November 18, 2008

"Oh Yeah! Speaking Of..."

Have you ever said that? When someone is talking, or as something pops in your head, you say "Oh! Speaking of....." as if to remind yourself? That happens to me, a lot. Almost too much. For me, it's an epidemic. Unfortunately, my husband considers it a disease. Why? Because I say it when I'm thinking things, and not necessarily when we're talking about something. Confused? Okay, let me break it down for you:

Husband and I are cooking together in the kitchen. He spills something. As he reaches for a cloth towel to clean it up, one that I notice has been on the counter for a bit and looks like it could use a good washing, I think to myself, in my head, that towel needs to be washed. And then, like a lightning bolt, I immediately remember that I'm in the middle of a cycle and that I don't hear the dryer running, and so I must restart it (still thinking to myself, recall, we're completely silent, no speaking is happening) and so I say, out loud, "Oh! Speaking of laundry, I need to go restart the dryer," and I walk out of the room, leaving my husband, standing there, lookin' at me as if I just gave birth to a goat, wondering what on Earth I am talking about, as we weren't talking to each other at all, let alone about laundry.

An epidemic. An illness. It's the "I-can't-differentiate-between-my-inner-voice-and-my-spoken-voice" syndrome.

Anyone else?

9 comments:

Toni said...

Why yes actually I find myself doint this quite often LOL>

Amy said...

After all these years my husband just goes with it --- it can be quite humorous sometimes (at least to him)!

Yeah, I have many conversations with myself and sometimes they are out loud! Glad I am not alone!

Minxy Mimi said...

LOL
I could pretend you are the only crazy ones... but I cannot! LOL

Lisa @ Crazy Adventures in Parenting said...

Oh thank goodness I'm not alone! :) Yay! hee hee

Sarah said...

Oh, tears in my eyes. Oh my goodness. I think my husband would appreciate if I did it that way more often. Here's Captain America's favorite: We'll be driving along, and I'll see something that reminds me of something, but instead of "speaking of" I just yell "OH!!!" at which point he thinks he's about to hit a car, or a deer, or has missed our turn, or something else horrible is happening. And then I follow it with something like, "I forgot to tell you, I read the funniest thing on a blog today" and then I'm pretty sure he wants to open my door and shove me out.

Jennifer said...

That's funny! I've been known to do that a time or two. =)

Missy B. said...

Right there with ya'! My husband doesn't even react anymore :)

Jen said...

I do the same thing and I also ask the same question within 5 minutes of asking the first time. I'm convinced I lost some brain cells with each pregnancy. My memory is not as sharp any more.

Thanks for the giggle!

This Military Mama said...

I do something similar! Hubby and I will be talking about say what kinds of toothbrush and I will say "Oh hey that reminds me, so and so and I talked about toothbrushes today. She told me the funniest story [fill in the blank with any topic that has NOTHING to do with toothbrushes]".

I have word association issues I guess.

 
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