I mised last weeks question as I was so busy with the lead-up to my son’s birthday party, so hear I am playing catch-up now and answering this week’s question also.

Last week we were asked:
What do you do about working at home if something unexpected happens? Do you bag it for the day or try to make it up later?

I’m lucky in some ways because my ‘at home business’ is client-driven, so if I don’t have a client in touch with me I don’t have much in the way of work to do. I’ve been trying to reorganize and improve my website, adding a ‘proper blog’ to it and things like that, but that and my work for PPP are all things that can really be done ‘when I have time’ during a day if there’s something unavoidable that comes up.
I do usually set aside time to do things. First thing in the morning I wil do work, say between 7:30 and 10 a.m. depending on how long the task I’ve set myself takes or if someone gets in touch with me for a reading. This gives me time to ‘wake up’ and check things out. I will do work around the house itself when my son naps, or after he’s gone to bed the rest of my work happens.
If a client calls and something’s come up they’re usually pretty understanding if there’s some reason I can’t accomodate them right at that moment and will schedule another time or let me email them their reading instead of doing it live that makes things a lot easier.

What kind of workspace to you have? Where is it located? Is it clean or messy?
Right now my workspace is the cleanest it’s been in a while. I actually posted pictures of my workspace on Sunday after I put the new desk together.

There we are. It does have the keyboard shelf on it now, but I can’t use it, as if I leave the keyboard in there the munchkin pulls it out and starts mashing the buttons on it, so I have to keep the keyboard on top of my printer when it’s not in use, but that’s where I work. We have a very comfy rocking chair that is my ‘desk chair’ at the moment, which is another reason why I don’t use the keyboard shelf, it’s not a decent angle in relation to the chair, which sits very low to the ground.

You can sort of see the chair in that picture.
So, that’s where I work from day to day, doing my blogging and occasionally meeting people on IM to do readings for them there.