Welcome to My World
July 12, 2008
In honor of Manager Mom’s Office-Pallooza, I’m offering a tour of my corner of the kitchen workspace to you folks. If my desk is overflowing (more often than not) I plunk my Macbook at the kitchen table.
Here’s how a typical workday unfolds.
Set alarm for 6 am to take advantage of time before kids wake up.
Wake up at 7:45 screaming, “Get up! Get your shoes on! We’re late again…why are all these towels still wet?” Throw still frozen waffles at children and deliver to various childcare options.
9 am: Arrive home from Camp/Grandparent run. Make espresso and breakfast, and list things to accomplish for the day. Make list unreasonably long, include holdovers from three months ago to insure no matter how much actually gets done, I will still feel behind.
10 am: Ignore list, read Gawker, Twitter, NYT and blogs until my eyes start to bleed internally. Remember that I wear glasses.
11: 30ish Make lunch, recall that I’m actually on deadline for things that people pay me for and am teaching a class next week for which I’m ill-prepared. Resolve to rein in ADD and tend to these things.
12:15 ish Forget resolve. Write blog post. Husband comes in to ask, “Sweet Jesus! What are you still doing on the internet?”
1 pm: Pick up Kid 2 from camp, face the reality that my working day is complete. But it’s OK, because I’ll set the alarm for 6 am the next day.
Obviously, not all days are like this. Some days, I go to Panera. That’s when I actually get stuff done.
So Here’s my office type place…
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- Where the magic happens.
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- Nice windows for me to zone on.
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- Or, if it’s too buried at my desk, I work at the table.
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- I’m a sucker for pretty office supplies.
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- Why, yes, my daughter IS wrapped in bubble paper.
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- She wrapped the sleeping baby, too.
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July 12th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
I love office supplies! Colorful folders, pencils and lots of binder clips!
July 13th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Cindy has the same hat from pic #3.
July 13th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
I’m glad to know that I’m not the only mom to worship at the Temple of Frozen Waffle-ology for breakfast. Your workspace looks awesome. But maybe you want to turn down the air conditioning? Are you cold, or is that kid-protective gear?
Thanks for playing!!!
July 13th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
LOL. My Husband snuck up on me and took that this winter…I’d taken out the trash or something, and you know that email addict feeing when you have to check it RIGHT THEN? Yep. That’s me.
July 13th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Every member of my family has one of those hats. Except me. I prefer the Lara from Dr. Zhivago style fur hat. But I’m a snob that way. Which also means that I am the only one without a hat.
July 13th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Your routine is remarkably EXACTLY like mine. And I’m also a kitchen table office worker.
July 13th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Frozen waffles are the cheapest breakfast ever! They are .10 apiece! They held even out the Starbucks factor =)
July 13th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Wheeee! I am so looking forward to school starting in six weeks I can’t stand myself… and my kids are only 16 months old! Hey whey are you wearing all that winter garb? Are you in Australia?
July 13th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Love the windows! I need lots of sunlight to be productive, just like the solar lights along our front walk. But I don’t glow at night.
July 13th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
I could have sworn I responded to this! I have been temtped to post pics of my own office-y space, but I already have once, and it hasn’t changed since then except to get piled up with everything under the sun. But thanks to wi-fi, I can now take my laptop anywhere and have an instant ‘writing room’. Just wherever I feel inspired
Love yours, btw! Mine’s not very colorful, but I did manage to give it a very retro vibe.
July 13th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
i’m salivating over that window. no wonder you are distracted and twitter. who could focus in such loveliness? maybe you need to mess it up a bit so you can concentrate.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
That is kinda like my day, expect my kids get up before me and there is double the amount of them. My husband usually says things like that too. He wants me off so that he can have his turn.