Something New - Who Knew?

This past week I realized something about myself that I hadn't realized before; I can't focus on work when music is playing. I know a lot of my friend use music to help them concentrate, but I found that while I was trying to preparing for a big show this week, when the music was playing, I had to turn it down so I could concentrate. And it just happened again when I was trying to type this entry - my brain could not focus on both things at once.

Now this is not to say that I can't ever listen to music while working. What I've noticed is that if the work is "mindless" then it is no problem, but if the work requires significant concentration on my part I can't handle any distractions.

Which, now realizing this, explains why I can't stand to have AH in the kitchen while I am cooking. Cooking, though sometimes fun, is very stressful for me because it requires a lot of concentration on my part to follow the recipe(s). AH usually gets home from work while I am in the midst's of preparing dinner and I always shoo him away because I lose my focus when he is talking to me or I end up ignoring him.

Such a strange thing, our minds. Good thing I recognized a while back that mine is "mom"-entarily out of order. Nobody can say that I didn't warn them!