As I’ve grown older, my attention deficit disorder has become exponentially more of an issue. Here’s a post I made on my phone when I didn’t have a blog. (October 1, 2022)

Get up late on Saturday.. 8M!!!! (#teacher)

Get dressed and head to get tires 

Stop on way to get a 99 cent Sonic drink (I LOVE #SONIC!)

Go inside tire place and find out wait is 2 hours

Drop off car and walk about a 1/2 mile home in flip flops with my purse on my arm

Decide I am prime picking for someone to rob me

Pick up a large rock just in case I need to throw it at a mugger

Get home and start dryer

Go in bedroom and decide to dust furniture 

Go get clothes without doing anything in bedroom

Get clothes and throw them on the bed

Put away towels and decide I need to go ahead and start cleaning the bathroom

I realize I need to do the bedroom first, so I put away some more things and decide I need to get my fall / winter clothes out.

Pull out all the shorts and sleeveless shirts and leave them in a heap on top of some still unfolded clothes

Decide I need to ‘iron’ my clothes 😂

Throw summer clothes in the now empty dryer and start fluffing them because my dryer is my iron

Realize I need to give the birds some water but don’t want to go and turn on the hose

I fill a container of water in the tub and realize I could go ahead and spray cleaner in the tub and then start filling it with water. (I’m all about letting the cleaner work its magic because it’s less scrubbing for me.)

Leave water running while I go feed and put water in the birdbath

Decide that the front porch needs to be swept

Look at my failed ‘worm farm’ that was supposed to provide compost

Unfortunately, I forgot to add moisture to them (I felt terrible!)

They have already died, 🥺 and I had just put them on the porch in their killer container. 

Now I’m not sweeping, I’m looking inside worm container. 

Dig through it and realize now a little compost was made 

Dump out container of shredded paper, etc in trash can and put the little bit of compost in backyard

Consider whether to throw away plastic tub container because it has lots of little holes in it 

Realize my tub is still filling up. KENDRA!!!

Go inside and stop tub and…

See hair conditioner and realize it’s a great day to leave conditioner on my hair.

Apply product and then try to consolidate two conditioner bottles into one

Unfortunately, both bottle openings are the same size.

I try to rubber band the two containers together, but, despite my best efforts, the top bottle kept falling unless I hold it.  

Eventually I put the bottle pumpers back on, put back on edge of tub, and put off that task for another day.

After, I want to sweep bathroom but realize broom is outside.

Go sweep off porch, and I put out new doormat that’s been outside for a couple of weeks. The tags are still on it.  

Take old doormat and put it outside the backdoor.

Realize my ironing is done and go get the clothes out of the dryer and onto hangers

Take clothes inside and realize I have done NOTHING in my bedroom

Realize I haven’t taken my ‘focus’ meds (Heavens, Kendra!)

Walk around house in search of purse 

Can’t find it

Even go outside where I never finished sweeping

I finish sweeping and go inside with broom

Still can’t find a LARGE purse in a small house

Find purse on side of couch

Realize my purse needs to be cleaned out

Do that and find my meds 

Realize I really need to change out my purse 

Resist the urge and take my meds

Feeling thirsty so go and search for a cup

Use my old Sonic cup and fill with water

Realize I haven’t bought ice

Resist urge to go buy ice

Go back to bathroom and clean out the tub ( #Dawn detergent really does help clean it.)

Decide I need to put #Drano in the tub because it’s been slow to drain

Go to garage and clean cat’s litter box and throw in trash

See undecided former killer worm home (aka container tub with tiny holes) and ignore it

Go back to tub with Drano and set timer for 30 mins

Decide to stop for a minute and write about my last hour  

Realize I had a huge problem but can’t remember what it is

Realize I’m hungry and go get protein shake

Realize I need to clean out my frig AND freezer 

Please get me off this Ferris Wheel (Did you know the Ferris Wheel is named after a person and you should always capitalize it?)

And the bedroom? Still nothing done . 🤪

Here are just a few more…

Timer goes off for Drano

Go run hot water down drain 

Realize all I have left to do in bathroom is the mopping 

Look for floor cleaner 

Can’t find it

Decide to mop with water, vinegar, and just a little bleach

Go in search of mop bucket

Realize it’s outside

Look at my poor wilted flowers in the back

Start watering plants

Realize how high my grass is getting

Resist urge to mow

Look at my Confederate Rose and see it has aphids

Want to go find clippers to cut off all the branches because I don’t want to put soapy water on the plant

Resist urge and fill up bucket. 

Realize I probably can cut the small branches with scissors

I’m going to look for scissors while my bedroom sits uncleaned except for a side table that I cleaned with Endust but realize I need to really wax it because it’s super dry. 

The good news is that I found the furniture wax while looking for the floor cleaner.  I highly recommend Howard Feed-N-Wax.  It’s really good stuff.  You can order it from Amazon or sometimes Home Depot has it. https://amzn.to/3DnZl88

Okay, I’m headed for the bathroom.

(I’ve been standing outside typing this and letting the sun soak in the conditioner.  I REALLY want to just sit outside with my book and read on the chair.  BUT, I just looked at my lounge chair and see it has mold on it from the stupid (but beautiful) Confederate Rose Tree. (Below are two pictures of my mom’s beautiful cat, Mabel, sitting under her Confederate Rose. She’s now in Kitty Heaven.)

I’m going to get the bleach cleaner and then I swear I’m going back to the mopping.

Oh, and I have to stop this madness around 1:45 to see one of my 4th grade students play football.  I think I’ll take my book, papers to grade, and stop by #Sonicdrivein before the game. 😂

Go get protein drink in frig and realize I only have one left

I am now making a #Walmart order to get more when I realize I have to go walk back to tire place and retrieve my car.

I don’t think my meds are working. 🤪. (I stopped taking them because they don’t work. Caffeine does a much better job!)

Side note: I lost my driver’s license at the football game. I searched EVERYWHERE and even had kids helping me. I found it about six months later in my car. It was wedged in my car’s unknown tiny black hole. Did you know you can order a lost Texas driver’s license on https://www.texas.gov/texas-by-texas/ ? It’s true.