Lanakila said: “… to add 4 or 5 different spices in all differing amounts. I have to get them all out, add the correct amount of each one, putting the spice away after measuring it out,…” I do that too – it helps! (I still can lose track though – I will literally dump the spice in, see shiny thing, be holding the spoon and spice bottle in hands, and think “did I just add that spice or not?”)
Another trick – re-write recipes: Lots of recipes don’t go in linear order – you have to skip back to a previous section and then skip to a later section in order to do it. I re-write them in order – even if something has to be written in twice. No skipping around for me. uh-uh, not gonna work.
Worst thing – husband’s family recipe for Christmas bread – I have to make it, it has weird perishable ingredients that you have to find at special stores, it takes like days of planning to pull off, about 12 hours of dough making, rising, etc, and it’s supposed to be ready on Christmas morning. This bread has caused me sleepless Christmas eve’s, hurt pride, scavenger hunts to pizza places, sorting out convenience store trailmix to get raisins when the store’s not open, and yes, occasional success, followed by exhausted zombie state for the whole rest of the day after no sleep and nothing to eat but sugary bread.
I can’t wait to try it on Concerta – – could it be, actually, really, possibly – – fun? 