I’d like to thank my neighbors for not calling the authorities when they hear me shout out things like, “Put the pizza down while you pee!” when I’m in the backyard.

I am, of course, talking to the mammoth giant of a dog we affectionately call Beastie. And, while I truly applaud her desire to multi-task, there’s just something weird about seeing a dog squatting while holding a squeaky pizza in her mouth.

In all fairness, it’s to keep the Demon Doodle from grabbing it, but still, it’s weird.

As I was wrangling the dogs outside just now and issuing that gem of a statement for my neighbors, I started thinking about how multi-tasking has become a badge of honor in our society these days.

I know…deep thoughts while watching a dog pee are not exactly well-timed. But I was…multi-tasking!

I think the thing about doing more than one thing at a time is that technology has made it so easy to distract ourselves that we never quite get a chance to just focus or be.

Music while running? Check!

Listening to a podcast while cooking dinner? Check!

Scheduling posts or making images while getting a pedicure? Yes, and yes!

Replying to emails and playing games while in the bathroom? Um, yeah, guilty. (Don’t even make a face; I know you’re doing it too!)

Maybe we all need to put the pizza down and just focus on one thing at a time.

Whether it’s eating dinner together or running with our thoughts instead of Bad Blood pulsing in our ears…maybe doing just ONE thing at a time could actually be good.

Maybe we don’t have to worry about our equivalent of the Demon Doodle grabbing our pizza while we’re peeing.

We’ll get it back. Or we’ll find something better to play with.

We always do.