AAADD – Know The Symptoms
Thank goodness there’s a name for this disorder.
Somehow I feel better, even though I have it!!
Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. –
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests itself:
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 head towards the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I picked up from the post man 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 recycling box under the table, and notice that the recycling box is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the recycling first. But then I think, since I’m going to be near the postbox when I take out the recycling paper anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my cheque book off the table, And notice that there is only one cheque left.
My extra cheques are in my desk in the study,
so I go inside the house to my desk where
I find the cup of coffee I’d been drinking.
I’m going to look for my cheques, but first I need to push the coffee aside so that I don’t accidentally knock it over.
The coffee is getting cold, and I decide to make another cup.
As I head toward the kitchen with the cold coffee, a vase of flowers on the worktop catches my eye – the flowers need water.
I put the coffee on the worktop 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 put the glasses back down on the worktop, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote control. Someone left it on the kitchen table.
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 kitchen table, so I decide to put it back 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 put 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 cold cup of coffee sitting on the counter
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,
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 damn day, and I’m really tired.
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….
Don’t laugh – if this isn’t you yet, your day is coming!!
Gulp… this is sounding disturbingly familiar lol…x
It\’s scary, isn\’t it…!! I look at the state the place is in, and wonder why, because I have been slaving away all day clearing, cleaning and tidying…and it always looks the same…!!!
Dang! I have the same disorder! At Least Now I know the name of it….now where did I put my glasses??? And where did remote go? It was right here….Oh there\’s my coffee…better go warm it up
I spent ten minutes looking for my mobile phone earlier, Ruthie found it right next to where I\’d been sitting 😦
You think you youngsters have it bad, just wait until you get to be my age. Not only do I have AAADD, I have advanced CRS (Can\’t Remember S**T) and Frankie has to keep reminding me that I have AAADD. Toss in my drug intake and I\’m as screwed up as a soup sammich!
Yep Sandi, it does sound terrifying and highly distressing for the sufferer. It is almost like a form of dementia.
D\’ya know the worst bit of it is…knowing you\’ve worked your butt off, are absolutely knackered afterwards…and you have nothing at the end of the day to show for it…!!! Grrr!!!
I would have commented sooner but when I came into the room earlier I forgot why! I am here now and hope this is why I am sitting at the pc, or was it to turn it off cos it is bedtime?! Better go check I let the dog in.
Did you lock the back door afterwards? (After making sure the dog is in!) 😉
The dog? I knew I forgot something! I hope he\’s not a Pupsicle!
What dog?
help sandi i\’m getting confused again here .CRAFT. can\’t remember a f\’kin thing .who\’s got a dog with dementia ?and more interestingly how do they know ?
Who are you people, and why are you writing on my TV screen? Better go find a duster, I\’m sure I saw one when I was looking for the remote…
Oh yeah, on the subject of looking for things, did you finally find this diagnosis in your old emails or have you re-written it from mem
when my grandad reached 80 he started walking 5 miles a day ……he\’s 89 now and we don\’t know where he is !.
come on ratbag wake up !!!ooh sorry . \’mrs ratbag \’ 🙂
Yo Sandi! Good Morning! I can relate 2 summa that!! Hope u have a Fab day 2day, sun\’s out here & it feels quite warm! Luv PF XXX
ROFL!! OK, OK…I\’m awake already…!! Robin, thanks for that one…must remember CRAFT…good one…!Well, I\’ve already started…decided to have a peanut butter sarnie…went and got the bread…saw the pile of socks awaiting sorting and…you know!! Then I realised what I was doing and carried on with the sarnie…is there any hope for me?! On second thoughts…don\’t answer that!!
Robin is going stir crazy, be warned, I think he may be up to mischief making today!!
Hmm FOOD! I\’m hungry and bored of scanning stuff into the pc….
When is he not up to mischief-making?!!! LOL!
