Now it all comes out.

I am not someone who can multi-task. One thing at a time for me. I even like to eat one food on my plate at a time!

For someone who doesn’t like to multi-task, however, I sure do a lot of it.

I start reading one email, and another good one comes in, and I’m reading that too, and another, going back and forth, having the time of my life! I will answer three emails at once too, hopping from one to the other!

I start doing dishes, and I think of something else, and I start doing that, and in the middle of that, I see something else that needs to be done and, on the way, I see something else. Later, I return to the kitchen, and am surprised to see dishes soaking in the sink.

It reminds me of when I used to knit and crochet and do creative projects. So many lovely yarns and colors to choose from, and countless projects started. I even used to buy little cutting boards — I had an electric tool — I can’t think of the name of it — I plugged it in and it got hot and, with  it, I could etch quotations and designs on the cutting boards and give them as gifts.

Whatever happened to that tool. And does anyone remember the name of it?

Who invented the word multi-tasking?  There was already a word for it  — sidetracked.