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The below statements are absolutely true.

These are things I have discovered myself doing or thinking during times when I was working waaaay too hard. I am self employed and do most of my work from my home office and notary office 2 blocks away.

I started this list when loan closing appointments were still fun. I add to it when I realize I have been a dork. I added the last item a few days ago.

You know you are working too hard when...

You have run out of clean dishes although you have place settings for 10 and live alone with your pug.

Your kitchen trash is filled with Chinese Food containers.

Your living room is a wreck and your vacuum cleaner was abandoned there many days ago. A snappy idea suddenly hits you: if anyone stopped by, it would appear you were in the middle of house cleaning. You think this is a great strategy.

If you try to slip in a nap, you place your phone next to your pillow.

You get your socks and undies from your clothes dryer, not your dresser.

You have a glass of Ovaltine and call it breakfast.

Your ironing board is erected in your home office and is stacked with papers.

You yearn for a cigarette even though you have never smoked.

You consult your calendar to schedule each day's shower.

You look in your rearview mirror as you are pulling out of the driveway. You notice you applied eyebrow makeup to one side only. Your eyebrow hairs are pale blonde so this omission is noticeable.

Happy Meals start to sound good.

After your shower, you look at the mirror and see you have just smeared hair mousse all over your face.

You get up at 5am, have a glass of milk and a vitamin around 7am. At 1:30pm your stomach is in knots and you suddenly realize you are starving. Your brain races: who can you phone to bring lunch?

Posted by Laura Vestanen on 12/03/2008 10:09 PM

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10 Comments on You know you are working too hard when...

DEC

2008

Hi Laura,

This is a hoooooot!! Can you please post this in the RE Professional Closing Table. Its sure to bring some smiles and we all could use one.

Lisa Kimmel

The only reason I don't have a vacuum cleaner in my living room is I have someone clean the house every 3 weeks.

I'm one step above Laura on the clean clothes issue because I actually work out of my laundry basket instead of the dryer. I put the basket in the closet when the cleaning lady comes every 3rd week. (I have to keep up appearances in Riverside CA.)

My phone hasn't left my side since 2002 and I don't think anyone reading this post wants anymore information from me about this!!

My dishwasher only has glasses, spoons, forks and round dishes for cereal. Am I expected to have "dinner plates, serving dishes, pots & pans in a dishwasher?" I had no idea?

I like Chinese food but I also like Mexican, Italian/ etc, so I have better mix of containers in my trash can than Laura does.

I don't have the ironing board in the living room, because an ironing board has always scared my 2 dogs!! The reason it scares them is they have seen it so seldom. It actually scares me to set up it up.

I bought a "Stanley Steamer) to press my clothes a few years ago. Best thing I have bought in years.

Cheers

Our vacuum cleaner is the only appliance in the house that doesn't suck.

I only go poking around in the dryer when I can't find what I need in the basket.

My wife does the cooking and she burns the pan 100% of the time. I don't like Chinese food.

What's an ironing board?

DEC

2008

I either get my laundry from the dryer or from the pile of clothes thrown on the chair in my bedroom.

The trash is just always full.

My shower time is based on when the kids get home from school. Work until 3, shower, kids home at 3:30. Give 'em a snack, start them on their HW, go back to work!

Did I forget to pick my son up from school again?

We use the ironing board as a clothes rack.

Why is my stomach grumbling?

What time is it?

Joan, Patrick, and Tony

I am laughing out loud at your confessions!!!

I had hoped some people would chime in but I never hoped to read anything as funny as what you posted!

LauraV

I met a gal on a message board. We pm each other occasionally.

I sent her my list a few days ago. Below is her response. She prefers to remain anonymous.

"I also work from a home office, and I would prefer not to discuss just how many of those things I have done, either word for word, exactly as written, or with slight detail tweaks.

Nor do I care to comment on how long it took me to clean the coffee off my monitor after reading it.

I will, however, thank you for making it possible to start my day with the cardio-vascular benefit of hearty laughter, which Science has decreed is equal to that obtained through the distasteful practice of doing excercises."

DEC

You are too funny! My confession involves of a day of getting dress in the dark...during we had a bad storm in our area inwhich our electricity was off in the entire area for about a week. I had to get to an emergency closing, got dress and went flying off to the closing. Well, let's just say my skirt was inside out and I had shoes that did not match in color, however, they were identical in style. I kept wondering why everyone was looking at me strangely and giggling. I was surely the butt of the joke and so, of course, I took it in stride and had a great laugh along wiith the others. Once, I had explain what was going on, they were very understanding.

JAN

My confession is that I have been driving my car so long with a dirty windshield. Outside is clean, so when I get in it for a signing, I have to laugh at myself.

I have my clothes in the dryer or basket a lot. I am busy so my husband has now started doing the dishes, washing of clothes and even making the bed.

JAN

Thank you, Laura-you gave me a good laugh right away...I can see the vacuum cleaner in my peripheral and it's been there for a week (so far).

And Happy Meals are good, but the Mighty Kids Meals are even better!

My shower time is whichever 7 minute stretch that I think my 2-year-old daughter is sleeping the soundest.

Pretzels are the best breakfast-and lunch-and dinner-and snack...

BTW, where can I get a husband like Margaret's? ;-)

FEB

My closet has more paper and toner cartridges than clothes.

The clothes are in the basket or dryer in the laundry room.

I take closing is a certain town so I can drop by and see one of my daughters and her son between closings.

I have friends with internet access I can drop by and print the docs for my next closing.

The freezer is full of microwave food--YUK! but its food.

The fast food place know my car and what I want and just have it ready as I pull up!!!

When the children call before hello they say, "Do you have any closings tonight?"

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