Nesting

The person who used to sit at my desk left a lot of shit behind. I spent the first week just working around the cup of mostly dried up pens, the plastic canvas cow box full of business cards and dried up rubber bands, the weird scribbled up post-its, the grubby paperclip cup with only one clip. On my sixth day of work, I threw it all out. Just cleared the deck. It felt so good just to toss it all. It was right up there with putting a picture of my cat on my wallpaper and making my Firefox Persona have blinking Christmas lights. I was making this space my own.

But it wasn't my own. There was a problem.

Check out the layout.

Are you seeing my problem? Anytime one of the other three of them wanted coffee or cocoa or hot water, they were all up in my mug. Invading my space. And here's news: When that Keurig is refilling I can't hear a damn thing and that's when they want to have chit chat about the weather.

The day of the scanner test ended with the scanner getting moved in order to reach an outlet. So then it looked like this:

At first you might not see this as a big deal. Just a juxtaposition of the now fully functional non-magical scanner and the coffee situation. But what I cannot create for you is how the power cord to the coffee maker practically had to go across my lap. Or how over the course of the day the whole coffee area kept creeping closer and closer to me. It was spreading like syrup.

That afternoon after work, I took my kiddos back to the office and loaded up the two ancient monitors, the dusty keyboard and the pile of toner cartridges into my van and took them to the recycling place. My time. My dime. Completely worth it for what was happening next.

The next morning, I set about rearranging the room. Part II helped which made things so much easier. She could have easily just sat there and watched me suffer. No one is ever up in her mug over in her corner.

In short order we had the room rearranged to this:

Notice the wide open area to my right. It's quite heavenly.

I should have filled in the big green circle in the corner is the huge plant. It's happier now too. It has it's own little room right by the window!

My actual desk doesn't have drawers, so I claimed one on the coffee desk. Chuck full of my stuff that I will actually take with me when this job is over.

That's how I roll.