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Home Office Habits

Pregnancy and the Work from Home Woman!

March 10, 2010
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I will be half way through my pregnancy this Friday and realized a few days ago that I seriously need to start thinking about how my work life is going to fit in with being a mom in a more detailed fashion!
My husband and I have been married for 5 years this November and are [...]

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All by Myself: 5 Steps to Beat the Work from Home Blues

February 18, 2010
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From August through the beginning of January my husband was working out of town and away from home during the week. I have never really known what being alone meant until then. Being lonely sucks. The feeling is magnified when you work from home too. I never realized how much having someone come home at [...]

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Trying and To Do Lists

February 11, 2010
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I watched I Love You Man (funny movie!) the other night and noticed a line I hadn’t picked up before (line above). I wrote it down on a sticky note today and posted it onto my white board next to the ‘To Do List.’
So much of what we do and who we are is affected [...]

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Do Girls Really Just Want to Have Fun?

November 25, 2009

More so than not, I think that while many women may think “we just wanna have fun,” we in actuality do everything in our power to undermine that.
Growing up I loved the movie Girls Just Wanna Have Fun; I made all of my friends watch it, I knew the dances, and all of the words [...]

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A Lesson in Entrepreneurship: Creating Success out of Failure

November 16, 2009

In creating and building anything there is always the possibility for failure. Failing at anything is a total bummer. However, with failure comes potential- potential to bounce back, to refresh, to create, or to look at something from a different perspective. My parents have taught me that you should never accept failure; to always go [...]

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Begin Gardening- CHECK!

May 11, 2009

I commented in April on a list of three projectsI have planned out for myself to accomplish in the near future. Finally, inspired by Sunset Magazine’s May issue, I have begun project number one- Gardening! I started with a test patch in our raised beds, going off of the article “How to grow veggies in [...]

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Favorite Home Office Time Wasters

April 16, 2009

I have fallen head over heels for Blip.fm
What an ingenious idea for connecting people! The first day I set up my account a spent a few minutes searching through songs, choosing “Let the River Run” by Carly Simon from the movie Working Girl with Melanie Griffin- a favorite movie of mine. The song is [...]

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Brainstormin’ White Boardin’

April 15, 2009

Lately, one of my favorite home office tools has been a little white board that I bought from Target for about $10.
I am a note fiend, like my mother- who I work for, I have a constant need to jot down sporadic thoughts, new ideas, my to-do lists, project notes, grocery lists, etc. My mother [...]

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Projects, Projects, Projects

April 6, 2009

Yesterday marked the first real day of Spring here in the Northwest. While I got most of my yard work done, washed the car, and in general caught up in some house cleaning, there are a few home projects that I need to get out of my way. One of the challenges of working from [...]

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Favorite Home Office Things

April 6, 2009

In the spirit of Oprah’s Favorite Things being curbed this year, below are the home business owner’s list of not only favorite, but essential goods and services. While they may not be as flashy, or be delivered on a silver platter, or adorned with a big red bow, they are equally as pleasing when used [...]

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