an average day with AAADD

[Ernie]

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 my car needs washing. As I start toward
the garage, I notice that there is 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 down on the table, put the junk mail in the trash
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 trash first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take
out the trash 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 that I had 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. I see that the Coke
is getting warm, and I decide I should 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 to be watered.

I set the Coke down on the counter, and I 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 I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the
kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will
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...

Now I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on
the floor. So, I set the remote back down 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 one 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 long, 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.

Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, --your day is coming!

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.

LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC

[Tom]

I was wondering what what was wrong with me.  Now I feel better in knowing, nothing.  :D

[MULE_MAN]

You mean this isn't normal  ???  Sounds like my day to me  :

I always thought,  I was just trying to get to much done   :D :D

[submarinesailor]

Ernie,

You had to come up with something like this on my 53rd birthday.  Now I do feel OLD.  :D :D :D :D :D

Bruce/subsailor

[Ernie]

Bruce  Happy birthday.

I noticed your laughter, wait till you hit my 63 years, the laughter will turn to tears

[beenthere]

Hey, that's why we're so busy. Problem comes when someone asks "what you been doin all day?"

"DanG'd if I know", doesn't seem like a good answer, nor does "Don't remember, but I am exhausted". 
Others come to mind, but I don't repeat those outloud.  ;D

[Roxie]

I thought the condition was caused  by my hair color.....whew, glad to know it happens to men too!   :D
Ya know what I wonder about?  Seriously.  Do you watch those crime shows like CSI and Forensic Files?  Last night Cowboy Bob and I were watching CSI and the criminalist folks were crawling on their hands and knees in this murder victims living room picking up fibers and hair with tweezers.  They got lucky and found two hairs and one tiny piece of fiber.  Do I need to tell ya what they'd get on them if they were crawling over MY livingroom floor?  I know for certain that if they were using tweezer's, it'd take em a year to get from one end to the other!  I can also guarantee that their most likely suspect would be the dog and Bob!   :

Is it just ME?   ???  

[Tom]

Probably so!   I looked and can't find any of Cowboy Bob's hair on our carpet. :D

[MULE_MAN]

 :D  :D   :D  :D  :D  Good One Tom  :D :D :D ;D

[woodmills1]

my regular AAD wouldnt let me reply.

[tnlogger]

I resemble that i thuck but ................................................................... four score and .......no  dear would you get my...........................no  i give up  ???

[sprucebunny]

I got about 45 years experience with that.....  :

[Ernie]

Spruce bunny

45 years experience with AAADD, that would make you at least 95, your avatar doesn't do you justice 8) 8)

[sawguy21]

OOOH Ernie, what you said. :D :D :D :D :D

[OneWithWood]

I was fixin' to add to this hilarity when I noticed my tea had started to cool . . .

[Tom]

Put some ice in it...........  it's supposed to be that way.  :D

[mometal77]

I always figured having terms like that was to make doctors feel better about themselves.  Ernie can you sue over miss diagnosis?   :D Here i am 28 and alread have grey hairs must be the stress.  Nurse put me next to the window today. 

[Don R]

I had no idea that disease travelled all the way form Lexington, Virginia to New Zealand. Wow, now what was I doing when I sat down at this computer? Ah well think I'll take a nap.

[isawlogs]

Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
That has been around here for a while ... Best I tell my doc about it . All this time and I thought it was poor tool organisation .

[Roxie]

Note to Tom:  Phone your physician.  He might want to back up on the medication just a tad.   

[OneWithWood]

Put some ice in what? :-\

[Tom]

I don't know.  Was somebody talking about ice.  ???

[Roxie]

I'm on the floor!!   :D :D :D

[tnlogger]

i just started to wash the floor  :

[beenthere]

i just started to wash the floor  :

If you find yourself on the floor, that is a good thing to say if anyone comes by.  Not sure how Roxie managed to get there ;D

[Roxie]

I slipped on the ice!   8)

[DanG]

I forgot what we was talkin' about. ??? :-\

[Patty]

DanG, we are talking about Roxie rolling on an icy floor...pay attention.  ;D

[Weekend_Sawyer]

 I was gonna add something here....

[Cowboy Bob]

First of all thanx for the welcum.  I come home and solved the problem of how she ended up on the floor.  It wernt ice.  It was dog hair she slid on.
Ain't it so..... 8)

[woodmills1]

went to reply but then couldnt remember what I haad to say ;D ;D

[asy]

you've all got it wrong...

HAd you put Vodka in your cold tea, instead of trying to find ice, none of this would have happened.

