Anyway, I think this is a wonderful idea
. For those of you that don't have children, or you men that do and your wife takes after them.......you don't have a clue as to how difficult is. If you never worked at home, by yourself, with little ones running around - really you would never know! My house is a constant mess, and gets torn up just as fast as I pick it up. Just because you are home all day does NOT mean the house should be spotless. Think about it this way: if you are working a full time job outside the house, what would happen if your kids were home all day by themselves ? And I'm talking little kids, not even ones that can pick up after themselves or get brainwashed by a video game. Your house would be completely trashed right? Well that's exactly what happens here, every day. Sure I catch MOST of the major messes in progress - such as a kid in the fridge about to dump eggs on the floor or in the bathroom flushing some important item, or in the living room with a smuggled glass of water dumping it on the TV (I'm on my second TV, VCR, and Dish receiver since my son turned 3 a few months ago).
Alright enough complaining.......but seriously.......HOW do you keep up with the kiddos while you work as well?
You simple CAN'T! Accept your house being scattered with toys for the next 10-15 years, but just take a few minutes each day to pick up and vaccum or do a load of laundry, or do the dishes.
Personally I tend to let a lot of it sit until Thursday when I listen to the Mary Goulet show while cleaning my entire downstairs. First I pick up all the toys in the living room, then I run the vaccum durring the commercials, then I start picking up the front room/dining room (also where the computer is), pick up Jillian's mat under her high chair and clean it up, vaccum again, then move to the kitchen. I have a similar routine on Sundays where I try my hardest to not even turn the computer on before I get at least some housework done.
Twice a week I manage to pry myself from the computer and get a whole lot done in a short amount of time. Now if I did 10 minutes of picking up every day that would be almost silly since it would get trashed again the next day (now remember its the same toys getting drug out every day, so really just picking them up twice a week to vaccum is makes more sense!)
Now one of my biggest problems is laundry. It's not a problem getting it done, but it is a problem getting it put away. Seriously we live out of the laundry room. My clothes haven't hung in the closet for months! My main problem is the bedrooms are upstairs, where I can't take the baby. My room has too much for her to get into, but I can't clean it because I can't take her up there! Also, I can't put away my clothes when she is alseep because we only have a 2 bedroom house so her crib is in my room. I suppose I really should be doing it when she takes naps, but I always feel like I should be getting computer work done instead. Since she takes 2 naps a day, maybe I should be putting away clothes durring one nap and working durring the next? Heck I work all day anyway, I should be taking more breaks
Ok there I go rambling again.....and just think my laundry could have been put away by now if I hadn't been blabbering LOL (no just kidding - Jillian is asleep!)
I either sleep 10-4 or 12/1-5/6 ~ whatever I can manage. I'd like to get on a more "regular" schedule, but I also like having the liberty of sleeping and working whenever I want! 
- 2-3 hours to "get in my groove" minimum LOL. But during that time I can do mindless tasks such as sorting email, confirming this or that, resizing images, etc etc etc.
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). Exciting news, sure I'd love to hear about it! But to call or IM someone and talk about what you plan to do for the day - EVERY DAY - down to what you are cooking and who is comming for the weekend....please spare us! I don't have time for that kind of thing, and it's annoying when you are in the middle of something. That's why message boards and chat rooms were created 
