2/20/2003 My day with ADHD….
I was sort of sluggish but got into the shower and when I got out soon got that hyper feeling. I brushed my teeth and lost the toothpaste cap again. Every day I loose it. I have a problem with covers to things. I loose them. I will open something and when I go to get the cap it can be clear across the room., or behind me or way to the side of me. I wish I knew how they get to these places.
I had breakfast, took my vitamins and off to do the plan of the day.
I wanted to clean under the sink, the humungous dish and appliance closet, the canned good closet, and get rid of some of the stuff on the counter that just did not belong there.
I began with the big closet and soon found myself with the vacuum in my hand vacuuming in the living room. By the time I realized that I was supposed to be somewhere else I said “what the heck may as well finish here, but how did I end up here?”
Back to the closet I go and then within a half hour I was unloading the dishwasher. Why couldn’t I just stick to the closet and get on with the other things after? I took the can of tomatoes that were still on the counter and put it away in the canned good closet. I looked on the floor and began cleaning out the things I had placed there a month ago to make room for other things.
Ok, back to the huge closet. I found a few things I had forgotten about and a few things I wanted to move somewhere else. I took those things and took them to yet another closet. YIKES. You got it:) I was cleaning that closet. So now I had three closets going at once.
Finally all was done and I was able to go on to clean under the sink. All I ended up doing was moving things around. But it refreshed my mind as to what was under there.
I decided to change the tablecloth. I had to go into the bedroom to get the tablecloth.
While I was there I noticed that the desk was a bit upset. So there I was with a tablecloth under my arm trying to clean the desk. I put the tablecloth down and gave the desk my all.
Back to the dining room I go and put on the clean tablecloth. I looked over to the corner and had noticed the flowers and had remembered that I wanted to change them a week ago but had forgotten to.
Off to the back room I go. While I was there I decided to do a load of wash. I also folded some cloths. I went back to the dining room forgetting the flowers.
Now I am forgetting things big time. I was standing in the kitchen wondering why I was holding the paper towel holder staring out the window.
The cat wanted to go out. I will not let her out on her own. I took the cat out and decided right then that my day was done. I had it with closets. WE went back inside and I decided to make dinner.
Same old thing. I open the freezer and ninety things come falling out. Oh shucks. I was supposed to do that today. It was on my things to do list.
So I move the butcher block over to the freezer and begin straightening the freezer.
By the time I was finished with that it was definitely time for dinner but the food remained in the freezer. Kentucky fried was really good tonight. :)
Perhaps others would like to add to this or start another under your own name and add to it daily. It may turn out to be fun for all of us to read about each others daily happenings. Especially the ADD related ones.
amen..
evetually you will get everything done at once…maybe if you are lucky…I have good days and bad days and right now in grad school I am lucky if I keep my head on straight… You gave me a good laugh…been there and still doing it…:-)
Re: amen..
We are working right now on give me and my daughter our own desk (with a permanent phone so we don’t lose it). I can teach her how to organize a desk, but a home? forget it.
Sometimes I worry that she will grow up to be just like me. Able to run an office, but unable to keep a house neat.
Hopefully she will make enough money to hire someone to help her with the house.
Re: amen..
Dear Bojangles, or is it Mr.?,
I just found this site, and what a treat it was reading myself in your words. I started laughing, and my wife on the patio, not that I have more than one wife, came in to hear your excerpt. I work part time at Lowe’s Home Centers, and no matter how much time I spare to prepare, I just can’t get out on time, day or night.One thing or thought just leads to 45,000 other thoughts, and if you can get back and narrow it down to 45 things, which one of 59 do you choose from.
But when i work enenings, I fly around the store and get things done. Few people dare question my movements, sense or nonsense. What’s impotant is that I do the work of 5, yet if I’ve nothing to do I’m lost, bewildered, and so fidgety.I GOT ANTS IN MY PANTS, AND I NEED TO DANCE
Anyway, thanks for the memories, Steve
Re: amen..
You ought to write a book! You perfectly describe a typical day, and gave me a chance to laugh at my plight. I get a lot done; it’s just not what I planned to do! I mean well, and fully intend to do better, but find it hard to resist something that catches my fancy. It’s a constant struggle to “stay on task”.
Re: amen..
fellow sufferer, I finaly had my first laugh. I could sense your laughter and definetly could hear your daughter saying “stop it.THAT”S annoying geeeeeeeeeez! Something like that I bet.
Maybe a trip to the ADHD guy for her would be to everyones best interest.:) Just joking
pattim, right now I would give the world to be able to get back and doin em. Maybe tomorrow. :)
fellow sufferer ooooooops guess I was right. Stop worrying. she will grow up to be like you. So don’t worry so much.:)
Steven, it”s ms. Bojangles. Hhhhhm yes i wondered right away how many wives you had hanging around. :)
Isn’t it amazing how we transform into another person as if we are two maybe three people.
maybe there should be a new name for ADHD. WAPJLY sounds like a good one. :) Quite honestly I do not have a disorder. The only disorder I have is in my house. I am not dysfunctional. I function when I wasnt and how I want.
