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Post by andy12345 on Feb 25, 2011 3:03:22 GMT
Went downstairs at midnight for food and a cup of tea.
Opened two tins of tuna, squished brine out, added some olive oil. Went upstairs, ate. Went to have cup of tea.......oops. I realised that not only did I not have it because I left it downstairs, but I had actually forgotten to make it.
That's unusual for me. Normally I make the tea. I was too busy wondering where the cat had gone.
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Post by boo on Feb 25, 2011 7:45:06 GMT
You know when you have ADHD when...you pop onto the PC just to look one thing up and you end up 'google surfing' for hours and wonder why your partner is staring at you because he's been watching a paused screen for the whole time. ;D know that one well, i dread to think what the longest live pause i have done, i have paused to make a drink or similar, gone off to the shops or something and come back to it quite a few hours later with OH sitting in a different room cos he didnt wanna unpause it just incase
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Post by mizmog on Feb 25, 2011 10:37:04 GMT
u know when u have ADHD when....
U get up at the crack of dawn to spend hours motivating yourself... get everything perfect (and wonder why its so perfect)... go along for an interview to be told "Your a week early!?!"
I cant believe I did it!! who the hell wants to employ an administrator that cant tell the date!!!
I thought MPH was supposed to help... not in my case obviously!!
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Post by optomistic65 on Feb 25, 2011 13:01:04 GMT
..................you say to your sons teacher "off course he can't concentrate, children can't concentrate, even adults find it hard to concentrate" and she looks at you like your bonkers!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2011 13:34:35 GMT
Went downstairs at midnight for food and a cup of tea. Opened two tins of tuna, squished brine out, added some olive oil. Went upstairs, ate. Went to have cup of tea.......oops. I realised that not only did I not have it because I left it downstairs, but I had actually forgotten to make it. That's unusual for me. Normally I make the tea. I was too busy wondering where the cat had gone. Andy you DO realise you can BUY tuna in oil dont you.............
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Post by andy12345 on Feb 25, 2011 14:16:26 GMT
Yes, thank you very much badwool, I do realise that!! There's a simple explanation really.. As soon as you open a tin of oily tuna.......the mess from opening, decanting, drips along the way and there is not an olive oil tuna ..... olive oil is far better due to its minimal processing. Extra virgin olive oil is simply cold pressed (as long as it states that) and very little else, no added chems (apparently) That is why I prefer the olive oil to the unknowns of the others' I sort of like the taste as well... Sunflower oil does not have the same taste, or not the stuff in those tins anyway...
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Post by mavster on Feb 25, 2011 15:49:25 GMT
when you go to your doctors with your daughter and get a referal letter to St. Thomases in London and get told to phone on Tuesday to get the appointment and realise today that you have forgoten all about it And now I'm buggered if I can find the bloody letter
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Post by phil on Feb 25, 2011 21:44:22 GMT
Hey andy, why worry if you're extra virgin olive oil is cold pressed if you're tinned tuna could have mercury lol
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Post by andy12345 on Feb 25, 2011 23:21:04 GMT
Yes, phil, it's all a joke really.
I should grow my own everything and farm my own fish.
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Post by boo on Feb 25, 2011 23:47:43 GMT
is it ok for some of us to joke and some not then
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Post by andy12345 on Feb 26, 2011 0:06:45 GMT
eh boo......... ??!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!!
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Post by ChaosLily on Feb 26, 2011 0:15:45 GMT
when...
potential arguments appear on every single blasted thread of an ADHD forum.
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Post by andy12345 on Feb 26, 2011 0:16:25 GMT
no..they don't!! lol
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Post by phil on Feb 26, 2011 0:23:02 GMT
I have had an urge to be self sufficient and it has crossed my mind to keep chickens and I really wanted a nanny goat to tidy up my garden and supply me with milk ;D but goat people are a strange sort lol ;D Mercury levels in tuna is so confusing I don't even know if tuna is safe or not ATM lol Boo how can you tell andy's mood from a line of text lol emotions help
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Post by andy12345 on Feb 26, 2011 0:47:18 GMT
I don't think boo was talking about me.....
