It seemed a little weird to be like that about a pen, but, well, this is my stuff!

It sounds like you need to sit your husband down (on a good day) and have a little talk with him. You can’t keep having to deal with this all the time, and you need to get him to STOP TAKING IT PERSONALLY when you need to work!

My excitement to work overwhelmed the other factors. I did look them up and saw that a web presence was not there. This may be a hard lesson learned for a newbie.

For some remarkable reason I become this intriguing mystery that must be solved once I close my door. My husband and teenage son that I was sitting with SILENTLY watching TV or whatever suddenly just have to come and talk to me. Over and over and over again. ARGH!!!!

To those who do not write: We do care about you. We do love you. We don’t want to ignore you. We’re just trying to catch butterflies in thimbles so we can hopefully make all of the torture worthwhile.

I look at it this way though. My best friend’s brother died unexpectedly a few months back – right after Christmas. He was 39, a few years older than I am, and had just been to the doctor with a clean bill of health following pneumonia. His heart simply stopped in his sleep. His wife is a wreck. I’d much rather have my husband alive, even if he is annoying me. So his using my computer without asking has become a minor issue now.

I seem to be the opposite of most people- I can’t work at a messy desk. At the end of the day I always clean off my desk and organize my papers.

LOL I love that! My desk is the one place that I find myself more productive when it’s a mess. I must have a very healthy mind!

I seem to be the opposite where I need lots of room when working…as though having more space will help me write better maybe…don’t quite understand it.

LOL! I wish I could do that too. But everybody in my family is noisy and they seem to like bugging me when I work. My mother has this habit of coming into my room, chatting endlessly for one whole hour during working hours.

As for my sister, she invades my space totally. She’s 17 and still scared of ghosts so she sticks around most of the time especially when I work overnights to finish some projects and she wants to watch DVDs.

When I read your post I thought of what it was like when I was younger…I would just ignore, ignore, ignore.

It’s so funny because it’s more difficult for me to get in that “zone” now when writing.

Haha~! Do you live alone? I’ve considered renting an apartment but decided to forego the thought since we’re having a bachelorette’s pad built around the end of this year anyways.

‘Nuff said

Thank you Lord for my siblings NOT living with me.

Now there is one good thing about getting older.

As for my sister, she likes annoying me when I work by watching TV beside me…

I may spend more time than I planned in my office when I start work next week just so I have more of a private space to work on writing.

It’s just my son and I, so I don’t have to deal with anyone else, thankfully.

As Peg says, the cats are the biggest invaders. Or later on in the day it’s “Mom!” every 5 minutes. I only have ONE child and he is very good about letting mom work.

My situation is pretty much the same as yours, except that I’m the one who’s letting my spouse have some office space. We both have our own desks, although I monopolize most of the bookshelves in the office — he doesn’t need to keep as many books handy, so most of his are on bookshelves elsewhere in the house.

And like you, my husband likes to strike up a conversation while I’m working. One of the main reasons I have such a hard time working in the evening or on the weekends.