Aw, Seska. I'm sorry you are having a rotten time coming down off the antidepressants.

ETA: I'm also sorry that your Girl's family aren't treating you well. I don't have anything useful to say, really. I'm sad for you and for them that they cannot get past their own blinders.

Thanks, Andi. (Edit) As for the Girl's family, it's been going on for five years. They're not going to change. We're going to have to be the ones who decide what needs to be done about it. Which I'm sure we will eventually.

I believe the "unable to get rid of clutter" ADD thing more complex than the sources of clutter for other sorts of people who cannot part with clutter. Not only are we kings and queens of procrastination, together with being apt to miss social cues (in spite of the keen emotional sensitivity that is fairly common), but we have a heck of a time actually being able to slap reasonable priorities on things.

This sounds very much like my dyspraxic/ASD stuff. There seems to be a lot of overlap with some of these conditions. (And it's always good to hear it's not just me!)

I stumbled upon a phrase at work today that would make an interesting swear word: "spit sock". Try saying that 3 times fast.

(And for those interested, it is an actual tool for law enforcement, tho apparently the patrol cars don't carry them and have to make a special request for the jail to provide one at booking.)

"Spit sock" - bleeurgh! putting me off my breakfast, that one is.

I will leave the defining and discussion of "spit sock" for later this morning because I am not up to starting that right now...

I will hopefully be going back on my meds this week and I can't wait.

I got up early to feed the kittehs and then the plan was to go get donuts at this awesome place I found yesterday, but being out of bed and having the energy to go out on a mission appear to be 2 different things...

We're headed to Cape Cod in a little while. I can't await!

Seska, good luck figuring out the meds situation.

Plus - as my therapist said to me, back when I was working with one, the wonderful thing about the ADD mind is that it can see all the possibilities in something.

Oh, yes. This has actually hampered me more in creative projects than in anything else. I want to get ALL the possibilities in there, and have trouble narrowing it down.

"spit sock"

Oh, that one works for a non-swearing person like me.

Teppy, I hope you achieved restful sleep and wake headache free. Yes, I totally agree that pics from the past are normal, but nude pics need to go. For lots of reasons.

I just moved recently so I took the opportunity to weed through my massive trunk of memorabilia. Dumped almost 3/4 of it. Gone huge stacks of playbills, kept ticket stubs. Gone undated cards received, kept a few handwritten letters. It is my morbid nature that I don't want my family, in particular DH, to have to go through my stuff when I am gone. Next time I may label stacks to indicate it is to be tossed as stuff only I would care about.

Health~ma for Drew.

{{Seska}}

meara, that sounds so beautiful.

I'm enjoying the kayaking up here, but I don't know if I will be strong enough to go on the inter-coastal waterway at home.

Wow, nattery for so little coffee in my system.

Liese, have you considered inflatable kayaks? My dad has one of these and I got to try it out the other day. It handles surprisingly well, but you don't need a rack to carry it, it folds into a suitcase shape that you can just throw in the trunk.