Slump...

To continue with my goal of writing more days than I don't, I need to write today. Earlier today I even had an idea about what to write about, but I lost it.

My ADD is ADDing hard right now. Which happens when I'm tired. Which I am. And when I'm feeling overwhelmed. Which I am.

It's always weird to me that when I am at my most distracted, when my brain is pinging about the most erratically I am also at my most unmotivated. Like I don't want to do anything right now. Nothing. I want to sit and eat bon bons and not think about the world at all and not do anything that makes me have to focus. Mostly because focusing right now isn't a strong suit.

Though, I have to say sometimes giving in to the erratic works. Brent cooked dinner last night. Which was a lovely thing for him to do. Usually I cook during the week and he handles the weekend, but he was home early so he did it. Our deal is who ever cooks the other person cleans. So as I was cleaning the kitchen I noticed a drop of oil behind the stove. This is not the first drop I've noticed, or Brent has noticed. We initially thought it must be coming off of the griddle somehow. But he didn't use the griddle last night, and I had cleaned the stove and the surround earlier in the day so there was no way there should be a drop of oil there.

Once a month I pull the covers for the stove vent down and clean them. So I went ahead and did that last night while I was thinking about that drop of oil. Maybe we fried too many things last month somehow? But no, they were normal amounts of dirty. So I stood for a moment and stared at the stove. Then I noticed there is a recessed edge to the hood when the vents are out. Hmmm...

Eeew! Over the past couple of years grease has pooled in that channel, being sucked up from the hood vent. When we cook, it heats up and gets liquidy and drip...down goes the mystery spot of oil behind the stove. So I cleaned it all out and now I will add cleaning that channel to the monthly vent cleaning tasks.

If I weren't pursuing a thousand thoughts I wouldn't have cleaned the vents last night. I would have wiped up the spot as I cleaned the stove area and moved on. And when I pulled the vent covers to clean them for their monthly cleaning it would have been while the stove was cold and I wouldn't be thinking about the spot at all. Who knows how long it would have taken to connect the dots, or drops as the case may be.

So sometimes it's good to let your mind wander. Just don't let it get too far before you call it back.

And always clean the channel in your hood vent.

Eew...