Eileen! Don\’t start!! Oh! Sorry…I started that by mentioning the peanut butter sarnie…oops!Guess I had better go and sort those socks…and try not to get side-tracked…!
You started it! I\’m starving and it\’s not lunch time for another hour :o(
Just had a rather nice doughnut thanks. Coffee would be good though. I went to the kitchen to make the coffee and saw the dounghnut. Still thirsty. Hmmm, let me see. Is any of that me? Well, I turned on the computer to look something up and can I remember what that was now?Best go and put the kettle on.
Black 2 sugars for me please Rachel!Isn\’t it about time you made some cornish pasties?<< she says hopefully >>
Ooh, yes…Rachel\’s Cornish pasties…I\’m longing to sample them…!Good idea…TEA/COFFEE BREAK, EVERYONE!!
Pasties were made at the weekend with two to spare, which we devoured on monday for lunch.If anybody wanted to visit I\’d have that oven on in a flash, you\’re more than welcome to visit at any time. It would make my year :-)Coffee. Darn. Forgot about that. Remembered what I turned the computer on for though. To look at new computers! Time to splash out on a new one and let this one go to number one for her work. It\’ll be hard to let this one go as it\’s been so good. It\’s quirky but I know what it\’s capable of doing. The thought of having a new one scares me. I hope it\’s as good as this one\’s been.
I\’m trying to work out the practicality of a break at the moment :o( Hoping we\’re off to Lyme this weekend….
You\’ll get used to it, Rachel…I found the laptop really strange to start with, as it has the newest Windows on it, and this has the old Windows….and I found it scary because it was so different! I\’m fine with it now, I think…!Ooh…just remembered why I put this computers on…timesheets!! Better go and do \’em…!
Lyme? Persuasion…a walk along The Cob…"Catch me!"I know…timesheets!!
LOL Sandie! Trust you to instantly go into Jane Austen mode! It is lovely there though
What do you expect? Persuasion is one of my favourite Austens…!
True.. have you finished your timesheets?
Timesheets done…and I clicked Save instead of Save As…oh, well!Now off to make a mess in the kitchen, before I do washing-up, etc…ho hum…!
My kitchen is filling with the alluring, lipsmacking odour of a full roast pork dinner with all the trimmings at this very moment in time. I may be rubbish at crisp roast potatoes but my crackling is spot on!
Always do \’save as\’ before changing anything… that way if the pc crashes you have a backup.Anne if you hear someone banging manically at your door it\’ll be me after your roast pork! How do you manage to mess roast spuds up? Part boil them.. when draining them off bash them roughly about in the pan then pop into hot oil.. 50mins later voila! perfectly fluffy crispy spuds ( I also use baking potatoes to ensure they will go extra specially fluffy )
Personally I think my roast potatoes are lovely but \’he\’ always manages to find fault with them. That is the way I cook them too, cept I sprinkle some garlic salt over them when they are boiled.
And pepper along with some thyme.. I\’d be telling \’him\’ to cook it himself if he picked fault in what I cooked.. but then I\’m not very good at taking critisism ;o)
I love fluffy, crispy roast tates…yummy! I just made myself some pancakes…why, oh, why, do calories taste so go-o-o-o-od…?!!!
lol pancakes made and eaten here too, we had a choice of lemon and sugar, strawberry jam, nutella, golden syrup or raspbery jam. Guess which was favourite? The good old lemon and sugar 🙂
Thing is that he is a good cook. I spend hours in the kitchen yet he can spend half the time and produce the same meal!
I\’ve not had pancakes for years… lovely with lemon juice and sugar.. yum yum
I spend hours too.. but then I do like doing it
Cooking is a chore…and I always make a mess (but I am always cleaning up as I go along)I had my pancakes with syrup..the lemon looks a bit skanky!
