Blonde moments in abundance

Dooooooh - I've really had a frustrating day. One of those days where your brain keepsdwelling on things you need to be doing several steps ahead and leaves you with zero resources for coping with current tasks. Consequently, I have found myself cursing my computer at regular intervals for reasons that have been no fault of its own. Poor slaptop! Its been shrugging its shoulders at me all day, saying 'whaaaaaat??' with an exasperated expression.

I was working on something in Illustrator and was trying to send one object behind another. Despite selecting 'arrange' > 'send to back' a gazillion times, it failed to respond. I cursed a few times, tried again. Clicked off everything then tried again. No. I started shouting 'STOP IGNORING WHAT I'M ASKING YOU TO DO, YOU*****!' But it ignored that too. I then turned to a colleague and said 'Its blatantly ignoring me!! Watch..' I went through the procedure again, to no avail. He glanced over my shoulder and said 'the objects are on separate layers' How stupid did I feel??? I knew it too - as soon as he pointed it out. Grrr. The same thing happened later - I couldn't for the life of me work out why a certain menu option wasn't available and sat racking my brains trying to remember how I'd done it before. I eventually grizzled to same colleague and in an instant, he resolved it. And at that same instant, it all came flooding back in a horrible 'thanks, brain, for remembering now its too late' torrent.

Ah well, I ain't blonde for nothing!