Day 142 - Office papers from my old career

I went through a couple drawers in the tall filing cabinet today and found today's assortment. These are

1. Articles related to accounting and family business succession planning - the career I was headed toward when DH started sniffing around.
2. A couple years worth of work performance reviews from the accounting firm where I worked. It was really interesting to reread those and reflect on that time of my life.
3. Paperwork related to a bridesmaid dress I had to return, then dispute the charges for when the company wouldn't refun my money. It's the one time I've had to dispute a charge on my credit card and I was saving it for reference. But should it come up again, I'm sure I can figure it out without these 9 year old documents.
4. Receipts and notes related to mystery shopping that we participated in 4 years ago. The company said to save all our notes so I was diligently doing so. I guess if they haven't asked a question in 4 years I don't need these anymore . . .

Katie

Day 141 - Kid Misc.

This is an assortment of kid toys that have collected in the corner.

1. art project 'doll'
2. furniture for this dollhouse
3. chipmunk McDonalds toy
4. dress from this magnet doll set - found in the car
5. shoes from this magnet doll set - found in the car
6. ice cream shaped necklace with colored sand - a mess waiting to happen
7 to 10. plastic food items from the kids' play kitchen that is cracked and broken
11. infant key chain
12. pipe cleaner piece form a build-a-bug craft project/book
13. 6" tiger ruler
14. broken carrot from kids' kitchen
15. blue thing DH informs me is from a McDonalds My Little Pony toy
16 & 17. bracelets
18. horse toy that doesn't stand up on its own. Just frustrating every time we try to play with it.
19. a press-on nail - found in the car
20. a Toy Story cardboard disc from something or other
21. a Littlest Pet Shop sticker dispenser that results in way more fighting than fun
22. a 'boa' for little Barbie figurine - I get tired of this piece floating around
23. a magnet from this Belle toy
24. a dinosaur from the dentist
25. a spoon from the kid kitchen
26. a sled ornament in the top right corner I missed. I painted this one with the kids at Christmas and have zero need to keep it.

Day 140 - Office Glitter Pens

Here's the first post from the office. I started with the kids' craft area because I really just want to get it out of that room.

This is an assortment of glitter pens and lids that were all hanging around. Most of these are empty or nearly so. I have no idea where all the lids came from.

Katie

Day 139 - Movies

We've been enjoying 'goodbye viewings' of many of these movies, recognizing it's unlikely we'll ever watch them again so why keep them? I am also happy to send off 2 Barney tapes, even though my kids were slightly distraught to spot them in the pileup on the kitchen counter. A few are just boring, a few are 'girl' movies that I don't really like because of bedroom stuff or swearing. Two in Spanish I'm giving to a friend whose kids go to a Spanish immersion school.

1. Romeo & Juliet
2. Best of Saturday Night Live 1975
3. Rob Roy T
4. Joe Dirt
5. The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
6. Taped movies: League of Their Own, Total Recall, Die Hard 2
7. How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days
8. Shakespeare in Love
9. The One
10. Dude, Where's My Car?
11. Stargate
12. Good Will Hunting
13. Young Guns
14. Spies Like Us
15. Amazing Panda Adventure
16. Love Comes Softly
17. Love's Enduring Promise
18. Love's Long Journey
19. Los Aristogatos (Spanish)
20. The Thief and the Cobbler
21. The Moon-Spinner
22. Barney's Great Adventure - the Movie
23. Barney What a World We Share
24. The Nuttiest Nutcracker
25. Los Muppets en el Espacio (Spanish)
26. Legend of the Desert Bigfoot

Katie

Friday Narrative - Office Horror in Pictures

Oh friends,

Our office is in such terrible shape! I've been using my laptop in the kitchen for months because it's so hard to get work done in the office. Well this week DH brought his laptop out, too. The hurricane of papers, kid craft stuff, homeschool stuff, and office offal is really overwhelming. Warning! The images that follow are extremely embarrasing to my psyche. They're probably fine for you . . .

This is to the immediate right as you enter the door. Our printer is on its box on the floor because we didn't have desk space for it/didn't bother to move the old printer. The bookshelf in the corner was intended for office supplies & software but it's just a catch-all now.

On the right wall is our collapsible, six foot table we're using as a desk with no drawers or shelves to stash the junk. That's DH's old dinosaur computer he can't part with because of college software on it. That's my old laptop, too, a hand-me-down from a friend when ours was stolen back in 2008. Finally, in the far corner. A tall file cabinet and a short file cabinet.

This is the wall opposite the door. Basically the kid craft area. I want to remove this from the office because naughty child things keep happening to my paperwork. On top of the table is a box of gardening gear for growing seedlings. This room gets very hot on warm days and it's the perfect place for plants.

On the left wall we have the bookshelves. Books, books in front of books, alphabet boxes for homeschool, random videos, 'collectible' stuff I'm supposed to sell on ebay in a box on the floor, and a box of stuff that came out of our car when we sold it back in November.

Finally the corner to the left of the door. These drawers are filled with tons of homeschool gear, office supplies, and one each for sporting gear and winter gear.


There will be much leaving this room, but I think lots will be paperwork. I'm hoping not to bore you with office posts, so I'll try to alternate with other stuff as I progress.

Katie

p.s. My further delay was due to a final tax return that just wouldn't die. My spare time went to that instead of blogging.

Day 138 - Miscellaneous Household

1. Dry erase board
2 & 3. Kid belts that are more trouble than they're worth at potty time
4. Bathroom toy for this dollhouse
5-7. Fake flowers
8. Wooden spoon that's splitting
9. Bag clip that's nearly broken
10. Travel game board
11. Basket
12-14. packages of medical tape from c-sections so at least 19 months old . . .
15. Manual for Kodak Advantix camera
16. Hair clip
17. Silly ring
18. Hair band with elastic broken inside
19 & 20. Colored pencils
21. bag clip with loose spring
22. wallet from a gift exchange
23 & 24. Pieces of a mega blocks set we don't have anymore
25 & 26. beaters from a burned out hand mixer

Katie

Where Have I Been?

Good Morning, Dear Readers!

I have been absent over a week and thought I should offer an explanation to the very few of you who read. I've been busy visiting my parents, preparing a few tax returns (my former career), refinancing our house, and parenting 4 littles. Sometimes life gets in the way of blogging - Darn! - but I have to keep my priorities in order: God, DH, DDs, Homeschool, Household business, THEN blogging. Don't feel bad that you're so far down the list. After you there's yardwork, folding laundry, most of the non-daily housework, and my other blog, www.aresourcefulhome.com, that I miss dreadfully!

I'm hoping to get back to posting later today and will likely be doing double posts for a few days out of guilt for being disloyal to The Project.

Thanks for reading.

Katie