I've been having a hard time sitting down to write anything here. In fact, I'm contemplating not blogging any more. At minimum, I want to change my url and blog title, but haven't come up with an alternative yet. Until I decide and/or get some inspiration, I'll try and keep hacking away here.
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This whole WFH thing is pretty new to me - my work didn't really support it in the past. This year, however, has proven that most of us can and will work quite well from home, so that has been nice. Cutting out my 45 min each way commute has been one of the few things I'm grateful for during this pandemic.
When we first moved here in 2012, I had my desk upstairs in the spare room (found a pic from 2013 on my old blog) but ended up moving it downstairs due to crappy internet. Note the clutter and the all important orange cat in a box. :-) The bookshelf is also downstairs now with my horse show trophies and a few token books.
Kinda messy, but lots of space to spread out. I could always close the door to hide the mess!
I kind of like having my desk on the main floor now and have taken over part of the living room. I've contemplated moving back upstairs since we have marginally better internet, but being down where I can get to the kitchen easier has its perks now that I'm working from home all the time! LOL
This is the same desk and filing cabinet from the first pic - I've had both for ages and decided to paint both items blue a few years ago to update things a bit. The only catch is that the paint was supposed to be navy, but it came out more blueberry than navy! I keep meaning to repaint both, but haven't got around to it yet. My chair is ancient and the arms fall off from time to time...lol My work chair is the only thing I miss from the office - I have a nice Hermann Miller aeron chair - and I kind of wish I could have brought it home back in March!
Also pictured is my ancient Mac desktop - it is from 2011 or maybe 2010 and is still holding on. I'm nursing it along as long as possible. My work laptop has been dumped on the floor for some reason.
Archie keeping my chair warm...
I usually have a collection of cats around my desk during the day - they come and go on their own schedule, of course. Sophie also likes to sleep on my chair legs (no idea why!) so I have to be careful moving my chair.
I got up for lunch or something and came back to this...lol
I thought I'd show you a close up of my "decor" in this area. The wall is blank - I keep flip flopping on what to put on this big wall. My desk tends to have a rotating display of little trinkets and stuff that amuses me. Currently, I have my "I was normal three cats ago" sign that I did at a paint night last year. I've left it there since it is fairly accurate. ;-)
Also included is a little trinket from my time in the Yukon. Every time I think of how annoying my job is, I look at that little dude and realize I don't work in a mine, so life isn't so bad.
Knick-knacks and DIY crafts
The latest additions are the two little baby Yoda (or the Child(TM)) watercolour prints I did. I bought a big digital pack of Star Wars and Disney images on Etsy, printed a few and then watercoloured the little dude. For some reason watercolour "painting" (I'm not an artist, more of a crafter) is quite relaxing and fun, so I do a few little pieces from time to time.
I cleaned out the drawers of my desk so I can put work away every night and keep my desk a bit tidier. I don't quite have enough room for work stuff and my craft supplies, so I need to work on that a bit at some point.
We have no indication yet of when we will be allowed to go back to the office, so I expect I'll be using this setup for a few more months at least!
