Just Because you Have a Home Business - Doesn’t Mean you Need to Work From Home

By User Imagesimplesahm | February 13, 2007

I am so excited I can hardly stand it. Tomorow is “me-day”. While most women shop, get a facial, a pedicure, a massage or just veg-out in front of soaps on “me-day”, I work…and I love every minute of it.

My “me-day” takes place on Thursdays when I drop my daughter off at preschool for four hours while my son spends a few hours at a local daycare. I make a bee-line for my favorite coffee shop. I order my favorite latte, Love Potion #9 (white chocolate and cinnamon) and I sit in my favorite cozy leather chair with my laptop perched on the stool in front of me. I try to sit in the middle of the shop so that I can eaves-drop on some of the conversations going on around me. Pathetic? Maybe…but I spend six days a week chatting with preschoolers and watching brightly colored monsters on tv. I am absolutely re-energized when I overhear adults chatting about politics, movies and work.

I love coffee house music too. I’ve tried to recreate the environment in my home, but I simply can’t find the great tunes I hear at the coffee shop on our local radio channels. My lukewarm, stale cup of afternoon coffee certainly isn’t as tasty as my freshly poured, foamy coffee-house latte either.

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