Here I sit, my work week over.  I am still feeling pretty shell shocked over coming back home to work soon.  If you don’t know what I’m talking about tune in to this post.  I mean, when something comes to you — something that you really wanted but didn’t expect, it can just be hard to absorb that it’s yours.  Really yours!  It’s a good shock, not a bad shock.  Is it Martha Stewart who always says it’s a good thing?  Well, it’s a good thing.

Is there any hope?

My poor office.  The picture above is the current state my home office is in.  I know.  It’s really bad.  I like to keep my home nice and neat.  Not only is it easier to find things when everything is in its place, it’s safer!  Yeah.  But this last week has been HeCtIc.  Not only have I worked my regular hours at Whole Foods, I have been back and forth to my new place of employment to take pre-employment drug testing and fill out forms and so on and so forth.  There has been no time to put anything away.  I will not share any pictures of any other rooms in my house right now.  No.  I am only sharing this picture of my office because the office is about to get a re-do and I know you’ll want something to compare to once it’s done.

Hannah over at Cultivating Home shared a great link today.  I cruised over to it and ended up looking for office pictures.  It was most fun!  I want my office to be organized and bright!  I also love vintage, so I want a vintage theme.  Any suggestions or pictures you can offer me?

I am VERY excited about coming home!!  Did I say that three times already? 

For my long hair friends, I wanted to share a couple of pictures of my anime buns.  That’s what I call them anyway.

They’re fun, no?

can keep you from sleeping!  But you probably knew that already. 

Every morning last week I woke up early, thinking about my new job, and I just couldn’t go back to sleep.  By yesterday I was really tired.  I’m working out my notice at Whole Foods, including an 8-hour shift last night, so I took a nap yesterday afternoon before I went into work and then I went to bed as soon as I got home last night, and I think I’m more rested this morning.  I’m still excited, but I did sleep well last night.  What am I getting at here?  I traded in a blog post yesterday for a nap.  I missed you! 

I still can hardly believe that I am coming back home to work.  I’ll be home!  In my old house, with my old aggravating windows that look out over my little garden. 

I’ll be surrounded by my things — collections of buttons and nature findings and stacks and stacks of books.  Home is where my heart has been the whole time, though working at Whole Foods has been a lot of fun.  I met a new friend while there, so I wouldn’t trade the experience even if I could, just because of that.  But it’s time to come home.  I’ll certainly be keeping in touch with my new friend.

I walked outside this morning and took a picture of the purple iris in bloom.  The iris is hubby’s favorite flower.  I would sit out there and do some journal writing this morning, but it’s chilly!  I think I’ll stay in with my green tea and do my reading, writing, and planning inside.  Speaking of planning…

I’ve let us fall off the more fresh veggies and fruits wagon — again.  Sigh.  I think it would be easier if I didn’t work at all, but that’s not the point.  One of the things I must do to make working at home easier is to plan my shopping each month so that I get in one or two trips to Aldi’s and one or two trips to Sam’s Club.  Weekly I’ll make a trip locally to get fresh fruits and vegetables.  We have a farmer’s market close enough for me to ride my bike to it, so I’d like to take advantage of that.  Do any of you feel like you are constantly needing to go to the grocery store??  I know I do.  I have got to get better at planning ahead and even at producing more things right here at home.  I planted some peas last week, but I need to plant more.  The lettuce I planted is doing well, but — again — I need to plant more.  I bought four 4-packs of tomato plants, but we’ll need more, and we need to get them in the ground!  I think a new schedule is in order! 

On an herbal note, I now have 8 rosemary plants sprouting from seed (out of 100).  I felt a bit of despair over this at first, but upon reading about growing rosemary from seed, I found that the germination rate of success is only about 5%.  So I’ve surpassed that already!  I also read that over time more and more of the seeds might sprout.  They are just hard to germinate at home.  I’m not giving up!!  The shasta daisies are also doing well, as are the other things I’ve planted from seed. 

I supposed I’ve rambled enough this morning.  I’ll leave you with a picture of one of the columbines in bloom.

More to come as I think of how to redo my office.

Lynn