There is this idea that April Fool’s Day comes once a year.

A cute little 24-hour window where people play harmless pranks, laugh it off, and move on with their lives.

Yeah… no.

For me, every single day is April Fool’s Day.

And the joke?

Is on me!

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You ever leave something out on purpose…

Like, very intentionally place it somewhere visible so you don’t forget?

Front and center. Impossible to miss. Foolproof system.

Except… now it’s been sitting there too long.

It starts to annoy you.

Clutter.

So you move it.

Somewhere “safe.”

Somewhere you’ll totally remember.

Fast forward to the exact moment you actually need it—

Gone.

Vanished.

Disappeared into the abyss of “that made sense at the time.”

You know…

Like the Nest Connect that was literally plugged into the wall for months — maybe even a year or two.

The one you took out while moving furniture and put it in (insert magical portal of doom).

The place you knew it would be when the time came to set up the remote keypad.

Now you are in the right headspace to do all the IT stuff and finally connect everything.

Only to find that it no longer is in your house.

Or the shed.

Or anywhere!

No — just me?

Happy April Fool’s Day!

Or my personal favorite —

Do you mentally prepare for an event like it’s the Olympics?

Replaying conversations that haven’t happened yet.

Planning outfits.

Running through scenarios.

Analyzing, overanalyzing, then overanalyzing the overanalyzed.

For days.

Sometimes weeks.

Even months in a few situations.

Until you’ve exhausted yourself so completely…

That when the day finally comes—

You don’t even want to go.

Or worse… you don’t care anymore.

You are no longer excited.

You don’t wear the outfit you perfectly picked out or bought specifically for this occasion.

Sometimes you don’t even go!

All that energy?

Spent on a moment that never even happened.

You know…

Like your 40th birthday.

Your bestie and boyfriend planned for you.

Cute teahouse.

You picked out that cute pink dress and silver heels.

The one that is still hanging in the closet with tags on it because you wore something more “comfortable.”

Still beating yourself up over not wearing it.

No — just me?

Happy April Fool’s Day!

Let’s talk about time —

Ever show up extremely early just to make sure you’re not late…

Or catch yourself saying, “Oh, I have plenty of time.”

Famous. Last. Words.

You start one quick thing.

That leads to another.

Then somehow you’re halfway through reorganizing your entire life…

And you glance at the clock—

And it’s no longer “you have time.”

It’s “you are now aggressively late.”

And the worst part?

That one quick thing is still not done!

How?

No one knows.

Time didn’t pass… it teleported.

You know…

Like the time you…

Wait, correction —

Like every time you are scheduled to be anywhere, ever!

No — just me?

Happy April Fool’s Day!

And don’t even get me started on hyperfocus —

Because oh, I can learn.

I love to learn new things.

I can dive deep.

I can research something so thoroughly that I might as well have a minor degree in it by the end of the night.

I know the details.

The ins and outs.

The why behind the why.

But the second someone asks me a simple question about it?

Gone.

Vanished.

Brain = static.

Dial tone.

Crickets.

Not a single coherent thought to be found.

Like… I know this.

I swear I know this.

But try explaining it?

Absolutely not.

Happy April Fool’s Day!

And the thing is —

None of this is funny when I am in it.

It’s frustrating.

It’s exhausting.

It makes me question myself more than I’d like to admit.

But if I don’t laugh at it…

I’ll lose my mind trying to make sense of it.

So yeah —

Some people get one day a year to be fooled.

But for me?

I’m out here living in a never-ending episode of Pranked (minus Ashton Kutcher).

The producer is my own brain.

No cuts.

No “that’s a wrap.”

Just vibes and confusion.

But here’s the part I often forget —

The same brain that loses the thing it just put down…

Is the same brain that sees patterns other people miss.

The same brain that spirals…

Is the same brain that feels deeply, thinks creatively, and adapts faster than most.

The same brain that runs late…

Is the same one that can shows up in ways that actually matter.

So yeah…

Maybe every day is April Fool’s Day.

But not every joke is a bad one.

Even if it really feels like it sometimes.

Happy April Fool’s Day — but Seriously…

Thank you to the people that understand that I am not just “bad at time management” — that time blindness is real.

Thank you to the people that don’t get upset when I stay home, and are just happy when I do show up — even if I ditched the dress and look like a bum.

Thank you to the people that have patience with me when it comes to answering questions and understand that my brain refuses to recall information on demand.

Thank you to the people that take the time to know me and tolerate my nonsense.

Most importantly —

Thank you to the people that love me for me and that have shown me that I am not broken.

My brain just works differently.

And beyond all the April Fool’s pranks?

My brain is pretty awesome.

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– sorry NOT sorry –

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