The Side Effects of No Routine

Quick Notes:

Graham & Brown Wallpaper
Jarvis Standing Desk

Full(ish) Show Notes:

All right, so today we are recording in a new room in a new way. Long story short, Covid-19 has changed our routine, and in changing our routine we have come up with some creative ways to... I don't know...LIVE, right? 

I think this is so interesting, and I never really thought about it until this 30 plus day shelter-in-place. When your routine goes out the window, when everything changes and ‘normal’ is just a word you can't hold close to your chest. That is when it's easier to do things you wouldn't normally do! It's easier to do things you kind of thought about doing, or thought maybe were too risky, or you were even too bored to do, you know what I mean? Too busy to do, too in your head about. There's something about all of my routine having gone out the window that has opened up my life to do things that I wouldn't normally do. 

What we ended up doing here in our house is rearranging the whole motherfucking thing! So let's see, how do I set this up? Our apartment is not very big. I would guess 900 square feet, maybe a thousand probably nine hundred and there are two bedrooms and a living room in a kitchen so when we moved in we put our bed in the smaaallest bedroom. The smaaallest bedroom! The room was big enough for a queen bed with a foot and a half maybe so basically in the middle of the night, you’re getting up to pee, sort of doing the basketball guarding shuffle drill around the bed….

And the room that should technically be the master bedroom, we will make that a big office.

That's where we're gonna be spinning a lot of time. We'll set up our desks--everything that we need for Kate's work, for my work, for our hobbies, in that room and then there's a walk-in-closet which is awesome, so we'll just put all of the clothes in there….

But with Covid-19 we were both needing to work (and do serious work) at the same time…. Okay, I'll do my call in here. You can do your call on the couch? You're good for that just for this call? Okay, and then we'll switch. And it wasn't bad but it wasn't fun. So we were like what if we change this around? What if we take the walk-in closet, which is small but definitely could be an office. And the bedroom which is a much better office than a bedroom. And make ourselves separate offices. Pull the bed into the room that it was meant for but also make sure our dressers are in that room too and just have clothes and bed in this giant room and prioritize separate offices instead of one big giant office?

It's awesome. It's awesome! I'm happy, I know Kate's happy. She had that room set up in like 20 minutes. When we started moving stuff around she had a vision she knew what was happening in her office and it is set up beautifully. I really love my space as well, but I did the very Janet thing which is... I can't just move in there and figure it out later. I need to kind of move in there how I'm gonna move in there. I don't like big projects or tasks sort of looming over my head. I like to see the landscape, see the gameplan, right? And then execute that. That makes me feel better.  Otherwise, I just obsess about things I shouldn't obsess about.  We talked about me obsessing about things I want to obsess about, but there are things I need not obsess about. So if I can just see it all in front of me, make the plan, make some choices...  When I built my computer I was like, I'm gonna do this, but I needed to focus and get it done.  I can't be like, oh I'm gonna build a computer and then do it three months later. I’d drive myself insane. 

So, this time I was like… I wanna wallpaper the room before I move in there. So I went onl