Old habits die hard

Not having a job one would think that I would have a spotless, totally organized office space. After all I have the time to keep it clean. Cleaning my office would make a great procrastination idea instead of sending one more resume to the dark hole of some web site.

No instead my office looks a lot like it did when I was working. But instead of whitepapers, presentations or emails I have print outs of job descriptions, articles on job searching, social networking white papers and the like.

The first habit to die hard is that of me having a messy office. I still have it. I don't see it going away any day soon. The hardest part of this habit was that the main home computer was also in my office. Susan HATES using the computer in my office.First because of the stacks of papers and stuff but also because she things I have trained the computer to only work properly for me.

Yes I do periodically clear off the top of the desk and get well deserved brownie points for making the office a place where Susan doesn't go into junk overload and just start tossing things out and occasionally I will come home and Susan will have organized things for me. But eventually, despite my best intentions, it does end up a mess within a few days.

Now for the second habit that dies hard. My wife not accepting that I will always have a messy office and that it doesn't bother me. Try as she might she just can't make me keep my office clean for more than a few days. She keeps trying and having hope that someday I will learn the ways of the force of clean. Just like Darth Vader I may not come around until its too late.

The final habit that won't die is that of my wanting to make my wife happy. The way we have come to get around our conflicting habits is that we broke down and bought Susan a laptop. This way she doesn't have to come back into the pit and get frustrated with me and I can have the office computer to my self. She still thinks that I have corrupted her laptop to only obey me but that is another topic.

So today I am glad for old habits and not all of them dying.