My inbox has around 1,000 messages in it and this can only mean that I’ve been absent from the internet for a few days. For the past couple of weeks baby and I have been putting off changing the rooms around until after he got some money in to buy his mother a new computer for her birthday. On Wednesday he came into the living room after I’d woken up and asked me if I wanted to start changing things around. He said he’d ordered the computer and now he’s got enough time to take a break and we can get things in order. We were unaware of just how long this was going to take. You don’t realize how much crap is piled up in one little room until you start transferring everything over to another room.
On Tuesday I went to the Salvation Army with Kay because she likes floating around stores like that looking for new and interesting things. While I’m a big fan of getting a deal on things, I’m not a fan of ‘used’ items. For a while now I’ve been eying this desk that I saw in Staples, maybe it was Big Lots not sure I remember. I was putting some money aside knowing that I’m going to be buying it when the rooms were moved (I was setup on a folding table in the office because of the lack of space). While we were at the Salvation Army, however, I came across a LAN desk and my jaw dropped. I’d been looking into a desk like this for the last few years but it’s about $200 no matter where I’d gone. It was $55 at the store and it’s literally in excellent condition. There isn’t a dent or a ding on it. It’s fresh out of the box – NEW.
So when Baby said we were moving the rooms around I jumped at the fact that I had a desk in mind and we needed to go pick it up. We moved all of the crap out of the bedroom and transferred all of the office equipment over and after two days of moving things, hanging shelves and lifting heavy boxes and books – we’re finally done. My desktop is setup on a brand new desk, I bought myself a chair from Staples that’s actually pretty comfortable and the cool thing about this desk is the fact that Bella has more than enough room to hang out on it and she’s not even close to being in my way. It’s also large enough for future purchases. I’m going to be purchasing a second monitor because when I’m using Adobe, windows that I need to use regularly kind of get in the way. I’m also going to be buying my iMac in the near future as well.
Baby setup my monitor on his desktop because I noticed that certain fonts weren’t showing up that well for me. Considering I know that every other computer I’ve used with those fonts seems to work well – I wanted to assume it was the graphics card. Quick trial and error proved me right and now I’m going to have to dip into funds for a graphics card as well. I’m going to need about $2,000 for everything – shouldn’t be too hard to get considering I’ve got clients pending and about $500 in posts coming to me as well.
For now I have some work to do. I really should get my ass in gear on some laundry. I’m probably going to have some pictures of the new setup later on. It’s really the office setup I’ve always wanted, we just couldn’t accomplish it in the other room considering how small it is. The new bedroom (old office) works much better now. I finally have my own closet and the only thing in there at this point is the television, bella’s toys and our bed. It flows much nicer too.
Okay, now I’m really going to get my ass in gear. So there’s the update that two people emailed me about. I’m not one to apologize because I haven’t posted – I kind of find that pathetic – but it’s strange that people really do stop by 3+ times a day knowing that I update regularly. If I disappointed you, sorry but there’s a life off line that’s far more important.