With my first pregnancy I remember feeling a bit absent minded. At first we thought it was funny when I was cooking and emptied a can of chili into the garbage and set the can in a pot. I couldn't believe how stupid I was throughout the entire process of emptying the can, I didn't once realize what I was doing. But then it got even worse when I did it AGAIN with a can of soup!!
Apparently, the absent mindedness never went away because it has been far worse with this pregnancy. I had made sugar cookies on Christmas Eve with Kendi and they didn't really turn out real great. Recently, Jared needed something to take to his home teaching families so, since I have an achievement day activity coming up that I will be supplying cookies for I thought that I had better practice. As I was making them I realized that after you add all the dry ingredients it says to add a tsp of baking powder for every cup of flour. I figured out that that must have been where the previous cookies went wrong. After I pulled the first batch of cookies out of the oven, they looked even more flat then when they went in, and I realized I had forgotten the baking powder again. I knew they were still edible, but I was feeling bummed about it for making the same mistake twice. I couldn't find a good icing recipe either and I hate it when it tastes like powdered sugar, but Jared seemed to like it so I let it go. After icing the first batch of cookies, I looked around and couldn't find the last batch. I even asked Jared, "Where did the cookies go?" in a very impatient tone. I noticed the timer on the oven was off and I even remember turning it off. Then I realized that the oven was still on. I opened it and there they were. BURNT!! I wanted to explode, but then I realized that at least I can throw them away now and be done.
On another occasion, I had loaded a large batch of towels in the dryer. Ten minutes after I had turned it on, I heard it stop. I wondered if it was broken, but I decided to try it again anyway. After ten minutes it turned off again. There were no other signs of something being wrong so I decided to just keep turning it on every ten minutes. I eventually forgot about them until the next day when I went to load another batch. The towels were still quite wet so I figured that maybe the load was just to big. So I ran them another three or four times before I decided to spread out the towels all over my house to dry. When I went to put the next load in the dryer I noticed that the setting was on the fluff cycle instead of the high heat cycle. I can't believe it took me two days to figure that one out.
Yesterday, I had to fill out my sale tax return. I knew this could turn out badly, but I've done it dozens of times before. I noticed that there were a lot more lines than usual. For some reason they sent some extra forms to fill out this year. I was supposed to fill out Schedules A, B & X besides schedule TC-something something. What in the world is Schedule X? I've never heard of it and they didn't send me one. After reading the instructions over and over and over I think I figured it out. My father-in-law would die if he saw how many scribbled out lines there were on all these forms.
Jared has finally admitted that it is the pregnancy that is affecting me somehow. He told me that there have been times where he'll go into the kitchen after me and turn off the oven or a burner that I've left on. I can feel myself hesitate when its time for me to do anything even a little bit challenging.
