It's not the first time it's happened to me and it probably won't be the last.
I've gone to doctor's appointments before and they've explained to me, in clear, small words why I have the symptoms I do - and yet the second I walk out of the office, all of the important medical information falls out of my head and lands on the ground.
I think it happens when you get so overwhelmed with all the new information that your brain
decides to take a little nap.
That has been happening to me every day for the last month - since I got engaged.
I was lucky enough to get a ticket to this weekend's Citizen sponsored Plan Your Wedding in a Day seminar and the 21st annual Sweetheart Bridal Extravaganza, both featuring Wedding SOS's Jane Dayus-Hinch.
"Trust me, I've been to a lot of bridal shows and this one really stands out from the crowd," she said as the curtains opened and she was sitting on a Harley Davidson.
She told the crowd she owns a Harley of her own that she loves driving whenever her busy travel schedule allows.
The host of the hit show, Wedding SOS, Dayus-Hinch plays fairy-god mother to some very overwhelmed and disorganized brides. She travels to different cities to repair the chaos the women have managed to get themselves into.
She doesn't kid around when it comes to wedding planning and there wasn't a question or a scenario she hadn't already encountered in her 24-year career.
I am the opposite. I don't know anything about weddings - except how to attend them, drink the champagne and choke down the (usually) cold roast beef dinner while listening to the bride's-best-friend's-sister's-niece tell stories from 20 years ago.
Now it's pay-back, I suppose.
I know so little, it's frightening and my fiance knows even less.
However, after attending both days of the show, we agree that we feel more ready to tackle the wedding planing then we did before the weekend.
For instance, is it common knowledge that when the guests are toasting the bride and groom, they don't stand up? That was news to me. Also, when the father of the bride gives his speech, he toasts to the "bride and groom," whereas when the best man raises his glass, he uses their proper names. That can't be common knowledge.
I now understand know why people opt to have long engagements. It's because no one else knows what they are doing either.
But the show definitely helped ease some anxiety.
On Sunday, there were exhibitors from wedding dress stores, photography studios, spray tanning salons and places you can register for gifts all there to help and answer questions. There were also several prizes up for grabs, including a $10,000 diamond ring, a one-week stay in Maui and several photography packages.
"It was a fabulous event. All of the vendors were amazing and they were all so pleased with the turn out," said Colleen Sparrow, interim publisher of The Citizen.
Dayus-Hinch made sure to impart some common sense tips as well as her more elaborate advice. For instance, she stressed to always have a Plan B for everything just in case the unimaginable happens on the big day.
As the final day wrapped up and the dozens of brides got ready to go home and read all the brochures, magazines and lists the weekend produced, Dayus-Hinch told the crowd she had been dying to do one thing the entire day and, with that, she, in her hot pink silk dress, told the crowd, "I just have to start up this Harley and see how she sounds."
And just like that the 2012 Sweetheart Bridal Extravaganza was finished but the preparation for us brides is only getting started.
