So there I was with NOTHING to read. Oh, there's an old issue of Coastal Living, from April 2006, sitting on that pile of magazines in the corner. (I got it at a yard sale for FREE!) I think I'll read that. So, I'm paging through it and come to an article about an enclave of cottages to rent on the Maine coast. (Very pretty.)Then I got to page 147. Hold everything! I turned to Mr. L and said, "I've seen this picture in the last couple of weeks."
He didn't bother to look up from the crossword puzzle.
"In fact, it was in an issue of Romantic Homes Magazine."
Still no reaction from Mr. L.
So I turned to the pile of magazines on the little table between us and sure enough--there it is, the new issue of Romantic Homes and darned if that picture from a 5-year-old-issue of Coastal Living isn't the cover of the current Romantic Homes.
Mr. L says to me, "You do this all the time. Find a picture in one place, and then go show me where you've seen it before."He's right. I remember beautiful pictures on home interiors--and for some reason, I remember where I've seen them--even if I haven't seen it for a while.
Why couldn't I remember more important stuff like where I left my keys or my hat or my glasses? No, I have to remember pictures in decorating books and magazines.
Has that ever happened to you?
Actually, I pretty much don't remember anything these days. Sometimes I think I need to wear a name tag so I'll remember who I am. A combo of age and too much going on, I guess. But in the "old days" the cottage in the mag is the type of thing I would remember. I have to have an interest in something to remember it.
ReplyDeleteI was so shocked at the fact that you didn't have anything to read that I nearly couldn't go on! Neither I nor my husband can remember anything for beans. He has an excuse (Parkinson's), but my memory loss is just plain getting old and having to much on my mind. I don't lose keys, etc., but pretty much everything else is in danger.
ReplyDeleteThe research person in me would look to see if the the person credited with the photo in the five-year old picture is the same in the this year picture. Then I would write the magazine.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's a bit disturbing. Plagarism amongst magazines.
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