I am on my last roll of toilet paper.
I have gone out three times during the past week, intending to buy toilet paper at the grocery store. Yet I forgot to buy it all three times.
Two out of the three times, I didn’t even end up going to the grocery store in the first place.
I had left a needle on top of a piece of fabric, in the middle of my living room. I was thinking that I would pick it up later.
And now it’s gone. It is lost somewhere in the fibers of my carpet. I know I will find it sometime soon by accident, walking around the house barefoot. It will hurt.
That was a dumb decision for me to make. I have realized that having ADD makes you do dumb things sometimes. I was going to pick up the needle, but I got distracted and decided I would do it later.
Distractions. They make it so easy to do regrettable things. I would never have done something like this had I taken my medication. I also might not have slept so well, on the other hand.
In another ADD moment, yesterday I bought groceries and forgot to put them in the fridge until this morning.
They were out for 12 hours straight, so some of the food probably isn’t good anymore. I was hoping to have yogurt for breakfast, but maybe I’ll have something else.
It happened because I got home and put my grocery bags on the messy table just inside the entrance to my house. There, they blended in with everything else. I then went to get something to eat and sat on the sofa, eating.
I did get to put some of the food away last night, but not much. I feel like an idiot but know it’s just one of the drawbacks of having ADD.
“ADD moments” are how I refer to those times when I get up to do something and then completely forget about it.
I just had a particularly funny ADD moment. I was buying something online, and I had to get up to find my credit card. My credit card was in my purse just six feet away from where I was sitting.
Instead of going directly to my purse, I got up and walked out of the room and into the kitchen. I wasn’t hungry or anything, so I just walked aimlessly. Then I wandered into the bathroom, where I had nothing to do either. Finally, I walked into my bedroom. I looked in the mirror and thought, “That’s good, I’m not getting too fat,” and then I walked out of the bedroom and back to the living room/computer area again.
In the living room, I noticed that my plants were dying. One of the things about ADD is that you always forget to water your plants. So I went back to the kitchen to get a glass of water for the plants, and a funnel since pouring can be kind of messy.
Forgetting that I was going to water the plants with it, I took a sip from the glass of water. “Ewww, it’s warm,” I thought and immediately realized that the glass of water wasn’t intended for myself to drink. I then noticed the funnel in my hand and knew I had to water the plants. So I went over to water them and succeeded.
I brought the glass back to the kitchen, forgetting the funnel on the windowsill. Then I remembered that I was supposed to be getting my credit card from my purse!
I hurried over to my purse and found my wallet, and I returned to my computer. There, I took out my credit card and finally completed my online purchase. I was so relieved that it didn’t time out. It’s such a pain to have to start over when you’re buying something online, forget halfway through because of ADD, and then return to find the purchase timed out.
As soon as I finished the purchase, I went to blog about my ADD moment, knowing that it was genuinely good writing material. And as I was writing, I looked over and saw the funnel on the windowsill. “Should I go and put it back in the kitchen?” I thought. “No, I had better finish my blog entry first,” I said to myself, trying to avoid another one of those funny but aggravating ADD moments.