The Unglamorous Truths About Working From Home- Volume Two- Part 1- DIY

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7 Topic Challenge Day 5- Working From Home.

DAY 1 - Well being
DAY 2- Philosophy
Day 3- Tarot
Day 4- Arts & Humanities

PART ONE: You create a false reality in that you can do DIY

8 reasons to NOT work from home

  • You create a false reality in believing that you can do DIY
  • You develop ailments and realise you do NOT have a bladder the size of an ox
  • Function most definitely rules fashion
  • The kitchen becomes a war zone
  • The 2pm slumber period is an extremely dark period of time
  • Your house becomes a depot for the streets deliveries
  • The internet becomes the dark web
  • Your friends have to 'save' you from yourself at least once a week

I have so many stories about DIY, it is actually quite an achievement that I am still alive after two decades of attempting to do things myself. Being at home, and wondering about what jobs I can do is not a help either. Sometimes it is like I have been taken over by some alien life force that ignores the sensible me and starts doing crazy stuff in an attempt to impress my house guests.

It never works, and they are never really impressed.

Sometimes as I am doing my 'thinking' also known as staring aimlessly into space, I dream up ideas of what I can do with items in the shed. This is what is known as the danger zone, even I know that if I venture into the shed, there is no turning back. 

I love the idea of revamping old furniture, but I always mess it up as I have little patience. I think I am on my fourth table, that is now, ready for the Garden bonfire. It's a little sad really. 

I seem to be ok at painting, but I think that is because if it fails, you can paint over it. Apart from when 10 million coats have already been sloppily applied. That's a little hard to cover.

My current project is to paint the hallway with white emulsion.

What could possibly go wrong...

Everything!

The point of this..point...is that when you work at home, you often get distracted and if you're good at DIY, then great! 

If not, your house will look like a scrap yard and you will have lost a day's wages!

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Luckily I don't even imagine I can do DIY. But we are a depot for drop offs - mainly raw milk and vege boxes.

BTW, I posted my Kitty anmd the unicorn story cos I couldn't wait any more (ie I had nothing else ready to post) and I still didn't know which storyline had been picked for you. But no peeking (yet)!

Ooooh will go and have a look. I'm going to put it to my writing support group tomorrow and let them pick for me. They won't have seen yours as it is a facebook group. Will check yours out now. How exciting!

DIY is a lot harder than it looks on Pinterest that's for sure

Haha yes...if only life was as easy as pinterest!