Lost & Found

Lewis is hiding in the lost and found.  We'll see how long it takes Jack to find him in the morning.

I misplace things all the time; things I need such as my car keys or my cell phone.  The more I have on my mind, the more apt I am to lose something.  During exams when I was in law school, I lost my keys more times than I can count.  Once I put them in the freezer.  Another day I left them on the bus.  One time I got on the bus and called Bernie to tell him that I couldn’t find my keys and I thought I locked them in the car.  I did. The kicker was that they were in the ignition and the car was still running.  Bernie got there several hours after I called.  We were lucky the car wasn’t stolen.

When you are deep in thought it is hard to remember where you put something down while you were in the middle of doing something else. Example: I might be making bottles when Jack needs help with his shoes. I put the bottle down to pick up my cell phone which vibrated during this and gets me thinking about something I need to do for work.  I walk over to Jack.  I put the phone down and leave it there, finish up with Jack and then finish making the bottles.  I completely forget that I put the phone on the couch when I’m frantically looking for it before we get in the car to go to Kellee's house (daycare).

No matter what I’ve lost, Bernie can always find it.  I don’t know how he does it, but he does.   He was traveling last week for work.  Two days in a row I lost my phone.  I panicked because I couldn’t find it.  I panicked because it is really the only way to get ahold of me (we don’t have a home phone) until I got to work.  I panicked because I couldn’t even call it because I didn’t have another phone, since Nick was already at school and had his phone with him. I really wondered if I would find it without Bernie’s help. I did find it both days but I was frustrated with myself as I retraced my steps and I knew Bernie would have been able to find it much faster than I did.

I am truly lost without Bernie, or at the very least my stuff is lost without him.  J