Has been a poor showing from me on the blog lately. Blame it on the stars, the endocrine system, the time change. Hard to say why the pause from posting much, but my once fool-proof method of thinking, "what did I do today that went well...blog about it" has failed me of late.
Actually, it's mostly because my good advice lately has to do primarily to do with work, getting to work or feeding myself at work. Since my fellow blog-girls don't work in an office, it's feel somewhat useless in this space. But, I'm wondering, is the not blogging about the pointless work-efficiencies holding up the better more useful flow?
Anyway, here's my dumb good advice du jour:
- keep granola and yogurt at work in the work fridge. you'll never regret it and will start everyday well balanced. I will post the granola recipe later from the downstairs computer.
- have a folder on the toolbar of your internet browser called "everyday". put your sites in there you like to visit to start the day. keep an eye on the clock and stay within a reasonable time period (like 15 mins). good way to warm up the brain and something do to while eating granola. I typically check my email accounts, facebook, nytimes, wsj and my horoscope. on a slow day I'll also check in with Perez.
- make a little extra dinner in the evening and then take it to work the next day (this is probably something you're already doing if you like to pack your lunch, I know. Just trying to slay the demons)
- read perez at lunch. do it on the sly. somehow gossip's better when you're sneaking around.
- IM with the hubby, very briefly everyday. better than a phone call and good way to get essential information to one another, i.e. "need milk on way home." "okay". also pretty fun to do on the sly.
- keep a stocked diaper bag in the car at all times. gives you the freedom to change plans on the fly and keeps your child tended to. keep an extra set of clothes for him/her in there, too. where I live, the beach is luckily almost never out of the question.
that's all I have today. hope it helps someone somewhere and if nothing else opens up something better tomorrow.
3 comments:
I LOVE this advice and find it useful even if I work out of a home office! Looking forward to the Granola and yogurt recipe... you have great stuff where that is concerned.
Moonmama, don't be so hard on yourself. This advice is great. There are at least two things here that I had not thought of, and which I will start doing at work. One hint, neither of them have to to with gossip, I have to admit. Have a wonderful day at work in the office, and I love you.
Agreed with Urbanmama, and since I am officially heading back into the home office tomorrow, I will happily take these pointers in with me. (And start blogging with a little more regularity, since the computer will once again be a regular part of my day.)
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