I have a pretty good memory for numbers. Doug uses me as his personal phone & address book instead of ever looking anything up (even his own parents' digits), or memorizing it, for that matter.
But we've had quite a few changes in a very short time: 3 distinct
addresses in the past 6 months, all of which were based on North/South - East/West coordinates. It makes new places easy to find (except in WA where they are not square blocks, and there are several streets by the same name in the same city that
do not connect--crazy!). But it really tests my brain's retention skills.
In Washington (where we also had 2 different addresses that were very close to each other), I made up songs to teach my little ones our address, using familiar tunes. One was to the tune of "The Song That Never Ends." That made for fun car rides.
I didn't even bother trying to teach the girls our most recent address, because 1)it was long and random, and 2)I knew it was very temporary.
When we bought our new house here, the difficulty of the address honestly made it onto my list of "cons". But other features overcame that. So here we are, with an address to memorize, and I can't come up with a song that fits it.
To complicate matters of the mind even more, we have changed phone numbers even more frequently than addresses. Doug's work number and cell phone number have changed, and obviously our home phone number changed when we left Washington. I was really happy to get to pick a super easy new home phone number back in December.
And then, when I
transferred our phone service to this new home, they just about sent me over the edge when they told me I couldn't bring that easy phone number with me.
I tried to get them to assign us a number that would be easy for my kids to remember. We tried to incorporate part of our new address into our phone number--no luck. Finally they offered me a number that seemed very simple to recall. I was happy with that until, two days later, it turned out to belong to a local tire company, and not to me.
So, we have a new number. It has been proven to direct callers to my own home phone, and not someone
else's business. But my poor mind (let alone my poor kids) is overwhelmed with numbers (and other issues) at the present time. So I'm trying to figure out some little device to help me remember.
And then my mind (which is having a hard time remembering everything current) when back to when I was a kid, and our favorite number to dial was P-O-P-C-O-R-N, which was a recorded message with the local time and temperature.
That also reminded me how, when I was a freshman in a college dorm, some girls living across the hall from me discovered that the last 4 digits of their phone number spelled out K-I-S-S. A number only freshman girls could be giddy about.
So I studied my new number, looking for a word it might spell, and here's what I found:
a problem.
Our last 4 digits include a
zero. Can you think of any words that have "operator" in the middle?
you just know it's no ordinary cupcake.
