Thursday, June 9, 2022 Easily Distracted

My grade reports in elementary school frequently had the phrase “easily distracted” added. I can’t deny the charge.

I got on my iPad this afternoon to do something productive that’s been on my “to do” list. And then I saw that I had 8 Pinterest notifications. I don’t like to have my screen sullied by all those red notification circles, so I got on Pinterest to update my notifications and get rid of the circles. You’d do the same thing, wouldn’t you?

While doing that very short electronic task, I saw a few ideas for how to use dried flowers showing up in my feed. What a coincidence! I just dried some flowers last week! In reality, there are no coincidences in the world of computers and the internet. It regularly anticipates my need based on my browsing habits and I’d sound off in an outraged huff if this weren’t actually pretty handy sometimes. I might be like that frog in the lukewarm water that doesn’t notice the water is getting hotter and hotter until it’s too late.

So instead of tackling something on my “to do” list, I ended up doing this instead.

And voila – bookmarks! Okay, now I need to get back to my regularly scheduled activities.

Was I going to delete this in the morning? I may or may not get distracted by something else.