Im sure she understands and knows you are there for her when the time comes. If you were in a Studio all day you wouldnt be looking after her, but you'd be checking in for sure, but as I said you got work to do and she will understand that.
Absolutely not. She's way too accustomed to me doing everything around here, and if I don't make her something to eat, for example, it will be a few hours till she gets off her ass and does it... I'm having a lot of trouble trying to get her to realise that I'm trying to work (when I actually am) and not just playing all the time.
That post was a bit enlightening though indeed. I got myself a time keeping program thingy (Grindstone 2), it has an egg timer, you can set tasks and time frames for doing them, all that sort of useful stuff. It even bitches at you when you idle for too long 
I'm going to start trying to make it more of a 9-5 grind, rather than what I was planning (pretty much just whenever I feel like working, I'd work). Keeping things Maya related when I take breaks sounds like it might help aswell, keep me in the right frame of mind, as you said. I'll give that a shot aswell.
And Mayaniac, Whenever I see amazing works by others it demotivates me, I get too jealous, and just start thinking that I could never be on that level. I'm a pretty negative person
EDIT: You posted as I was writing this, Nitro.
The stage I'm in right now is a trial period for a company that does cars for simulators, going for a position to work on road cars, and road cars modified for the track. At the moment I'm working on a car that will serve as a way to show what I can do as far as a clean flow, efficient use of polygons, etc. The next one will be all that but on the deadline that the clients would have me working on, which is 16 days. So by the time I finish this I have be ready to shift myself into working on it full time. My goal in the end would be a car a week, as that's what the company's lead car modeler is doing, and it would be a lot better money, obviously, than one every 16 days.
Sorry for all the long-winded-ness, I'm just trying to make it easier to understand
Last edited by Acid44; 30-09-2011 at 10:37 PM.