My summer workspace

Here’s the thing about my house. I love it … but it is CRAZY hot upstairs in the summer. Like 12 degrees hotter than downstairs. Like I-don’t-ever-want-a-2-story-house-again hot. I think we need to replace the windows with double pane and maybe re-insulate the attic, but still. No money for that at the moment, so it is crazy hot upstairs.

Which means that in the summer (from about July 1 to mid/end of September) I almost never go up there. My workspace in the summer is 100% downstairs. Whether I’m writing or reading or brainstorming or on a Skype call or answering emails, it is going to be almost entirely from this spot on the couch for the next few months.

Couch made up as a bed: Oh, yea. I sleep on the couch. All throughout the summer (unless we have guests), our couch is made up as a bed. It’s just about the perfect twin-size so nights that it is just unbearable upstairs (and usually nights that Andrew works all night), I sleep on the couch.

Laptop propped on a book: Because of the heat the laptop puts off, I can’t actually handle it being on my lap, and I don’t want it on the soft couch surface so I just prop it on whatever hardcover library book I happen to have on hand.

Pile of books: Always. Obviously. Here’s my to-read pile for July. Library and borrowed and bought.

Brace on each wrist: Between 15 or so years of computer and crocheting, my wrists are basically shot. Someday I want to figure out how to build an ergonomically sound treadmill desk, but who can afford that. So, I wear braces on each wrist to keep them straight while I work.

Giant water bottle: 32 ounces. I drink about 2 of these each day. I use the water bottle A) so there’s no cup for Fang to knock over. Which she would. and B ) because it holds so much more than a glass and I don’t have to get up as often and interrupt my working flow.

Dress: Last year I decided I would do pantsless summer. And now I kind of want to do pantsless life. Skirts and dresses nearly every day.

Also pictured: My orange pen, foil on the arm to deter the cats and a giant pile of DVDs behind the couch because we don’t have shelving for it yet.

Not pictured: My backyard hammock where I will read in the early evening when it’s cool

Where are you working this summer?

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