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Arts and crafts are perfect for adhd folk bc there’s an immediate and visual progress.

Cut fabric, sew it together. You just made clothing.

Put some beads on some twine. You just made jewelry.

You can see your productivity.

Chores are the opposite. Yes, your kitchen is clean now. But you’ll cook again that evening or the next day and you’ll have to start over. Yes, you vacuumed. But two days later it’s dusty again. Laundry done, until next week.

Chores never end.

But arts and crafts, nobody can undo the thing you made. You can hold it up and say “look. I made this. I did the productivity today” and nothing quite beats that serotonin rush.

My ability to do chores improved immensely when I stopped thinking of them as things that can be finished and started thinking of them as cycles. It’s no longer “what do I need to do to get the kitchen clean?” but “where am I in the kitchen cycle?” eg dishes go from the cupboard to the table tto the dishwasher and back to the cupboard. If your goal is to finish, you’ll always be in a state of failure. If your goal is to keep momentum going, every little step is a success.

That being said, there’s nothing more satisfying than finishing a pair of knit mittens.

This… might really help me. I’m going to try out this mindset and see how it goes.

I should try this!

Also really second the crafts thing. I took up knitting the first time I was unemployed and I don’t think I’ve ever made a better decision for my own well-being. (Your picture was not posted)

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Lo, for I am Pfizered, and my follow-up second dose is in 21 days. So far no symptoms. (I found a Twitter post https://twitter.com/strangepuppy/status/1378932338717990913?s=09 with hilarious imaginary house crests for the different vaccines, though only featuring the ones currently available in the US. I’m unreasonably pleased that House Pfizer features a bear, given my late-quarantine-sona.)

Back in my own house, though have not yet retrieved the cat. Spent last week at the farm, and with my overachieving oldest sister we got a bunch of Dad’s stuff cleaned out of the garage. A Jeep Guy is coming next week to investigate The Collection; he’d known Dad for decades. Mom admits she’s not so concerned about a fair price as she is that the various Jeeps go to someone who’ll enjoy and restore them if possible, since dad was so preoccupied with doing that.

(I made some jokes about the one he’d had in progress, which was like… the Jeep of Theseus. Was any of it original? Not much!)

It was also the First Week Of The Season at the farm, and they’ve hired… a lot of people… which is good and bad, for many reasons, but mostly good, and it’s exciting to get to meet them. The real exciting news is that the new livestock manager is an alum of a neighboring farm and will be bringing 1) some of his own funding, and 2) several animals of his own, including a herd of tiny kunekune pigs https://www.ecofarmingdaily.com/raise-healthy-livestock/pigs/kunekune-pigs-perfect-for-small-farms/, and several sheep and a goat, and I’m quite excited about those last two ones. I have been wanting the farm to get sheep forever. Alas, I was not able to stick around long enough for the livestock to be brought over, which was scheduled to happen today. I shall await impatiently the news of the specifics. Now, of course, his own funding will be to work toward his own eventual goal of having his own farm, but I know my sister had been very interested in collaborating with other farmers, and it would be great to be another stepping stone on this guy’s path to independence. Also he’s just cool, we’ve known him a year, and he’s just good company, which is important in these constrained times.

I’m left sort of wondering what my role is on the farm, as they’ve hired people to do much of the stuff I’d been doing as a volunteer over the last six years, but I’m assured I still am needed, so we’ll see.

I did also spend an evening helping Middle-Little tidy her apartment. At this point it’s kind of a disaster area but! but! the kitchen was clean, so she’s not totally given up? I just stood in one spot for four hours sorting through boxes of boxes of bags of piles of papers etc., and helped her find several things she’d been looking for a long time, so. It wasn’t nothing, but I need like thirty to forty more hours of that, and I don’t have time. We’ll see though. We’ll just see. (She has a storage unit somewhere, doesn’t she? I’m not going to ask.)

Ah gotta go switch the laundry. Got a lot of that to do. (Your picture was not posted)