Oh my goodness, I just have to share this!
A few entries back Guido posted an entry about "Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder", and then I read a similar "story" in another journal and sent them both to my sisters. Just now I got an emailed reply from my sister, P.J., and I just have to share it. Please enjoy:
~~(From P.J.) The really sad thing about these last two stories, Lori, is that they are so accurate.They describe, at least in part, every day I have at home. Now mind you, I said, "every day I have at home". When I'm at work I can get done just exactly what I have to get done. Sometimes with time to spare. Bill would explain it as home having high gravity areas, and when we enter those "high gravity areas" we tend to lose things...including our train of thought.
And just think, we used to laugh at Mom. Remember when she tried to iron your dress with the mixer? Or the time she found the teakettle in the fridge?
Sometimes I'm amazed that I'm allowed to stay at home by myself. And the dogs aren't any help at all. They're all for me running around like a crazy person. They think it's fun when I have to make fifteen trips down the hall only to realize that what I wanted was to go into the pantry to get a roll of paper towels.
The only thing I can think of to make it all better is that one day my mind will be just mush enough that it won't make any difference to me where I am or what I'm doing there.~~
I just love my sisters. They can always make me smile. I'd forgotten about the mixer and the teakettle in the fridge. She left one out, though. What about the time Mom started to make my cream of wheat and poured Tide in the pan, and stirred it until she realized what she'd done when it started to bubble! She had a good excuse, though -- she'd had seven kids by the time she was 42! And SHE'S still going strong at 82 years old!
Now THESE are the types of things I REALLY want to write about in my journal!
11 comments:
LOL... I put a bottle away in a cabinet once instead of the fridge... I forgot I did it... until the milk spoiled! LOL
Thanks for sharing...
be well,
Dawn
I can tell you that a relative of mine once put the coat scuttle in the cupboard, and threw a stack of plates down the cellar...
Oh how I can relate sometimes! haha
Love reading about memories from the past
Hugs
Terri
Omg...I do those same kinds of thngs. I will think of something I need to do and be on my way to do it and then at some point between point a and b I forget what I was going to do and then I'll go back to what I was doing and then it will hit "Oh yeah I remember now". So I don't know if it's AAAD or I'm just losing it. I'm 29 and have noticed alot of weird things happening with me lately. Love the stories from your childhood....those are always great to hear.
Hugs, Angela
these are interesting true stories..I enjoyed reading them
:-)
What touching but funny stories. I wonder if my absent minded sisters and aunt had some sort of attention disorder, as my sister once took the broom instead of the bucket to milk the cow and did not notice until she sat down to milk. But that about your Mom trying to cook Tide tops about everything. I am glad she survived as well as you guys. These stories are funny as long as they don't hurt anybody. Gerry http://journals.aol.com/gehi6/daughters-of-the-shadow-men/
I have those days too....and I'm turning 47 tomorrow...it's only going to get worse.....LOL.....June:)
Funny stuff!!! J
I have days where I am there with your mom
Kelli
http://journals.aol.com/kamdghwmw/noonmom
I must have that AAADD thing. LOL!!!!! In fact, I think I have a triple dose... and I personally think that with each child you have it gets a little worse as you try to keep track of all the humans coming out of your body.....
Signed, mommy of three,
Hugs,
Lisa
I must have that AAADD thing. LOL!!!!! In fact, I think I have a triple dose... and I personally think that with each child you have it gets a little worse as you try to keep track of all the humans coming out of your body.....
Signed, mommy of three,
Hugs,
Lisa
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