The Best Laid Plans

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I started this month intending to post every day. I was doing that until yesterday.

Yesterday I had a special event that I had been planning for a month. I was going to do a 5K for the Lymphoma & Leukemia Society. I did the fund raising and met my goal of $100.

This Light the Night event was being held in Chicago, about an hour away from where I live.

Because everyone was working, I was going to have to go alone. I was OK with that – I need to face small fears like that in order to grow.

I planned my day – when I was going to leave, which train to take, even where to eat dinner. I studied the map of the event over and over.

I had everything planned out. Everything except 2 things.

I forgot to write a post ahead of time.

And then – here’s the big, embarrassing, totally ADD one: I assumed that I knew where the train station was and I assumed that I knew how to get to the event.

Wrong.

I found myself many miles north of the train station just minutes before it was to leave the station. Thankfully I made it in time.

I got to Chicago and headed towards the event. It was supposed to be less than a mile away.

I thought I knew where I was going.

I was wrong.

You would think a thousand or so people running with lit balloons in their hands would be noticeable.

Apparently not.

I walked for an hour and a half before calling it quits. That’s way more than I would have done in the race had I found it.

Then I got lost trying to get back to the train station to have dinner. Luckily when I asked for directions I wasn’t that far away.

I’m too embarrassed to tell you how long it took me to find the actual building – even though I knew the street corner it was on. And I don’t think I will mention how long it took me after I found the building to figure out how to get in it.

Really – it’s not natural to go down to the basement level to enter a building.

I got back – finally – and had a very good dinner.

But now I had 2 hours before the next train.

I called my husband, who reminded me that Macy’s was close by. Maybe a hour or two of shopping?

Can I tell you I couldn’t find Macy’s in downtown Chicago?

By the time I got home – 8 hours later – I was tired and my feet hurt.

But here’s the good news about all this: even though my ADHD worked long and hard against me, I basically did what I set out to do.

The Lymphoma & Leukemia Society got their donation and I got my workout and then some. I faced my fear about going unfamiliar places alone and won.

Maybe we should start an ADD 5K. Maybe not.

Lacy Estelle

Lacy Estelle

Lacy Estelle is the writer of Lacyestelle.com and the Podcast host for An ADD Woman.

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