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#34058 - 02/07/06 07:55 PM AAADD
Songbird Offline
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Registered: 06/03/04
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Loc: Massachusetts, USA
AAADD

We are all getting older, and as we age, we begin to suffer the slings and arrows of aging, which may or not be of outrageous fortune. There is unsteadiness of gait, fading eyesight and hearing, and whatever else. And no doubt, new diseases will be diagnosed. A new one has just come up, called Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder, or in short A. A. A. D. D.

This is how it manifests:


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 mail box 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 un! der 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 check book 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 decide 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.

Do me a favor, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember to whom it has been sent.

Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL. LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC.

P.S. I just remembered, I LEFT THE WATER RUNNING IN THE DRIVEWAY!!!!!!!!!

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#34059 - 02/08/06 08:58 AM Re: AAADD
Dotsie Offline
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Registered: 07/09/08
Posts: 23647
Loc: Maryland
Okay, who's been watching me?

This is hysterical.

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#34060 - 02/07/06 09:35 PM Re: AAADD
Bluebird Offline
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Registered: 09/20/05
Posts: 2560
Loc: Pagosa Springs, Colorado
I did not know this was something that came with aging!! This is me all over. I spend every day like this and at the end of the day I say " I got
nothing done!!". Add to this, little ones who constantly interrupt my scattered activity and you get one dizzy broad!! [Big Grin]
I guess I'm in good company, though...

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#34061 - 02/07/06 09:55 PM Re: AAADD
NHJackie Offline
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Registered: 09/22/05
Posts: 868
Loc: Merrimack, NH
I think I've been this way most of my life! Now that I know it's only because I keep getting older, I'm happy. I have an excuse! [Smile]

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#34062 - 02/08/06 03:34 AM Re: AAADD
chatty lady Offline
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Registered: 02/24/04
Posts: 20267
Loc: Nevada
Now you know the truth about what multi-tasking really is, bet you thought it was a good thing......too funny Songbird.

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#34063 - 02/08/06 05:15 AM Re: AAADD
yepthatsme2 Offline
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Registered: 08/08/05
Posts: 816
Loc: Fredericksburg, Va.
Everyday...all day. Can't get any worse, can it?
Can't tell you how many times I've walked around looking for my glasses to find them on top of my head.

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#34064 - 02/08/06 05:17 AM Re: AAADD
Bluebird Offline
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Registered: 09/20/05
Posts: 2560
Loc: Pagosa Springs, Colorado
The worst for me is when I go to do something and find that I had just done it a few minutes before and forgot that I had remembered...what??
[Roll Eyes]

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#34065 - 02/08/06 06:50 PM Re: AAADD
Songbird Offline
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Registered: 06/03/04
Posts: 2830
Loc: Massachusetts, USA
Hey girls: Now we know why we "do so much" and nothing ever seems to be done" [Big Grin] . At least I know I'm not alone! [Wink] [Big Grin] [Razz] [Eek!]

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#34066 - 02/09/06 08:07 AM Re: AAADD
AvalonBlondi Offline
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Registered: 11/07/05
Posts: 1096
Loc: West Chester ,PA
OMG...this is all too true..
Brenda...i do the eyeglass on the top of my head thing all the time...also...looking in my purse frantically for car keys only to realize they are in the other hand ...the one holding all the shopping bags!!! I'm happy to know that I'm not alone in this muddled mess.. [Wink]

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#34067 - 02/09/06 08:50 AM Re: AAADD
NHJackie Offline
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Registered: 09/22/05
Posts: 868
Loc: Merrimack, NH
Anybody else have special eyeglasses for the computer? I can't count the times I've forgotten to change to my other glasses, got up and almost feel on my face.

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#34068 - 02/08/06 10:00 PM Re: AAADD
Bluebird Offline
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Registered: 09/20/05
Posts: 2560
Loc: Pagosa Springs, Colorado
The problem I have when mispalcing my glasses is that I can't find them because I can't see w/o them!!! [Roll Eyes]

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#34069 - 02/08/06 10:08 PM Re: AAADD
chickadee Offline
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Registered: 09/26/04
Posts: 3910
Loc: Alabama
Ohhh I feel a poem coming on....later today perhaps
chick

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#34070 - 02/08/06 10:19 PM Re: AAADD
Bluebird Offline
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Registered: 09/20/05
Posts: 2560
Loc: Pagosa Springs, Colorado
Cool!! I LOVE your poems, chick (no pressure...)

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#34071 - 02/09/06 12:11 AM Re: AAADD
mammajude Offline
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Registered: 01/04/05
Posts: 102
Loc: San Diego, Ca
I hear you girl friend!!!! NO FUN but gotta laugh or will CRY....

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#34072 - 02/09/06 12:53 AM Re: AAADD
Songbird Offline
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Registered: 06/03/04
Posts: 2830
Loc: Massachusetts, USA
Hi Mammajude! Welcome! Glad to have you back! Hope all is well with you!

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#34073 - 02/09/06 01:26 AM Re: AAADD
NHJackie Offline
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Registered: 09/22/05
Posts: 868
Loc: Merrimack, NH
I love us when we're having fun. Waiting for that poem, Chick!

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#34074 - 02/09/06 05:08 PM Re: AAADD
Dotsie Offline
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Registered: 07/09/08
Posts: 23647
Loc: Maryland
Jackie, so do I!

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#34075 - 02/09/06 11:28 PM Re: AAADD
AvalonBlondi Offline
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Registered: 11/07/05
Posts: 1096
Loc: West Chester ,PA
if we couldn't laugh about these menapausal mishaps we'd all be in a permanent funk!!! [Razz]

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#34076 - 02/10/06 12:01 AM Re: AAADD
NHJackie Offline
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Registered: 09/22/05
Posts: 868
Loc: Merrimack, NH
Funks are no fun. Been there; done that; have the t-shirt. [Smile] [Big Grin] [Wink]

Being happy is a lot better and more productive!

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#34077 - 02/10/06 12:16 AM Re: AAADD
AvalonBlondi Offline
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Registered: 11/07/05
Posts: 1096
Loc: West Chester ,PA
I agree Jackie...!!!!

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#34078 - 02/10/06 03:28 AM Re: AAADD
chatty lady Offline
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Registered: 02/24/04
Posts: 20267
Loc: Nevada
Some very wise person said that Laughter Is The Best Medicine and they could not have been more right....so laugh it up girls and feel good. When theres no one else around heck, I laugh at myself. I am a very bisarre character especially to myself ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha [Big Grin] [Wink] [Razz] [Roll Eyes] [Smile] [Cool]

[ February 09, 2006, 07:29 PM: Message edited by: chatty lady ]

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#34079 - 02/14/06 09:59 AM Re: AAADD
Sandi Offline
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Registered: 02/13/06
Posts: 163
Loc: Jupiter Florida
Ditto...I hear you! I went on Stratera to help me focus. Problem is: have to take one in morning, no problem with that, but....I forget to take the other one at 4:00. So, I decided I will grow old gracefully dysfunctional. And I have accepted my intellectual lapses. Sandi

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#34080 - 06/07/06 01:15 AM Re: AAADD
Poppie Offline
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Registered: 04/28/06
Posts: 696
Loc: London
Hey Sonbird,
I have just made it here and stumbled in my usual bumbling way...across your post. Thats the first belly laugh I have had in yonks. So thank you indeed.

Transdermally yours
Pauline.

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