Maybe there's a reason I get so little done.

[nolawitch58]

I just now returned to the computer after going downstairs to make pie dough. I left the computer shortly after 8:00 pm and went to the kitchen. I had laid all my utensils and containers out earlier. The only thing I needed to do was grab all the cold ingredients out of the fridge. I got the dry stuff out on the counter, then I noticed the crock pot was schmutzy from the red beans hubby made yesterday. I dragged it over to the sink and started scrubbing the schmutz off. Then I realized I didn't have my previous copy of the recipe. I came upstairs and quickly copied it from the Food Channel website. Then I went back downstairs and noticed that nobody had filled the sugar canister. I emptied the better portion of the five-pound bag of sugar into the canister and refilled the small tub we have for coffee and cereal and such. I was on my way to refilling the salt and pepper shakers when I remembered I was supposed to be making pie dough.

Once I got back into the groove of pie dough, I finished quickly. I would have been done within a half an hour if all the other crap didn't sidetrack me. What the hell is that about and how can I avoid it in the future? Am I doomed or suffering from early senility? I suspect I've been this way a long while because I have had similar trouble most of my life. Focusing on one task is difficult when there's so much to do.

Comments

[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

Have you been tested for ADD? I'm being serious. I'm saying this because you've had this trouble for a long time.

[spiffikins]

I don't think there's any cure, unfortunately...I'd get so much more of my *own* stuff done at work...

[real-skeptic.livejournal.com]

Oh, tell me about it. I get distracted all the time - especially if the main task I have in hand is one I don't particularly wish to do.

Take cleaning my house. I don't know how my cleaner lady does it in four hours. I cleaned it this Thursday and it took me from about 10AM to about 10PM. Seriously. And it's not as if I was doing it fanatically. I didn't even do the bath tub and the kitchen sink. But it was just like you say. Suddenly I saw that I needed to shine my shoes. Or suddenly I needed to go shopping for groceries and then I had to put them away. And I needed a rest from time to tim.

I urgently need a way to manage time better. So if you find a trick to it, please pass it on - and I will do the same, obviously.

[goddessmusings.livejournal.com]

I know that feeling all too well. You'd think my house would be immaculate since I'm not working, alas no. It amazes me how easily I get sidetracked.

[ms-issicran.livejournal.com]

Meh...I've embraced it. I can focus when I absolutely have to, but otherwise I look at it like a boat ride; the tide will get me there, and I'll do a bunch of little things that have to be done along the way.

It's good to be 52.

I AM A WORM...

[hmc-lavadogs.livejournal.com]

That was me who did not fill the sugar container or the salt and pepper shakers and probably a host of other things my love did not mention. I am a worm, I humbly beg for your forgiveness. I hope I made it up to you just a little, late last night...yum yum...

Your love,
HMC LAVADOG