Thank you Martha Stewart

No, really.

See, I've gotten myself into this rut. I get up at about 7AM, after what is inevitably too little sleep. I work and work and work and work, sitting in my little corner of the dinning room. I make breakfast at around 10:30 usually...bowl of cereal and some coffee. And then I work and work and work some more. And 3PM rolls around. So, it's already an 8 hour day, but I'm nowhere near feeling I've accomplished what I need to. And I know my S.O. won't be getting home for hours either, so there's no good reason to stop working. Except, I really need to stop.

So the last few days I've decided to take a break at around 3PM and watch Martha Stewart's daily show on my TiVo. (And with a TiVo it takes a much more efficient 30 minutes or so, since I can skip commercials and when she's cooking meat products!)

I find her very relaxing. She's slightly odd and slightly ill-at-ease. And she always shows me things that the alternate-universe-me would totally do...if I had talent and skill and time and motivation and money.

And she has guests, and I get to watch their often-off banter. Like when Fran Drescher got Martha to admit she was seeing someone, and they discussed the virtues of younger men. Odd.

But what it mostly is is completely different than what I'm doing the other 12 hours of my work day. Look I don't eat a meal I can't microwave. My organizational style is many different piles...definitely not labeled with a P-touch machine. I find it soothing and relaxing that someone out there has found things to obsess over that I don't obsess over!

So, thanks Martha.

Comments

[thebizofknowledge]

I stumbled across your blog while I was doing some online research. Martha Stewart definitely knows how to put together a show; many of us are like you, yet we love to watch her, even thought we know we'll never cook that meal or do that craft.