Moving to a new workspace

A note of warning - this blog entry is pretty dry. Sorry for that. I lost the first two extensive blogs I wrote while trying to post them. This is the best I could do on my third try. From now on I type everything out in Word before putting it here! It was a pretty frustrating experience.

This has been an interesting and busy week. I spent a lot of time with friends this week which is always restorative. Lunch with Kristin, dinner with Wendy, flea market with Melissa and her friend Mary Ann, lunch with Dixie and Lisa and brainstorming session with Victoria. It wasn't a typical week, social-wise. Anyway, I enjoyed myself a lot this week. The only hard part was that my trainer seems to have gotten me mixed up with another of her clients who is into body building because she really stepped up the weights this week. It was a little overwhelming! I was so sore for the entire following day after both sessions this week.

We are considering home school for Forest next year. He is a bright kid but has some trouble ignoring distractions in school and unfortunately his grades suffer for it. We think it might be very good for him to study in an environment where there will be no distractions. He has a big social network so we don't worry about him socially. He has friends from his old school and this school as well as some other high schools. He is a pretty socially networked kid! We are looking at a few different curriculums. What is cool is that he will be able to take classes at ACC or other places around town for some of his electives. We are pretty excited about this and feel it is the very best thing we can do for him right now.

I will have a new studio soon because James and I are going to switch offices. I have been going through the process, mentally and physically of organizing everything for the move. So far it has been an excellent exercise for me! You know I am always struggling with balancing everything and being more organized. This whole process has made me think about how I can lay out my workspace to be more conducive to getting a lot more done in a day. I have also been writing down all the things I would like to cover in a weeks time for my business to kind of figure out what to focus on each day. Anyway - it's just good! My floor is already cleaner since I have moved all my show props to a downstairs holding area and shredded the stack of credit card bill, offers and financial statements that were piled up under my desk. The open space in my office is already clearing out my thinking. Sometimes I think it is just hard to work in a cluttered environment so hopefully I can correct on that!