Amazing Domestic Goddess Extraordinaire

Tonight, I got home from work at 6:15.  Then, I went to the grocery store with a list.  And, this list included more than just frozen dinners... it was based on recipes for multiple meals.  I know, I'm in shock, too.  Read on. When I got home, I actually made dinner.  Yes, in shock again.  Baked falafel with cucumbers from my mom's garden and homemade tahini sauce... and bacon-wrapped dates.  After I ate dinner, I made a kale zucchini quiche.  This, alone, is pretty impressive for a weeknight in my house.  But, while that was baking, I made sesame noodles with napa cabbage... so I could have homemade lunches for the week.  Pick up your jaw...if you can.  After the quiche was done, I baked zucchini raisin muffins from scratch.  And, they are AWESOME.  That's right, I'm an amazing domestic goddess extraordinaire.  I didn't even watch any TV tonight.  Or play on the internet (until now...).  If you know me, your head is probably exploding right about now.

Though, I didn't wash my dishes... so... at least I know an alien hasn't taken over my body.  In general, I am pretty lazy and domestically challenged.  Don't get me wrong... I am a pretty good cook and an awesome baker.  I just have problems motivating myself to do anything when I get home from work.  I admit that I am an awful housekeeper and gardener.  I don't even try to pretend that I am good at those things.   Usually, my evening consists of coming home from work between 6 and 6:30... eating some kind of frozen or fast dinner... and watching TV and messing around on my computer for hours on end.  If dishes even get taken from the basement (where we inevitably eat every night) to the kitchen, it's an accomplishment.

I always have grand ideas about what my evenings will be like.  "I will get home, make a delicious, healthy, well-balanced meal, do two loads of laundry, do the dishes, organize my closet, weed the flower beds, and do the work that I brought home." Then, I get home.  And, none of that happens.  Ever.

But, every once in a while, an anomaly occurs.  Like tonight.  I blame credit my ADD.  Ok, so, I've never been "diagnosed" with ADD, but I totally have it.  Ask my husband.  He knows all  about it.  The other day, we were in the car, and I was yakking and being my normal self... and he was like "Ok, how did you just go through 4 unrelated topics and end up singing a random song, all within 30 seconds?"  Yeah, that's me!  Anyway, so, most of the time, I cannot bring myself to start or finish tasks, even when I make a plan.  It all goes to heck once I actually try to do it.  I start with the best intentions, but never see many results.  I think of something I'd rather be doing... and I go do that instead.  Like, the other day when I was doing some work at home... I randomly thought, Hmm, I wonder where my achievement certificates from law school are.  So, off I went to search for them for 30 minutes.  Then, inevitably, it led to other random things and I never got back to the work.  Organization and foresight are not my friends.  I'd like them to be, but they are kind of like the people whose names I can't remember... which is awkward, so I avoid them.  Ok, so how did this lead to my domestic divinity tonight?  Well, you see... along with the disorganization of ADD comes this wonderful thing called hyperfocus.  Yes, this is real.  When I'm doing something that I'm really interested in, I can do it for a long time without realizing how much time has gone by.  So, tonight, I cooked for over 3 hours straight.  Usually this hyperfocus is wasted on the internet, romance novels, or something equally useless.  But, every once in a while, I can direct my focus on something useful.  Problem is, I am not often interested in useful activities!  Who is?

Oh... probably successful people...