Running multiple errands is hard for me. After I get two or three done, I hit the wall and I just need to be done. It’s kind of similar to what happens when I try to do things around the house: Everything takes WAY longer than I thought it would, and I get tired, and bored, and frustrated, and I look around and see how much is still undone, and I just have to stop.

Since starting Adderall I have been able to do things around the house without so much anxiety and tiredness. I have not been timing my efforts – i have no pre-Adderall data to compare new data with either, so I can’t really say if Adderall is helping me do things faster. .. time blindness means that in order to know how long something takes, you have to actually time it. And this is why I often time things!

It occurred to me this morning that Adderall might also help with errand fatigue! So I have compiled a list of errands to do today! And I will go out and try to do them and see how it goes!

Something else cool: Last summer when it was time to upgrade our phones, we decided to try Android phones for a change. They are cheaper than iPhones and we also found a Google Fi plan that was much cheaper than our old plan. It turns out that having Android phones is super disruptive because the rest of my world is still in Apple, so I couldn’t sync anything. We had decided to switch back to iPhones in March, after we paid off an unexpected home improvement thing (and I definitely need to write about that experience, because now that I know I have ADHD the way that went down and the huge amount of stress it caused me makes so much more sense).

We had been able to sell one of our iPhones back to our old provider but The MIghty Sam still had his old one. So, to make things nicer for me, he bought a new battery for it and switched me into it. So I now have an iPhone world again!

The thing with ADHD is that it is imperative that you SIMPLIFY SIMPLIFY SIMPLIFY. Even with the Adderall I feel like I am overwhelmed by complexity. A few of my errands today are to buy some things to make my life simpler.