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MorelCabin

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A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
KNOW THE SYMPTOMS

This is how it manifests:

I decide to water my garden.
As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that
the can is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as we ll pay the bills first.

I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only one check left.
My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Pepsi I'd been drinking.

I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Pepsi aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The Pepsi is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need water.

I put the Pepsi on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.
I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote.
Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I
decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up
the spill. I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.


At the end of the day:
the car isn't washed
the bills aren't paid
there is a warm can of Pepsi sitting on the counter
the flowers don't have enough water
there is still only 1 check in my check book,
I can't find the remote,
I can't find my glasses,
and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem,
and I'll try to get some help for it,
but first I'll check my e-mail....
 

reinbeau

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Oh, please, I've been living that way my whole life! My gardening is the worst, I think I'll plant some pansies here - oh, look, the allysum reseeded there, I'll move it over here, but first I have to weed that out a bit and lookie there, the tulips did produce flowers again! I need my trowel, it's in the shed, isn't it? Wander out back and see a hosta that needs to be moved, but first I need that trowel, so I go into the shed and find out the trowel is buried underneath the pots I put in there from last fall, and I didn't sort them......

See what I mean? Nothing gets done, but everything gets touched! :gig
 

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I told DH that's why nothing gets done around our house. I try to multi-task. He said "Just take things one at a time. Just one at a time." HA! I must get it from my father... :lol:
 
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I did that a lot when I used to get stoned. Then I went for 10 years with no pot. Now I'm doing it again. It's actually old age multi tasking.
 
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