Last weekend, I went to a three-day scrapbooking retreat with Lynn, the managing editor of The Mailbox magazine Kindergarten edition. Around six years ago, we discovered that we were both into paper crafts. Ever since, we’ve been piling ridiculous amounts of crafting stuff in either her car or my car and going to various scrapbooking crops in the area. (I can’t even describe to you how many bins of craft paper we have. There should be a 12-step program for hoarding craft paper.) While we craft, we usually talk a little bit about work, but mostly we discuss random things like which type of glue works best or whether the chocolate-covered items in our trail mix are actually raisins or cherries. I usually get paint all over my hands. Lynn usually gets teary-eyed over photos of her family. And when we see each other at work, we often rehash our last crafting trip or discuss the upcoming one. We have a very good system. It’s comforting, therapeutic, and oodles of fun!
Do you hang out with your coworkers? If you do, do you talk about work or other things? Or do you find that socializing with your coworkers doesn’t give you that time you need away from work?
I have always made friends at work so many of them I no longer work with but they are ahuge part of my life still.
The co-worker/friends that I hang out with have this pact that we cannot have “work talk”, and we laugh when half way through the night we are engrossed in “work talk”. It’s all good though because we start out catching up on family first.