I am a saver and a procrastinator with ADD.  You know what that means for my inbox?  It means that I have 1200 messages in Outlook.  Yep 1200.  One two double zero. 

When I saw this number last night I screamed at myself…”How did I get here!?” 

This is how.  Every morning I have about 30 new emails most of which are junk.  My procrastination means that I only click on 1 or 2 interesting ones and leave the rest for later.  My ADD is the reason that it takes me all morning to respond or do whatever it is I need to do with those 2 emails.  But it is the saver/hoarder in me that is why those 2 emails along with the 30 others never get deleted.  This goes on day after day until now I have 1200 mostly useless emails just rotting away in my inbox. 

BUT, if I ever want to go back and read about the free financial seminar that was offered at my bank 2 years ago it’s there.  Or the cartoon of Garfield drinking a cup of coffee in his pajamas that’s there too.  What if I need to reread the email my sister sent out 3 years ago planning our annual tamale making day?  How about who was going to be on the Oprah show the week of 4/16/2008.  It’s there….somewhere.

I don’t even want to think about how high that pile would be if this was actual mail. 

(If you’re like me you can probably benefit from xobni which my husband made me download last night and is a HUGE help.)

I came across this story today and it caught me attention.  “Risk of child abuse rises when potty training.” When I was working with at risk families this was one subject that we always stressed to parents.   Please Please Please have realistic expectations when potty training.  Otherwise it can get ugly quickly.

Sorry that’s it for today…gotta get back to watching the Michael Jackson Memorial and a very very tired toddler who was up at 5:30 a.m.

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