My Work Office

Just thought I would share… here is what my “office” looks like.  I don’t have any closed doorway so it isn’t really an office, more of a reception area.  People like to call it the fish bowl because it’s right in the middle of the office where I can watch everything that is going on, and they can see me too.  My official title is Office Manager (aka: everything no one else wants to do).

My office

My desk isn’t always this clean, but it was slow towards the end of the day today… hence the time to take pictures.  Notice how I brought both a sweater and a heavier jacket to work today.  The factory employees make fun of me for dressing that way when the feels like temperature is 104° outside.  They’re out there sweating and I’m bundled up. However, I’m lucky if the office temperature reaches the mid-seventies, which is too cold when I’m just sitting here!Office window

My desk has been rearranged to several layouts since I’ve been working here.  Even though I’m kinda in the corner, I think this one is the best option.  I like that I can be lazy and roll my chair over to the copy machine. It gives me the most free desk space, and… I can see out the window!  I can peek right over the top of my monitor to see the outside world.  I like to see when visitors pull up and know that the sun is still shining. The back part of my desk has to stay this organized! I can always tell when other people have been using my stuff. I just can’t help my OCD, it’s genetic.

My desk

What about you? What does your office/work space look like? Share a link to your space!

Just Our Luck

Dead car

Just what we needed today, right? This is what happened when we stopped for gas this morning. Luckily there was a couple willing to help us as soon as they finished filling their gas. And they even had jumper cables, because I had never put ours in my new car. Then we headed over to the auto store to find out which part was dead. The good news was that all we needed to do was get a new battery, so it could have been worse. Just another hundred bucks out the door.

Since we had now missed church we decided to go ahead and do our Sams shopping. They, of course, were out of the one thing we really needed. Then when we finished shopping, we got all the way to our next stop before realizing that we had left stuff in the cart. So, I got out to do our next errand while Jesse drove back to retrieve our forgotten item. I’m not sure if we should leave the house anymore today… what else will go wrong?

Just one of those days!!

Sleepy Mind Games

SleepingWhy is it that I can never sleep in on a Saturday??

Every week day the alarm goes off at 5 am.  I’m always so tired that I just hit snooze and go right back to sleep until I am rudely awakened 7 minutes later.  This week, with the new allergy medicine making me so tired, I did this sometimes several times per day.  Finally I would force myself to get up, go downstairs, and get on the computer until my brain was alive enough to make myself toast for breakfast.  So, I was really looking forward to today for catching up on some much needed sleep.

However, today I was wide awake at 4:50!  NO!!  I stayed in bed for quite a while telling myself “Go back to sleep, go back to sleep.”  No luck.  I was up baking muffins for breakfast and making plans for the day.  If only my mind would work with me instead of against me.