I was going to say ... wait. What was I going to say?

My memory is officially mush. Every time I have a thought I have to write it down, or it will surely be forgotten. I have Post-It notes all over my desk at home. Lists all over my desk at work. I scrawl notations all over the place. All of this helps, but it does not fix my conversational issues.

Example: I was trying to tell Tim I was going to get something while we were at the grocery store. We need to go down the freezer aisle. I looked at him and said, "I need to get ... We need to ... Um ..." And I couldn't remember what I had been thinking 10 seconds earlier.

Example 2: I told Tim I'd make hamburgers, pork chops or tortellini for dinner (yay for being able to stomach cooking again!). He narrowed it down to me making pork chops one night and tortellini another. I've asked him at least five times today what he wanted for dinner, including one time when I asked him, got his answer, looked at him a minute later and said, "Wait. Did you want hamburger or pork chops tonight?"

Example 3: I had a witty comeback to a coworker's post on a recent Facebook status. I told Tim, we laughed, and I left for work, confident that I'd remember it and be able to post my retort when I got near a computer again. Except I totally blanked. Had NO idea what the response involved. I finally remembered it - well, a general form of it, but not as witty as the original - the next night.

I know this is common and likely won't go away any time soon, but it is SO frustrating. It would be one thing if I left something off the grocery list. It's another entirely when I can't have conversations or remember a word that was just on the tip of my tongue. Dear Baby, clearly I need all the brain cells I can get, so spare a few for mommy, OK?