AAADD
KNOW THE SYMPTOMS?.....PLEASE READ!* 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 Pepsi I'd been drinking* I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Pepsi aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The Pepsi is getting warm,* and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.* As I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi,* a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need water.* I put the Pepsi 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 is a warm can of Pepsi 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, and I'm really tired. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
