So I’m having one of those days I dreamed of having, back when freelancing and working from home–making my own hours, pitching article ideas to publishers, writing some short fiction, taking on a web content project or two, all between sweeping the upstairs floors, doing laundry, cuddling my cat and squeezing in an hour or so of Darksiders
It’s taken quite some time to get her, although not as much time as someone who would’ve started earlier, I suppose. And, there have been some real surprises. For instance,
- I haven’t punched a time clock since I left Lifestyle Lift in April 2009. That having been said, I am now WAY more conscious of how much time I spend working, writing, researching, pitching, applying, publicizing and emailing those prospective clients.
- I have to do my housework FIRST THING when I get up, or it has a tendency to grow tentacles and swarm me by lunch time. Why? Because if I don’t do it FIRST THING, then I’ll be easily distracted during a project with “I’ll just go make a cup of coffee–oh, I should unload the dishwasher since I’m getting a cup out of it–Whoops, looks like I got a little crazy with the CheezWhiz last night, there’s chili on the floor–Since I’m mopping the kitchen floor, might as well do the whole downstairs–Can’t mop the downstairs bath floor until I scrub the toilet, since I always slop water when–” And now my rate per word and earned per hour numbers are in that dirty first-floor toilet and my day is blown. Somehow, I can do that whole scenario above and get it done quickly if done FIRST THING, but try it in the middle of the day and it takes forever.
- No matter how busy I am, how much work I’ve gotten done that day, or what else I’ve accomplished, I ALWAYS manage to be playing something (Xbox, WoW, RIFT, Entanglement) when the Hub comes home unexpectedly for lunch or while on an errand. And it always makes me feel a bit like a slacker.
- Even though I often think I’ll spend the afternoon blogging or writing in a coffee shop, I’ve only actually done it twice. And that’s because we were still in the house in Novi where we had Comcast and our cable was out. Now that I’m one of those real A2 artsy people, you can’t even tell, because you can’t see into my house.
So anyway, other than salivating all over my Emich.edu email account waiting for a response to my grad school (and assistantship) app, I’m pretty much focused when I’m on the Internet nowadays. And even when I AM on Facebook or Twitter, I can justify it with a little linking and publicizing content. Or at least, so I tell myself.
