I feel this, too. I really thought that working from home would make it *easier* to get to the gym than when I worked in an office, because I can (in theory) go anytime. But instead, I Just. Keep. Working. and then it's too late/I'm too hungry/whatever.

Exactly. Trying to get me out of the house is a struggle. I *had* to leave for work before. Now I don't. And it's not good for me.

Matilda has been watching it lately, so I think it would be safe for her.

I'm sure it would be--I let her watch Sleepy Hollow with me, so I'm pretty easygoing about that sort of thing. I draw the line at Game of Thrones...once I heard her coming downstairs as I was watching it, when she was supposed to be in bed. I FRANTICALLY hit pause, leading to the ensuing discussion:

A: What's this?
Me: It's called Game of Thrones. It's very much not a kids' show.
A: (points at screen) Who's that?
Me: That's Daenerys Targaryen. She's a queen trying to reclaim the throne of her ancestors, with the help of her dragons.
A: (gives me a very strange look) And I really can't watch it?
Me: Not for another several years. Trust me.

How are your bruises and stitches?

Coming along nicely. My knees still ache going down stairs, and the warm weather hasn't tempted me to put on shorts in the slightest, because no one needs to see the blue, purple, and yellow glory that is my left knee. But all the scabs finally came off my face abrasions, leaving me with patches of new pink skin. A definite improvement, since I look less like someone who's been in a fight and more like someone who had a bad reaction to a new moisturizer. Stitches are supposed to fall out on their own, but if they haven't by Monday I might ask my doc if she'll remove them, because it's hard to eat and drink around them.

I'm still waiting on the MRI results from the unrelated bone cyst in my femur they discovered upon x-raying my knee, which is frustrating because I know the imaging center sent them to my primary care doctor's office, but when I called there at noon they said my doctor was out till Monday, and maybe Dr B would have time to look? Which despite me keeping my phone within reach at all times for the rest of the day, never happened. But I'm trying to tell myself that no news is good news--if it was something really scary the imaging center would've called the doctor's office or flagged the fax as urgent. Therefore it's like 99% likely that it's either nothing or something non-urgent they'll just need to re-scan every so often to make sure it's not growing, and I should just tell my anxious side to shut up and have a nice relaxing weekend writing fanfic and planning my Europe trip, right?

Exactly. Trying to get me out of the house is a struggle. I *had* to leave for work before. Now I don't. And it's not good for me.

Me too, exactly. I've become too much of a hermit. Also too sedentary.

I'm still loving working from home, even though my work and personal life are extremely mixed together. If I keep all my balls in the air, I can work according to my weird circadian rhythms. By nature of the work I do, I still go out a lot, so that's helpful.

It's nice that I don't have to really report to anyone as long as I hit my deadlines, but I don't really make any money, so there's the tradeoff, heh.

I also use my cell phone exclusively, and work from home. Sometimes there are technical difficulties, but, eh. We haven't had a land line since we moved to New Orleans. Had Vonage for maybe a year, but we never used it, so then we just switched to cell phones.

The next few months are the best months to buy because people don't want to move in the dead of winter and potentially pull their kids out of school in the middle of the year. Right now is not forever.

Yes, this.

Fwiw, I haven't had a land line in about 10 years and my husband works from home and we have no issues. (But if I still had the land line from when I was a kid I'd consider keeping it because I'm sentimental like that.)

Burrell, I don't get why you can't cancel it.

Ah ha ha ha! So turns out we got pretty far along on the plan to switch to cell phone, but then AT&T anticipated our every feint. They were all "no go" until finally the gal helping Cody said something like "I think your best bet is AT&T Go, but they'll charge you an extra $50 for that."

Me: Not for another several years. Trust me.

Heh. When I got Emmett to watch it (pitching it as "a cross between Breaking Bad and Lord of the Rings!") I had him review the things he's most repulsed and freaked out by.

Me: So, it's a really good show and you'll like it BUT it does have some disturbing elements. Remind of the four things that freak you out.
Emmett: Zombies, pedophilia, incest and necrophilia.
Me: Okay, it's got three of those. Not so much necrophilia but you never know.

I feel this, too. I really thought that working from home would make it *easier* to get to the gym than when I worked in an office, because I can (in theory) go anytime. But instead, I Just. Keep. Working. and then it's too late/I'm too hungry/whatever.

Yes, all of the above. I often find it oddly easier to work out while traveling. But at the same time, so very glad to not have a commute.

JFC, you guys -- the South Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade finally let some gay groups march this year.... so the Knights of Columbus are staying home to pray instead.

In other acronym-worth news, OMG and WTF, I'm 90% sure I just saw a skunk going under my porch. Which does explain why I thought I smelled skunk spray one night, and also the animal poop in the driveway that looked too big for a cat. But now what?