Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder

We were heading to Cleveland today, listening to our Ipod podcasts and this one had us howling....It’s from Car Talk. Here's a little sample:

The acronym du jour is AAADD. The new acronym which stands for Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
Now you may have this or you may know someone who has this. This little write-up to describe it is sort of like a little diary entry:
“ I decide to wash the car. I start toward the garage and I notice the mail on the table. OK, I’m going to wash the car, but first I have to go through the mail. I lay the car keys down on the desk. I discard the junk mail when I notice the trash can is full. Alright, I’ll just put the bills on my desk and take the trash out. But since I’m going to be near the mailbox anyway, I’ll pay these bills first. Where’s the checkbook? Oh—only one check left. My extra checks are there in the desk. Oh, there’s the Coke I was drinking. I’m going to look for those checks. But first I have to put my Coke further away from the computer. Well maybe I’ll just pop it in the frig to keep it cold for awhile. I head toward the kitchen and my flowers catch my eye. They need some water. I set the Coke on the counter…Oooh – there are my glasses, I’ve been looking for them all morning. I better put them away first. I fill the container with water and head for the flower pots. Ahh-someone left the TV remote in the kitchen. We will never think to look in the kitchen for it when we want to watch TV, so I better put it back in the family room where it belongs. I splash some water into the pots and onto the floor. I throw the remote onto a soft cushion on the sofa and I head back down the hall trying to figure out what it was I was going to do. At the end of the day, the car isn’t washed, the bills are unpaid, the Coke is sitting on the kitchen counter, the flowers are half watered, the checkbook still has one check in it and I can’t seem to find my car keys. When I try to figure out how come nothing got done today, I’m baffled because I know I was busy all day.

An Offer!

We made it back from the lake yesterday (Instead of the "Lake House" , John is calling it "The Ache House"...we are so exhausted from our little adventure). The good news (still crossing our fingers, since it's not final as yet)--but it looks like she's got an offer!!! YEA!!!!!!!!! The second couple to look at the house just called and they agreed to a price and they are preparing the offer. She is supposed to get it later this week, along with an earnest money check. I am ready to scream with excitement, but am trying to keep calm until they get it in writing, have the check in hand and have set a closing date. This couple is the perfect fit for the house.

We just spent the past 3 days cleaning out closets and worst of all- the garage, the "boat house" and what my mom calls "the bomb shelter" (the room under the 3 season porch). It was horrifying!!!!! I spent the first few days without John there--packing and sorting. Once John got to the lake, we started on the really awful parts--the garage and boat house. It was hot and sweaty and John was pulling boxes and miscellaneous junk down from the rafters with mouse turds falling in his face. A typical lake house, we found years of accumulated "stuff. We found flares dated January 1956 and absolutely vintage drills, saws and a collection of nuts and bolts and screws -enough to fill a hardware store. Oh, and of course, the empty ice cream pails and plastic tubs from Cool Whip....you can never have too many of these things (according to my Mom- always useful for gardening). We borrowed one of their friend's trucks and loaded it -twice- with stuff for the junk yard. Then we lucked out with a free county "hazardous waste" drop off (another truck full of really old paint, deck cleaners and horrible toxic stuff). By Saturday, we were absolutely exhausted - mentally and physically and decided it was time for a break....so we have a few days before we head back for another go-around before we head out for the east coast.