Our Lives

Today is the beginning of the end of a fairly long week. Work has increasingly taken up more time and as more projects pile up, I’m forced to work longer hours to meet the deadlines. The only real adversity is that the people who are assigned to assist me do not seem to be able to do the work in a timely fashion. This leaves me with the task of picking up the slack.  It isn’t much of a problem until they begin to tell you something may only take 15 minutes and in turn it takes 5 hours.  That type of time differential is 1) ridiculous and 2) unacceptable. Most people know very well how long something may take to complete. I don’t mean down to the letter, but within a 30 minute window is acceptable. Having something take 20 times longer than you say it will just kills scheduling ability and forces others to have to work even harder. Such is the way it goes in the corporate environment.

In other news, Veronica and I managed to completely change one of the rooms in our house without spending a dime.  We have always envisioned our front room as an office. Once we moved in however, it became a space that had a desk and also contained “things in transition” be it junk we were getting rid of or things that were going to be placed in different areas of the house, it just began to get cluttered. Monday night came along and we decided to re-arrange the space and bring up an end table from the basement. With a little time and some furniture rotating we were able to achieve a much more homey space as well as a useful office area. The coolest part in our eyes is what we turned our glass wedding card holder into. For our wedding we had an elongated 4″ tall glass vase.  Veronica decided a few weeks ago to put some coffee beans in it. From that point it managed to sit on the kitchen island until it was in the way, then it moved to the bookcase, then back to the island.  Finally, after we had re-arranged the office, she set it on the desk and put some pens in it. Now it’s our modern pencil holder! We think it looks great!

Fancy I know! We like it anyway.

As I write this I am currently waiting for the Orkin man to show up so I may get to work and finish my 2 projects that are breathing down the back of my throat.

Sean