1/12/2009

Hi-ho, hi-ho

Filed under: — Aprille @ 8:48 am

No, that’s not an insult.

I’m going back to work this morning.  I mean, technically I’ve been working from home for about 9 months now, but today I go back to the office.  Right now I’m sitting at my dining room table with the laptop that has actually been work-issue this whole time.  I’m looking out at my beautiful backyard and the park that extends from it, and I’m thinking about how my view at the office.  On three sides of me, I’ll see carpeted cubicle walls.  I can’t even remember what color they are, even though I worked for a year in that particular cubicle, because they are purposely forgettable.  I think when decorators pick out their colors, they have a special palette of colors that nobody bothered to name, ones that don’t draw attention to themselves.

I dreamed the other night that it was my job to think up names for paint colors.  I probably came up with some doozies.  That sounds like a pretty fun job, unless you get the task of naming that color of my cubicle wall.

Across the aisle I will see someone else’s cubicle wall.

I shouldn’t complain.  I like a lot of things about my workplace, including my coworkers, whom I’ve missed this year.  It’ll be good to have a reason to leave the house every day, especially in this crappy winter weather when Miles and I haven’t been going to the park or doing very many outdoor things.

It’s been a good/hard/long/short/educational year.  I’m not sorry for a second that I took a year at home with Miles.  He’s going to be with his dad this morning, then I’ll be home in the afternoon.

Wish me luck.

3 responses to “Hi-ho, hi-ho”

  1. darah says:

    good luck good luck!!! I hope this transition week goes so smoothly!

  2. mark says:

    Don’t worry. Once you get back into the flow of the office, you’ll forget all about Miles.

  3. Good luck! You’ll be fine. And trust me, coming home to your kid after a long, stressful day at work — BEST PRESENT EVAR.

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