Old age or Menopuase??

Can’t tell if menopause is still rocking my world or if its old age setting in but I do know that I have been doing some mighty odd things lately…….recently I found myself moving the vacuum cleaner ( which I still cannot help calling a Hoover...) over a tiny piece of thread again and again… then I picked it up, eyed it off and placed it back down on the carpet so I could move the vacuum cleaner over it to give it a second chance…I mean seriously??? I also slept the whole night with the heater up full bore whilst the window was left wide open; to be fair hubby failed to notice the window too! I have put my bra on inside out and wondered why it was such a hassle to do up, I have worn odd earrings, and cried dramatically for over two hours as the result of the watching the movie War Horse (oh the shame) …Ah well at least I am aware of my humanity! Humans are benignly humorous at the best of times and seem to do the oddest of things….

For instance I have been planting winter vegetables in the garden (where else?) along with hubby (no I am not planting him he is planting vegetables with me) and our loveable pooch has been digging them up as systematically as we have been putting them in…and we persevere regardless because the exercise itself has so much promise in it! A bit like washing the dishes just so we have a nice clean plate to dirty up again!  Or using an exercise treadmill to go walking???? Or shaving our beards and other bits even though the hair does have a purpose…in fact fashion dictates a lot of our odd behaviours, how we dress, what we say, what we eat…..and then there is the nightly search for the remote control which generally requires more leg work than changing the channel manually….and saying odd little no brainers like "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?

At least I can still laugh, in between the hot flushes, the jiggling spare tyre and the periodic blank moments in which I forget my name, your name their name, any name…….now what was I doing again???