For those of you who don't get this, you will, your day is coming.
Recently I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it mainifests.
I decide to water my garden, as I turn on the hose, I look over at my car and decides it needs washing.
As I start towards my garage, I notice mail on the table that I collected from the letter 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 rubbish bin under the table, and notice that it is full.
So I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the rubbish first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the post box when I take out the rubbish anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my cheque book off the table, and see that there is only one cheque left.
My extra cheques are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of coke I'd been drinking. I'm going to look for my cheques, but first I need to push the coke aside so that I don't accidently knock it over.
The coke is getting warm and I decide to put in the fridge to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the coke, a vase of flowers on the worktop catches my eye - they need water. I put the coke on the worktop and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I had better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the worktop, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote control. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realise that tonight when we watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote control, 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 control back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then, I head down the hall 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 worktop
the flowers don't have enough water
there is still only 1 cheque in my cheque book
I can't find the remore control
I can't find my glasses
and I don't remember what I did with the cars 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, and I'm really tired.
I realise this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.