Yes, I finally brought my work computer home yesterday!  Up until now I’ve been working on-site at the hospital, training, and waiting on the hospital IT staff to get it built.  Well, it’s done!  I brought it home yesterday.  Then today I spent some time cleaning up the office and setting everything up. The office has had all its final touches and it’s ready for use!

Now that’s a bunch of computer stuff.  I’ve tried to make the office as nice as I can, even with all the cords and power strips and monitors.  There’s only so much you can do to make a computer look shabby chic. 

One of the things I’ve been wanting to get yet is a small memo board for little reminders for appointments, etc.  I’ve been on the lookout for one at the thrift store that I could buy for nearly nothing, bring home and fix up.  I found it today.

See the memo board sitting on top of the cabinet?  Note all the dings in the cabinet as well.  I like to think of it as “authentically distressed.”  So I paid only 2 dollars for the memo board, but it started out looking like this:

No, I don’t want lipstick and mascara tubes on any fabric in this office, thank you.  So I took out the hot glue gun and some pretty blue fabric that’s covered in — what’s the theme again? — roses!!

I am such a new hot-glue-gun-convert.  I never had one until last month!  How did I miss out for so long?  Anyway, after stretching the fabric across and gluing it securely around the back, I criss-crossed some blue ribbons over the front for holding little memos and glued them into place at the tops and backs.

I glued cute little buttons over where the old ones were.  The board works great and holds the little things I need it to.

I’ve spent time today going through paperwork and just thinking of how I’ll work out my cleaning schedule, menu planning, and homeschool lesson planning.  The cleaning schedule will have to change.  I don’t want to have to clean on my work days, except to wipe down the bathrooms.  I am also working on a way of journaling or notebooking many things into one place — menus, schedules, diary.  It’s in a trial stage and I’ll post some about it later.

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”  ~Helen Keller

Lynn

“When doubts and fears are growing,
It’s hard to keep on going
From day to day not knowing
Just what the end will be.
Take each day as you find it,
If things go wrong, don’t mind it,
For each day leaves behind it
A chance to start anew.”
~Gertrude Ellgas

Some of today’s joys…

A garden to tend.

The little things, at ground level.

The first blooms on the scarlet sage.

Fresh flowers for my office.

Healthy rue (yellow blooms) which will bring scores of butterflies, bees, and wasps to my garden.

A cute little vegetable garden.

Lynn