- Trying to find my glasses when they are on my head
- Trying to make a picture bigger in a magazine because I do it on my smartphone
- Throwing away a food package only to try to retrieve it from the trash for the instructions
- Keeping clothes in the washer, forgetting, and then washing them again
- Drafting a text reply in my head but never actually doing it, but thinking I did
- Forgetting birthdays
- Forgetting names and trying to connect names to something I can remember and then calling them the name I connected them with
- Making grandiose plans in advance, but when the actual event comes, regretting it
- Waking up in the middle of the night, not wanting to pee, but then staying awake trying not to think of peeing
- Wrapping a gift and then unwrapping it because I forgot if I took the price tag off
- Having three alarms just to wake up once and sleeping through all of them
- Forgetting to put an ingredient in a baking recipe just as you put it into the oven, only to scrape it all back into the bowl and add the forgotten item
- Trying to cut down on salt and sugar in my cooking, then adding them back into the food at the table
- Saving all unnecessary plastic containers and having them fall on my head from the cupboards when I open it
- Taking a picture of labels or menus on my phone so I can enlarge it for better reading
- Being able to easily say no to things
- Consciously making physical and other routine tests/appointments and keeping to them
- Sleeping at 9:00 pm on a weeknight
- Eating dinner at 5:00 pm
- Seeing exercise as a daily form of medication
- Writing down birthdays, anniversaries, and important dates because now I cannot remember them
- Not getting bothered by problems as much as I did in my 30s and 40s, having a “come what may” attitude
- Not caring for friend drama and being able to easily walk away
- Seeing anxiety in myself and being able to talk myself out of it, knowing that half of my fears have never come true
- Keeping bits of favorite foods in the freezer for when my kids visit next
- Stopping drinking water at 6 pm
- Taking an OTC pain medication for an anticipated headache
- Becoming more paranoid about jinxing myself and knocking on wood, when I know it does not work
- Dressing too warm and then shedding layers as the day/night goes by
- Praying incessantly
- Avoiding driving at night
- Eating small amounts of spicy food to avoid acid and gas attacks
- Eating out and then complaining that I can make it better and cheaper at home
- Having a re-gift box
- Waking up with every joint hurting and shuffling out of bed
- Demanding good service at a fine restaurant
- Taking a new interest in hobbies I never had time for
- Navigating stairs cautiously to avoid a dreaded fall
- Going more than 15 minutes early to the movies or a concert, finding my seat and being ready for the show that almost never starts on time
- Writing a hundred lists for everything and keep rewriting them
- Becoming an hourly weather expert
- Depending on devices, Alexa or Siri, for alarms and reminders
- Calling my friends on the phone for long chats
- Looking up retirement locations for fun
- Telling everyone in my family, “I turned the stove off” before we leave the home
- Loving taking random, unplanned car rides with my spouse
- Writing my grocery list in the order of the shelving plan and aisles at the store
- Being aware of every new wrinkle on my face and every new gray hair on my head
- Worrying about balding
- Realizing that confidence is everything and asking for what I deserve
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