So it’s apparent that I’m having a bit of trouble managing working from home, maintaining my home and this damned blog. How did I do it when I worked full-time OUTSIDE the home?
But I’m grateful to be working again. After 13 months of unemployment I’d become a slug. A slave to my couch. I was in a definite rut, which is to be expected.
Now I’m just having difficulty keeping up with everything. I’m usually working until midnight because it’s much easier for me to work when Dennis is home/everyone is asleep. If Dennis is home I can put some earbuds in, crank the volume and totally zone out and work. But when I’m home alone with the mongrel all day I can’t do that because the he’d burn my fucking house down and I’d be completely oblivious sitting there jamming out to “Weird Al” Yankovic (don’t judge). And because I’m up late that means I’m sleeping more in the day time, napping when I can to make up for my lack of sleep.
When I’m done working, no matter how late it is, I usually don’t go right to bed because I need to let my brain decompress and just veg for a while. And while I do sometimes hop online and it’s usually to do some mindless time sucks like Facebook or Pinterest. Coming up with a witty or informational blog post just seems like so much work after I’ve already been staring at a damn computer screen for 6 or 7 hours.
At that point in my day my brains are mush. My eyes are tired. My hair is pulled into some sloppy ponytail and I’m usually wearing pajamas and ridiculous looking socks that have polar bears on ice skates (yes, I actually have these) on them or something. I look like an escaped mental patient or a strung out crack whore (without the crack…or the whoring for that matter). Do work at home mothers always look like that?
How the fuck do people do this? Really?
So I thought I’d at least jump on here and let you all know that I’m still kickin’ around. I logged in before I went to work today, as I knew I wouldn’t do it later because I’ve told myself several times over the last couple weeks “I’ll blog about this when I get done working”.
Oh! And I started exercising too. Only last week, and I only did 4 days last week…but I intend to keep doing at least that much if not exercising every day.
So work 30+ hours a week from home + three kids + one husband who acts like a kid + random appointments and stuff with the mongrels + somewhat maintaining my house + laundry for four people (Autumn does her own) + cooking + exercise + polar bears on fucking ice skates socks = disorganized, deranged, and delirious.
After that is it really so bad that all I want to do to is sit on the couch with the cats and watch Netflix until I pass out?
I’m sure once I get the hang of this working from home thing I’ll get on some sort of a schedule and be able to manage my time better. But for now, the blog is on the back burner. Which is kind of a giant suckopotamus…but it’s temporary.
And now I will leave you with some “Weird Al”…my favorite song by him. Word to your mother!
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It’s HARDER when you work at home than it is when you go to work. When you’re gone, nobody is there messing up your house. When your working at home, people are still there making messes, but now you don’t have time to CLEAN THEM UP and heaven knows, nobody ELSE is really going to volunteer to do it. After all, “you’re there ALL THE TIME”, so why should they?! Ask me how I know. *mega-eyeroll* (You know the one.)
I have been working from home for about 9 years now,including managing a team that all works from home. Shawn is going on about 7 years working here too. You will want to try and find a schedule that will work. And the big thing is to get in the work mindset just like you were at an office working. I know my biggest problem is getting the separation of work and life. Walk past the computer when I am ‘off’ and think oh I will just answer this quick email or do this one last thing and that can make you burn out. Saying that I would not trade it for anything. I do not miss having to drive or deal with office drama.
Okay, first of all…..who doesn’t LOVE Weird Al!? I swear, I used to have all his CDs. LOL
I can’t say that I’m much good for giving advice because I’m not a mom that works from home, but all I got for you is just keep doing the best you can!
Cause the best is all you can do
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ha ha ha! you just described my life. I have decided I need a cape to go with my knee hi lightning socks and hot lips pajamas and tangled fro just for not ripping out all my hair by the end of the day. Housekeeping? really??????? I have the four evil ones plus my work from home childlike husband who seem to think I can do EVERYTHING well enough in the limited window I seem to have that I can also clean the disaster of an area I just cleaned while putting out the flames. if you ever make it back to the blog and see this feel free to hit me up and we can marvel together about what hair we have left and decide a way to make clones and time machines to take care of all this dammed mess.