AAADD

I keep wondering why things never seem to go as planned. I was reading an article yesterday and I have discovered my problem. I have what is known as AAADD. 

Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

It goes something like this.

I decide to wash the car. I start toward the garage and notice the mail lying at the back of the letterbox. 

OK, I'm going to wash the car...but first, I'm going to go check the mail.

I lay the car keys down on the desk, discard the junk mail...and notice the rubbish bin is full. OK, I'll just put the bills on the desk and take the rubbish out. But before I do that I best go online and pay those two bills.

I go to log on and I see the coffee I was drinking sitting on the desk.

I need to finish that, but it is cold  maybe I'll pop it into the microwave to warm it up.

I head toward the kitchen and the plants catch my eye, they need some water.

I set the coffee on the counter and uh oh! there's my glasses...I was looking for them all morning!  

I'm pretty sure I really don't have age activated attention deficit disorder.

I'd better put the glasses away first. I fill a container with water and head for the flowerpots-

Aaaaaagh! Someone left the TV remote in the kitchen. We'll never think to look in the kitchen tonight when we want to watch television so I'd better put it back in the living room where it belongs.

I splash some water into the pots and onto the floor, I throw the remote onto a soft cushion on the sofa and I head back down the hall trying to figure out what it was I was going to do...!!??!!  

And it's NOT an aging disorder, or deficit, or anything like that, I think.

At the end of the day: The car isn't washed, the bills are unpaid, the coffee is sitting on the kitchen counter, flowers are half watered,  and I can't seem to find my car keys!

When I try to figure out how come nothing got done today, I'm baffled because I KNOW I WAS BUSY ALL DAY LONG! 

I realise this Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder is a serious condition and I'd better get help, BUT FIRST I think I'll check my e-mail.

Have an active day.