You're welcome, and thanks so much for reading and responding. I hope my 'no I'm so OCD' ranty bit wasn't alienating--I do think that there are plenty of mild cases of OCD out there. It's just when people are talking about it in context of cleaning their kitchens that I start to get more than a little frustrated. If you have the tendency, you know you have it, really, and it's not necessarily a badge of honor as regards cleanliness.

I'm really glad to find someone else who has some of the short term memory issues that I do--when I'm at home (as I am at the moment), it drives my mother wild that I can be asked to go down to the basement for two things and come back two minutes later without one of them...

And notes really do only help a little bit! I have a tendency to write myself post-its and forgetting to look at them, or sort of adding them to the background in my landscape and letting them go by.