When songs get stuck in my head, I generally have one of three reactions:

1) OooH! I love this song! *bounce bounce bounce bounce*
2) Ooooh, I'm so sick of this song! *pout*
3) Damn it, Miss Yankee...STOP WRITING "SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE" IN TEXT MESSAGES!

I have two notes stuck in my head. That's right- two notes. Bah-bom. That's it. And I can't place the song it goes to and the rest of it is riiiiiiight there on the tip of my brain. It's almost as though there's a fine line between paying enough attention to get my brain to remember and concentrating too hard and somehow blocking it. It's very frustrating because it's not like I can call up someone and be all, "Hey, do you know where these two notes with no other distinguishing factors, including words, is from?" It's like two guitar chords and then....something. And it sounds almost like another song so just when I think I've gotten it, Aerosmith starts playing in my head and I get frustrated because I somehow know that it is not an Aerosmith song that is stuck in my head.

Even now, I'm staring at the computer screen thinking, "Maybe if I concentrate on something else it'll pop up and I'll remember what it is." Two notes. Like an inverse doorbell sound. And it repeats over and over and over and over and over again because I have no where else to go with it. I'm thinking that I'm going to have to break out the mp3 player when I go food shopping just to not have it in my head anymore. It's sad that I've come to that.

It's also sad that I've taken to food shopping with my mp3 player. I think I've actually hit the point where I do need to be amused and entertained every second of the day. I used to think that if I were magically transported to 1860, I would be able to survive because I like to read and the dresses were really cool. But now, I'm not sure I could get by without checking my email, myspace, facebook, the news, pandora, and various other sites all while writing and half-watching tv while texting people. I don't think I realized how much mutli-tasking I do on a minute-to-minute basis. This is why when I get home from work, I end up doing more work while chatting and relaxing. I think I've forgotten how to completely relax and do nothing because unless I'm sleeping, I'm always doing more than one thing.

I don't think that there's a new epidemic of ADHD in our kids. I think society forgot how to chill out.