JENN STARK PHOTOGRAPHERS

There are a few things I absolutely hate about working from home.  Like when the building decides to turn off all the water, and I forget, and I end up with soap all over my hands, staring dumbly as not even a trickle of water comes out of the faucet. The blur between office hours and home-time-hang-out-with-the-hubby hours. The small windows that are too high that I can’t sit and stare out of. The hot days with no air conditioning. Getting distracted by something that needs cleaning. There are some days where I dream about owning a studio – a little top floor space with exposed brick walls, industrial concrete floors, cool retro furniture and huge windows with lots of light just pouring in. I’d have the pot of coffee going and people would come in to meet and just hang out and talk and it’d be oh so much cooler than the Second Cup around the corner. But there are other days where I feel just oh so fortunate to be working from home. I roll out of bed and turn on the computer, whip up a smoothie and do one important thing to get my day started before even having a shower or going for a morning run. I make boiled eggs for my lunch. Take a fifteen minute walk into town to meet up with a friend for coffee. And the thing I love the most is I have the best office companion who keeps me company every single day of the week. Seriously, if I ever do get my top floor, exposed brick office space, I’m bringing her to work with me every single day. I’ll become known as the crazy woman who carries a meowing cat in her oversized purse to work in the mornings… it will be awesome! Honestly though, I don’t know how I could make it through the day without the random meows, the breaks to throw pieces of crumpled paper down the hallways for her to chase and the warm body falling asleep in my lap as I work.

Yes, I am one of those obsessive cat lover people. 100%. But come on. With a face like that, how could you not be?!

Images: 1. When I’m in my office chair, she’s in hers. 2. Bath time in the living room. 3. We gave her a real bath yesterday, with shampoo and everything. She was not too impressed with all the licking she had to do afterwards. 4. Favourite sleeping spot. We’ve had the computer that came in this box for a few months now. 5. Going to find a patch of sun.

- Jenn xx