Training Log Archive: barb

Back from dropping Isabel off at soccer, then to the bike shop.

Bike shop to Peabody school.
Later, to a nearby intersection to get a mystery cell phone from a stranger, and then to the grocery store to get food for dinner.

Today I encountered a couple of reverse problems. Isabel was typing on her lap (on an imaginary keyboard) and I was trying to read what letters she was typing and it was really hard. I couldn't do it at all actually, except by typing the alphabet and figuring out which key is where that way.

Later I got a call at home from a woman who had just found a cell phone on the ground and started calling the numbers in its address book. She was a few blocks away, so I rode over and got it from her. I was wondering how I'd figure out whose it was - maybe inference from the people in the address book, if I recognized them. There is probably an obvious solution, but I'm not terribly cell phone savvy. It was running out of battery power, so I was concerned we wouldn't get enough information before it died. As it turns out, the person had their name on the screen when you open the phone. It's a classmate of Isabel (the entry for our home phone number was labeled "Izzy", which would have been a good clue).

To work at 6. To Arlington at 7. Usually I bike, but the bike is in the shop. Took the Minuteman Trail, which Arlington is kindly keeping clear this winter, for the first time. It was cold, single digits when I started. Dave drove so I had a ride back.

A couple New Year's resolutions have been falling by the wayside each day. Yesterday it was caffine and alcohol. The day before it was sugar and something else. Before that, exercise. But I am happy that for 3 workdays I've kept the resolution about not visiting dailyKos, websudoku or AP at work.

To work and back in the morning (5-6:30). So cold! Then late in the day, home from the bike shop.

Put lots more outerwear on after the cold run. Long undies & down vest. The To school for a parent meeting. Then work. Then home when Isabel felt scared home alone (David had gone to volunteer at a preschool). Then to the bike shop.

My mind is beginning to fail. I am pretty convinced that this is the early stage of what will end up being a long downhill slide into dementia. Today I went to a jr high parent meeting. I recognized most of the people in the circle, but did not remember who most of them were parents to, and certainly not their names. I sat near a woman who was extremely familiar, but it took me half a minute to place her. It is the science teacher! With whom I worked on the orienteering field trip, and met with just a few weeks ago about David, and so on. Unbelievable. I feel kind of sad and a little scared. Who I am is what I know, and I am slipping away.

C • Dementia and who you are 21

First official day back at work for a week and a half. Nice break.
I went in early in an attempt to relieve my work anxiety. 5 am. It was cold.

To work and back to get a bit of a headstart on 2008.