A Curse on Ellen.
If you've even seen the Ellen DeGeneres Live DVD from 2000, you'll know what I'm talking about, but for those of you who haven't (and I'm sure there are quite a few. Sorry, Ellen), I'll give you an run down.
There is a clip where she talks about how infuriating it is to remember something when you're all tucked up in bed. She uses the example of forgetting that you have money in your pants (that should be 'trousers', but I let it slide on account of how funny this clip actually is - if you see it, that is. Not here). There's that whole dilemma of do you get up because if you don't, you'll forget it, then either loose it, or wash your pants and ruin the money, but if you do get up, then you'll wake up too much and it'll be hard to fall back to sleep, and you're just so darn cosy in bed. So, instead, you try to make yourself remember by telling yourself over and over and over again; money in the pants money in the pants money in the pants money in the pants money in the pants money in the pants money in the pants money in the pants. Which turns in to m in the p, m in the p, m in the p.
I don't remember how it ends exactly, but I think it's brilliant because it's exactly, and I mean exactly, what I do. In fact, I did it last night. Just before I fell asleep, two very important things popped in to my head. I really wanted to remember them as they were, as said, very important. I didn't want to reach all the way over for my phone to write a reminder as my phone was charging and therefore I'd have to actually expose more skin than say, my wrist and hand, to the air. So, I did the whole scenario as described above, and what can I remember now? 'a and w, a and w, a and w, a and w...' What A and W stand for exactly, I haven't a bloody clue. Brilliant.
There is a clip where she talks about how infuriating it is to remember something when you're all tucked up in bed. She uses the example of forgetting that you have money in your pants (that should be 'trousers', but I let it slide on account of how funny this clip actually is - if you see it, that is. Not here). There's that whole dilemma of do you get up because if you don't, you'll forget it, then either loose it, or wash your pants and ruin the money, but if you do get up, then you'll wake up too much and it'll be hard to fall back to sleep, and you're just so darn cosy in bed. So, instead, you try to make yourself remember by telling yourself over and over and over again; money in the pants money in the pants money in the pants money in the pants money in the pants money in the pants money in the pants money in the pants. Which turns in to m in the p, m in the p, m in the p.
I don't remember how it ends exactly, but I think it's brilliant because it's exactly, and I mean exactly, what I do. In fact, I did it last night. Just before I fell asleep, two very important things popped in to my head. I really wanted to remember them as they were, as said, very important. I didn't want to reach all the way over for my phone to write a reminder as my phone was charging and therefore I'd have to actually expose more skin than say, my wrist and hand, to the air. So, I did the whole scenario as described above, and what can I remember now? 'a and w, a and w, a and w, a and w...' What A and W stand for exactly, I haven't a bloody clue. Brilliant.