The ADHD is on full-tilt today. I am distracted and multi-tasking which ultimately translates to doing tons of little things but completing nothing.

To be fair, there are little bits and pieces being put away and the laundry is mostly done. The vacuum is sitting on the stairs enroute to vacuum our bedroom, the bed is piled with stuff to go to Vancouver…but what I really need to do is sit and focus on one project at a time.  Instead, I think about the Christmas tree that is still on the truck, the chairs that are piled in the den to make room for the newly assembled Ikea sofa, the need to get groceries for our dinner guests that will be here tonight, well…you get the drift.

Hence this posting…My hope is that by sitting still and writing this short post, I will settle myself into stopping the to-and-fro-franticness that has so far defined this Monday.

In my defence, my 85-year old dad is visiting and it takes a fair amount of time to make sure he gets to the library, fits in his walk, and stops to enjoy a bowl of soup with Kevin and I. His macular degeneration is getting worse, so I picked up some books-on-CD so he could hear, what he can no longer see, but our rarely-used CD player isn’t cooperating and it’s looking like another trip to town for an early Christmas present of a new CD player. Do they still make them? I hope so.

I so wanted to set up my virtual bookstore today. And maybe I can take a few deep breaths and realize the random mess of the living room can remain that way for a couple more hours. Probably the world will still spin if I don’t vacuum the bedroom. I’m quite sure my dad doesn’t care.

And guess what? Just writing out what Kevin and I did this morning with my dad makes me think there was really nothing more important to do anyway.