Procrastination

Why does that dirty word begin with 'pro'? Ain't nothing 'pro' about it.....well I am a pro @it! But 'pro' also means: good, benefit....and procrastinators know there's no true good benefit from it. Let's try 'concrastination'. Yeah that's a way better fit. I con myself into thinking that I can get a task completed to the best of my abilities in less time than is humanly possible. If I had started earlier, way earlier, I would have succeeded, but I concrastinated. I like that.
New word: concrastination. (Why do I feel like Andy Rooney?). It works. Con is a much better way of starting that word. Con: to dupe or be duped; not beneficial. Sounds just like it. At times to help us make decisions we make a list of pros and cons. We know people that are pros and we know people who are pros@ conning us; aka: con artists. If we are concrastinators.....we are both!!!!

Memory.....I think

I have always been a forgetful person. Regarding my memory, as a child my Mom used to ask me what I was going to do as an adult, my response was always, 'be an old forgetful lady '.

Understanding that my family has that 'alzheimer's &/or dementia gene' , I pretty much get that that could be my fate. (I also believe in not putting that out there in the universe) I'm just saying . On my dad's side of the fam there are only 2 left in his generation and they both, all though brothers and roommates, don't realize that they are brothers. 2 out 4 of his sisters and 4 out of six brothers suffered extreme memory loss.

So when I read articles on how to keep the mind sharp, (there's a factoid in the new O mag) how exciting is it to know that knitting has been a proven and measured way to help over 65 year olds in preventing memory loss.

Fortunate for me that I have been knitting for years. Unfortunate that my memory kicks in to remind me that one of his sisters that suffered from alzheimer's and dementia was a knitter!! LOL