. Such hard times right now...a good friend of mine was laid off from his job (after 15 yrs) and my brother's hours have been cut back quite a lot as well.as for losing your mind....I lose mine on a regular basis and don't always find it again either. When I do, it hardly seems like it's mine...
By the way, what are you studying now? are you back in college or getting a Master's or--?
Most likely everyone already knows this poem, but it's one of my favorites (and Bishop one of my favorite poets):One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
Laurel, are you the one with the red shirt (sans shorts) in your picture? I would never have guessed.It appears you are wearing shorts, but they have partly disintegrated in your travels.
Ha! No, those aren't the shorts...they are obviously safe and sound? Sort of? Mine were definitely blue.
(And obviously I am the bunny in the picture.)
No! I think that's Leslie! He's a mainstay in Austin.
My glasses. God. I'm almost late to work every morning searching for the goddamned things.Like RA, I also tend to lose my car. It's a Chevy Metro and is easily hidden behind soccer mom vans, compensatory Hummers, and family-of-nine SUVs.
Chairy, I'm back in college (I never graduated) studying literature. But it looks like I'll be putting that on hold once again to go to work full time once again.Mindy, I'm not really a fan of government spending. I think that would be a last resort for us.
Oooh Ginnie. I've loved that poem, ever since hearing this audio of it:http://www.learner.org/catalog/extras...
But Ginnie, I'd already posted it--see message 14...I feel redundant now... : )
I don't know if anyone remembers this poem... I think it's applicable here, so I thought I'd post it.
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
thanks D....hmm..it seems like I've heard it before...not sure though. I seem to have lost that memory file...
There is always a solution at hand (for losing things, not for duplicate posts of Elizabeth Bishop poems).http://www.ehow.com/how_2131263_stop-...
yes, but that was David's idea of a joke....to make me feel better. Not to worry: I posted the same comment David had in a different thread: I was being an obnoxious grammarian, and I didn't realize he beat me to it several messages earlier!so I've not a leg to stand on apparently...
Yeah, Sarah, I didn't figure you would be, but sometimes we're just not able to do it all on our own.I try to frame government as just how "we" act collectively rather than some big bad boogeyman that is antithetical to social and/or individual welfare. (If "we" are a democracy, which is highly debatable, that really is all government is, how "we" act collectively.) I would like to thank "us" for the year that I was on food stamps. It was unbelievably helpful for me during a really difficult time, as it is for all of the families I work with who make nothing near the living wage.
I am sooo glad it's just not me. I have several weird rituals now, aside from always putting things in the same place. When I get ready to go out or leave the house, I count the things I need to have: pen, notebook, phone, wallet, right shoes (don't ask), keys, MP3 player. If I don't get to 7 I know something is missing. And Sarah, we are all thinking of you.
I loose my keys sometimes, but I don't loose my car now that keys have the fob on them with the alarm. I hit the alarm and listen for the direction of the sound. It scares the poor person who has the bad luck to be getting out of the car beside mine but it works for me.
Hahahaha!No, just one of those hook things that go on your belt loop. (I have really bad days when my pants don't have belt loops.)
L: you lose your car keys because they are loose...: )
Now you're loosing me, here. Does that make me a looser? Or just too loose? Either way I guess I lose.
Ha! actually yes they are usually :) I lose my keys because they are loose.
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Good luck--I hope you find it!Sometimes I buy things that I know I already have--somewhere! As far as keys and stuff like that I'm pretty good. On work nights, I make sure all the stuff I need is there on the counter and it's get up, get ready and go. Anything else is way too stressful!
I lose important papers and that gets very frustrating and time-consuming.
I love the idea of being organized. Just the sight of a well organzined garage or kitchen can give me a sense of well-being, but the actual practice of organization--not happening. Maybe one day....
i always loose those tiny earrings!! I haven't found a way to prevent it. I always loose my physical coordination (can't catch a ball hahaha).. I'm uncoordinated by default, does it count?
Here's the only option, K. Don't wear any! :P
@ Larry, i can't i have to wear 3 earrings in one ear, and 2 in the other... impossible to wear just a pair =( haha the price of it right?
No not at all. I never wear earrings, so I never lose any. Lucky me, huh?
hahhaha you are really funny Larry. yes lucky you. But, don't you ever loose something?
I've been known to lose my heart on occasion.
oh no. =( what can i say.. i'm a mess with the whole love thing.
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I used to lose my keys constantly but now I have a failsafe system in which I put them in the same goddamn place every day, both in my office and house, to keep that from happening.
I lose computer files sometimes. That's my fault, though, for stupidass naming policies.
I also regularly can't find my car in parking lots. It's small.
And...you?