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Feel of Home

End of home maintenance and repair

     End of home maintenance and repair: Freedom from home maintenance and repair cost. Home maintenance and repair becomes attractive during old age. The problems that may occur in a own home can carry a lot of stress. By moving to an independent living community, the cost associated with home problems are eliminated.

A.A.A.D.D - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

  This is how it manifests: 

  I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the house in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing. 

   As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mailbox earlier. 

   I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. 

   I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full. 

   So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first. 

   But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. 

   I take my checkbook off the table, and see that there is only 1 check left. 

   My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke I'd been drinking.  

  I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. 

   The Coke is getting warm and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. 

   As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need water. 

   I put the Coke on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. 

  I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers. 

   I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. 

   I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. 

   I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor. 

   So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. 

   Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do. 

   At the end of the day:  

  - the car isn't washed,  - the bills aren't paid,  - there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter,  - the flowers don't have enough water,  - there is still only 1 check in my check book,  - I can't find the remote,  - I can't find my glasses,  - and I don't remember what I did with the car keys. 

   Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day, and I'm really tired. 

   I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail. 

   Do me a favor. Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember who I've sent it to! 

 

  Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming! Soon!!

Stages of Life

Elderly care

Three Stages of Life

1. Children & Teenagers: They have Energy, Time but no Money.
2. Adults: They have Energy, Money but no Time.
3. Elderly People: They have Time, Money but no Energy.