An Example of Exactly How My Mind Works

Or doesn't work....

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If I have just one hour to spend, I might very well be found doing the following:

• Walk in the door with the idea to make another cup of coffee and eat a bagel before going to church for Holy Day of Obligation Mass
• Open the refrigerator to get out the milk
• Decide to clean out the fridge
• Grab a washcloth to wipe down the shelves
• pull out the stuff from the top shelf

turn on the water to start rinsing containers

fill a cup with water

put the cup in the microwave.

Wash out the microwave

realize that you have to pee right.that.second

while in the bathroom, organize the messy hairbrush bucket and wipe down the sink

return to the kitchen and see that the water is still running and the fridge is open

make the coffee

Spill the coffee and go to get a towel.

Become distracted by the need to update your grocery list

Remember the fridge and wipe down two more shelves

turn off the water

put your bagel in the toaster oven

remember that the wash needs to be transferred and do so, leaving the fridge STILL OPEN - forgetting to start the washer OR dryer

wipe up the spilled coffee. Wipe the stove top. Wipe one half of one counter and think to yourself, This will make a good blog post.Walk away, leaving the wet towel on top of the counter

start a blog post

answer two emails

remember you still left the fridge open

returning to the kitchen, pick up the spare socks, shove them under your arm and pick up another armload of miscellania

Turn the water back on and CLOSE THE FRIDGE. Remember that you need milk for your coffee.

OPEN the fridge to get the milk and see that half of the shelves haven't been wiped.

Commence to doing do, using the towel from the counter that you never finished wiping

Remember the bagel and butter it, leaving the fridge OPEN

Rinse the containers, put them in the dishwasher

Look at the clock and realize that you will be late and leave for church right then

come back in the house. Grab the coffee, the buttered bagel and CLOSE THE FRIDGE

Realize that you've discovered exactly where the ADD that your child has comes from. AND that the fridge didn't get finished, the wash is still in need of completion, and the dishwasher never got started.

Comments

[Sarah]

That is exactly how my mind works too. It's no wonder I never "finish" anything, I'm always in the process of "getting it done"....and then seeing one of the other twenty billion things that need doing and getting distracted. Wonderful post.

[Elizabeth]

I'm the same way and while doing all of that I'm mentally creating a list I should be writing down of all the other things I need to get accomplished.

[saf4kids]

Hmmm, this is my life, and I was diagnosed ADHD very, very early on! Needless to say, my husband LOVES to take on projects with me!!!!

[Gina]

Oh honey, we are soo the same!
I made a meal in the crock pot last week. Only I forgot to take the meat out of the fridge and put it IN the crock pot. So we had potatoes and carrots that had been in the crock pot all day and chicken nuggets.

[Nicki]

Yeah, add another one here with the same problem. My husband still doesn't get why everything is always half-done and really never completed. Then again, he also wonders why two (please not the third as well) have ADD/ADHD. I think he is in denial. :)

[HolyMama!]

(yes, voted, glad you asked, not selfish at all)

i was bit mystified by this post AND all the people who are like, 'yeah, i'm like that too' AND how y'all are all 'see how nothing gets done...' after just detailing a list of stuff it never would have occurred to me to do in the first place. i am not like y'all.

if i had an hour before being somewhere, NO domestic activities would be undertaken in any form. or maybe," start the washing machine and feel all productive" - but i dont' think that counts!

[Nicole]

This is the exact reason I have a small yellow notepad I use for task lists. I carry it with me when I have something to get done "real quick" around the house and it helps remind me of what I was doing.

It's especially helpful when placenta brain strikes.

[nursery equipment Mary]

Greetings,
I am Mary and am into education. I really like this site and well done.
Will definitely visit it more and read more
Thank you

[Tonya]

The only difference between me and this list is that I have a really obnoxious fridge reminder that beeps when it is left open too long, so I'd have lost my mind with the beeping and closed the door long before you did!

[kyooty]

WORD!!! I do this a lot!

[Angela]

Sometimes I'm surprised we are not actually twins.

[A Simple Twist of Faith]

Did you ever go to the bathroom?

[UKCraftySal]

I'm sure you've been a fly on the wall in my life! This is such a familiar scenario!