My husband and I are considering (trans: I've decided, he's panicking about how to pay for it) setting up a home office log cabin job in the back garden. It's only wee - about 2.5m by 3m - but it will have electricity and warmth and carpet and such.
But most importantly it will not have a fridge.
The fridge is the bain of my existence when I'm working from home. That and the crisp drawer. Today alone I've had a cheese and ham toastie, an instant noodle bowl, two packs of crisps, hUUUGe bowl of crunchy nut, chocolate mousse, two lollies... ugh!
This will all end when I am down the bottom of the garden. I will allow only a smattering of fresh fruit in a bowl and some diet coke to cross the threshold.
(though I may invite a small sweetie stash into the filing cabinet!)
I just got a sexy new phone and I'm all of a twitter... and a facebook and an alphamummy and a Yahoo! It has unlimited interwebulator access so I can work on the move finally. Of course, I could do it before but it meant tracking down WiFi or forgoing a gym session to use the pooters in the cafe. Which was no great hardship but there you go.
Now my sexy new Nokia 5800 has a touch screen, handwriting recognition, QWERTY keyboard (I seriously need more sleep, I had to think about how to spell that - dur!) and millions of space for music and photos and suchlike.
It was brought home how much I really do need it when I managed to figure out how to divert the home phone to the old mobile and was promptly asked by a client to email them something. Which I couldn't do. Now it doesn't matter that I'm stuck in playbarn hell, I can still pretend to be slaving over a hot desktop and no-one knows the difference. I'll admit that I also have tech envy for all those people who tweet and fbk with little messages that say 'Sent from Blackberry'. In fact I was initially going to get one of those until I discovered that they were a) expensive and b) a bit crap. Seems the new Blackberry Storm is not going down a.. Storm with users. So hooray for my new phone. Here ends my craven plea for free Nokia goodies (some speakers would be good chaps if you're feeling generous!)
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