Have you ever had one of those days where you feel like you have been going a million miles an hour all day long, only to get to the end of your day and have absolutely no idea what you actually accomplished? Yeah\u2026so today was one of those days.<\/p>\n
My day started at 5:30am because I had to get ready and out the door to drive to a 7:30am board meeting \u2013 and for the record can I just say that who in their right mind would ever decide to start anything at 7:30am??! Call me crazy but I prefer start times a little closer to anything beside the wee hours of the morning – for heaven\u2019s sake I rarely get to bed before midnight and usually its well after and this girl seriously needs her beauty sleep\u2026although it\u2019s clear from the bags under my eyes I am not getting anywhere near enough of it!\u00a0 Okay, enough of my rant and on to the rest of my day\u2026<\/p>\n
So yeah\u2026I go to my meeting, run to my next appointment, and from that point on I was going, going, going all day long. The problem is that the day is now over and I honestly can\u2019t think of a single thing that I actually got done today. I\u2019m completely exhausted so I know I was doing stuff, but not a single thing actually got done, so what the heck?!<\/p>\n
The only way to explain what went wrong today is to share this little story a fellow A.D.D. friend sent to me a few years back. This story would be hilarious if it wasn\u2019t so true:<\/p>\n
I decide to wash my car.\u00a0 As I start toward to the garage, I notice
\nthat there is mail on the hall table.\u00a0 I decide to go through the
\nmail before I wash the car.<\/p>\n
I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the trash
\ncan under the table, and notice that the trash can is full.<\/p>\n
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the
\ntrash first, but then I think that since I\u2019m going to be near the
\nmailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I may as well pay the bills
\nfirst.<\/p>\n
I take my checkbook off the table and see that there is only one check
\nleft.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go to my
\ndesk where I find\u00a0 the can of Coke that I had been drinking. I\u2019m going
\nto look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I
\ndon\u2019t accidentally knock it over.<\/p>\n
I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the
\nrefrigerator to keep it cold.<\/p>\n
As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the
\ncounter catches my eye\u2013they need to be watered.<\/p>\n
I set the Coke down on the counter and I discover my reading
\nglasses that I\u2019ve been searching for all morning.<\/p>\n
I decide I\u2019d better put them back on my desk, but first I\u2019m going to
\nwater the flowers.<\/p>\n
I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water,
\nand suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.<\/p>\n
I realize that tonight, when we go to watch TV, we will be looking for
\nthe remote, but nobody will remember that it\u2019s on the kitchen table, so
\nI decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I\u2019ll
\nwater the flowers.<\/p>\n
I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor.
\nSo, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up
\nthe spill.<\/p>\n
Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.<\/p>\n
At the end of the day; the car isn\u2019t washed, the bills aren\u2019t paid,
\nthere is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter, the flowers aren\u2019t
\nwatered, there is still only one check in my checkbook,<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t find the remote, I can\u2019t find my glasses, and I don\u2019t remember
\nwhat I did with the car keys.<\/p>\n
Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I\u2019m really
\nbaffled because I know I was busy all day long and I\u2019m really tired. I
\nrealize this is a serious problem, and I\u2019ll try to get some help for it,
\nbut first I\u2019ll check my e-mail.<\/p>\n
Yep\u2026perfect explanation of what went wrong with my day today… \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0Clearly its time to increase the A.D.D. meds!<\/p>\n
~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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