anyone up for onion soup?

The short term memory loss that results from chemotherapy has been an ongoing problem for me. What's especially interesting to me, though, are all the things that, for whatever reason, I do remember. For example, I always remember to get onions at the grocery store--whether or not we need them, and mostly we don't. Right now I have a bowl overflowing with onions on my countertop. I have no idea what to do with them. However, I'm very confident that I will forget I have them and buy even more next time I go to Henry's, which will probably be later today.

I'm not sure what's guiding my sense of priorities here. Apparently, at some point in my past, I decided for whatever reason that it was important to always have onions lying around, probably just to keep my dinner options open. 'Cause you never know when you're going to need an onion.

So now I always have them. Lots and lots of them.

Which just goes to show we should probably all be very careful about what habits we establish in our everyday activities. Once you ingrain that neural connection, you're kind of stuck with it--at least, if you get brain cancer, anyway.

At the very least, make sure it's a food you really like before you get into the habit of buying another one every time you head for the store.