I do not have a deficiet. (did I spell that right?) I have a surplus of crossed wires. I don’t have hyperactivity, I just move faster than others. (don’t those other people move slow huh?)
Julie, that isn’t a typical day. That’s a good day. I got to have take out. :) Besides, Whose going to write it? I have ADHD and can’t write nor remember what i wrote a minute ago. So much for telling lies. AH! now there is another positive for ADHD. WE can’t lie cause we would never remember the lies. :)
Re: amen..
Bojangles,
My daughter is adopted - has ADD (drives me crazy). That’s why I said I was AFRAID she would be like me (environmental hazards like a messy house and never putting anything back where it belongs, etc.) - never learning coping skills. She is on meds - can’t get ready for school without them - and they changed her life academically (ALONG WITH good remediation). Sometimes I think about taking her meds…. ;-)
Me? I have a job, I’m never late, write great letters, did well in school, but CANNOT keep a house neat and never have been able to master, “A place for everything and everything in it’s place”. I am the typical “frustrated perfectionist”.
It’s seems to be getting worse as I get older and then I wonder - or is it just that I have so much more to juggle, i.e., work, soccer practice, school, homework, projects, advocacy, seminars, church, tutoring,
Oh, and at work - they say I’m “like a machine”. Do the job of 2 people in 25-28 hours per week. IF ONLY I could be that way at home….
Gosh, I would love to be calm, just for 1 day…
ADHD journal
wow , that was good bojangles , i was going to write something just in that fashion but my mind works to fast for my fingers .
this is how i do housework everyday , well not everyday , i do not do housework everyday .. too boring and mudane, but i find i bounce all over the house from room to room cleaning partial places taking things in other rooms and then staying in there for a spell , then running down stairs to finish the kitchen , but wait , isn’t my table cloth nice and clean down in the dryer??? let me go get that and put it on the table …. end up down stairs folding clothes „ then carring them through the kitchen and saying i have to finish this kitchen ….. then other thoughts come rushing through .. on and on and on , what a fun but exhausting life we lead !!!!
i have to learn to never check my email while i need to clean , that distraction can last hours , or come up with a new search i would like to try on google because neurochemistry has been somewhere between the land of hobbies and the kingdom of obsession for me in the last 3 months ..
i wish i knew someone in my area who had this , i feel like a misfit , except when i come to these boards .. thanks for sharing .. laura
ADHD journal
wow , that was good bojangles , i was going to write something just in that fashion but my mind works to fast for my fingers .
this is how i do housework everyday , well not everyday , i do not do housework everyday .. too boring and mudane, but i find i bounce all over the house from room to room cleaning partial places taking things in other rooms and then staying in there for a spell , then running down stairs to finish the kitchen , but wait , isn’t my table cloth nice and clean down in the dryer??? let me go get that and put it on the table …. end up down stairs folding clothes „ then carring them through the kitchen and saying i have to finish this kitchen ….. then other thoughts come rushing through .. on and on and on , what a fun but exhausting life we lead !!!!
i have to learn to never check my email while i need to clean , that distraction can last hours , or come up with a new search i would like to try on google because neurochemistry has been somewhere between the land of hobbies and the kingdom of obsession for me in the last 3 months ..
i wish i knew someone in my area who had this , i feel like a misfit , except when i come to these boards .. thanks for sharing .. laura
ADHD journal
wow , that was good bojangles , i was going to write something just in that fashion but my mind works to fast for my fingers .
this is how i do housework everyday , well not everyday , i do not do housework everyday .. too boring and mudane, but i find i bounce all over the house from room to room cleaning partial places taking things in other rooms and then staying in there for a spell , then running down stairs to finish the kitchen , but wait , isn’t my table cloth nice and clean down in the dryer??? let me go get that and put it on the table …. end up down stairs folding clothes „ then carring them through the kitchen and saying i have to finish this kitchen ….. then other thoughts come rushing through .. on and on and on , what a fun but exhausting life we lead !!!!
i have to learn to never check my email while i need to clean , that distraction can last hours , or come up with a new search i would like to try on google because neurochemistry has been somewhere between the land of hobbies and the kingdom of obsession for me in the last 3 months ..
i wish i knew someone in my area who had this , i feel like a misfit , except when i come to these boards .. thanks for sharing .. laura
I laughed out loud so hard I had tears running down my face. My daughter is shouting, “Stop it that’s annoying!”
Thanks for helping me realize I’m not the only one.