Work From Home Couple

It’s the day after Christmas … and all I want to do is sit around and munch on chocolate Santas, read my new books and watch some DVDs.

Unfortunately, I can’t quite do that.

Yes, I’m not working a normal day today. I am taking it a bit on the easy side. But I’m still turning in some work. I have no other choice: If I don’t write, I don’t get paid, and I have several stories due to editors by the end of the month.

That’s one of the few disadvantages of not working full-time from an office. Office workers, I’m assuming, can take some time off around the holidays. There aren’t too many repercussions.

But for me, the holidays are often a struggle. I still have to get the same amount of work done in December as I do in November or October. It just have to do it while dealing with two weeks were it seems everyone I want to interview is out of town. I have to do it when it seems as if no one is interested in returning my phone calls. And I have to do it when relatives and friends want to drop by during the middle of what would otherwise be the middle of a regular working day.

Don’t get me wrong; I do like the holidays. (Notice I said “like,” not “love.” I can certainly live without some of the forced merriment of the season. I can also survive without the Bill O’Reilys of the world telling us the lie that there is actually some kind of “war on Christmas” going on.) It’s just that sometimes they can wear a work-from-home freelancer out.

And today? Yep, I’m worn out. Terribly.

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