I feel like the poster child for late diagnosed ADHD right now, because I feel like I’ve started ten things and haven’t finished any of them.
The book I’m writing called The Child Advocate. I did write out a few scenes in the spiral notebook I talked about earlier. That thing is too heavy to work on every day. Every day would be ideal, though.
All the reading and research on anti-ABA online, which now includes This culmination
The two books I’m reading on the same subject. The book by the author “Julie Roberts” who I can’t find info on because of her similar name to Julia Roberts is all full of scientific studies. I simply can’t remember much of what I learned in methods in research class at University of Houston. I’d need a brief refresher, probably something on YouTube. I texted my daughter asking her when she takes it at TXST. She doesn’t know. Probably in her junior year, as it’s a 300 level class.
Working as a caregiver and trying to set at least some boundaries with musical schedule boss (gift card boss). She does sort of a professional version of love bombing. It’s not real love bombing, it’s work appropriate. She says I’m amazing, I’m a rockstar, I’m this and that and maybe I am 🤷🏻♀️. I’m also fundamentally exhausted, and musical schedules affects my mental health.
I am trying to do more side jobs on the merchandiser and field agent apps, and now my husband wants to try them. We are planning to go do some together, but haven’t gotten a chance. This weekend, the field agent app had a lot of freebies. I got two free subway sandwiches plus $3 each, free chipotle (I got vegetarian tacos) plus I think $3 or $5, and another free stick of deodorant plus $5. We will never run out of deodorant at this rate.
Writing my own recipe cards based on stuff I find in cookbooks that I like and want to try.
I bought an old art history textbook from half price books and am trying to cut out pictures of art and make collages with decoupage. I worked a little on a Byzantine inspired one for my mom for Mother’s Day.
Reading the handful of books I have on writing.
Purpose nigh to walk 10,000 steps daily
The fun I’m having with ChatGPT helping me come up with elements to the other book in my head- the one with the couple based on me and my first love, Matthew. I’m actually creating story lines for all seven kids based on the kids of some influencers I semi-follow.
Thinking of Matt brought a memory to mind. When we first started dating, we worked together at a supermarket. He used to say he wanted to work his way up with that and eventually become a store manager. This was very much discouraged. He was basically yelled at that there was no working his way up in the supermarket business and that it was a dead end job to even be a store manager. He was pressured to go to college and get a degree instead. We all were. Well, about a year ago, my inventory coworker, who used to be a grocery store manager told me that she was making $120-$130,000 a year. I was floored. She was making that in the past, not just now days. When I expressed my disbelief, her husband told me that store managers actually do make that much. What? I literally said, “Why then, when you are a kid working in a store, they tell you that working your way up there is a dead end? They both said, “I don’t know.” And “It’s not a dead end.”
One more thing to add to the list of “things they were wrong about.” RIP Matt
You have a lot on your plate!
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