Hooliganting: You know you are tired when

Hooliganting: You know you are tired when: Like most busy moms, sometimes I manage to take tiredness and busyness to whole new levels and extremes. I have had some moments lately, tha...

You know you are tired when

Like most busy moms, sometimes I manage to take tiredness and busyness to whole new levels and extremes. I have had some moments lately, that are sometimes just too funny not to share. In fact, I have had enough of them to warrent a rather frivolous blog post just to share my version of the funny. And before you ask, these are all moments that have happened in the last three weeks or so. Really. I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.

In no particular order, you know you are tired when:

1. You take your portable home phone with you in the van on the way to work, thinking that you have your cell phone. That, regretably, was still plugged into the charger. Contrary to my other self, the portable phone has a limited range to the end of the driveway.
2. You hunt all over for your keys, only to realize that they are in your hands.
3. You begin driving to your work and have to turn around three times back to your house in order to fetch your lunch, your file folders and your children's activity bags. 
4. On that note, you also know you are tired when you are supposed to be going grocery shopping and automatically drive to work instead. 
5. You pack for a trip and have to do it a week ahead in order not to forget anything.
6. You drive to class only to realize that you forgot your equipment.
7. You go to leave your office and lock the door, only to realize your keys are happily waiting on the inside. 
8. You start cooking a lovely supper, and zone completely out and have to cook pasta with tomato sauce to compensate for the smell of blackened scallops.
9. You go to shovel the walkway (snow) and realize that you have lost your shovel. I wound up using plywood scraps. Seriously? 
10. You go to the grocery store to buy milk, and buy everything else but.
11. You get up from your comfortable chair to go do something critical and forget why you are up half way to the destination room. Continuing on, you hope you remember when you get there and don't. It isn't until you sit back down that it comes to you.
12. You book an appointment for a day that you have to work.
13. You forget that you have an appointment and only remember when you show up at the office for an adjustment because you are injured, only to discover that the next appointment was yours anyway.
14. You forgot your payday and wonder why you have no money to spend.
15. You go to put your munchkins to bed and nearly fall asleep yourself.
16. You remember to feed the cat but wonder why you are hungry. The cat food is not appealing either.
17. You actually forget about Halloween until a couple of days before!
18. You know you are tired when you stuff your phone into the kids music bag and think "how cool is it that the bag plays music?". Oh..there it is...
19. You get to a point where you are too tired to sleep.

I know that I had more of these, but I am too tired to remember them all right now. Watch this space, I will add more as I think of them. Or do something else daft.

OK - so I have gone and done it again.

20.  When you reach in to snag your lunch and take a block of butter to work instead. Ask my co-workers, they howled!
21. When you leave your keys on the counter for 5 days and when you start to look for them - they have vanished. (If you find them, let me know as I remember NOTHING. Obviously, I missed a step somewhere.)