ADD much?

I feel like I have ADD sometimes. Not true ADD because I didn't have it as a child and to have it as an adult, you have to have had the symptoms as a child too and I know I didn't. But I definitely have the symptoms now. It could be from one of the medicines I'm on or something else causing it. I do want to bring it up to my doctor next month. I use to be able to sit and read a book for hours. I could sit there and watch a TV show straight through. I would leave a room and remember what I went there for. I could go in that room and not get distracted by 10 other things and then do what I wanted to do. 

Now??? I can't read at home anymore. I bring a book with me everywhere though and I read before work, on my breaks, in the car on the way to somewhere or before an appointment. Which is good that I'm able to read during those times but I really miss reading at home. But I can never focus.

When I watch a show, I pause it a thousand times to check my phone, to get up for something, to check something on the Internet. Then I get distracted some more and 20 or more minutes go by and I  haven't gone back to the show. 

I'll start a blog post and it'll sit in my drafts because I got distracted and never went back to it. I made up a schedule for myself but I never follow it. 

Before at the house, I would say okay, I'm going to get up and I am going to sweep the kitchen then mop it. I would get up grab something to take to another room. Then I would set that down and start a load of laundry. I would then go back in the bedroom closet and put away all the clean clothes. Then I'd clean the litter box because it was in the laundry room and while I was in there to start the washer, I'd realize it was dirty. I'd put the dirty litter into the trash and have to take out all the trash. So I'd empty out the laundry room can, the 3 bathroom trash cans, I would go through the wash collecting our trash that hadn't made it into a can yet and then take it all outside. I'd then go back inside and do the same for recycling. Oh it's garbage night so I'd take the cans to the street. Go back inside. I'd think man, I need a break! I'd sit down and do something Internet related. Oh it's time to put the clothes in the dryer. So now while I'm up, I should wash some dishes. Wash dishes then wipe the counters down. THEN I'd remember that I wanted to sweep and mop the kitchen. And it's now like 2 hours later. I'd sweep the kitchen and think oh I might as well sweep the laundry, front entry way and our bathroom and I'd do all that. I would then maybe mop all those areas or some of them. It was hit or miss by then. I could end up getting a lot done but I didn't do it in the order I wanted and it wasn't like okay, these are the things I need to do, no matter the order. That would be okay. But if I get up to do one specific thing I want to be able to just do that. I don't want to get distracted by a thousand things possibly never getting to my original thing. 

I can't remember (lol) what the other symptoms were but not being able to focus and getting easily distracted are my biggest annoyances. The other things aren't as bothersome to me, if at all. 

I know I should have more free time now compared to when we were living at the house because now I'm not responsible for cleaning an entire 2200 sq ft house myself but I feel like I have NO TIME. I come home after work and then when it's bed time, I feel like I ran out of time. And it's not even anything important that I'm not doing. I'm behind on TV shows, I'm not reading my book, I'm not working on my blog, I'm behind in reading my blogs and forums. So it's definitely unimportant stuff but I seriously am at a loss at the end of the night where all my time went. But at the house, I would clean the house and then still have time to read my stuff or watch my shows and I wasn't behind on anything. I have way more free time now but no time at all.

My appointment with my primary care doctor is August 26th and hopefully I have the courage to talk to him about this! 

Does anyone have advice or tips for this? I feel like I should have a notebook or a clipboard with paper hanging on the wall that I can just jot anything and everything down. Then I can look at it and see what I want to do or need to do and just cross stuff off when I do it. If I need to remind myself of something, it'll be there and I'll see it every time I look at the paper. I have a little notebook on my night stand that I do write in sometimes but it's for stuff like appointments or phone numbers but not a running list of everything in my life. One of the ALFs that I deliver to is really busy at the front desk. Each phone has a notebook or a stack of scrap paper. They have to write everything down. If they get a phone call, they have to write down what's being said. Not word for word but like Sally, apt 101, plumber. Hang up, take another phone call. John, son of apt 305, billing. Hang up and deal with 3 people at the desk. Then they'll write up the work order for 101 and call billing and ask them to call John back. Then they cross off those things or throw the paper away. They don't have to save it or file it. But they're so busy that they can't take a chance of forgetting something. It seems like something I need to try. 