You would never have felt the fall to the floor, and rolling around in a drunken haze would have served as a lint-brush to the carpet, hence picking up all the dog's hair.

See?

There IS a solution...

Now, where did I leave the vodka bottle?

asy :D

[pigman]

Great, asy is back. 8)   But who is asy.

[DanG]

She's that sweet gal from.........................uh..............ah.........well, she's sweet. I'm pretty sure about that. ???

[tnlogger]

I can plce that name ................from someplace but not sure ...ok is she dat one dat talks funny i thinks  :D

[asy]

I can plce that name ................from someplace but not sure ...ok is she dat one dat talks funny i thinks  :D

Crikey!

I don't talk funny!

It's you lot, so don't come the raw prawn with me, OK?

Geez, ya gotta wonder some days.

I'm off to find the Vodka, maybe then you lot'll make sense!

OH and, I missed you guys too :D

asy :D

[sawguy21]

 :D :D :D :D :D :D Welcome back.

[asy]

:D :D :D :D :D :D Welcome back.

Thanks!

I"m glad you're glad I'm back, if ya weren't I Was gonna blame Roxie, it's all her fault ya know.

Spent an hour on the phone with her the other day (not game to open the phone bill, but she's such a hoot, I couldn't hang up!!!) and she said I should MAKE time to come visit!

Since I"m laid up at the moment, and waiting for the looooooovely injection (cortisone and painkillers) they put into my spine yesterday to kick in, I thought I"d disrupt your otherwise quiet existence with my own brand of humour.

Someone have a piggy hock for me at the roast, willyas!? Oh, and lots of photos!

asy :D

[OneWithWood]

So, Asy, you're mainlining vodka now!

What's the story?  I trust you are on the mend?

Oh, I would never put vodka in my tea - I prefer gin, dry, olives, shaken, neat  but since I've developed this aaadd I keep forgetting where I put the gin :

[asy]

I don't usually put Vodka in my tea, although I did discover a VERY yummy mix with my other fave the other day...

Baileys Irish Cream over Frozen Raspberries..  yummm

the things a gal will do when she runs out of ice...  lol

The story with my back? I have a facet joint injury (which are the flanges that stick out the sides of the vertebrae, to stop you turning round like a pretzel...). Basically a function of my arthritis, but also excascerbated by a genetic thingy I have, the cartlidge has worn away, and the bone grinds on bone, which, I gotta say, ain't fun. So, a couple of years ago (after spending literally 10 years looking for a doctor who would listen to me) I found one who sent me for this injection, where they inject steroid and long acting anaesthetic directly into the joint under xray.

It's interesting. They take an xray, then come out and write on you with black texta, and put place markers on you, then take another xray, then come out and anaesthetise the skin, then put a big horse needle into the joint between the vertebrae. THen they take another xray with the needle in to make sure the point of the needle is in the right place. FUnny, they say.. now Stay still, won't you...  Um.. I have a BLUDDY GREAT NEEDLE HANGING OUT OF MY SPINE..  Trust me, I ain't goin' nowhere!!!

Then deciding it's in the right place, they inject this stuff. Only the fun thing is, the anaesthetic they give you only anaesthetises the skin, not that far down, so it feels sort of like what I'd imagine someone plunging a sword into you would feel like..  ouch!  Still, it's worth it to be pain free (in that area anyway) for a year or two.

Takes a couple of days to kick in, so I spend a day or two sitting on a couch, feeling sad and sorry for myself. My daughter's happy, though, coz I've nearly finished crochetting her pink poncho!! hehe

Oh, and, I've also been trying to get a house renovated, which is probably what aggravated the injury. Although, I Did learn to use a wrecking bar properly, and can now remove architraving maintaining it in a re-useable condition! hehe

Oh, and, Vodka should ideally be added to Cranberry juice, in a Cosmopolitain.

And a gin is where you process cotton.

asy :D

[OneWithWood]

So your good to go for a couple more years  8)

My gin is the product of processing juniper berries, or so I'm told.

Then there is my single malt habit . . . .  :

[sawguy21]

"Then there is my single malt habit . . . .  "

Breakfast of Champions.

[Roxie]

Memories......

[OneWithWood]

 

[J_T]

Other than Dr Phil I can't afford a doctor  :'( Is this aaadd anything like CRS ??? I know I got one or maybe both .Now where did I put that cotton ???

[Lanier_Lurker]

But, but.....what happened to all the water that ran out of the hose whilst all this was going on?

???