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Post by ChaosLily on Feb 26, 2011 2:01:08 GMT
...It's still raining...
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Post by andy12345 on Feb 26, 2011 2:06:43 GMT
damn rain
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Post by Ravendarque on Feb 28, 2011 17:00:48 GMT
...you have no problem (well, not much) changing lightbulbs, but the well-stocked lightbulb basket in the garage is well-stocked with screw-in ones when all the fixtures are bayonet. They even have pictures on the boxes FFS! How do I manage it?
...you decide that learning the piano would be cool. Spend £550 on a piano. Pick Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata First Movement - despite it comprising three parts to be played with only two hands - as the first piece to learn because all the tedious in between stuff is way too boring. Fail to learn the piano.
...you decide to learn the guitar. See piano and add £200.
...you frequently arrive at the shop realising that you are in your gym kit and clearly have no wallet.
...you spend every conference call away with the fairies until your name is mentioned at which point you have to ask what the question was, then try to work backwards to understand what the conversation is actually about, then just bullshit.
...you skive off of college, then tell your mum you are skiving when she asks. *facepalm*
...you have five minutes to cook a meal for the wife and kids and decide that, even though you know it will take half an hour to cook the thing you're thinking about, you can't possibly consider cooking anything else and surely it will only be five minutes late. Much to the frustration of the aforementioned wife.
...you decide to build an office in the garage and five years later you still haven't finished building the awesome-but-rather-complicated sound-proof walls, despite having moved all of your kit in there on day 2.
...you get a job as a a highly-paid consultant in a certain enterprise integration technology and turn up to your first day at work with no idea how it actually works. Suggest that the person you're working with shows you how *he* did it and you'll give him some feedback, while frantically trying to remember anything which will make you sound clever. (Actually, this approach is still working for me).
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Post by Ravendarque on Feb 28, 2011 17:28:05 GMT
...you have spent the entire day at work replying to every recent post on the AADD forum and since no-one is replying you are forced to sit and hit refresh over and over and over and over dammit.
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Post by kakema on Feb 28, 2011 20:07:17 GMT
You chatty!! ;D
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Post by phil on Mar 1, 2011 1:15:38 GMT
His impatience got the better of him and he has buggerd off lol ;D that's when you know you got ADHD lol
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Post by Ravendarque on Mar 1, 2011 9:09:04 GMT
Ooh, ooh, I thought of more! (thank goodness for post-its)
...you park your wife's car over the road, then reverse yours out while talking to her and destroy the front of hers because you totally failed to see it or remember it was there.
...you decide you want to go to London to earn big bucks and live the rock and roll lifestyle so you get a £6000 loan and leave your job while the wife has just given birth to child number 4, assuring her that the loan is simply 'just-in-case' and you'll get a new job really soon. Six weeks later with no loan left, you finally get a job (see 'highly-paid consultant' entry above) and spend the following three years paying it off.
...you turn on the grill in your student halls of residence to cook dinner, you hear someone is going into town so you grab you coat and leave. You return later to find the halls have been evacuated and several fire engines are parked outside with busy firemen running to and fro. You mouth off loudly about how irritating this is until someone official points out that it was, in fact, your fault.
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Post by Ravendarque on Mar 1, 2011 9:42:08 GMT
...you decide to become a photographer and spend £8000 on camera gear, only to find you have absolutely no ability to get out and actually take photos. It seems people simply don't just come to you and ask you to take photos of them for lots of money, which turned out to be a bit of a show stopper.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2011 9:53:12 GMT
[quote author=ravendarque board=lounge thread=3352 post=34333 time=1298912448Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata [/quote] Awesome peice! I used to play this on piano - got to grade 4, sacked it off, too boring
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Post by mizmog on Mar 1, 2011 14:45:59 GMT
you hv a hyper mode, apply for every job going on the websites, including managing director just to see what the reaction is, dont keep any information of jobs applied for.... so when they all call back within 2 days of each other, your left stuttering "sorry what Job did i apply for??"
LOL serves me right for being eager !!!
