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Title: AAADD
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Published: Apr 13, 2009
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Post Date: 2009-04-13 00:36:15 by christine
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AAADD KNOW THE SYMPTOMS.....PLEASE READ! Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder. Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.. This is how it manifests: I decide to water my garden. As I start toward the garage, I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. So I lay my car keys on the table, So, I decide to put the bills back But then I think, I take my check book off the table, My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house I'm going to look for my checks, The Pepsi is getting warm, As I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi, a vase of flowers on the I put the Pepsi on the counter and I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the I pour some water in the flowers, So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then, I head down the hall trying to At the end of the day: I realize this is a serious problem, Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!
Poster Comment: I'm not laughing. ;P
Somehow I feel better,even though I have it!!
As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and
decide it needs washing.
I notice mail on the porch table that
I brought up from the mail box earlier.
put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that
the can is full.
on the table and take out the garbage first..
since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage
anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
and see that there is only one check left.
to my desk where I find the can of Pepsi I'd been drinking
but first I need to push the Pepsi aside so that I don't accidentally
knock it over.
and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
counter catches my eye--they need water.
discover my reading glas ses that
I've been searching for all morning.
water the flowers.
water and suddenly spot the TV remote.
Someone left it on the kitchen table.
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.
but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.
remember what I was planning to do..
the car isn't washed
the bills aren't paid
there is a warm can of Pepsi 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 damn day, and I'm really tired.
and I'll try to get some help for it,
but first I'll check my e-mail...
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#1. To: christine (#0)
Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming! ooops. I'm not saying anything.
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces. De La Boétie
And my husband thinks I'm just lazy!
Turtle often forgets where he parks his van. He has gotten around this problem by keeping a pug in it, and since the pug usually spots Turtle before Turtle spots the van, all Turtle has to look for is a van violently bouncing up and down.
that's funny ;)
Aging is not for sissies.
...I put the Pepsi on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning....
~ Robert the Brus - "The Declaration of Arbroath"
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#3. To: christine (#0)
"Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life." — Dr. Richard Lindzen, MIT Professor of Meteorology
#4. To: christine (#0)
Dancing Turtles and Bouncing Boobs...that's Turtle Island.
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