Forewarning: This blog may revolve around office-related subjects due to the fact that I'm never on the computer while at home. I like to keep my Internet addiction within the confines of my 8 hour work day. I have begun to see that surfing the net has it's pros and cons. Pro: helps delay the onset of Alzheimer's. Con: Leads to ADD-like behavior in social situations. Want to read more? See the attached link. Hence, the time I have allotted to myself for my sick Internet addiction is during work, and that is because I have come to terms with the fact that I will have to have some kind of stimulus to break up the monotony of daily office life. Some may say that I should probably be working rather than blogging - and they would be correct. But, if I weren't blogging, I would be surfing facebook or amazon.com reading self-help book reviews. (I know my penchant for inspirational books is supposed to be an embarrassing secret- but in the words of the "Cocktail Hour Ladies" on NPR: "I'mma just do me!!")
Back to the fact that my office super clean... my G.M. came in the other day and proclaimed that I have the nicest office in the building. This statement may actually be true: It's bigger than some bedrooms. It has a total of 6 windows that look out onto a tropical garden with a giant grandfather orange tree and a natural wood gazebo. My desk looks like something out of star trek... freaking huge. When I first started working here, my boss K walked in and said :"Please put up some decorations.... the space is oppressive without some kitsch!" She promptly went to Germany and has been bringing me back souvenirs for which I am grateful due to the fact that they help fill up the shelves. (Germany's souvenir was a Steiff Cat!) My favey fave gift is a threesome of dancing kokopellis brought back from AZ. They sit on the window closest to me and seem to dance in the grass outside promising the joy of sunshine and the weekend ahead filled with friends, music,and dancing!
In addition to awesome kitsch, my boss also likes to store product in my office. First of all, let me explain that I work at an all-natural Personal Care company and we formulate all of our products here. One of the steps in the process of creating a product is to see how the formulation reacts to packaging. Our products tend to make bottles panel (sink in) because the ingredients we use are alive, organic, and active! Kind of cool... guess I could call my office a lab!
Anyway, last week I realized that the build up of product and paperwork sort of snuck up on me. When the G.M. said I have the nicest office in the building, it made me look around and think of how wonderfully I could decorate the place to be super pretty and homey. I then cleaned up every piece of clutter, threw out old stuff, and stored relevant product out of sight. Added a lamp (Eiffel tower!!), two plants, and pictures. One of the plants is an African Violet, and the other is a pot of moss that grew after it's predecessor died and left prime soil for weeds to grow in. (Some people say "weeds", I say "plant that will refuse to die,"... essentially, the perfect office plant.
So this blog will probably be incredibly mundane considering I literally just wrote in-depth about office kitsch. Apparently my adult life lies somewhere in between Martha Stewart and American Psycho... great.
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