What was I saying?

I promise this is not going to be a blog about being pregnant; however, since I am pregnant right now, I will let you know about some of the more amusing aspects.

The main one is called Baby Brain, maybe you've heard of it.  It's when your brain is gone because you're growing a human.  Apparently it gets worse after the baby comes because then you're just tired all the time.  I'm not looking forward to this because my brain is pretty much gone right now and I get plenty of sleep.

Baby Brain starts with little things, like finding the keys to your car in the refrigerator, and it progresses to forgetting what you were saying...to a client...mid-sentence.

"Yes, I definitely think that we should...um...we should.  I'm so sorry, I don't know what I was about to say.  Can you say something else?"

I've driven places and not known why I'm there.  I've forgotten the names of common objects like when I needed to wash my clothes in that thing that does that.  That clothes cleaner.

I locked my phone on voice activation without knowing how I did it or how to get it to go away.  I just kept screaming random commands at Siri hoping she'd figure it out. "TURN OFF!"  "DEACTIVATE VOICE!"  "DIE!" 

And spelling!  Spelling!  Normally not my strong suit anyway (you have no idea how many red lines appear in this blog before I post it), my spelling has become not only worse, but very confusing.

Case in point, today I wrote an email to a client and she replied back.  When I reread what I wrote, I was horrified that I had made up a word in my original email to her!  How did spellcheck not catch this weird made up word!?!

I copied the word to a Word document (ha, see what I did there?), and still spellcheck didn't catch it.

"Maybe it's a British word," I thought.

Maybe there are alternative spellings of this word I don't know about, like color with a u.  "Maybe they think I'm British now," I thought.

So, I Googled it.  Nope, it's a regular word, that I use on a daily basis: "Financially."

Even now when I look at it, it looks weird.  I think it's the n's.  I was literally saying (in my head) "fina-nin-ally?" "finanin-lee?"  "What is that word?"

What?  What?!?

Don't even get me started again on definitely and defiantly.  That's been a nightmare.  I've just been leaving it out.  I'm a little less definite these days (or defiant).

I wish I could remember another funny story to tell you, but the truth is, I can't.  I even had a whole other idea about what I was going to blog about this week, and it was super good and funny, and it has flitted away into the ether.

Maybe it will come back to me next week.  Oh wait, it was about....no...um...never mind.