January « 2010 « Well-Ordered Chaos

7 Tips for Saving Money on Your ADHD Treatment Expenses

Today I found a link to this article in my inbox. It’s got some helpful tips for saving money and recovering some of the costs of ADHD treatment for you or your child. Depending on your income and your insurance situation, you may be able to do the following:

1. Take advantage of [...]

Attention Deficit Disorder and Attempted Travel Planning

As I posted the other day, I’m going to Europe in a few weeks, and I have a ton of crap to get done before then. If this trip is like, oh, any other trip I’ve taken in my life, EVER, I’ll get all of it done at 3 am the day we leave on [...]

Stupid pants.

I’ve been hanging out on the Women with ADHD Ning, and recently one of the members mentioned that she’d never really fit in with “the girls”. Several more of members chimed in about how they’d never felt “feminine”. It seems that a lot of women with ADD are just no good with the girly stuff.

It’s [...]

Organized Travel, ADHD Style

My partner travels a lot. And when I say “a lot”, I mean that when somebody asks me where he is, I have to stop and think pretty hard about it. Is it Beijing? No, that’s next week … Australia? Hong Kong? Seoul? Tokyo? … Brussels?

Last year he spent more time driving on the left-hand [...]

Meta-Organizing

As you can probably tell, I’m playing with the appearance of this blog a little bit. I’m trying to make it more visually appealing, more readable, and yes … more organized.

The theme I’m using is the excellent Atahualpa Theme, created by bytesforall. It’s fully customizable, which is great, except that if you don’t know CSS [...]

My Organizing Journey: The Great Purge — Trouble with Trash

Oscar has no problem with trash — he LOVES trash!

Adults with ADD are notorious for hanging onto clutter. We’ve being scolded our whole lives for loosing things through our carelessness. If we never throw anything a way, we know it’s there … somewhere. We might not be able to find it right now, [...]

The Value of That Old Routine

I’ve been back from my holiday trip for two weeks now, and since then I’ve managed to be on time exactly once.

Being on time has always been a struggle for me, and it’s an area where I’ve made great strides in recent years. I’m still not perfect, but I used to be late for absolutely [...]

Emergency/Earthquake Preparedness

Yesterday I wrote about the fact that I have no emergency kit in my home. I have some water, maybe two gallons, which isn’t enough for two people and two cats … and that’s it.

I started thinking about emergency preparedness when I read this guide that a friend of mine wrote after last week’s earthquake [...]

Are You Prepared For An Emergency?

I know I’m not.

I live in the SF bay area, a mile or two from the San Andreas fault. Last week there were a few smallish quakes on the Calaveras Fault, also in the Bay Area. And the fault that’s really supposed to blow is the Hayward Fault, also in the Bay Area. Southern California [...]

Resolved to get organized in 2010? You don’t have to go it alone.

It’s the New Year, and that means New Year’s it’s time for New Year’s resolutions.

One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions, year in and year out, is to “get organized”. According to the National Association of Professional Organizers, who polled more than 400 adults last November, 71% of respondents felt that their quality of [...]

Well-Ordered Chaos

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