Okay, time to go. Gotta check on the clothes in dryer. Have a good night!

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Is my new domain. It's not set up yet because I can't figure some stuff out. I don't know how to edit the DNS settings. Whatever. I'll try it again tomorrow after work. But either way, I'm excited that I purchased a domain name!!!!!

Laundry jar.

I was able to buy 4 bags of ALL detergent pouches for really cheap. On clearance and discount and coupons!! I think I paid $2 or less for them. I might have used Catalina coupons too. Well anyways. I wanted a pretty way to store them and then I could keep the pouch in the barn. 

It doesn't look really pretty at night. Lol. But it looks prettier than the pouches would look in the room. I might get something to tie around it or glue something. I could glue all sorts of nail studs to it. Lol

Hopefully this is the before!

There's a small section of wall between the door and the closet. Right now J's dad has 2 things hanging there but I want to take them down and hang 2 things there. Here's the before.

And I want to hang up the key from Busch Gardens and the key hook I have had for several years. I bought it at Pier One around 2008 or 2009. 

Here's the key hook. 

And I want to hang them up on the wall like this. 

The Busch Gardens key won't fit in that space straight across. If it goes on that wall, it has to be angled like that. 

The pictures are horrible because I took them last night with my phone. And our lighting situation is horrible! I love using the word horrible. Lol. 

Hhhmmm. First Busch Gardens trip and a bonus round of random thoughts at the end.

I just looked and I don't think I ever wrote about our first trip to Busch Gardens. 

Lol, I'm horrible! 

We went in May right after my birthday. May 24th? That was the day we got our 1 year passport that I mentioned in my last post. It was one of my birthday presents and we did the monthly payments for that so it's $25 a month I think or $27. I can't remember. Less than $30 lol. 

Here's a picture of the tiger exhibit with no tigers. 

It was a super hot day so the animals seemed to all be "missing" but I guess they were all just hiding from the sun. But not us. 

I look awful. And why can't I not do anything weird with my head? I always look awkward. 

That's a little better but also a little blurry. 

Then we saw some animals. Turtles, flamingos, kangaroos and koi fish. 

The item I bought that time was a "giant" skeleton key. It's about 12 inches long I think? 15? I'm horrible at estimating measurements. I thought I had a picture of it but I guess I don't. So I just took a picture. 

It doesn't have any hooks in the back to hang on the wall but J says fence staples would work. They're silver so I'd have to paint them to match. I have some nail polish that would sort of match. The staples are silver so anything would be better even if it wasn't an exact match. 

We only rode 1 ride that time but I can't remember the name of that ride. It was a roller coaster though. I'll try to post something tomorrow and I'm going to try harder to post on a schedule. 

For right now though, I need to take a shower and go to sleep. We're off work tomorrow and stayed up late tonight. So we'll probably sleep in. And then do nothing. I need to work on laundry. I need to wash my rugs! And buy a belt for our vacuum so I can use it again. I also need to clean it out. I thought I did that when we moved in but I saw it in the garage full of dirt so I guess I didn't. I might buy a replacement filter too so that I can wash it and put a clean in then and be able to use it next time without worrying about the filter being dry yet. If I can get the vacuum to working properly again, then I can vacuum the rugs and not have to wash them as often. Well I hope that theory works. Lol. Kreasy lays on the rug by my side of the bed and so it gets covered in his dog hair. I flip it over and repeat. Then I switch it out for a cleaner rug and we repeat. So now all the rugs are covered in hair on both sides and no matter how much I shake them out, it doesn't help.

But how do I say no to that? He gets scared and lays on the floor next to the bed. Sometimes he goes in the closet on his side where "his" quilts are. They're "his" quilts because they're also covered in dog hair and need to be washed.

 

Okay my random thoughts are over. Time to really take a shower.