Thursday, August 18, 2016

So...what do you DO all day at home?

From time to time, I am asked, "So you work from home? Mmmhmm. What do you DO all day? You do laundry right? Your kids get to stay home with you?"

For anyone who's curious, here's a break down of today.

  • 6:27 am - woke up (after pressing snooze three times); made waffles
  • 6:30 - 7 - dressed; got ready
  • 7:00 - made coffee; woke up Salinger
  • 7:25 - took Sal to daycare
  • 7:40 - 7:50 - drove home; talked to my moma
  • 7:55 - started work, coffee in hand
  • 8:00 - 9:00 - work meetings
  • 9 - 10:30 - caught up on emails; finished work to do's
  • 10:30 - 11:30 - work meetings
  • 11:30 - took a 20 min break, ate some pretzels, talked with a friend
  • 11:50 - unscheduled, short work meeting
  • 12 pm - 12:30 - work meeting
  • 12:30 - 1:30 - finished more to do's; another unscheduled meeting somewhere in there
  • 1:30 - 2:15ish - work meeting
  • 3 pm - 4 pm - work meeting, which i left early due to competing priorities
  • 4 pm - dialed into another meeting that was cancelled
  • 4:30 - another unscheduled meeting on my cell b/c it was time to get Sal
  • 4:40ish - picked up Sal 
  • 5:00 - picked up Griff 
  • 5:30 - arrived home, both boys in tow, started supper (Kevin was still working)
  • 5:30 - 7 - cooked, talked with my friend again, ate, cleaned kitchen
  • 7ish - ran Sal's bath water; checked work emails
  • 7:10 - started this blog post

Work meeting = Conversation either on video conference or telephone with one or more people about various work related initiatives. This week my scheduled work meetings total 23.5 hours; last week: 28 hours. Some things get cancelled. Some meetings are unplanned and happen on the fly, so that amount of time always shifts.

So to answer those questions...Yes, I work from home. What I do all day is...work. Sometimes I can throw in a load of laundry, but generally, no, I do not have time for that. No, my kids do not stay home with me. If they did, I couldn't actually work.

So there you have it. Thanks for checking out my blog. Signing off to check one.more.email. Just one more ;)