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February 19, 2010

Housewife Attention Deficit Disorder

This is how it develops:

I decide to water my garden.

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

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

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

I lay my car keys down 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 well pay the bills first. I take my checkbook off the table, and see that there is only 1 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 Coke that I had been drinking.

I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be watered.

I set the Coke down on the counter, and I 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 I spot the TV remote Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will 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 down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then, 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 Coke 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.

10 comments:

  1. This is hilarious!!!! The same thing happens to me on a daily basis... I've tried to start making to-do lists, but then I realize I want cute to-do paper. So I go to the store, on the way I remember i need a few groceries, etc. Love it!

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  2. Lol!!! This is soooo funny!!!!!

    And sooo true!!!! this is great!! Thanks for sharing!
    and I love your new background and header! Super cute!!

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  3. Oh MY!! This is totally me too!!!! I'm so glad I'm not alone :) Thanks - I'm going to forward this post to my other ADD friends!!
    Laurie

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  4. This had me rolling! Probably because I can soooo relate! Sometimes my husband comes home and he says "What did you do all day?" and I can't answer him. I just know that I was busy!

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  5. ROFL!! I don't know how many times I go charging down the hall to do something and by the time I get there...I forget what I was all in a hurry to do!!??!! Yes you are not alone! There are many of us wandering around trying to find or do something! LOL
    HUgs
    SueAnn

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  6. This was written JUST FOR ME! LOL

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  7. If this is not so TRUE! ha ha ha lol! LOVE THIS POST! i CAN never get to one room on my cleaning venture... without a million things popping up along the way. Good luck Heather. P.S. love the trendy layouts.... BLACK and White zebra would be cute too. HINT HINT... hugs, Jenn

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  8. I do this all the time too! Hey but I have a great hubby who understands me very well and just laughs it off ;)

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  9. If you do find the help for it let me know because I have EXACTLY the same disorder! That's why I currently have 10.5 different projects going on around my house that aren't completed. I started cleaning my closet this week and the shoe boxes are still piled on the bedroom floor. Today I was dusting the coffee table, started sorting the papers and photos piled nearby, was distracted for 30 minutes when I had to look at all of the photos, had to put some of the photos into the frames I bought for them a year ago, was distracted again when I rearranged the filing cabinet while trying to put away that paperwork but never did finish putting away those @#!$ papers. Oh well, they'll still be waiting for me in the morning. So glad to know I'm not alone! :)

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  10. Totally the funniest Blog posting I've read in a long time! And, it's ME to the core! Maybe we should start a Support Group!! By the way...I LOVE your Layouts! Thanks for making them available to those of us who can't afford to have one designed for us!
    Blessings! Jo

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