ADHD be damned!

I had a great work day today.

I was able to get down to work quickly and stay focused and do all of my most important tasks.

And I did all that while taking time to exercise and walk the dog and make lunch and supper.

I’m hoping to have a similar day tomorrow but in order to have any chance of doing that I have to override my instinct to just keep working tonight.

My ADHD brain is telling me to ‘strike while the iron is hot’ and keep plugging away at my work.

But I’m not going to fall for that this time.

I’m going to relax and rest this evening and just make a good plan for tomorrow.

I swear!

1) Tough Broad by Caroline Paul

2) Wintering by Katherine May

3) And You May Find Yourself by Sari Botton

4) Sidewalk Oracles by Robert Moss

These are just the non-fiction, of course.

I’ll read a ton of fiction but that just happens, I don’t keep a list. 🙂

I was in a restaurant bathroom last night and the owners had really put some effort into decorating the place.

But this is a lot of pressure for a quick bathroom stop, isn’t it?

Yesterday, I was at the supermarket when my friend sent me a text and asked me to pick up an onion and bring it with me.

I circled around for a bit going all through the products looking for the individual onions, but I couldn’t seem to find any.

Then, when I realized that the empty spaces in this section were all for onions.

What kind of bizarre onion quest was somebody on?

Why on earth with no loose onions?

I just bought a bag of onions instead but I still find it weird that I couldn’t buy just one, that this whole section was empty.

It’s good to be away from everything and to retreat from the world for a little while, to focus on a specific piece of work or specific set of ideas, but I find the framing of being ‘on retreat’ really strange

I know it means stepping back from things, and that’s an appropriate use of the word when you’re stepping back from things to focus. But it has that connotation of backing away from a fight, that you’re retreating rather than them facing something.

And then I wonder if that’s why people have trouble stopping. Why they might have difficulty turning their attention to one particular thing, even for a short period of time. Perhaps they are thinking of that as turning away from the other things they ‘should’ be facing.

Or, and this is entirely possible, I may be overthinking this because I’m tired.