Useful tips for the tired & easily distracted

[ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba]

When making coffee or tea it's helpful to fill the kettle with some water before switching it on.

When cooking food in the oven success depends on two important steps: putting food in oven & turning heat on.
I recommend doing both - completing one or the other is just not enough.

When you are sitting down and drop a pair of scissors DON'T try to catch them by snapping your thighs together.

Also, contrary to popular belief, it doesn't matter how many times you press your car key button it WILL NOT open your front door. true story.

I also recommend not draining your made- from-scratch chicken soup or pouring your freshly pumped breastmilk down the sink.

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The milk jug does not goon the ground outside the back door and the cat DEFINITELY does not go in the fridge.

when in a rush don't shut car door on your finger. it won't speed things up

When making filter coffee, it is advisable to use ground coffee, not tea leaves. They may look incredibly similar but they taste very different.

In the case of such a mistake, do not repeatedly dilute and add sugar. It is not too strong, it’s just not coffee. In fact it’s bloody awful.

When making a bowl of cereal, it's advisable to use milk not orange juice.
(I may need to write this out more than once...)
After a night full of breastfeeding, no need to wake up in a blind panic thinking this is the day of the week the older child has a pack lunch.

The PIN for your own credit card doesn't work on the fuel card for the work pool car, no matter how many times you try.

Car keys only open the car for which they belong, they don't allow you to enter any car of the same brand and colour in the service station car park.

If you have several cats that look similar, it helps if you take the right one to the vets for examination.

when going to the loo at night don't sit on the lid and avoid sitting on the porcelain part.
try using the seat. that's the sweet spot!

This reminds.me of the Michael Rosen poem... I don't know it well, but I know enough because if ever I do anything daft, my youngest pipes up with lines from it.

Don't throw jelly at the telly.
Don't pour gravy on the baby,
Don't throw fruit at the computer

Ahh I remember this from the baby days. Although mine are now 8 and 5 and can't honestly say I haven't still done a few.

Mine are If you are looking for your keys after a particularly bad night of wake ups check the fridge ...you will have prioritised getting coffee into you and gone for the milk whilst sacrificing anything else in your hands.

If your feet feel mildly odd you have probably either got odd shoes on or slippers

If you or your DH/DP/DW are looking for your socks because all of a sudden you appear to only have one set from Christmas left that look like reindeers heads, check the baby sock draw. They have definitely been put in there because now all socks belong in the baby draw on the grounds you are constantly picking them up every 30 seconds and your default has become that drawer and your brain is now too tired to consider the existence of any other sock drawer.

And finally the baby wipes are in the other room. They are always in the other room or just out of reach no matter where you are. Not really tiredness related but still a good PSA.

@Nietzschethehiker

mine are 19 down to 7!😁
but I remember the breastmilk one because the horror of pouring it down the sink haunts my dreams

When getting a take away it's a good idea to open the sugar sachet and put it in coffee cup and not straight in the hole for where the rubbish goes (done more than once when I had a baby 🙄)

Take away coffee- still half asleep

You can't make the text bigger on your book using two fingers. Or turn a page by stroking it. Or scroll down.

If you are driving your car, and panic you've lost your car keys... don't worry. You can't have lost them. Otherwise you wouldn't be driving your car.

Milk doesn't go in the washing machine

wiping your nails with clean cotton balls will not yield the desired result.
as shocking as it sounds you actually need to use nail varnish remover

Dont carefully separate all your old baby clothes into months eg 0-6 months etc, when you are getting ready for baby no2, as your dh will just empty all the bags in a heap on the floor and everything will be mixed up anyway

If you can't find your house keys make sure you check they aren't still in the front door

If you have several cats that look similar, it helps if you take the right one to the vets for examination.

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@Livpool

If you can't find your house keys make sure you check they aren't still in the front door

On the outside that is. I did that once and I lived in a house with a front garden so tiny, you could probably touch it from the footpath.

And my car keys were there too, for the car parked immediately outside my house.

Felt so lucky that a burglar hadn't seen those when they were out there all night.

Your electronic key card that gets opems doors and gets you around workplace, won't open your front door.

It helps to actually close the door and lock it when going on holiday.
Or even just out for the day.

And to not leave the keys for your brand new car in the open roof box lock at the train station.

(Somehow we got away with all three of these! The first, neighbours noticed and sorted it, the second, no one noticed, and the last, the keys were handed into the train station...)

I don’t have the tiredness excuse but-
Tv remote will not work on the radio and vice versa
The hoover will not get over the door lip - it hasn’t for the last two years and isn’t going to no matter how hard you pull.
The big house key will not open the tiny mail box.
This house door will not lock automatically when you close it even if another one does.

When the baby has kept you awake all night, and you finally enter your bedroom for a well-deserved snooze with it's enticing, freshly-made duvet looking all snuggly and warm, holding a coffee in one hand and your phone in the other....

...think hard about which one gets thrown down on your bed.

when the clocks go forward change all of them.

it's no use ignoring the one in tv room and getting a call from school that you haven't picked up your kid because you thought it was only 2.15pm

Beware of Bank Holidays Mondays!
they feel like a Sunday but the rest of the week isn't Monday, Tuesday, Whursday, Thriday!

Orange juice goes in the glass and milk on the cereal. Bran flakes are bad enough without trying to eat them with orange juice on.

When the room contains lip balm in a little squeezy tube and cat flea treatment in a little squeezy tube, be very careful to check which is which.