Mar 31 2008
Workin’ From Home - Day 1
(I promise I won’t subject you to this daily. Just my way of keeping track.)
Well, it’s 3:54 and I’ve only wanted to kill my family seventeen times once. I’ve discovered:
- Poopy the Puppy cannot figure out why Mom is home.
- The cats are shedding. And they like to sit on my desk. And did I mention they’re shedding? I feel like I’ve been lickin, um, a kitten. I’ll be harfing hairballs by the end of the week.
- It’s really great having an entire kitchen to explore for lunch instead of dealing with a cafeteria lady that fights with me over a fucking teaspoon of peanut butter.
- Mr. Hot talks to himself while he scrubs the bathroom. (Yes, he scrubs the bathroom. He is a gawd. I’m going to make him wear an apron after Spring Break is over and Shortman goes back to school.)
- It’s nice to not have the admin who can’t spell my name come in to talk about her daughter, but….oh, who am I kidding, there’s no but. It’s nice!
- Spending 2 hours trying to hook up a printer to your laptop that has no ink in it sucks. donkey. balls.
- The little girl cat can scale the shelves in the closet and go to sleep on the clean piles of sheets - which can scare the shit out of you when you don’t know she’s there but you see eyes glowing above your head.
—- And getting the office ready effectively killed my chances to write my New Commenters for the Month of March AND my March Hotlight posts. They’ll be out later this week. —-
HOT LOVE
But, all in all, it’s managable, right?
And tell the kitties and Poopy that you need a papershredder. That might have them helping with the admin work as well.
Lys’s last blog post..I Can’t Go Back…
LOL.. funny all the things you notice, isn’t it?!! I am the one home all the time so none of it’s news to me here. When hub is around on weekends and asks what I think are stupid questions, it bugs me. Like, he can’t figure out why raw chicken *juice* got loose in the fridge. Did he not SEE THE FREAKING CHICKEN IN THERE? Couldn’t miss it, lol. It was in the way of everything. But *he* didn’t put it there so it apparently didn’t exist. If he suddenly decided to say home to work all the time? I would just hand over my life and check myself right into the asylum. Because I know I would not survive.
flutterby’s last blog post..A Birthday
How much work did you manage to get done?
Ha! The old “working” from home…. I know exactly how you feel. When I work from home, Dingo Girl decides that Mom being home means that we get to play every 5 minutes. Not a Dingo likes to sit on my keyboard and leave her hair all over the desk. If it’s this tough to get work done from home with four-legged kids, I don’t know how you do it with the two-legged kind!
Dingo’s last blog post..Response-able
“I’z in ur aerin cubbord, sheddin on ur sheetz!”
Solomon Broad’s last blog post..The “Things I’m Grateful For” April Contest
I only go to my “real” office when I have to, so my home office is my default. Sadly, I’ve discovered that on my way back from the kitchen? There’s a sofa and a television, and trashy talk shows. Sometimes I’m strong, sometimes not. And the puppy that I tried to pimp out to poopy? She chewed all of the cables behind my desk this morning. It only gets better.
Shania’s last blog post..The 10th time’s a charm or How I got pregnant
The printer? Dude, I am rubbing off on you in all the wrong ways.
Mr Lady’s last blog post..Why do you have to be a heartbreaker?
But admit: you wouldn’t rather be working anyplace else, right??
Michael C’s last blog post..6 Words, That’s All. No More. No Less (Wait, That Was
Cat hair — or avoiding it — would be one of the best reasons not to work at home. I’m sure if they do on autopsy on me someday they’ll find out my lungs are filled with it.
Betsy Bird’s last blog post..Rainy Days in Dining Rooms Always Get Me Down
but I bet the security guard at your new office is WAY better! maybe he can wear a holster under his apron.
Hyphen Mama’s last blog post..PMS, Fungus and a Birthday
Love it!! Congratulations..and good coffee whenever you want
( I would invest in a cappucino machine!)..you can wear hot shoes in your jammies :).
GoddessintheGroove’s last blog post..Watch and Get Happy
Sounds like the perfect day. Except for the hairballs. Not so perfect. OH, and the printer. But otherwise - GREAT. Welcome to your new life
Heidi
Heidi’s last blog post..I Have A Knot In My Tummy
Sometimes my son breathes so loudly, that I think Darth Vader has come to visit..
whoaa whiii WHOOO wheeee… Muuuuhhhm whhhaaatsss tooo eeeeatttt???? Whoooooo
etc etc etc…
cheers kim
frogpondsrock’s last blog post..Xbox4Nappyrash interviews Me….
sucks. donkey. balls. hahahahah, that made me LOL in the office for a good while and caused many a look of “huh?” from the boring farts who actually use their computers for work…. the fewls….
I had to give up working from home and now much prefer playing at work…
Andy Bailey’s last blog post..Beware the believers!
I’m just impressed you knew how to hook the printer up to the laptop - period! I can only turn the laptop on.
And, I’m looking at the sign to the right & see the Ann Arbor frigid temps. Ugh. But, in addition to the ugh, I must ask: you aren’t a UM fan???
Anglophile Football Fanatic’s last blog post..I Pity the Fool
Animals aside, it sounds like the working conditions are superior at home. I hate it when cats shed–mine is also working on losing the winter coat and it is gross.
Your man scrubs bathrooms??? Color me green–jealous puce!
Melissa’s last blog post..Beware: Potentially Offensive Opinion
2nd Andy Bailey - the donkey balls had me going too - thanks for the laugh! Even if it was at your expense!!!
Wbppsh7’s last blog post..Six word Meme
When you put the apron on Mr. Hot, will he be wearing anything else?
magpie’s last blog post..Peeling Eggs
Working from home rocks. Except for the part where you gain about 20 pounds because the kitchen is ALWAYS. THERE.
Sue’s last blog post..Pillow Talk
Oh the joys huh? I want to see a photo of your home office, Mine is pretty bad and I bet yours is immaculate after actually spending time on it!
My damn cats are obsessed with standing in my potted plants and either tracking soil everywhere or just knocking the pots over completely.. Nice huh?
talina’s last blog post..The job search begins!
How is Mr. Hot handling you being home? Are you still in the honeymoon phase?
I really love working from home. Welcome to the club!
Katie’s last blog post..Ritz Bliss
Will he be wearing anything else, or just the apron?
Yeah, it’s SO not any of my business!
The cat on the shelf made me laugh. That would freak. me. out.
Jennifer H’s last blog post..Star light, star bright
I just read Kelley’s blog. I had to say: I read the Little House books as well. I love them. Every time I have to do something practical or frugal I swear I channel Ma and Pa Ingalls.
(Poor, poor Kelley. One can only pity her. She doesn’t know what she’s missing….)
Frogdancer’s last blog post..I am Awesome. It’s official.
You’ll get used to the cat hair. I don’t even bat an eye when my dinner is wearing a sweater of cat hair.
Stick to the hairball control food, and you’ll be fine.
And also? You didn’t mention the pajamas and bunny slippers! Because that’s the hotlight of staying at home.
Well, maybe only for me.
Kristabella’s last blog post..Bad Blogger
I like how the cats come into play in at least two of them! hee hee.
I like the apron idea… you should get him one where it looks like he’s a girl in a bikini… you know those type, right?
Jennifer @ The Cubicle’s Backporch’s last blog post..A loss at the Backporch.
do you think i could knit a sweater out of cat/dog hair??? i mean if i knew how to knit…
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