Continuing with the focus on things that people don’t realize I can no longer do.
I miss multitasking.
Whenever I think about multitasking, I think of the time when I thought I was multitasking at its best! I was in my second apartment so I had to be 25 or 26. It was a Saturday and I had put a load of laundry into the washer and put it on to wash. My washer and dryer were right next to my kitchen. Then I had just made brownies and put them in the oven to bake. I had loaded up the dishwasher and that was running as I was washing the dishes I made in making the brownies. So I had a bunch of things going on and it would all finish roughly around the same time. Score! I just did a whole lot of things! I was proud!
That is it until I smelled it. My brownies were burning! I guess that when I was washing off my stove, I had to hit the temperature gage on the back of my stove and changed it without me knowing. I had recently made brownies for work so I didn’t think to check the temperature gage because I had just made brownies the day before. Well, the temperature was at 500°! No wonder I was smelling burning brownies! Just after I took the brownies out of the oven and scraped them into the garbage, my dishwasher stopped and the washer dinged.
OK, so maybe I wasn’t being a great multitasker and #1 Mom but this isn’t the kind of multitasking I am talking about. Besides, I KNOW how to make brownies! Now, I can no longer read with music on and I can’t even put my contacts in if someone is talking. It’s kind of crazy! It makes me sad. I can only do one thing at a time. Toward the end of my driving days, I still would have to turn the music on only AFTER I had backed out of my driveway. Sadly, there is no longer any multitasking for me.
I think this makes me really sad but I think that has to do with the fact that my knee popped out again this morning just after I opened my eyes and my eyes feel extremely heavy and I am not feeling well. Good thing that RBG documentary is on tonight! I will be very angry if I fall asleep during it!