Cooking is a chore if it\’s just for one…
Nah…cooking is a chore full stop! It was my least favourite subject at school…after maths. My favourites being art, history, english and science.
haha I was asked not to do cookery as a subject at school! I made shortbread once and it ended up like chewing gum!Then I stopped watching my mum attempting to cook and now I think I make some ok meals :o)
I know practice makes perfect, but no amount of practice will do anything for my attention span…hence burnt offerings, turkey jerky, Yorkshire biscuits (puddings), slab of gravy…as I am often reminded of by my family…! My school reports were always saying \’could try harder\’ or \’must pay attention more\’ or \’Sandra spends too much time day dreaming\’…LOL! Some things never change!!!
I often burn my toast!!
I like food way too much to let it get ruined :o)
sandra !?….y\’know that never occured to me ..said i was simple didn\’t i …..well i said it to jayne any way lol.
Yes…Sandra. Ever since The Liver Birds I have preferred Sandi. Actually it was Sandy to start with until I found out that that was the masculine spelling. Then it became Sandie…ewww…so I dropped the \’e\’…Sandi…that\’s more like it!!!
haha.. now Robin knows what to do to annoy you……………….
What? Call me Sandra…? You\’d have to sound like Molly Sugden to annoy me…LOL!
Who\’s Molly Sugden?
The was Sandra\’s mother in The Liver Birds…and Mrs Slocome in Are You Being Served
I meant \’she\’ not \’the\’…tsk!
"i\’m free"
So what, mister…I\’m four! Oh…that\’s my shoe size…!
Oh right.. now that is a particular voice isn\’t it…
Ah…Mr Humphries…LOL!
I\’m a size four in shoe also Sandi!
can you fit webbed feet in a four ?where do you go ?"Togs for Frogs " Pond U Like "….they gorra be flat understand FLAT !!!
LOL.. Robin IS on a roll today ;o)
I don\’t think we should be worried about the flat feet…It\’s just been on the news that there is a chippy that is now doing frogs legs & Chips!!! heehee ;)Hope you\’re having a lovely day Sandi xXx
Noooooooo!!!! Noooooo!!!! *Froggie covering her ears*
*Tinks does makaton signing* FROG LEGS &CHIPS!!
Now, now, Tinks…poor Froggie…and Robin too…I don\’t know, one of these days I\’m going to get home and find a S.W.A.T. team on my doorstep!! LOL! That would be very entertaining, now, wouldn\’t it…hehehe¬¬¬
Oh, holy hell, so THAT\’S what my problem is!!! lol lol
*Adds another to her list*PMS,CRS,TMJ….
Okay, while the cartoons in my head are at intermission:@ Rachel – You make your own pasties? The dancers here buy them at the exotic costume store.@ Robert – Know how to tell a blonde has been sending e-mail with your PC?…….White Out all over the monitor.@ Annie – RRRRRRUFF!@ Everyone else – WOO HOO! WOO HOO! WOO HOO! WOO HOO! WOO HOO!
Pam…you\’re confusing me. Why another name change??? (What\’s TMJ…?!!)RM…LOL! Pasties…! White-out…! LOL!!
lmao at last there is a name for what I have… lolbut is there a treatment for us???xxx
Treatment, Debs? For what…?!!! Now, what am I supposed to be doing right now…?!! (Wanders off scratching head…)
Has anyone seen my keys?
No, but I came in here to do something…tsk!!
I\’m sure there\’s a drug for it. Or if you all ready have too many things with D. Try a rug for it… On the other hand…. I have more fingers…
Er, Simon…more fingers than who? Ah…I geddit! \’On the other hand\’…!! More fingers…LOL! I\’m tired! (That\’s my excuse and I\’m stickingto it!)Right, I\’m gonna move the bookcase…!
Is TMJ Too Much Junk??? Awww crap! I have another disease!Stay away!!! I may be contagious! And Simon…If you tale off yourshoes and socks, there are 10 more wiggley diggits! Now you can count even higher….Let\’s see….one two, skip a few 99 , one hundred! I did it!!!Now what was I talking about? Where\’s the dog? Oh yeah! Outside!! Anyone need a new pup….sicle