{"id":431,"date":"2007-05-23T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2007\/05\/clean-work.html"},"modified":"2007-05-23T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T21:09:00","slug":"clean-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2007\/05\/clean-work.html","title":{"rendered":"Clean Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t like to talk about work on my blog, because, well, it’s highly unprofessional. But let me break that rule for just a moment to set the scene for you. Doodles will be missing a day of school this month for a Jewish holiday (Shavuot<\/a>), which means one fewer workday for me, which has me in a bit of a tizzy. When you only have two working days a week, each one really counts. I have 250 pages of a proofreading job. I have a 9 a.m. phone interview for an article I’m writing. I have a meeting with a new client about an upcoming project. I have 13 miniarticles due to a Web site I write for. And I have a six hour work day. Adam has already left with Pie for daycare and I drop Doodles off at 8:30 a.m. at preschool, which means I have a bit of hustling to do, as it’s 8:13 a.m., and I need a shower (I did run. No matter how busy I am–or perhaps I should say the more busy I am–my run is vital to my mental well being). <\/p>\n

I get into the shower and begin washing as fast as I can. Doodles pops his head into the bathroom. “Can I shower with you?”<\/p>\n

I’m scrubbing quickly as I say, “Sweetie, I am soooo<\/i> behind today. I just can’t let you shower with me. I promise you can tomorrow!”<\/p>\n

“Okay,” he says and he wanders back off to his train table. <\/p>\n

I’m just rinsing the conditioner out of my hair, cognizant that it is 8:21 a.m. and that if I leave in three minutes, Doodles will be at school on time and I’ll be home with 20 minutes to spare to prep for my interview, when a little voice pops up. “Mommy, I’m going to take a shower with you.”<\/p>\n

I peek out of the shower to witness my son standing there, naked as naked can be. “What are you doing!!!” I yell. “Get dressed! Get dressed RIGHT THIS SECOND!”<\/p>\n

To his credit (or to the credit of the utter panic in my voice), the boy did get himself dressed again. <\/p>\n

He got to school on time. I finished my phone interview. The proofreading job is done. But I don’t know how people do this who actually have offices they need to report to and managers who know when they’re still in their pajamas. I feel for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t like to talk about work on my blog, because, well, it’s highly unprofessional. But let me break that rule for just a moment to set the scene for you. Doodles will be missing a day of school this month for a Jewish holiday (Shavuot), which means one fewer workday for me, which has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}