My Favorite Distractions

Since I posted the other day about being told I work too much, today I thought I would share my favorite distractions, in order of how distracting they are.

Distraction #1

Looks so sweet and innocent, doesn’t she? She’s also great at keeping productivity a long ways away, any time she’s awake and sometimes when she’s supposed to be asleep.

I have to make an effort to keep her away from my desk, or she will rearrange my desktop rather thoroughly. I mean both the top of my physical desk and the desktop of my computer monitor, of course. Keyboard and mouse have to be pushed out of her reach and my chair, well…

That’s the only thing that works, turning the chair on it’s side. I can push it into another room and she will push it back to the computer desk, get on it and start playing.

Distractions 2 & 3

This pair ties because they kind of know when to leave me alone to work… kind of. That and they’re wonderful at playing together for long periods without too many arguments that need to be broken up.

Distraction #4

Yeah, my husband’s a troublemaker, all right. You may not be able to tell, but in the picture that’s a little gopher snake he caught in our backyard recently. He caught it after our oldest spotted it and we needed to be sure that it wasn’t a rattlesnake. After a few pics, we let it go. May it enjoy a long life and catch many gophers and other pests.

So my dear husband has some good points. I don’t mind nonpoisonous snakes, but better him than me in checking to see which is wandering around out there.

Actually, his distractions are usually pretty good too.

Fortunately for all these guys, I know how to let them distract me. It’s frustrating to be distracted at times, but I wouldn’t be doing this if it weren’t for them.