Shiny Thing Syndrome

So yesterday I realized that my blog has been named "Shiny Thing Syndrome"for a long time now and I don't think I've ever really explained why (oh yes, there's a reason). Let me tell you why.


You see, I come from a family of neurotic, sarcastic, quirky people... and we all have different levels of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder - self diagnosed, of course. It's not like we take medication for it or anything...) As you can probably guess, ADD in one person makes it hard to focus on one thing for too long and if you've ever tried to have a conversation with a person who has ADD, then you know it's almost impossible to keep to the point (uh hem... like if you've ever spoken with me) because ADD people are always getting distract by other things, people, trains of thought, ideas, what have you. So, in my family, we refer to those distractions as "shiny things". It'd be like if I was talking to you about my favorite type of pizza and then half way through I noticed somebody picking their nose out of the corner of my eye and subsequently interrupted myself to change to that subject. I imagine it'd go a little something like this:


You: "What's your favorite kind of pizza?"
Me: "You know, I've never actually been a HUGE fan of pizza, though I did work at Brick Oven Restaurant for 2 years... that was gross. I'd come home wreaking of pizza everyday... covered in sweat and yeah, ew. But anyways after working there I especially didn't like pizza that much, but I guess if I had to pick a FAVORITE, I'd say...(notice the shiny booger out of the corner of my eye)... Oh my gosh, I have never been able to understand people that seem not to care about publicly jamming their fingers up their nose and then examining their boogers. They seem completely unaware that other people can see them and think it's disgusting... which reminds me, one time, when I was a little girl... (and this is where I break into a story about how I stuck a bead up my nose and shot it at my little brother and when he tried to copy me he accidently snorted it up and it got stuck! And then I forget what the original question was in the first place... all because of a little shiny thing).


Or maybe you saw the movie "UP" and noticed how the dogs would be talking and then they'd all of a sudden freeze and yell, "squirrel!". It's kind of like that too. So now, in my family, whenever someone gets distracted from the original point we just say "Shiny Thing!". It's a laugh, let me tell ya. 


But yeah, that's the point of naming my blog "Shiny Thing Syndrome". Many blogs have a theme that they stick to, not mine. Mine is completely random and about whatever I'm thinking about/experiencing at the moment. I kind of like the freedom (I'm too ADD to stick to one thing anyways... that would just be a disaster)...


And that's why. Get it?