{"id":70,"date":"2009-07-16T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsweetpea.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2009-12-01T13:54:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T21:54:33","slug":"70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/70\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can Hear The Music But the Lyrics Have Changed."},"content":{"rendered":"

Memories, all alone in the moonlight<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t know what I’m doing here, or why I came<\/strong><\/p>\n

All is fuzzy as I wander from room to room<\/strong><\/p>\n

Talking to myself, once again.<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daylight, I awake from my stupor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wishing I could remember, what day is today<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who am I? What is my name and what do I do?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let my memory please be renewed.<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every day is a new adventure of confusion and befuddlement<\/strong><\/p>\n

I continue to mutter and my husband shutters<\/strong><\/p>\n

At our mid-life predicament.<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Touch me, it’s so easy just read my lips<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’ll grow old together, hand in hand<\/strong><\/p>\n

As we tread these unknown waters of mid-life<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ll remind you hey, I’m your wife<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n


\nThis little ditty came to me yesterday as I was walking from room to room talking to myself hoping to remember what I was doing and why I was there.<\/p>\n

Mid life, menopause, whatever, my ability to recall has turned to mush. I even tied a string around my finger to remind me of something and minutes later looked at the string and forgot why it was there.<\/p>\n

I write notes and lose them, wore a mini tape recorder around my neck with voice commands and lost it. I’ve tried making up song, rhymes and word games.<\/p>\n

I, for years have been articulate. Now, many days I cannot pull up the right word. Simple words like ‘consume’, ‘explain’ or ‘syndicate’. I come up with words like ‘explode’, ‘synonym’ and ‘incident’.<\/p>\n

It’s all mid life and menopausal maladies. Something many of us have to adapt to and work around. Finding humor in it all helps except for when you forget to pay a credit card and they jack your interest rate up to 29.99%. No joke. They didn’t accept my, “But, but, I’m in menopause” They didn’t bite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Memories, all alone in the moonlight I don’t know what I’m doing here, or why I came All is fuzzy as I wander from room to room Talking to myself, once again. Daylight, I awake from my stupor Wishing I could remember, what day is today Who am I? What is my name and what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-menopause","category-mid-life-madness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}