Comments on: Switch To Off To Save Sanity http://www.electricvenom.com/technology-bites/switch-to-off-to-save-sanity/ Mid-life crisis, motherhood and martinis Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:47:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Venomous Kate http://www.electricvenom.com/technology-bites/switch-to-off-to-save-sanity/comment-page-1/#comment-89563 Venomous Kate Thu, 29 May 2008 14:59:58 +0000 http://www.electricvenom.com/technology-bites/switch-to-off-to-save-sanity/#comment-89563 That's a pretty good suggestion, Bridget! My husband's office is my least favorite room, too: it's cluttered, smelly and dusty. (I refuse to clean it for him because he complains that I move stuff around when I dust.) That’s a pretty good suggestion, Bridget! My husband’s office is my least favorite room, too: it’s cluttered, smelly and dusty. (I refuse to clean it for him because he complains that I move stuff around when I dust.)

]]> By: Bridget http://www.electricvenom.com/technology-bites/switch-to-off-to-save-sanity/comment-page-1/#comment-89561 Bridget Thu, 29 May 2008 12:13:36 +0000 http://www.electricvenom.com/technology-bites/switch-to-off-to-save-sanity/#comment-89561 My DH complained that I spend too much time on the computer (despite the fact that he gets on his computer as soon as he gets home and plays online games until he goes to bed). So I set up my laptop on my desk in the office. I don't go in to the office very often during the day because it's one of the least favorite rooms for me in the house. It's usually a mess of papers that need to be filed which I'm too lazy to do, or the kids have toys all over it (because keeping them in their bedrooms like they are supposed to is just doesn't make the toys as interesting to play with), or because the office is where I sit to do the bills every two weeks and being in this room makes me cringe with those memories. I have to say this has worked out. I don't play online games anymore (which despite his complaint of how much time I was on the computer, DH now complains that I don't play the games with him anymore), and I get a lot more done around the house in a more timely manner. Like you, I can easily get lost in Internet Land and happily stay there all day, but with three kids, a DH, and a house to take care of I just don't have that kind of time. So that's what I do. And like you, I leave the computer on so I don't have to wait for the awful boot-up time when I need to know something right away. I'm impatient like that. My DH complained that I spend too much time on the computer (despite the fact that he gets on his computer as soon as he gets home and plays online games until he goes to bed). So I set up my laptop on my desk in the office. I don’t go in to the office very often during the day because it’s one of the least favorite rooms for me in the house. It’s usually a mess of papers that need to be filed which I’m too lazy to do, or the kids have toys all over it (because keeping them in their bedrooms like they are supposed to is just doesn’t make the toys as interesting to play with), or because the office is where I sit to do the bills every two weeks and being in this room makes me cringe with those memories. I have to say this has worked out. I don’t play online games anymore (which despite his complaint of how much time I was on the computer, DH now complains that I don’t play the games with him anymore), and I get a lot more done around the house in a more timely manner. Like you, I can easily get lost in Internet Land and happily stay there all day, but with three kids, a DH, and a house to take care of I just don’t have that kind of time.

So that’s what I do. And like you, I leave the computer on so I don’t have to wait for the awful boot-up time when I need to know something right away. I’m impatient like that.

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