*thinking* “Shoot, I’m late. Better call a cab.” “Wait. I’m not nearly ready and if I rush I’m going to forget something. Better get everything together first, then when I’m about five minutes from being ready – THEN call.” “Good.” I nodded to myself. “Smart thinking” I ignored the brightly coloured fairy lights flitting around [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ADD’
Whirling and whirling
Posted: January 24, 2012 in ADHD, LifeTags: ADD, ADHD, backtrack, forget, humor, Life, living, meds, shiny
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It’s funny: when you take pride in being unique, there are little things that poke you in the back to prove you are not. That you’re just another variation on a common theme. Like words, for example. I like words a lot, even though I find myself sometimes frustrated at the dearth of just the [...]
The Cats of Creative Invention
Posted: February 21, 2011 in ADHD, LifeTags: ADD, meditation, promotion, stress
“I’m just calling to tell you that you’ve got the job” The female voice on the other end of the line waited for the exhalation of joy. She didn’t wait long. The recipient could barely contain himself. “I did? Awesome!” Awesome? Kids use that word, not grown men. ”I mean, that’s great. Amazing.” [...]
Writing That Novel
Posted: October 31, 2010 in ADHD, Life, writingTags: ADD, Executive Function, Life, NaNoWriMo, Novel, writing
There is something a little satisfying about meeting a group of people who have something in common with you. I realized the joy of that when I attended an ADD support group recently. Having been formerly diagnosed as having Attention Deficit Disorder a few weeks ago, I’ve made up my mind to do something about [...]
“My thoughts are like butterflies”, he said. “They’re beautiful. But they fly away.” It was a lament offered up a little boy, and quoted in the book “Delivered from Distraction”. I nodded furiously. Kind of stupid isn’t it? Nodding at something you read in a book. Sort of like clapping at the end of a [...]
They finally caught up to me. It feels like months ago that I learned that the ADHD doc who was supposed to see me in July died. At least a month ago. I wondered back when I heard the news whether I would show up on the scheduled date, only to be met at the [...]
“Night time…is the right time….to be….with the one you love…..” That Ray Charles song resonates. There’s a life-beat to it, a drawing, a capture that won’t quit, won’t let go. Night time. Even the words amaze me. Long before I figured out that ADD had a place in my life, I knew that the night-time [...]
Appointment With A Dead Doc
Posted: April 18, 2010 in ADHD, humor, LifeTags: ADD, ADHD, doctor, Life
My motto at the top of this blog is “Awake, Aware and In Constant Movement” Well tonight’s the “awake” part. It’s 2:06 a.m. and I’m just so jazzed to be so vibrantly awake right now. In earlier blogs I mentioned that I’m getting assessed for ADD. I just learned tonight that the doctor who was [...]
Apparently, business travellers are prone to deviant behaviour. I attended a film yesterday, and the above was the explanation offered by the film’s police desk sergeant to a woman whose husband was killed in a hotel room after he apparently made raging sexual advances to a female police officer. That was only one of a [...]
I woke up this morning, startled. I could see daylight, and that never happens. Blearily, I squinted at the clock, which wavered back and forth, like a bad 3D movie. The damned thing wouldn’t stay still. “Stand still” “Um, no.” I pushed my knuckles into my eyelids, massaging the eyeballs, trying to coax them awake. [...]
There’s a unique sitcom TV show currently playing, called “Modern Family”. I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that the show is an amazing success, given that one of the creators is Christopher Lloyd. Still, it surprised me. Each week, we follow at least different story threads, burped across our screens by the patriarch and his [...]
Some things are designed to fail. Right away you’re thinking of that car or gadget you own, that has a one-year warranty, and you’re recalling how, one or two days after the warranty ran out, the ass end of whatever it is you’re thinking about fell off. While that’s funny (if you’re not the one [...]
