Sunday, April 19, 2009

The Fourth Dimension

That's the dimension where "lost" items reside. Really. I know some hypothesize that the fourth dimension is time (think time travel), but really, is there any evidence to support that? I, on the other hand, have concrete proof of my theory.

In a previous post, I mentioned some recipes that mysteriously disappeared. Well, I've never found them. And now the TV remote for the bedroom TV has found the same fate. One morning I had it, and the next I didn't. I don't remember moving it (I keep it on my nightstand), but it obviously went somewhere since it's nowhere to be found. (And our bedroom is just as meticulous and orderly as the rest of the house, so no, I don't think it's hiding under a pile of clothes.) The only logical explanation is that a portal to the fourth dimension opened, swallowing the remote without a trace.

Now, I know that I haven't exactly been getting a full night's rest recently, but Leah has been sleeping for 5-6 hours at a stretch, so I've been getting a sufficient amount of sleep, and certainly more sleep than when she first came home. Thus, I have a hard time conceding that perhaps in a moment of sleepiness I simply misplaced the remote; after all, I distinctly remember using it the day before it disappeared.

Plus, consider another commonly lost "item": weight. When you lose it, where does it go? Since it's something, doesn't it, like other "somethings", have to go somewhere? How can it just become nothing? If matter is neither created nor destroyed, then doesn't that apply to those extra pounds we sometimes carry around? Since having Leah, my pregnancy weight has been slowly disappearing (thankfully). Again, though, where does it go? It's not like I'm physically removing it through a procedure; instead, they're just dwindling away on their own, a little here, a little there. Couldn't that same portal that swallowed the remote and the recipes be swallowing those extra pounds?

It's just a theory... but I find it rather compelling. Now... if we could selectively access that portal to reclaim the wanted lost items while the unwanted items remain lost forever.

1 comment:

Sarah said...

Well, if Leah were older, I'd blame her, but you have a few months before you need to worry about that!

We lost our main level remote the other day, for several days actually, and I eventually concluded that Max had thrown it away. I've resued several important things from the trash such as tennis shoes and toys, so I figured eventually something important is bound to end up in there without my knowledge.

After blaming him for a while and wondering how much Verizon was going to charge for a new remote (considerably more than necessary was my guess), Nana found the remote behond the toy box. I swore I looked back there!

Oh, well. I was thrilled when it was located! Hope you find yours soon!