It's time for everyone's favorite game again!

That's right! It's time for today's round of "If I Were Important, Where Would I Be???"

The rules are simple. 

First pick an object, in can be any object that has some level of importance.  My personal favorites are check cards, keys, cel phones, chargers, swimsuit straps and, everyone's favorite, my checkbook.

After the object is selected you have a couple options.

Spot the object lying around and comment that the object is, indeed, in a strange place but make no actual effort to move it while secretly believing that you will remember where it is because of the weird placement. 

Purposefully place the item somewhere "safe."

Then simply go about your normal life until the moment you need the object. and then try to remember where you saw/left it.  This could be minutes or hours later.  If you're ditzy enough, it won't matter.  The fun is still there!

Scoring goes as follows:

 1 point if the object is where you thought it was and it only takes 1-2 tries to find it.

2 points if the object is not in the exact location you thought, but is in the general area.

3 points if you get so flustered looking for the object that you forget you are even looking for it in the first place

4 points if you spend an entire day ranting and raving and tearing the house apart only to find the object in your possession—purse, backpack, wallet, etc

5 points if you have to cancel an outing because of your inability to find it

and so on.  The ability to collect points really has no limit.  The more frustrating and ridiculous the situation, the more points you get!

I personally rack up about 76 points a day...often times with never even having left the house! Impressive, I know.

While I sometimes fear I may be suffering from early onset alzheimer's, the patch of forest-like growth on my leg that I found glistening in the springtime sun yesterday tells me otherwise.  

What this physical tribute to my ditzy tendencies tells me is that I am often times not paying attention to what I am doing, but rather just going through the motions. 

Since much of my day from shaving my legs to grocery shopping is entirely repetitive, I am not paying attention to the minute to minute details like where I set my phone/keys/checkcard which really lends itself to this super fun game, but is also really, really, REALLY annoying at times too.

Hopefully one day I'll get my head out of, er, the clouds and start paying attention to what I am doing.  Until then, I hereby challenge you to beat me at my own game.