Slipped Away from Me — Again

This post should maybe be titled ADHD life.

Oops. I realized yesterday that some of my emails had mattered. But between my aching feet (getting better), lack of sleep (sigh), missing items (Albert had borrowed the stupid charge card), ADHD (a win — Starbucks gave me a free coffee card to reward me for being so drifty that I drove off with a wrong-size, wrong-kind beverage AND gave me my original coffee when I returned, letting me keep the grande latte I had mistakenly stuck in my cup holder) and just falling behind — a neat trick when one has almost no responsibilities — well, the whole thing got out of control. Like the previous sentence.

Sometimes the center does not hold. Still, yesterday needs a quick autopsy. How did those vital mails slip away? A major factor was my blasé attitude. Mail? What mail? I did not fail to put dates in my Google calendar. I never uncovered those dates. And what about the double charge on the  charge card bill? I ought to have looked at that bill sooner, before the spouse paid the bill.

First you have to care. Mail and calendar have to happen. Charges should be scanned at least.

Anyone else out there sometimes have similar problems? My solution was to put an item in my google calendar. On Fridays, the mail gets one hour. Allocating specific times to boring tasks can help.

All of this assumes I look at my phone, of course. I could put an entry in the calendar, “Look at Google calendar.” Would this work? When you have to look at the calendar to be told to look at the calendar, you have a problem. I could write “look at the Google calendar” on the Dr. Who calendar hanging on my desk. Calendar after calendar, I could refer myself to other calendars.

Maybe I’ll just go bake cookies instead — and try to remember to go through my mail on Friday.  The human brain  can take over when calendars fail. I’m pretty sure brains can do everything calendars do and then some, at least on a good day.