Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

Elisheba

Speaking as someone who used to have a desk and shelves piled with stuff, and then that changed to a locker full of stuff, and now has no locker or desk and needing to book a space when I go in - you do get used to it.
Work has spent a lot of money scanning things so that makes life easier, and our team do (currently, but not sure how long it will last) have a few allocated shelves for essential books and files. In general though I'm not as bothered as I thought I would be about us not having an office and desks any more. The booking system means we can sit together when we are all in so that helps.

rtandon27

Gorgeous view Cheery!  A lovely way to spend a Friday!

KajiKita

Love the chucks mug in the foreground  

I would recommend a beefy 'pencil case' for staplers, highlighters etc. Saves them all rolling rolling round in your documents bag. Made a huge difference to me when I was in a job where I had to switch between buildings two or three times per week.

KK 

Cheery_Daff

rtandon27 said:

Gorgeous view Cheery!  A lovely way to spend a Friday!

Certainly is! A lovely gentle way to take advantage of the sunshine without doing any exerting or bending over, both of which are still uncomfortable 🙄

KajiKita said:

Love the chucks mug in the foreground  

I would recommend a beefy 'pencil case' for staplers, highlighters etc. Saves them all rolling rolling round in your documents bag. Made a huge difference to me when I was in a job where I had to switch between buildings two or three times per week.

KK 

I have elaborate plans for a set of kind of fold-out walls, which I can prop around any desk, and which I can pin things to 😂 Plus a bag of stationery (and other) supplies 😂 I suspect I'll get quite obsessed with the idea for a while then the novelty will wear off and I'll mostly work at home 😂

rtandon27

Cheery_Daff said:

I have elaborate plans for a set of kind of fold-out walls, which I can prop around any desk, and which I can pin things to 😂 Plus a bag of stationery (and other) supplies 😂 I suspect I'll get quite obsessed with the idea for a while then the novelty will wear off and I'll mostly work at home 😂

Something like this??? 😂

badmemory

It is interesting that all these people keep saying how inefficient it is working from home & then they seem to go out of their way to make it impossible for people to do anything else.  

I have a friend whose employer cut their available desks down from 14 to 6 during covid, then once the worst was over decided that they wanted them back in the office 4 days a week.  When it finally penetrated about the desks they wanted them to work Saturdays & Sundays.  I think the cost of weekend childcare was mentioned before anyone even bothered to mention if the people they would need to speak to would be working weekends too.

Cheery_Daff

rtandon27 said:

Cheery_Daff said:

I have elaborate plans for a set of kind of fold-out walls, which I can prop around any desk, and which I can pin things to 😂 Plus a bag of stationery (and other) supplies 😂 I suspect I'll get quite obsessed with the idea for a while then the novelty will wear off and I'll mostly work at home 😂

Something like this??? 😂

Yes!!! Clearly someone already invented the exact thing I was looking for 😂😂 I'll wait and see what size locker/cupboard I have first, then likely make rather than buy. It's quite likely that desks will already have a short screen round them anyway though, so perhaps something I could hang up to make it seem a bit more homely?! 

Anyway, getting a bit ahead of myself, we've already been delayed by a year so I'm not holding my breath - I might have retired before the darn thing is even built at this rate 😂

Oh dear badmemory! At least nobody is coming at us with stupid 'work at work' policies - I suspect they'd have a mutiny on their hands if they did.

Anyway, I have had a very lazy afternoon, and it's been great 😊 Done absolutely nothing useful at all. About to have a flurry of activity (being washing in, empty compost, make tea etc) then settle in for an equally useless evening 😊

Off to the seaside tomorrow to visit Mr C Snr on his holidays. Looks like the weather is actually pretty decent for this time of year!

Cheery_Daff

Well we had a lovely day, and the weather was excellent 😊 we hadn't realised quite how much Mr C Snr was struggling to walk, so ended up picking him up from hotel, driving round the corner to cafe, one of us jumping out with him, the other heading off to a distant parking space,  then repeat for the next thing. He was alright with a bit of a rest,  but we saved his walking energy for the but that couldn't be driven (the pier!) and drove the boring bits between cafes and amusement arcades 😂 tired now. 

Forgot to say the nice folk are coming to fit the windows on Monday, so we'll need to clear space tomorrow. One full replacement in the music room, so the drum kit etc needs shifting, and for lots of replacing panes - 3 in the living room and one on the landing, so quite a bit of furniture to shift in the living room. 

I'm in the office every day this week, so I want to do some batch prep of meals tomorrow as well,  easy to grab and take,  and also stuff I can just reheat in the evenings. 

Not putting anything else on the list for tomorrow, although there are things I'd like to do - I will resist the urge for once!

Night night...

Cheery_Daff

Afternoon chums 😊

A soggy one here today. We did get out for a supermarket cafe breakfast though, some errands, and then I have spent a happy afternoon listening to my audiobook and sorting out the paperwork, which had got into rather a mess. I want both of us to be able to lay our hands on relevant paperwork for anything, and that would have required a LOT of rummaging. I did have a system, but hadn't kept up properly...

Anyway, all now mostly organised. There's some stuff in an in-tray in my office that I'll save for tomorrow, and I've made a list of things to print - I've realised car insurance, breakdown cover etc all just gets emailed to me so we don't have paper copies. 

Have also ordered a larger concertina file, and a shredder. I've gone back and forth on the shredder since we last talked about it, but having sat in the garden and bundled the last pile of paperwork, it was quite an inconvenient way to get rid of it 😂 Yes, I could bury it, yes I could burn it, but on this occasion I'm going with shredding and composting part of the reason it's got into such a mess is me not filing and chucking regularly so hopefully this will help. 

Also laid final green tile in the kitchen (again) - although I've since realised it would probably benefit from a small triangular one in the corner too, so that's another job for tomorrow.

Of course what we haven't done is the one thing that NEEDS doing - preparing for the windows people! A job for after tea.

Still, feeling good about the paperwork at any rate 😊

badmemory

It is amazing how much stuff comes through the post even when you go paperfree.  Then there is the obligatory blank page, I still haven't figured out why they need this.  I use the backs etc to do my shopping lists.  Why do they have to print personal stuff at the top of every irrelevant page.  Chopped off to go in the next available baked bean tin.  I do however print those shopping lists.  Arthritic handwriting not being of the best & not enjoying once being in a shop & not being able to tell what one item was.  As for filing personal stuff, why does it always feel like it is only a couple of days since you did it but turns out to be at least 2 months.