Project Life 2015 – Week Nine

Subtitle: Mourning the loss of my beloved short-term memory

Here is my two-page spread for Week Nine of my 2015 Project Life/pocket page album:

As I’m looking at these two pages, I just realized I left off info about the Academy Awards on the first of March.

In 2013 and in 2014 (where I was way behind; still am) I included a lot of current events. This year when my pages are running only about a week behind, you’d think I’d remember what happened a week earlier. I can look at photos and remember lots of details. But since I don’t have photos of current events on the local, national, and international level, I don’t remember them when I need to remember them.

Can we talk about one of the ugly side effects of the aging process? I knew you’d want to. Okay, here it is anyway: short-term memory loss.

Now what were we talking about? Oh, yes! Short-term memory loss. Here’s how it looks. After my shower, I’m getting dressed and I wonder, did I just put on lotion? I know I took a shower because a damp towel is next to me. But there is no tangible hint for the lotion. This doesn’t happen every day, but it happens often enough to be really annoying.

And that’s just one example. Forget remembering numbers from five minutes ago. Also, I can be introduced to someone, but I’m not going to remember the name a few minutes later. The good news is that I never could remember names, so this one is not too scary. (I know a lot of name-remembering tricks. None have ever worked for me.)

Peter found some supplement on the internet that is supposed to help with short-term memory loss. He ordered it for us. It didn't seem to work, but then again we couldn't remember to take it. Haha! 

Occasionally my long-term memory leaves the building, too. I’ll be in the middle of telling about something, when suddenly I can’t remember the name of the city or the person or the movie or whatever I’m talking about. Not to worry. I WILL remember that one, but I will remember it at an inappropriate time, like during the middle of the night. People don’t seem to appreciate me texting them at that moment with the missing noun.

From what I've read, B vitamins seem to boost memory. Here is the summary of a study, which shows that older adults who took vitamin B12 and folic acid supplements for two years had greater improvements on short- and long-term memory tests than those not taking the supplements. This is not the most recent study, but it's the only one I could easily find that is not linked to specific products. (I don't want you to click on a link in my blog and get ads for the rest of your life.)

Before I forget it, here is a closer look at the whole left side of Week Nine:

Here is a closer look at the right side of Week Nine:

credits:

• Just Jaimee: 2015 Storyteller – Quinn (available by subscription for a reduced price) and random elements from other Just Jaimee kits
• Amie Lamm-Griffin: weekly 2015 Brush Script Titles Cards
• Word Art World: “Dance” word art on left page
• Words from Shakespeare – something I found on the internet

This is the first week I can remember where I did NOT use any Ali Edwards word art. I can’t imagine how that happened.

Thanks for visiting my blog! Remember to record the little things; one day they might be the big things. One day you might need your scrapbooks to refresh your memory.

(Some photos are blurred for privacy.)