Friday Narrative - On Tuesday! Office Work

I was chatting with a friend at church Sunday.  She is very ill and has been receiving meals from lots of us at church to ease her burden  of cooking for her family.  I was asking her if she needed help with anything else, like cleaning or yard work.  She explained, with a little embarrassment, that they had had a water issue 5 years ago and they mess from that still hadn't been cleaned up.  She didn't want anyone to really see it or try to clean around it. 

I understood immediately.  We had our own water difficulties 3 and a half years ago.  We also are still cleaning up the mess.  The mess isn't water-logged belongings or wet carpet.  It isn't an unfinished construction job from pipe repairs.  It's simply the piles and boxes that were hastily packed and stashed far from the reach of water. 

For us, those boxes were almost all from our office.  It was in the daylight basement and the water was coming into that room directly.  We set up a makeshift office in our formal dining room on the main floor.  Our computers were temporarily set up on a 6 foot folding table and we decided we like having the office upstairs so near the main living space.  Three and a half years later we finally have moved our desks into the office and the folding table is back in the garage. 

We got rid of the legal filing cabinet at the garage sales and kept the standard-size.  Here is what the office looked like after we moved the desks in.



Right Wall: His & Hers desks and filing cabinet

Opposite Door: Bulletin board and thre boxes of files from legal-size cabinet

Left Wall: Bookshelves in front of the bookshelves, several piles of papers and office supplies

I have been sorting so many papers this week!  That's why there've been so many paper posts.  I am going through all the legal size files and transferring them to standard size, throwing out what I don't need to keep.  I'm nearly done with the files and am getting ready to move on to the stacks.  The stacks have been waiting until the file cabinets were sorted out so I can file as necessary.  I'm really looking forward to getting the office supplies organized, too.  I am weirdly in love with office supplies. 

It'll likely be another week of office posts before I shift my attention back to the basement.  After our water problem got sorted out we elected to not "move back in" and instead started a very slow renovation.  My brother is coming to work on the remodel a little more in a couple of weeks and I have to get more junk out of the basement before then.  He's going to demo the "ebay closet" under the stairs and cut some concrete which will make a ton of dust.  I want to get as much out as I can so I don't have to clean up the dust later.

Katie