It all started with a load of laundry

How is it that going downstairs to throw a laundry in turned into:

• a load of laundry
• helping the kids clean up the crayons they left all over the floor
• vacuuming the floor of all the little crayon bits
• vacuuming the stairs because I noticed how dirty they were when I walked by with the vacuum
• vacuuming the porch floor because I was now at the top of the stairs anyways
• vacuuming the laundry room floor
• refilling the cat food
• emptying and sorting through the central vacuum canister looking for an earring that I vacuumed off the floor that I should have just left in the canister to teach the owner a lesson
• vacuuming the mess emptying the canister made
• taking out the garbage

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad it's all done, but I just wanted to do a load of laundry and come back upstairs and watch the rest of Survivor.