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Post by ChaosLily on Mar 1, 2011 18:17:32 GMT
...you go into the bathroom for a quick shower and come out unshowered, with your hair cut and dyed black.
...you buy lots of keep fit dvds and equipment and wonder why you're not exceptionally fit.
...you go for your medications and on being asked by the pharmacist you realise that you are actually eligible for free prescriptions - if only you had got round to applying for various benefits.
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Post by boo on Mar 1, 2011 20:49:22 GMT
you go to reply to a thread, forget what you were gonna write, back out of it, click on the same thread to read, realise you just read that one and its the one you forgot what you were gonna say, go back to the lounge, remember what you were gonna write, click back in thread and realise you cant be arsed anymore cos it was a rubbish reply anyway.....
you ask you OH to put the heating on and he tells you its already on and reminds you that it was you that put it on a few minutes ago
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Post by Mouse on Mar 1, 2011 22:32:47 GMT
When you read these threads and feel like someone has been in your head.
Been laughing my socks off at Ravendarque's halls of residence and fire episode. On a much more modest scale I remember flirting away madly with my neighbour forgetting I'd bunged my lunch under the grill, just flirting away, feeling rather sexy and attractive, while his expression turned to one of surprise then alarm as the flames licked up the front of the cooker.
Turned up for an office job interview at Boots in an admin role. Got there early wandered around the store, just killing time, for ages, made myself known to the staff that I was there for the interview. Interviewer tells me that I am late by half an hour... I stupidly disagree, adament that time agreed was later not earlier... well, I was never gonna get that job...
Have so many unfinished pairs of curtains - and rolls of fabric that are waiting to be made into curtains. Fell in love with the fabric and can't bring myself to sell it.
Have boxes and boxes containing boxes of shoes - silk and satin - left over from when I had a small bridal shoe business.. Just never got around to selling them. Wondering if there will be a market in retro styled wedding shoes. Will the kitten heel make a comeback?
I have a marvellous accumulation of equipment for my cake decorating hobby. Seems the better equipped I am the less I actually manage to produce. Am compelled to purchase all sorts of stuff and my collection of cake tins is second to none. In fact I could produce a four tier wedding cake in any shape tin you care to mention. I could, but I doubt I ever will.
My collection of cake decorating books grows weekly - the pictures are lovely to look at. In fact only this evening I was checking my watch list on ebay and find that again I have bid on a book that I already have... hope I get outbid on the latest one. I now have four mixers but only use the most basic cheapest one as that is the easiest to use and easiest to clean.
Grow my own vegetables too but not many make it to the kitchen as I am a bit squeamish about bugs and little critturs and totally put off by thought of slugs sliming over everything. If it isn't the bugs its the veg themselves. Grew a few purple sprouting broccoli but never fancied eating it.. as too much of anything seems to put me off eating it.
Have a hankering for chickens but for once commonsense is prevailing.. unless I get made redundant in which case I probably will.
Totally forgot a hospital appointment in December... but think I got away with that one as it fell slap bang in the middle of the first snows.. so expect a lot of people couldn't get there and the appts were automatically remade. Handy indeed as I didn't want to have to start the whole process again.
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Post by Mouse on Mar 1, 2011 23:00:02 GMT
"you park your wife's car over the road, then reverse yours out while talking to her and destroy the front of hers because you totally failed to see it or remember it was there. "
I haven't done this but my Mum has done something very similar... we were rushing round packing stuff in to the car to get to a fair.. late as usual, delayed because we forgot to close the car door and the dog decides to help himself to the homemade edibles on the back seat. Eventually we're ready but flustered, and sat in the car. Mum starts the car and puts it in reverse - straight back up the drive into my sister's boyfriend's car, which has been parked in the drive all morning in plain sight... Neither of us dare look back. My mum wonders what's happened; we know it's not good - I suggest that maybe a 'log' has rolled off the garden - a hopeful and rather weak suggestion in view of the crashing sound...
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Post by sherry on Mar 1, 2011 23:34:14 GMT
When you use smoke alarms to tell you tea is ready.
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