Um, what?

On any given day I think I have early onset alzheimer's, hearing loss, vision loss, and or some other kind of dementia. In reality I think it's just that I am distracted by stupid things like reality tv and serious things like nobody having jobs and trying to figure out health insurance. But oh my, in the last few days I feel like I'm completely nutters. To wit:

• The tv was on and I was half listening to a commercial and getting a load of laundry out the dryer. The commercial said "do you hate cat owners?" and I'm thinking hmmm, some of them ARE kind of weird but some of my friends have cats and they're pretty normal and not hoarders or anything.....hey, what kind of commercial is this? The kind of commercial that's for cat litter and asks if you hate cat "odors." Oh, ok then.
• I'm running this morning and I see a guy running towards me and wonder why he's running with that goat on a leash. Probably because it's not a goat, it's a dog you dumbass.
• Am getting freakily bothered by grammar errors by people on twitter. Like it matters.

Maybe it's the whole "mommy brain" thing. I try to keep lots of brain space free for the "don't forget the kid in the car" reminders. Speaking of the kid. We went to hobby lobby yesterday to get supplies for her halloween costume which I'm amazed they had given that nearly a third of the store is full of christmas decorations. In one of the aisles, Ellie spotted her latest fixation, scissors. She is always wanting to use scissors so I located a pair of kids' scissors and got them. Had I known the power of scissors I would have employed them as a potty training treat. This morning right after she woke up she asked "where are my purple scissors?" We did have to institute a new house rule. Scissors are for paper, not for cutting mommy's flip flops. I don't even want to mention hair because when we tell her not to do something it's like a dare.