(adhd, household)

[elainegrey]

I woke this morning, thinking about yesterday evening. I'd gotten off work wrung out by context switching and pressure. I'd craved snacks and indulged to fight the blues that swallowed me.

Was that more self medicating, the sense i needed SOMETHING, and sugar or salt might make it better (but no)?

Maybe, maybe, i should see if an ADHD diagnosis is appropriate and if i should try other ADHD meds.

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So the upholstery on our couch could stand washing. Oh, look, zippers! I could run these through the wash! This morning i started. Ughh: the back cushions are just loos fiber fill. Fine. I can protect that while the wash and dry cycles run. But the seat cushions - there's "tufting". At the base of the bundled up sheets of foam there's discs of plastic and an anchor for a fabric tape that runs through the foam and then the cushion cover is stitched to the tape. That keeps the fabric from sliding off the foam -- and it may also be keeping the foam strips all structurally connected.

UGH.

Ponder.

Maybe if i replace the seat cushions with one solid piece of foam the absence of tufting wouldn't be such an issue.

Comments

[amaebi]

You make me contemplate using (yards and yards of) lint tape to get the fur off our chair seats.

*low moan*

[elainegrey]

Much better to write poetry. I was thinking about you and wondering if you'd placed poetry in any (online) collections lately.

[amaebi]

Thank you! I had a lot come out last year, and more scheduled to come out this year. (Bu can I remember anything about any of them? I cannot.) I'm in a lean time for acceptances now, though. And when one of the poems I sent out in November is oneI think particularly good, too! :D

[amaebi]

Oh, here's a set. http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2021/10/poetry-selections-from-mary-ann-dimand.html

[elainegrey]

That was delicious! Thank you. I love the seamy extended metaphor of Foundations, the chairs migrating, and the new to me fish name mummichog.

[amaebi]

*beam*

[tamena]

there is a fur scraper that is a miracle item for fur removal from fabric. It also works on carpet and you should see how much schmutz it gets out of car carpet!
https://www.amazon.com/Clothes-Portable-Removing-Clothing-Furniture/dp/B08PB9K4PS/ref=asc_df_B08PB9K4PS/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=507755833368&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7881732879694433156&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9009701&hvtargid=pla-1251904887088&psc=1

rather amazing little gadget =)

[amaebi]

Sold! Thank you.