Day 10 - Complete

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O.K., so I know this isn’t an art project, but it was very necessary to get this project finished so that I could continue in my finishing my goals.

In one of the posts that got lost in my transition, I had talked about the depressing state of my office.  I know it isn’t anything fancy or anything, but I am so very proud of how it looks now.  If a person could imagine 4 years of paperwork, bills, receipts, magazines, etc. lying around in piles and boxes all over this entire room, they would understand how difficult it would be to do any actual work in the space.

I spent a few days last week boxing up all the small items in there which included pens, pencils, tools, etc. just to clear things out so I could move some more furniture in there.  My husband was using a smaller desk and wanted more space to work on, so when the business where I was working closed down, they sold a bunch of office furniture.  I purchased a large wooden desk with lots of drawer space and some large filing cabinets at a discount.  That furniture had been dumped into our entry way and waited for me to tackle this room.  Last week I finally got all the furniture arranged in there.

Today, I got out of bed, got ready for work, and began the process of organizing, filing, and putting things conveniently located for us.  Four years worth of paperwork is now in a folder in the file cabinet.  The books are neatly arranged in a bookshelf.  The closet is neat and organized with shelves containing supplies and hidden with a curtain. 

I still have to label the file cabinet drawers so anyone can, at a glance, see what is in each drawer, but, oh man, how nice it is now!

I can now find any book I am interested in finding and they are organized according to their purpose.  I have DIY books galore along with computer repair, website design, computer graphic books on a shelf all their own now.

My husband is a firefighter/emt and works at the 911 center here so he also has a lot of books that he needs to have access to, so now they are all on their own shelf.

Then, of course, there are the books collected through the years that we each have found an interest in.  They also have a dedicated shelf.

It is so nice because I also now have an actual tray unit to put important things in.  Right now, it is on top of the filing cabinets but I think it might have to be moved somewhere lower because those cabinets are almost as tall as me and I am 5′ 7″!

This is George’s (my husband) desk and file cabinet (my old desk), and the  shelf you see to the left of the file cabinet is our old entertainment center I moved in there to hold our small stereo.  We like to listen to music when we are in the office together a lot of times and we really didn’t have anywhere else to put the center other than in there, so it seemed to be the perfect solution.

I still have tons of certificates to hang, but at least I have a start on it.

Oh, and that is our baby, Gato who decided when she saw me pulling the tripod with the camera out it was her time to shine.  She likes to be right in the middle of any activity I am in so I have had a lot of help from her and our other adopted baby.

Well, I am tired, but a good kind of tired.  The kind you feel when you procrastinate tackling something you really dread doing but when you get it all finished you feel this pride because you can actually see what you did.  BTW, I know my little ticker says “Scrapbooking Ticker” but they don’t have one for art…maybe they will take a hint!