i'm losing my mind

a few items have been "misplaced" via the move. we've slowly been "rediscovering" items as we unpack. but one main item is still MIA - our blackberry phone charger. ah yes... quite an essential item... still MIA. neither dh or i have any memory files on where the charger could be - probably b/c we left it out intentionally NOT to be packed...and we're surmising it got packed in a random place by someone else.

another MIA is set #2 of key & remote access key to our Impala. that's still MIA. but not from the move - but from our many travels. set #1 was missing for a few months and we were only using set #2. then wonderful dh found set #1 while cleaning out the car when we were visiting my parents in Dallas. then the same weekend we found set #1, i subsequently misplaced/lost set #2. i thought i put it in my coat pocket, but it was nowhere to be found. so many moons later, set #2 is still MIA.

and this weekend, i "misplaced" my wallet. okay, so i just couldn't remember where it was today. anyways after a while afternoon of searching and an evening of stressing, i really didn't know where it was. i thought the house had swallowed it. it seems to have swallowed a lot of other things (...including carrie's cell phone?)

...i finally rediscovered it around midnight tonight... after i was looking to download photos from the point & shoot camera.

so here's process to how i found my wallet:

after being frustrated & stressed...i did some more tidying up (changed the master bed sheets & threw stuff in the closet) and then decided i wanted to download photos. now, i'm looking for the camera.

i couldn't find the point & shoot camera in the usual locations (H's diaper bag, office, counters). then i remembered i had stashed in the SLR bag - for safekeeping. and then there was this rush of memory that came back to me, and i remembered. i had put the p&s camera in the SLR bag Sunday morning. and then i recalled even more...

in the rush to leave the house Sunday morning, i had a bunch of stuff in my hands & arms. i had grabbed my wallet and then proceeded to put it very non-traditional, "odd place" (per dh) - inside my Canon SLR bag. why? b/c it was the bag on me and i didn't have any pockets, and rather than have my wallet free-floating (even more prone to being lost) i put it in one of the side pockets of the many multitudes of pockets & other zippered-compartments on the very handy SLR bag. well, the bag was in the car until the wee hours of the night Sunday, then it was in the master bedroom, and in my cleaning & tidying up Monday morning, I put the SLR bag in the closet of the studio/piano room/empty bedroom. okay. i certainly didn't remember the wallet was in the bag, otherwise, i would have taken it out before storing the SLR bag.

anyways... in summary, i was rather stressed tonight...and really felt like i was losing my mind. i could not for the life of me recall anything about my wallet...apparently until around midnight...

it really felt like my brain had a block. my memory files were inaccessible and the brain was stuck in a single path and not able to use a different search path or method.