Work From Home Couple

I’m fairly anal about my writing schedule. I like to do the same things at the same time day after day after day. I find that it helps keep me on track, and allows me to meet all my deadlines.

Unfortunately, the outside world sometimes interferes.

Take today. My wife will be gone most of the day in Chicago, picking up costumes for the play she is costuming this holiday season. At the same time, our school district decided that our children would benefit from an entire week off for the Thanksgiving holiday. That means both kids are our home today.

Then there’s our dog. He spent the weekend at his sitters while we traveled to Michigan for an early Thanksgiving celebration. I was supposed to pick up him at 10 a.m. Unfortunately, our sitter called and asked if we could push that back to noon.

That may not seem like a big deal to you normal folks. But for someone as schedule-obsessed as I am, it is. And as soon as I get the dog home, it’s time to run off to the school for today’s scheduled parent-teacher conference.

When you work from home, you get days like these, days where no one cares about your schedule. It’s just one day, and I will survive it. But still … I keep looking at those “to do”s on my agenda. Not enough of them are disappearing.

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