Keeping our minds sharp

[Grandma Helen]

We all know that as we get older it's sometimes a challenge to keep our minds as sharp as they used to be.  What are some of the things you do to either stay sharp or make sure you do things you need to do, like take medication or put the trash out on the right day?  I know my cell phone is constantly ringing. 

[Julia A Knaake]

I pretty much do all the things I did 20 years ago

about 5 years or so I started writing  stories and poems

Peace Indian

 

They were gentle kind, pure

taking from land only what

was needed using all the

skin,meat bones and fur

of the animals they took

for family food and shelter

after they left the land

returned to the way before

it had been with love

they thanked the god above

for his great given bounty

n ceremonies, song and dance

singing with great happy joy

beautiful wool rugs were made

beads of semi precious jewels

were mostly used for trade

feathers for the bravest chiefs

who carried pipes for peace

agree to treaty  said chief

we will not break word

many families are now gone

their history had been taken

away through lies and deceit

you had not honored us

 treaties so false were given

now we struggle to return

to heritage our ancestors behold

 

~.Julia A Knaake

[Dee Holland Eidson]

I enjoy doing lots of things. I work on my shell crafts.Which I do for pleasure and profit.I go out with or have friends over for game night.Visit or talk to my children a couple of times a week at least.Walk by the river.I do lots of word games and also like crossword puzzles and jigsaw puzzles.Watch TV, listen to music, read ,play on my P/C.I also like going to the Flea Markets.I am always busy.

[ozzieowl]

I keep little bright pink reminder notes pegged onto my kitchen curtain

until the deed is carried out. (They're not coming to take me away) lol!

[ozzieowl]

I'll make a note of that to have as a back-up idea, thanks Lyn.

[flippr 2.0]

i watch Jeopardy everyday

[ozzieowl]

The Bold & The Beautiful for me,

(it's very good for helping to remember who done what to who 

along with when, where and why).....LOL!

[Grandma Helen]

I love the Young and the Restless.  Have been watching it on and off since 1981.  Took a few weeks, but I figured out who all the players are.  It's keeping up with their sex life that's confusing.  Miss too many episodes they go from married to screwing around and you don't know how they got there. :)

[ozzieowl]

Heh, heh...

[Sherrie Little]

I'm still working full-time as a medical transcriptionist, so I listen to clinicians dictate every day.  I have to look up diagnoses, lab tests, medications, etc, and this keeps my brain pretty sharp.  I do forget though, so I also write notes and keep them near my computer.  I always right down a shopping list.  I also have a routine and do things in the same order most of the time. 

[Grandma Helen]

I pretty much gave up working a year ago.  I was working with real estate contracts and when you keep forgetting drop dead dates in the contract, it's time to go.  It was too stressful.  I had a great reputation in the business and when I got physically ill from something else, I decided it was time to retire before I ruined my wonderful reputation. 

[ozzieowl]

Clever girl, as my eldest lass works as a Property Manager and while the work is always fast moving, very interesting and must be 100% legally correct, also including the frailties of human nature with multiple scenarios, I view it as a hugely stressful job as far as time management goes and it seems that there is simply too much work for one person to keep abreast of all the time, I've witnessed the effect it has had on my daughter and all I can say is that there is no job in the world that is worth robbing you of your health.

[dwalt]

I still work full time as well.  The only thing I forget is where I park my car.  And it's only at the grocery store where I do this.  I will never own another silver car as 80 percent of the cars here are that color.