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Don’t worry, Christina, my Mom’s been doing that for years. Ever since I can remember in fact. And she’s not a writer!!! (The sad thing about this that _I_ usually know what she’s talking about, whereas my Dad doesn’t ...)

Cheers,
Sandy

I thought your mind was going. But if that was true, it’s ben a loooooong trip becasue it’s been going since I met you. You remember...that thingie we were on in where-ever-it-is back in whenever?

It’s when your vocabulary storage is depleted.
I once wrote ten hours instead of the usual six or eight.  I vaguely remember sitting on the couch afterwards, drooling.  *snickering*
And yes, once your kids are old enough, they don’t require a translator.  They know all the thingies to which you refer.  Rather useful that.
Grins*

hmmm. that was one of our favorite “teases” about my dad. He was forever giving directions like, “Take this, nail it to that, and put it over there.” Sometimes we got it right, and sometimes it turned into a family squabble. But the teasing was always fun!!

BTW, that’s how I sound after a rough day, anyway.

Oh good golly, I hear you Christina!  When I get “aphasic” (LOVE that term - it’s sounds more impressive than “having a senior moment” or “altzheimers of motherhood”!)- and it’s happening more and more these days - my friend who’s forever teasing me about my “fifty cent words” will say something clever like “did you lose your words??” drives me nuts!!*grin*

Come now, Mom...you also used words like thingamajiger and whatchamicallit.  And your stories have always involved fun phrases like “the place where we did that stuff” and “the time before that other thing”.  But it’s the words you write down that have helped pay for my education, so I don’t mind.  And sadly, I DO understand your babbling...do you think this ephasia is genetic?

Writer’s Ephasia?  Hmmm… I’m not a writer, so I can’t us that as my excuse for looking for the thingie majiggie in the thingie-mabob.

My mom says it’s middle age setting in--killing brain cells.

OMG I’m so glad there’s a name for it and that I"m not the only one doing it LOL

Love the blog ladies!

I don’t know what you guys are talking about.  I’m sharp as a pinhead, twenty-eleven hours a day, nineteen days a week, forty billion days a year.  And I know perfectly well that a thingie is actually called a flimminybucket.  You people should see your coathangers right away and get a subscription for some serious pharmacologists.

I do that too.  And during those times it terrifies my husband to realize that our income depends on my mastery of the English language.