Working from Home

So I decided to work from home today… no, not “work from home” like some people.. but actually WORK from home because my list of things to do at work has been building up, and it’s sometimes so hard to focus and get things done with constant distractions at work. People interrupting your train of thought, meetings interrupting a nice work session, lunch breaks, coffee breaks… etc. etc.

So I decided today would be the perfect day to work from home, since I have no meetings scheduled ALL day for once. It was all going so well, and then 3:15, my MOM shows up at my door out of nowhere. It’s like she has some kind of sixth sense for when I’m around. Either that or maybe she comes over a lot when nobody’s home?! I wouldn’t put that beyond her.

Ya, she didn’t even know I was wfh, so she just shows up randomly with her key to drop food off… and then she was EXTRA excited and happy to see me. So of course this made me feel kinda bad to be thinking “What the heck!? Great.. now my peaceful wfh day is ruined!”

So I try to be nice… She comes in with this glow on her face saying in chinese, “Today’s my day off too! Let’s hang out!” I give her my annoyed, “MOM, I’m working…” Then she does her whole “oh, don’t mind me then, I’ll just hang out and help you tidy up around the house.”

And what am I supposed to say? I can’t kick her out of my house after she was so thrilled to see me. So I just continue with the document I was working on, and then she interrupts, “hey so how often do you work from home!? We should coordinate”… I’m like “not often”… and then “hey show me how to work your laundry machine I’ll help you do your laundry”…

“MOM.. I’m in the middle of writing something!! And no thanks, I’ll do my own laundry!!”

Waaah.

So she then says, “ok, I’ll hang out downstairs then…” in the nicest way possible which now makes me feel extra guilty for snapping at her. O mommy, I know she loves me so…

Time for a coffee break?

Back from my break =)

After exhausting all my after-work creative energy on wedding planning for the last year (yea, seriously), I decided after coming back from our honeymoon, that I'd give myself a break. This break consisted of two straight months of vegging out in front of the TV after work, watching smut reality television, and *dun dun* Law & Order. O dear. When I started getting repeated nightmares of rapists and murderers mixed with melodramatic potential BFFs of Paris Hilton -- I knew it was time to draw the line.

Over the weekend, JT helped me shift my desk. Sometimes, I find that rearranging furniture really helps to give you a fresh start. I felt extra motivated and ended up reorganizing my whole work station.

I have a couple of fun pet-projects in the pipeline and I really hope they end up working out. I've also started going to castings again, which I hope will get me motivated to get back in shape. Married life has been extremely awesome and comfortable, but I don't want to get too comfy!

From the wise words of one of my good girlfriends about getting married: "Don't let yourself go & don't stop shaving your legs"

So here I am blogging about it -- in a way it's to help keep myself accountable. It's time to get back in action, and live to tell about it.

Paris

Paris, originally uploaded by Sandswirl26.

John looking up at Notre Dame