1. My new corner desk, second-hand from Craigslist! It fits in beautifully. My other desk now serves for research and writing longhand, stretching out to my right. The room looks lovely and big. My monitor is now more than fourteen inches away from my eyes. I am very, very happy. I have stacks and stacks of books to relocate, because we took out the tower bookcase that was to the left of my desk, but half of its contents are already neatly ranged on shelves in my closet.
2. HRH, who not only went to get the desk but put it together and helped me rearrange things in the office. He even sat patiently with me as I thought about which wires to fish through where under the desks, and disconnected and reconnected the subwoofer three times for me.
3. The phone call that came about two hours ago, telling HRH that he had a full-time permanent job as the Creative Arts Tech at the college. (Yes, yes! We are over the moon!)
4. Going to the blood clinic all by myself this morning, not stressing for the hour I waited (read a third of eBear’s Dust, though, which certainly contributed to the all-round positive experience), and not passing out when they took six of the large vials of blood. In fact, I didn’t even feel dizzy afterwards. The technician was wonderful; I barely felt the needle slip into the vein.
5. The warm fog that has been around all day. I wore my polar fleece jacket out this morning, and drove home from the hospital with my window rolled down and Handel’s Water Music on at a decently high volume. We had windows open in the house today, too.
You darn kids, driving around with your windows down and the music turned up!
(Also, woohoo again about the job. And the new desk.)
Hey, if I have to be obnoxious, at least I can be obnoxious and educate the public about classical music at the same time, right?
It’s almost silly how good a new-to-me desk makes me feel! I’m hoping the setup helps with the back and hip problems that have been dogging me. It already feels good, with my feet on the lower shelf and the drop keyboard shelf, with my mouse on a different surface altogether.
Gah. I keep forgetting about the footrest for under your desk. Can we meet for lunch this week?
Congrats to HRH that’s AWESOME!
Congratulations on not stressing about the blood test! It gets so bad sometimes that I’ve just taken to telling blood work people to go in through my hands because it saves time and nausea.
HANDS!? Gods, kill me now.
Usually I warn the technicians that I have low blood pressure and don’t want to pass out when they start taking blood. I didn’t have that problem when I was pregnant because blood volume goes sky-high, which was a nice thing to discover when I went for the multiple blood tests they do. Apparently I no longer have lowish blood pressure, because even after the amount they yesterday took I wasn’t at all dizzy. I’ll have to ask the doctor when I go for my follow-up appointment.
Thats wonderful!!!!
Ah, there you are…* and with great news! Give our congrats to Ron, that’s terrific.
And there’s nothing like a new outlook to your office for a new year… I have a feeling 2008 is going to be a much finer year than 2007!
*I guess I missed the menu about LJ feed issues…I am going to be downloading wordpress this weekend to start up a new blog. eek! I hope it goes okay!
Yes, I put a note about it on my Owldaughter LJ, which never gets used except for emergency announcements like this one! It’s no wonder it slipped under your radar.
WordPress is wonderful and you will love it; it’s good to have control over what you write and where you put it. The only reason I’ve had problems is because I didn’t do the previous upgrades and there was a major alteration somewhere along the way in code, which I didn’t keep up with. In part, this is my fault, because the technical changes I should have implemented a while ago didn’t get done, which messed up this upgrade. Mea culpa.