A day in the life of a person with ADD

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This was sent to me as an email forward - it's about AAADD - "Age-Activated Attention Deficit Disorder". It's poking fun at the forgetfulness people experience as they get older, but for myself as someone with regular ADD, it's an amazingly accurate description of a day in my life at any age. I'm sure there are lots of you out there who can relate to it too...

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 1 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 Coke
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 is a warm can of Coke 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.

Stop procrastinating dear...

Oh, I hear you.

For the past week I have been meaning to pay a phone bill. When I get up, I have intentions of finding it and paying it using BPay (over the phone banking, just press numbers, great invention).
And.....well.....I still haven't paid it!
Argh! I drive me crazy!

So yesterday, I spent half an hour looking for the pencil I had put down. Finally got so frustrated that I picked up a ball point pen and started editing with that (I work on paper when I edit). Fifteen minutes and 10 ugly blue pages later, went to scratch my ear.

Pencil was stuck in the temple piece of my glasses.

I hate it when that happens