Just came on to post about myself "doing silly things" and stumbled across this post so thought I would add my 2 pence worth ... went on errand from work today, came out of shop and couldn't find my car ... what a total looney I felt! In my defence, we visited same shop at the weekend, when I wasn't driving, and parked on one side of the car park, so I went on auto pilot to the same spot, and had that acute panic moment when I couldn't see car anywhere ... its not worth nicking so knew it was my stupid meno brain.
Then when I got back to work, my boss asked me to order something online, gave me a discount code to use and I merrily put the order on, clicked pay and confirmed it all ... then had an equally sinking feeling that I had forgotten to use the damn code ... been on to the company since I got home and requested its cancelled so I can put through again with the code this time, so hopefully she will never know (she doesn't do menopause, having had a really early hysterectomy and "been there, done that and got the T-shirt" already!)
I have also relocated through my job recently, and gone from a lovely quiet little "padded cell" of an office, to a larger Admin base where I share space, have lots of comings and going, numerous phones ringing at the same time and lots of different things going on. I used to work in a huge open plan office in my 20's and 30's, could keep umpteen conversations going at once and juggled everything without distraction ... now if there is more than one plate to spin, its all too much ...