I am a voyeur. OK- not in the real sense of the word. But I do pay attention to how people interact when they are out in public. I watch how a mother interacts with her child in Target. I notice if the couple seated across from me and The Man at dinner are engaged in conversation or simply in their own separate worlds, yet sharing a table. I pay attention to how Diva In Training converses with her friends on the phone. I notice how each of my Diva …
is ticking so loudly. It’s kind of driving me crazy because I am aware of it, but it is also providing a backdrop of sorts.
Rhythm, but no music.
It’s the middle of the week, what do you want from me?
Weekends are family time (unless there is a dire work situation going on- and let’s face it- that doesn’t happen too often when you have no agent or publisher. LOL). That is what I declared when I started consulting and writing. I didn’t want my daughter and The Man to feel like it is never about them. So, I tend to stay off the computer (unless we are all on our computers- which does happen occasionally- sigh. But at least we are all in the same room.).
Until Monday morning.
When I …
This weekend, the home office was actually completed. Seriously. All items in said room were sorted into three piles: keep, Goodwill, trash. Lots of stuff went to trash. Lots of stuff went to Goodwill. The rest managed to find a happy home in the office.
But, here is the good part. I was all set to use a small, unattractive little computer desk that is currently used to house books, magazines, receipts (yeah- my sophisticated filing system), and clothes. I had no plans to buy something new. I did realize …
I have never been the most organized person on the planet, but somehow, I thought that when I started working from home, all of that would change for me. I even had a vision of what my home office would look like. My guest room (read that “junk” room) is all cleared out and freshly painted. My desk faces the window with a lovely view of my small and uninteresting backyard. There is a two-drawer filing cabinet in a nearby corner, and a small stand for …
