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Good Grief! Where Have I Been All This Time‽
My life was briefly put on hold, thanks to a certain virus, but now I’m back, more cheeky & cynical than ever!So much for new beginnings. A week after my knee surgery, just as I was able to feel...
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Feeling Down, So It’s Time To Be Grateful
Sometimes life gets me down. So what am I going to do about it? I’ve been way too sick to blog lately or post here. I mostly lay in bed and cough. It’s a party! But I did get some book writing in. One...
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Doomsday in December?
I’m run down and sick, so I’m posting something positive every day this week until I lift my spirits.There is a reason I’m depressed. It’s more than having major and persistent depression disorder....
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When Does Research Become a Fixation?
I pull back the curtain a bit today, revealing a deep, dark secret about myself—a secret so dank, surely I’ll lose the last three readers I have.I’ve been reading far too many Japanese light novels...
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ADHD: Here Are Five Steps I Use to Rein In My Focus
A lack of focus is the one common trait that all adults with ADHD seem to have, but focus isn’t as elusive as you might fear.The other day, a friend texted me out of the blue. He wanted a list of some...
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Blind as an ADHD Bat
Ever been so ADHD that you can’t see what you’re looking for, even when it’s right in front of your face?Given that ADHD has as many flavors as a bag of jelly beans, you might not all relate with ADHD...
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ADHD – I Forgot that I Was Dating Somebody?
Can you be so forgetful that you’d forget that you were dating somebody? For a few groggy moments, I was convinced that I had.As I dealt with forgotten bills, paperwork unearthed from the Jurassic era,...
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That Time ADHD Helped Me Win a Couple of Auctions
The problem with chronic illness is that it's boring. I don't mean for the person stricken in bed and suffering. Who cares about them, right⸮ I am referring to everybody else who finds the subject...
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While I was sick from October 2021 to April 2022, I allowed myself to pile on new projects as a coping strategy. It worked very well. Having new plans helped keep me focused forward when the present...
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These tech-heavy entries focus on the nuts & bolts of hosting a blog. It's not exciting reading, but I needed to resolve this problem if I wanted full focus moving forward. Sometimes our most...
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The technical hurdles have been overcome, and I come to a decision regarding blogging. This is a slow process, but I'm glad I'm going through it. Regardless of Multi-Irons Syndrome, I need to focus on...
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Here's another thrilling tech-heavy entry as I battle the evil forces of drudgery, then I ask myself an important question: Why don't I make things easy for myself and just delete it all? It's...
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This process may seem dull, but it works extremely well for me, especially since I'm dealing with Post-COVID brain fog. Writing slowly by hand is helping me sort out my thoughts. In this entry, I...
View ArticleADHD Fixation: The Dark Side of Hyperfocus
A lot is made of ADHD’s super power of hyperfocus. I’ve written about it on severaloccasions over the years as well. I’ve even created a ToDo List technique to simulate it! Should we really label...
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ADHD: Brain Fog Is No Laughing Matter. Well, Maybe Just a Little
Call it brain fog, absentmindedness, or a senior moment, but sometimes when your ADHD brain goes on the fritz, you’ve just got to laugh.I am here today to tell you that playing Sudoku daily will not...
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After meeting with a care manager at the University of Utah's COVID Long Hauler clinic, I gained some new information that explained what I've been going through this year. I've been needlessly hard on...
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Experiment with Your Coping Strategies for Better Results
Earlier this year, I admitted to myself that my current coping strategies weren’t fighting off my depression as effectively as they were before. Had they simply stopped working, or had something...
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Five Ways To Stop Shiny Object Syndrome
Long before “Shiny Object Syndrome” was coined as a term, an insignificant blogger from Utah referred to a similar condition and called it Multi-Irons Syndrome. Are they the same thing?Shiny Object...
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A lot is said about adults with ADHD and their inability to focus, but not enough is said when they're focused on the wrong thing. Here I became fixated on adding a certain project to my list of things...
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ADHD: It's Not Always Your Fault
Come explore with me the strange intersection of pants and ADHD.Last July, I lost three pairs of pants. As usual, I posted to social media to make light of it, but just between you and me, I stayed up...
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Ten Ways to Be Happy with Post-COVID Syndrome (Even If You're Miserable)
Let’s celebrate my one year anniversary since getting COVID–19! 🎉I know people who felt that COVID was a pernicious plot by politicians to put down the populace. I know others who believed that nobody...
View ArticleBookwork Entry 10 – Frustration and Setbacks Plus Unfathomable Optimism
A month has passed since I last updated my journal. I'm afraid progress has been in short supply, but understanding my obstacles and deciding how to surmount them has made this writing process...
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Depression: The Highway to Success Has an Awful Lot of Detours
I’ll write a bit vaguely today because I want to touch upon some things that are family matters and how they impact me.Recently, I have noticed longtime readers of my blog have leapfrogged over me...
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How to Take Charge of Your ADHD Voicemail Hell
Ever find yourself missing important messages because your voicemail box is filled with half a decade of unlistened to calls? There might be a solution for that.Adult ADHD is almost like the Baskin...
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April Snow Brings May Slow, But I Keep On Fighting
The biggest challenge in my life right now is Long COVID. The post exertion malaise leaves me depleted with no extra energy for blogging. All that energy is directed towards my Daddy Duty (I have an...
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