Time Management Just Might Be the Secret to a Merry Christmas

Alas, we’ve come to the end of another year. And no, I haven’t really done my Christmas shopping yet.

I keep thinking there’s plenty of time before the big day, but I just know I’m going to end up at the mall on December 23, rifling through the picked-over merchandise in hopes of finding suitable gifts.

Sadly, I haven’t even told the Santa-types in my life what I want for Christmas. I know that my ADD-afflicted family members shop like I do. But even for the normies who don’t live in my ADD-universe, there’s still plenty of time left to shop.

No one in their right mind would have already bought a gift that they could just as easily have bought on December 23, right?

Well, maybe not.

I just finished a conversation with my boyfriend in which I casually mentioned that I was considering asking my parents for an iphone. I also hinted that I needed a new laptop. Which I figured he was going to get me anyway, because my ibook can’t hold more RAM, since he trashed the pins on it while trying to add the wrong kind of RAM. Right after he gave it to me… two Christmases ago. Clearly, I. NEED. NEW. LAPTOP.

Unfortunately, it may already be too late.

Upon listening to my hints, my boyfriend got physically agitated and proceeded to pull a small, white box out of the closet. NOT small enough to contain an ibook. But an Apple box, nonetheless.

On the plus-side, now I’ll know better than to ask the parents for an iphone.

On the other hand, it does not appear as if a new ibook is in my immediate future.

Okay, now I’m really kicking myself for not finishing Getting Things Done.

And I feel like an unwise, ungrateful spoiled brat. All because I didn’t think to have this conversation earlier.

Yet another example of how the ADD-addled mind construes time in a way that is different from everyone else. And not in a good way.

On the plus-side, my new iphone is the closest thing known to man to Time-Management Skills-In-A-Box!

Maybe that’s why the BF got me one, despite my obvious need for a new ibook?

Gee, now I feel like he’s such a thoughtful gift-giver.

And I’m the one who always says it’s not the gift that counts, it’s the thoughtfulness that goes into selecting it.

Of course, when you have something as annoying as a slow computer, it’s easy to overlook that particular maxim of gift-giving.

But I’m not too upset. Because I just realized something…

With the help of my new iphone, I’ll be able to remember and drop ibook hints in time for my birthday!