Life is a Rollercoaster - Hang on!

Just when I thought things were looking good, disaster stuck. It started off a great week. Mikael took care of Jake, which allowed me to take my writing out into the world - well to the library anyway - and create my masterpieces in a different setting. A productive day, a lovely weekend, and then it happened. A stomach virus hit me in the early hours of Monday morning. Needless to say I didn't get out of bed on Monday, or much of Tuesday for that matter. By Wednesday I was feeling a bit better, which was just as well because by this time Jake and Mikael had caught it. Thursday we were all poorly but took Jake to the hospital because his temperature was a bit high - not that they were much help "He has a stomach virus. Half the city has it!" At least I was reassured that it wasn't anything more life threatening - although you'd never believe it to hear my poor baby, who came through heart surgery without so much as a whimper, wailing his discomfort. Friday dawned. Mikael went back to work. Jake smiled again. The sun came out. I looked at my computer for the first time in a week. I groaned.

My wonderfully worked out time-managed schedule of work for the week was completely out of the question now. The end of the week was here and I hadn't started. Next weeks deadlines lay before me, and the current ones weren't started. I confess. I gave in. I'm weak I know. The knowledge of so many things to be completed was enough to send me back to the sofa, and there I stayed the rest of the day! Yesterday I took a deep breath and started the most urgent tasks and accomplished quite a lot. I will say this very quietly in fear of evoking anger from the powers that be and having another crisis descend upon my head next week, but "I think everything is under control again." Shhhhhhhhh don't tell anyone.

Is working-at-home always such a rollercoaster of "accomplished much" or "accomplished nothing"? I'm beginning to wonder!

Katie-Anne, 2001