Saturday, June 14, 2014

I don't get it!


"cognition /cog·ni·tion/ (kog-nish´un) that operation of the mind process by which we become aware of objects of thought and perception, including all aspects of perceiving, thinking, and remembering.cog´nitive


cog·ni·tion (kg-nshn)
n.
The mental faculty of knowing, which includes perceiving, recognizing, conceiving, judging, reasoning, and imagining."

I'm just not getting  it!
Any of you kids remember Gracie Allen from the Burns and Allen comedy team? 
"Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades."

Well, Gracie's shtick was her not understanding what George was saying or so us attentive audience members thought, and she would respond to his questions with off the wall answers and we would all laugh, thinking that this woman just didn't get it, but in reality she more than got it but only in a different direction of understanding! It was laughter that was side splitting and extremely brilliant, clean fun! (It was said that she was the brains of the duo and wrote most of their material, although George was just being a loving husband, I think, because he lived until a hundred and many years after Gracie had passed on and he performed nearly till the day he died just as brilliantly!)
Sadly, today many would think she had dementia or cognitive deficits and who knows if any of us have our wiring that off that we are not just coming up with different answers, but also the right ones, huh?
I guess there is more to it.
Today Hubby and I went to Fishville for an event that seemed to not materialize, any-who after Hubby and I had a bit of a spat and so he decided we wouldn't go to our second destination to get his and I quote, "nut covers", and he kept saying it to me, and for some reason I not only didn't get what the heck he was talking about; I didn't say it, but I thought it was an odd practice to have something of that nature and why would any man want such a thing, really?
He kept repeating it until I said that he was being mean not explaining to me what he actually meant!
Then he said the two magic words and I understood!
"Tucker's Grade"!
Yep,the location of the hubcap and lug nut store, further south from Fishville, he  had said we would stop by there to replace the missing one on our right rear wheel of our car the next time we were going to Fisherman's Village! 
I forgot on the way home.
Can anyone, but me understand the confusion? No?
I hate this alone feeling. 
Another issue is a sum of $340.43, a bill from Florida Blue, received today.
Previously when we discussed this amount, it was, I thought a discounted amount for this month's usual of $561.51, I argued for the higher amount being what I owed and so I paid it ten days ago and they received it on 6-11-14!
Then why this bill today?
I checked my Microsoft Money and bank that I had paid then from my previous Select, not Options, when my premium was $505.45 two times, but one had to be a stopped payment since they had said that they had not received it and so I wrote a personal check and mailed it after the other amount was put back into our account. When I switched to Options they then just charged me the difference of $112.12 that covered me now just from February on the new insurance Options, and now we were even or so I thought until this elusive $340.43 showed up earlier this month. It says that $221.08 had been paid by me by check! Never happened I said.
And to this day I cannot find anything in all my records of that amount paid to them in Microsoft or the bank even!
No one was in to discuss this with today, but after trying hard to locate my previous $505.45 check payment online at the bank and in my Microsoft Money, I had no luck, and so I paid $340.43 online today!

Did I give up, or did I seriously believe that I goofed?
Right now I don't know...
All I know is that I keep such great records that I pride myself for being to the penny with our bank always, even now!

Perhaps, I am a gonner in the cognitive ability wars... I don't know, but it does scare me more than many other things...going blind and not being able to walk at all are also on that list...

On that note of whose hope is it anyway, oh to be clever like Gracie, just wish that wishing did make it so... anyway, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?






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