Forgot to blog last night and now I am again late for a comentment but cant bring myself to just go get ready without my usual procrastination routine. Anyhow it was a uneventful day  yesterday only lost my cell twice. Once at home ,found no biggie. Then we went out to eat left the resturaunt got to the gas station when it hits me " Shit my phone " so back we go. When I walked in I see our waitress ( by the way she was the worst ever and we didnt tip her, bad move  )  holding my phone and texting on it, turns out she was texting the contact " MOM " and telling her my phone was there! Smart idea.

           On a side note dont hate me cuz I did not tip her. I have been a server alot in my life and always tip. You have to be the worst of the worst not to get a tip from me. Even if your bad , I can see your busy, new or just not cut out for serving but you tryed I still tip, but if I am thirsting to death while you are goofing exspect to get stiffed.

        Excessive talking~ Yet another ADHD symptom I have, So Already have made a mental note not to write more than one blog a day!!! Just couldn't help it !

                I have comtemplated adding entries that include my ADHD foul up's, And this one is good. My friends daughter was at my house tonite and when it was time to take her home I began the process of going somewhere. Off we go down the road drop her off and on the return and just when I start to think this is going all too smooth I realize I am wearing my dusting slippers I bought ( they are like dust mops on the bottom of slippers to wear around and dust floor as you walk )  I forgot to pay attition to what shoes I had on. Only me???

I Just to let you know I didn't write this, I found it on a website of 'Jokes' - It was to dead on to just let it go by without sharing. Hope you enjoy! Cheers

This is how it develops:

I decide to water my garden.

As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide my car needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mailbox earlier.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can 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 mailbox, when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my checkbook off the table, and see that there is only 1 check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking.

I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be watered.

I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den 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 set the remote back down 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 warm can of Coke sitting on the counter,
----the flowers don't have enough water,
----there is still only 1 check in my check 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 day long, and I'm really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.

        I found this site searching for stories from people like me. I am not saying there is no one with the same issues as me but I am just not finding the kind of blogs I was looking for so I am going to start one. Keep in mind I am the worst speller ever and have given up the fight and now just pre worn people.

         This is how a typical day goes for me. Here are just a few examples of things that happen to me on the regular. In future blogs it will be things that I have done goofy that day. Goofy by the way is one of the names my friends have given me. Alarm goes off at 6:30 but I never get up untill the very last second, I can sleep for 2 mins. Its time to get my son Blake on the bus, he is in third grade so by now morning should be routine, but I have ADHD  so not even close. I can never seem to get it together, cant find socks or undewear. Once he is dressed then it is shoes or bookbag ect. All this of course is dependent on my waking up on time, about half the time I have to take him to school because I am once again late. Getting myself ready for the day is a whole other procces ( a word I use to discribe how I do things ~Its always a process ) I first shower which takes me a while of pittiling before I actually get in once I have decited to then once I get out I have to find a distraction then back to it. After every step of getting ready I find myself wondering off so it takes me way tooo long to look this crapy!.

          As I dont work because like most of us ADHDer's I cant hold a job, My only responsabilates are my son, husband, and housework. If I was to be graded on the preceeding it would be a C - on a good day. After Blake is off instead of jumping right into it and " Get er done " I choose to go back to sleep ( I am always sooo tired ). 1:30 pm Shane leaves for work , I should have been up hours ago to ensure he had dinner to take with him but no such luck, for the most part I am either slapping something together or he wakes me up when he leaves and I have to take it to him later. Now usualy at this point one of two things its either time to finish that nap or coffee with my mom who lives close. To recap items compleated so far 0.

        3:50 pm time for Blake to get in from school. Here is were it realy starts to spin out of control as Blake also has ADHD, we run circles that go nowhere around each other. I find it very hard to guide him in the things that he needs to get done and teaching  him how to handle  his ADHD when I cant control my own. Its hard even tho I know that it is in his best interest to make him do homework and chores when I cant do those myself. The evening is about productive as the morning. Item checked off to do list 0. A good evening is when we get homework done, even if it is way too late and dinner fixed before 9 pm.

         My completed taskes to this point would have taken a person without ADHD no time at all, me it has taken all day. You also have to keep in mind as I am running behind geting nothing done I am franticly rushing around so very busy. A friend of mines daughter once said to her mother " Mom Lisa is always running around but never gets anything done ". As with most of us I can never find anything. It is a big vicious cycle of losing something finding it then losing something else only to realize I have lost the first item again, start over and repeat day after day after day. Here is where my ADHD starts to get to me. No lie or stretch I spend hours a day on the hunt. I am getting over it. I used to laugh about it a brush it off but now it wears me all the way out. Here is the senario~ Brake time I will sit and smoke a cig ( by the way most the time this is just an excuse to not do what needs done ) Oh but wait were are my cigeretts? 10 min later I find them real close to were I begain looking but over looked them and searched the house for them. OK but now were did I lose that lighter ( I never have a lighter its always lost ) forget it I just use the stove. K set down a get setteled~ I should check my cell phone while I am on a break, yep you guessed it~ Can't find my cell....yada  yada looking.... looking yada yada, at some point find it in some odd spot. Humm... what ash tray did I put that  cigerett in that I lit before I started the quest for my phone.  This happens several times per day. It is alway my cigs, lighter, and phone but other things I miss place on the regular are my shoes, coat, purse, objects in my purse, keys, remote control, tools I was using, just about everything thats been in my hands. When I go to other peoples homes it follows me there too except I lose them at there place or worse sometimes I lose there stuff.

       Housework is near impossable. I spend as much or more time per day as most on housework the problem is a task never gets totally complete in one try, therefore its all half done Laundry gets washed but not dryed and it sets till I have to wash it again or it gets dryed but not put up. Dishes same way only half done before I run out of attention. Floors half swept or vacumed so on and so on. Appointments another source of havoic. The appointment card they give you at the doctors office is for me just a purse filler and a waste, most of the time. I find them months after said date. I have to call a few times before I finaly get it in my head or write it down on something other than the scrap paper I know I am going to lose anyhow. If I had a penny for everytime I have showed up at an appointment a week eairly  I could start a savings account that is of course assuming I could save money.

      You get the point by now My ADHD is a total train wreak. Adding to the mess is the fact that as I said I am unemployed and have no insurance so now that I know what this is and am ready to do something about it I dont have the money too, so I just have to deal with it. More to come and please send comments, your story , or any information you may have on resources that can help me get this under control. I am ready to be a productive person and not be know as the forgetfull ,careless, goofy kid. This is just a sample of my ADHDisms and there is lots more and I do the sillyest things I am confedent I will have lots of material to fill a blog with.

                                                       Thanks for reading.