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My friend just sent me this...It's fab.. it's me all over!! Does it apply to anyone else?
AAADD - 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 front verandah table that I
brought up from the letter box earlier, just after the mailman had been.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I put my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage bin beside the table, and notice that the bin 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 post box when I take out the garbage anyway (and the mailman picks up the mail at noon). I may as well pay the bills first. So, I take my cheque book off the table, and see that there is only 1 cheque left. My spare cheque book is 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 earlier this morning.
I know I going to look for my cheque book, but first I need to push the Coke can aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The Coke is warm, so I decide to put it in the refrigerator to make it cold again. As I
head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the dining room table catches my eye -- they need water.
I put the Coke on the dining room table 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 put more water in the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the table, go to the kitchen sink to get a jug and fill it with water and suddenly spot the TV remote on the window sill.
Some-one left it there.
I realise 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 window sill, so I decide to put it back in the lounge room where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. I pour some water in the jug, but spill some on the floor.
So, I set the remote back on the kitchen bench, 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 cheque's aren't written for the bills to be paid
- there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the dining room table
- the flowers don't have enough water,
- there is still only 1 cheque in my cheque book,
- I can't find the remote,
- I can't find my glasses,
- the garbage hasn't been taken out
- 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 now.
I realise this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.
Do me a favour. Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember who the hell I've sent it to.
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.
DoodlebearsYup that's me!
It's just part of getting old Jenny...welcome to my world. 
GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. got there in body!
GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL. never will!
LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC. always do!
Hugs Jane. 
Oh.. this is so funny Jenny.....and I so identify with every word....unfortunately it seems to
come with this 50ish... something age, but its so refreshing to read, and realise the that its
not just you!!! your friend has a great sense of humour!!.....its made me giggle anyway!
Best thing to do keep laughing!!
Hugs,
Yvonne.
Bears by Jodi
Mountain Dreamer Bears:crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:
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This would be hilarious if it weren't sooo true! 
Made me laugh out loud anyway. 
I can so relate to this. 
It describes my days pretty well and is the very reason I don't get more bears made! 
Laurie Lou BearsI don't know if it is really anything to do with age or it is because us poor women have so much to do and we find that as soon as we start one thing another catches our eye and we are still thinking about the next ten jobs and we end up so far ahead of ourselves that we forgot what we originally planned to do.I find it worse when I am creating a new bear as I am trying to think about what sort of bear ,what colour etc etc and find myself wandering about not even knowing what I am wandering about for!
Hang on a minute I have just got to unload the washing machine that finished six hours ago-I'll be back in a minute :crackup:
Laurie :hug:
Brisbane ...Believe me age has absolutely NOTHING to do with is......I'm not even 40 yet and this describes me perfectly!!!!
Swan Valley Bears:crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: 
Baird'sBears
It's not age--it's multitasking gone mad . . . 
It comes with having children and getting used to having 6 days worth of things to do in one, wishing you grew another arm with each child, getting used to the idea that the work has no beginning, middle or end.
Which is why I like making bears. It's done when it's done, and nobody takes it apart again!
Matilda Huggington-beareYep having an episode right now. :doh: :doh:
Posts: 8,574Its like looking in a mirror
reading your post.
sigh
d
Newcastle, OntarioJenny,
I have ADD and your post describes my entire life - it is nice to see everyone is catching up to me, though! :crackup: :crackup:
hugs,
Brenda
QueenslandIsn't 50ish the new 40.............yippeee..................have had a few of those days 
Take Care
Be Safe
Debbie
WienJenny, scary, isn´t it? :crackup:
Eileen, you really think so??? .
Gaby
RainebearsJenny, That is so true, that is always happening to me, when I start one job I then remember I should be finishing something else. I think it is because we are always thinking of the next job we want to get done. Therefore like your letter says we end up getting nothing done.
Laraine
Swan Valley BearsI have this birthday card in my stash, waiting for the person with the right sense of humor to send it to:
Tami Eveslage Original Teddy Bears
Me too!
Tami Eveslage Original Teddy Bears
Me too!
