I’m not even sure how I got from plan A to plan C to plan 11.

Tim calls this the "but-firsts": "I'm going to move the coat rack but first I need to run the dishwasher. [runs dishwasher] Okay, next the coat rack, but first I'll take out the trash. [takes out trash, notices flowers] Okay, for sure the coat rack next, but first I'll plant these flowers since I'm out here already."

I am so familiar with that type of productivity.

And now I am going to finish editing this article, BUT FIRST I am going to take a nap before I fall asleep at the keyboard. (Seriously, my eyelids are drooping and my head is starting to nod. This is one of those days I'm glad I WFH.)

Tim calls this the "but-firsts"

Yeah. I am having more and more trouble with this habit. To the point where I take a few steps towards the "but first" task, get distracted, and forget both tasks.

Most lemonade is too sweet for me.

This is why if I want something in a restaurant that isn't water or wine, and the place has unsweetened tea, I order a half & half. (Sorry, but in New England this has always been called thus and I refuse to call it an Arnold Palmer.) The blend results in the perfect sweetness level.

I avoid all artificial and "natural" sweeteners like stevia and monk fruit because products with them always taste sickly sweet to me. I hate that it is almost impossible to get protein powder without them. Like, if I'm putting protein powder in a smoothie or oatmeal or something, I can easily put other sweet things in there if I want to. I don't need the powder itself to be sweet.

ETA: I always forget the asterisk turns into a bullet.

Last night, I was on a CodePink webinar with a Jacqueline from San Francisco, and for a moment, it was very hard not to run over and start...Idk, start spouting fannish nonsense at her. Even though there might be hundreds of Jacquelines in the region, and we only back-channelled and stuff--say, quarterly and we usually approached lefty things from different angles--and I don't mean porn-- but it wasn't completely wrong to think that was a thing she might have come to...still glad I didn't really do that. It might have been a lot to explain.

Seltzer on tap is amazing! Spindrift in general is quite good, I'm not sure if I've had lemon. When we were going on family vacation/roadtrips when I was a kid we were in the habit of filling a large thermos with a tap sort of thing (not as big as a football game gatorade container but kinda along those lines) with lemonade and then refilling with water as it got depleted so we had sort of lemony water to drink. From that, I ended up really liking water with a hint of flavor and my sister ended up hating it.

I think I like tea in all its forms. Hot, cold, sweet, unsweet, fruit flavored, herbal, black, green, etc. Knowing that, you'd think I'd drink it more often.

Same on all counts, JenP! I have a box of assorted teabags on my desk at work and do I ever make tea to drink while I work? Hardly ever.

To the point where I take a few steps towards the "but first" task, get distracted, and forget both tasks.

::waves:: Yes, that is very familiar

Aw, I can imagine that that would be a bit unsettling, erika. I work with a Ginger and seeing her name on email still gives me a little jolt sometimes, depending on the subject

Woot! I got three packages in the mail today.

These were items that could have theoretically gone out the door months ago but the whole Entropy heat death of the universe resistance to actually getting things labeled and taken to the post office fought mightily against me.

Yet, I have triumphed against this reality-wide conspiracy to thwart mailing boxes.

I have no hot takes on tea, nor sweeteners.

I don't have seltzer on tap but I do have a Sodastream which is basically the same idea and you could all have it in your home should you desire bubbly on tap!

Woohoo! Getting packages successfully mailed off is always an impressive accomplishment

I feel like I am basically a lurker anymore, but... hi!

This is why if I want something in a restaurant that isn't water or wine, and the place has unsweetened tea, I order a half & half. (Sorry, but in New England this has always been called thus and I refuse to call it an Arnold Palmer.)

I can't even say the words "Arnold Palmer" and I don't even have a Boston accent. I can get out "Ahnah Pahmah"

From days or weeks ago, meara, it might help you come to terms with the Spelling Bee if you know it's a curated set of words, not a dictionary. They keep stuff out on purpose. But also you can email and yell at them.