Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Why I Can't seem to get anything done...

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 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 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 soda that I had been drinking.
* I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the soda aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I realize the soda 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 soda, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be watered.
* I set the soda 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 driveway is flooded,
* the car isn't washed,
* the bills aren't paid,
* there is a warm can of soda sitting on the counter,
* there is still only one 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. As my friend, Glenda, would say: I had visions of grand manure. 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 and see what is new on Facebook...

2 comments:

Sherry said...

Funny and seems to be the way my days go.

Caleb and Emily's Mommy said...

I refer to this as adult A.D.D. and yes I suffer from it too!