alice versus the adhd Novelty Chase
Feb. 10th, 2026 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alicevangelineMuch like my namesake, I do a lot of 'ooh, what's over here?'
And when I work with my therapist, we remind me not to get carried away on the initial wave of enthusiasm. Sometimes the wave is actually a river, and the best way to know for sure is to give it time.
So fkn boring, and sometimes there's urgency like 'if we don't jump on this house it'll sell.'
But that said, after a few days of mental chaos, and thanks to writing about it, and thanks to husband for sending an alarm bell that we weren't actually ready to jump on a house, I can go back to 'next right step' things.
So I'm going to try to do this:
- keep on the 'fix up' list and hire contractors. These things need to get fixed regardless of whether we're staying here. I tend to send Dan emails for him to review before I reach out to contractors but he never answers me so f that; I'm just gonna send it.
- trust dan's judgement on when it's 'too scrambly'
- go slow
- if a dream-house kind of place pops up, we CAN check it out and go for it. we have the ability to do things quickly when we set our minds to it, but we prefer not to scramble.
UDPATE
4 hours later, here's how that's going:
And when I work with my therapist, we remind me not to get carried away on the initial wave of enthusiasm. Sometimes the wave is actually a river, and the best way to know for sure is to give it time.
So fkn boring, and sometimes there's urgency like 'if we don't jump on this house it'll sell.'
But that said, after a few days of mental chaos, and thanks to writing about it, and thanks to husband for sending an alarm bell that we weren't actually ready to jump on a house, I can go back to 'next right step' things.
So I'm going to try to do this:
- keep on the 'fix up' list and hire contractors. These things need to get fixed regardless of whether we're staying here. I tend to send Dan emails for him to review before I reach out to contractors but he never answers me so f that; I'm just gonna send it.
- trust dan's judgement on when it's 'too scrambly'
- go slow
- if a dream-house kind of place pops up, we CAN check it out and go for it. we have the ability to do things quickly when we set our minds to it, but we prefer not to scramble.
UDPATE
4 hours later, here's how that's going:
- made myself a rubric for jobs, and another one for houses.
- went ahead and set up a viewing for a house that may qualify as dream house, IDK, we need to see it. It's close by enough I wouldn't need to change everything.
- responded to interview requests for two positions