I think I may be rapidly losing brain cells lately. I am noticing more and more that I find it very hard to focus on my tasks and I get distracted very easily.
I decided to do the Christmas Eve dinner shopping on Tuesday during the day. We have a supermarket 2 minutes away from where I work and so it made sense to take an hour to do the shopping and store the stuff in the work fridge. I planned to go to the store early to beat the holiday shopping madness. It was the perfect plan- beat the crowds, get my stuff done while Jacob is at school and stay at home after work and relax.
Except, I forgot to make extra precautions to accomodate my focusing disabilities. I set my reminders to pop up to make sure to get the food from the fridge and do all the rest of the things that need to be done before I left work for a 2 day holiday. Having a reminder to "bring home food from the fridge" was not enough, as I learned the hard way. I should have been more detailed and put down, "bring 3 bags of food home, not just 2, because if you forget one of the bags, you would have to drive back to work and get stuck in traffic on the way home, which would totally defeat the purpose of doing the food shopping so that you could just relax when you get home."
I finished unloading the bags of food and other items from the car and wondered where the Christmas ham was. I was in denial and could not accept my situation as I stared into the empty trunk of the car.
No ham.
There was only one logical explanation.
The ham was still in the fridge at work.
Frustration rushed through me and I wanted to throw myself on the driveway and have a tantrum.
What happened? How did I miss taking the bag with the ham in it? It was in the fridge with all the rest of the stuff that I took out of it. I tried to recall the scene, I was in front of the fridge, gathering the bags, and I got distracted. I don't even remember the rest of what I did. I get this a lot; I do something and I get distracted and lose my focus. I get unpleasantly surprised a couple of hours or days later when I recall a certain task that I did and I don't remember the rest of it.
One morning, I opened the microwave and saw my cold cup of chamomile tea - this was the tea that I put in the microwave the night before. I intended to drink it to help me sleep that night, before I got distracted by who knows what and totally forgot about the tea.
It's frustrating and scary. How many other things have I forgotten to do since I left the house this morning? I'll be lucky if I don't forget to hit "publish" after I finish this blog. - (I think I'll set a detailed reminder to myself now)
I decided to do the Christmas Eve dinner shopping on Tuesday during the day. We have a supermarket 2 minutes away from where I work and so it made sense to take an hour to do the shopping and store the stuff in the work fridge. I planned to go to the store early to beat the holiday shopping madness. It was the perfect plan- beat the crowds, get my stuff done while Jacob is at school and stay at home after work and relax.
Except, I forgot to make extra precautions to accomodate my focusing disabilities. I set my reminders to pop up to make sure to get the food from the fridge and do all the rest of the things that need to be done before I left work for a 2 day holiday. Having a reminder to "bring home food from the fridge" was not enough, as I learned the hard way. I should have been more detailed and put down, "bring 3 bags of food home, not just 2, because if you forget one of the bags, you would have to drive back to work and get stuck in traffic on the way home, which would totally defeat the purpose of doing the food shopping so that you could just relax when you get home."
I finished unloading the bags of food and other items from the car and wondered where the Christmas ham was. I was in denial and could not accept my situation as I stared into the empty trunk of the car.
No ham.
There was only one logical explanation.
The ham was still in the fridge at work.
Frustration rushed through me and I wanted to throw myself on the driveway and have a tantrum.
What happened? How did I miss taking the bag with the ham in it? It was in the fridge with all the rest of the stuff that I took out of it. I tried to recall the scene, I was in front of the fridge, gathering the bags, and I got distracted. I don't even remember the rest of what I did. I get this a lot; I do something and I get distracted and lose my focus. I get unpleasantly surprised a couple of hours or days later when I recall a certain task that I did and I don't remember the rest of it.One morning, I opened the microwave and saw my cold cup of chamomile tea - this was the tea that I put in the microwave the night before. I intended to drink it to help me sleep that night, before I got distracted by who knows what and totally forgot about the tea.
It's frustrating and scary. How many other things have I forgotten to do since I left the house this morning? I'll be lucky if I don't forget to hit "publish" after I finish this blog. - (I think I'll set a detailed reminder to myself now)
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