My Life is a Mess - At the Office

Remember my "before" pictures?

In a great cloud of fumes, the old green felt squares were removed from the floor, and nice new tan rolled carpet was installed. I had to totally empty my office. Lots of things got shipped out. Lots of paper got recycled. Dishes went home. And there was much reassessment of what I needed to have and what I didn't.

This is what was left of what I needed. It was plopped back into my office with little ceremony as the carpeters moved on to the next room on the list. It was up to me to sort it all back out and put it all away. I'd gotten rid of the very large long shelf unit and inherited a tall bookshelf. That cut my storage space way down - but then I don't need as much as before either.

Mostly put back together. My book case is filled. I have a mostly empty desk on which to deposit my take-home bag, hole-punches and various other things. I can actually get to my printer. My main desk is fairly clear of debris, pencils and pens and rulers and scissors in an actual pencil holder. I still need to hang my picture up and put that box of tapes away in the library, but essentially, I'm done.

I took out that little metal table and am making my file cabinet do double duty as a tv stand. I got rid of THREE office chairs. I still have my wooden chair (fondly referred to by the rest of the station as the "electric chair", and a real office chair still in a box that I need to build.

My office is spacious and comfortable, and much more visitor friendly. Usually those two doors are both standing open and people use my office as a pass through. It's how I get to see everyone.

I also replaced my lightbulbs with energy efficient bulbs. They're the daylight kind, which actually doesn't really work in my room - it makes it appear that my office is an aquarium. It's not too bad when the overheads are on though. I think the two different kinds of light balance out. But my boss wants me to get some red-corrected bulbs. He doesn't care for the aquarium look...

There is so much more to do!!! My life is a mess in the pantry, in the kitchen cabinets, in the junk closet and in the garage! But I think I'm going to take a week off and recover from birthday parties, carpeting and various other endeavors. Tune in next week for the next MY LIFE IS A MESS challenge!