I have all the symptoms....

Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder. Somehow I feel better even though I have it!!

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

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 well 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 Coke I'd been drinking. I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the water aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The Coke is getting warm, and I decide to 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 water.

I put the Coke 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.

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's a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter, the flowers don't have enough water, there's 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, 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.....

Tonight's Blogging Class

I have new blogging friends! Michele has Sacred Sisters Adventures. Margene has Margene's Musings. Judy writes Child of the Mojave. Another Judy has Faith, Friends & Community.

What are you doing?

A traveler once passed three workers at a construction site.
The traveler asked the first worker, "What are you doing?"
The worker told him, "I'm moving bricks."
The traveler asked the second worker the same question, "What are you doing?"
The second worker replied, "I'm building a wall."
Then the traveler asked the third man the same question.
The answer was just as accurate as the others, but far more meaningful:
"I," the third man replies, "am building a cathedral."
You, too, can choose whether you are just moving around bricks, or building your own cathedral.
It is easier than it may seem.
Just ask yourself once in a while, “What are you doing?”

Goldilocks & the 2 Dogs

I have an older dog that I feed a special soft food diet—I do that in our bedroom so I can lock the other dogs out. But sometimes I forget to shut the door after he’s finished (and has left some for later) and the other two dogs find their way to the “good stuff.”

Later, when I went to the bedroom for something, and discovered the food gone, and two white dogs crashed on the bed! It reminded me a lot of the Goldilocks story (except there was just two of them) and how she was found sound asleep on the bed after eating all the bears’ food! I wonder if they thought they were invisible on the white bedcover?