forgetfulness

Woke up at 5:45 AM  recently feeling like I had forgotten something really important.  I had been wanting to write something about how once one gets past a certain age their opinions, choices, preferences don't seem to count as much.  I seriously believe that people who sell stuff, and especially people who advertise stuff don't care about us old folks any more. But as I was trying to go back to sleep I remembered reading in the newspaper about that cruise ship that went aground somewhere in the Mediterranean and how was that going to affect the cruise business.  A lot of their business comes from the baby boomers.  And if we see a lot of special rates advertised it will mean that the accident scared people away even though these things are really really rare.  I took a Caribbean cruise in 1979.  It was February.  I was single, living in cold wintery Wisconsin.  And it was really really fun.  Four of us went together and I don't think any of us slept much that week.  It's more than 30 years later and I would go again, but I wouldn't try to DO so much.  Then again, I live in Arizona now so I don't think I would be so appreciative of the weather.  It's almost always nice here and not so humid.

And in the middle of all of these thoughts I realized that I had forgotten to take my blood pressure pills.  THAT was the really important thing that I had forgotten.