Office Completion

I do believe that I can say my office is finished - apart from a piece of artwork my daughter did last year in her art class, which we are going to frame and hang. And so this post is the unveiling!

Remember this? This is how it looked for the first month:

I've added curtains, which makes it feel cozy, and I was waiting for a filing cabinet and thinking of maybe getting a matching bookshelf, too. So I ordered the filing cabinet - - and it got lost by the local UPS office!!! So I had to re-order and wait yet again!

Yesterday, my matching lateral filing cabinet finally made it to my door, so we've constructed it and have it all set up now. Also, having a hubby who renovates will often garner you nice perks - like a four-door, metal lateral filing cabinet that was a cast-off from an office renovation, but still in amazingly good condition! I have filing out the wazoo, I tell you! My office now looks settled!

Here it is, folks!


All those books from the cheap old pine bookshelf went into the top two filing areas of the grey cabinet. The very bottom drawer (which you can't see in the pic) holds our construction company's estimate files, and I have space for spare paper reams, extra hanging folders, etc., in the third drawer down.

The cabinet with the printer on it holds all of my personal files, which are looking so pretty with the FreedomFiler labels, I must say. In fact, I must show you!

Top drawer: (current files that I use almost every day)


And bottom drawer: (Resource files in purple, and Odd Year files for monthly and taxes, with tax archives in the back)


My tickler file is in the desk filing drawer, which I did not take a picture of, but it's just days of the month, essentially. LOL

I'm a very happy camper tonight. :D

Still FLYing

I was so proud of myself yesterday! The kids are back to school, but it was only a half day. I dropped them off, came home, and attacked my Zone work, Daily Home Blessing (I don't do a weekly, I break it up), and I even did a bit more on top - like decluttering a "cubby" in our mudroom for my scarves, mitts, earmuffs, that kind of thing. I've been meaning to do this for some months, so I'm happy to have it done before it gets too cold again. ;-)

For my Zone work, I vacuumed off the dust from our dining room light/fan fixture, vacuumed the crumbs out of the chairs and gave them a quick wipe-down, straightened the shoes in the mudroom then cleared the floor by putting away the balls and what-not that had been left out, and ignored the front porch because it was raining - and who can sweep when it's raining? LOL

My Daily Home Blessing was to vacuum the entire upstairs. I decided to time myself, so I set my stopwatch and went for it. 16 minutes later, the top floor was DONE, including the top half of the stairway!

I also got quite a bit more done at my desk, and then when I brought the kids home, I read through all their papers, added some things to my afternoon routine (reading with my Grade 2 son and practicing his spelling words), and either ditched or filed the papers properly. I worked on my new business, took some training, and made dinner.

Gosh, this is feeling good. :D

My wonderful hubby came home with a large, four-door filing cabinet which was reclaimed from an office renovation he's currently working on. Wow! Free Filing! That is cool. So I've put my books into the top two sections, like a bookshelf I can shut (Yay!) and my filing in the bottom. I'd take a picture, but I'm out of camera batteries. Go figure. I'll post something when I get batteries.... *puts AA batteries on running grocery list*

Anyway, I'm still going to keep the filing cabinet I've ordered from Costco (that goes with my desk), because being as I'm using two parts of this one for books and paper storage, I think I'll need the room to expand in the future. I have two companies now, and they'll both need filing space. Then I have a nicer place for my printer, too. And we all know how important that is... *rolls eyes*

A side note on the filing system: I was just on the phone with an ING Direct rep, getting an application for a mortgage started as we're wanting to lock in at some good interest rates. I had a lot of info pulled before I got on the phone, but when he needed things like legal description of our lot, etc., I could just run to the right place in my filing cabinet and pull it up in seconds! I'm very thrilled! Not that I had a totally horrible time looking things up before, but I knew everything I had was recent and in the right spot because of my latest filing ventures, and that felt soooo good. :D

Today I get to Swiffer the floors upstairs - that actually sounds like fun! LOL It's sunny, so later when the dew dries up, I'll get out to that porch and give it a good sweep and shake the mats, and put the cover back on the BBQ for the fall as I rather doubt I'll be cooking on that again this season. Then I'm "off to work" on my business!