It’s the Thought that Counts

Talk about an ADD mantra…

You know, I keep a list in my Drafts folder of the gazillion things I want to talk about here, the extra pages that I want to create, etc., with, of course, the very best intentions of eventually getting them completed.  I’m all for the “You’ve Gotta Have Goals” thing, but you hope that you manage to reach one every now and then. 

So, in the interest of “Meeting One Every Now and Then,” I’m going to attempt to try to kinda sorta dedicate myself to working on the ol’ blog for a while on Friday mornings.   Seriously, I can’t get more noncommittal than that. 

All right, I could, but I’m trying not to…

 

Or, ya know, maybe not

Someday, at some point in my life, I will learn never to plan anything in a way of “I’m going to do this!” because, inevitably, something gets in the way.  Much like a rhinoceros in the middle of a one-lane road.  There’s just nothing else to do but wait it out.

So it has been since the moment I wrote my last post about filling in some of the gaps I’ve left on my site.  Work has gone completely bonkers, the kid has been sick and very busy as we head into the Chaos Of The Last Month Of School(TM) (a well-earned title), and, as a result of these and other unforeseens, I’ve been up almost all night every night this week working.  Did I mention how much that sucks?

My intentions are still good and still there (oh, just how ADD did THAT sound?!! lol), but in a move that shows me I really have taken some amazing strides in the last year when it comes to dealing with my ADD, I’m okay with waiting a bit longer because:  (1) I’m not stressing about it, (2) my family life is of the ultimate importance to me, and their wait for me to be around is hard on them (and me).  So, they get me first.  :)  Probably seems simple to some, but to me, knowing that and feeling that –and without stressing by feeling I should be doing a million other things instead– is huge.

Hope you take the time to really enjoy what you love this weekend too.  We’ll all be back.

 

Build It…and you should probably keep building it.

Because you never know who will show up, link it, and all hell could break loose.

Well, okay, it hasn’t broken loose just yet.  But, on the off chance that it does, I’m realizing that all those things that have been keeping me from getting my collective website house in order are finally almost finished.  Said things being (1) taxes, (2) my car getting fixed [Wednesday, people - it could be WEDNESDAY!!!], and (3) my husband’s work in-freakin-sanity.  There’s still that whole “last month of school” thing that is approaching and is nothing to sneeze at, but ya know, there’s always going to be that something.  In short, it’s time to get off my duff and get it done. 

Short pause for a guffaw from my ADD side because I said “get it done.”

Okay, back on track.  On checking my e-mail for the first time since taxes, it turns out that ADDitude Magazine, a great resource for ADDers, has added a link to yours truly on their ADHD blogs page.  While most likely entirely search-engine-rendered, I’m going to choose instead to be highly flattered (she said with a giggle), and I’m going to take inspiration to finally make an attempt at some pages that I’ve been MTD for quite some time now — such as the one that contains Dyskinesia Speak and lets you know that MTD is my abbreviation for one of the most-used ADD phrases uttered:  Meaning To Do.  And, yes, even my About page that you’ve all loving clicked upon a thousand times only to find out that while I’m apparently willing to tell you about my car accident, my neighbors, and music that I like, I’m apparently too lame to get around to describing myself.

WELL, NO MORE, PEOPLE!  I’M SETTING ABOUT A TASK HERE!

And now that I’m committed to my task, I just remembered that I forgot to take my Adderall today.  I know.  You can already tell that your reading future here is in safe hands, huh?  ;) 

I shall return – postmedication, postbank, and postfood and caffeine of some sort for good measure!

 

If it ain’t broke…

Fix it until it is.

(…and for the record, that atrocious use of grammar, colloquially proper or not, was incredibly difficult for me.  What a dork.)

I’ll probably be playing with my layout for a good long while, so don’t be surprised to see plenty of versions that are horrible frightening in progress whilst I attempt to suit my picky, fickle, finicky taste.  Once I find it, I’m sure I’ll settle into it for at least a solid week before I’m in search of the next one.

This site temporarily zoned “ALMOST.”

Whilst I get my collective you-kn0w-what in order, be warned:  Appearances will change.  After which, I assure you that they will change again.  If we’re lucky, it won’t go through more color schemes than a Sherwin-Williams color chart.

Hey, I have ADD.  CHANGE is my drug of choice.  Get used to it.