Chai

Web_1.11.2012_WFH_Chai

I’ve been working from home a few days a week for the last month or so. At first I missed my daily Starbucks Chai, but it wasn’t long before I got over that and wasn’t missing them at all. For Christmas we got a Keurig machine from Pete’s parents, complete with some Chai Latte k-cups. They’ve replaced my morning tea on days when I work from home, but now I’m starting to miss my Merry Mint Green Tea!

Christmas: Take Two

12.31.2011 Christmas Decor 2

I was at Target this morning to pick up a few things and lucked out with super cute stockings and a mini tree skirt for our Charlie Brown Christmas Tree that match our living room decor….for 70% off! This lead to me redoing all of the Christmas decor in the living room (admittedly, there wasn’t that much to begin with), despite how it’s nearly time to put the Christmas stuff away again. You can see a bit more of our Christmas decor here (start at the bottom).

WFH? TC?

7.9.2011 Working From Home

What’s it called when you are working, but instead of going into the office you’re logged on to the company network externally and at home (or a coffee shop, or a hotel, or wherever)? In my neck of the woods, we always refer to it as “working from home”, aka WFH. In my friend Norm’s neck of the woods, they refer to it as TCing – Telecommuting. I think that’s ridiculous, he thinks WFH is ridiculous….

Anyway, that’s not my point . My point is that we’re launching a new reporting system at work, which needs to be re-tested to ensure that the correct data is pulling as it’s supposed to go live on Monday, and I’ve been WFH this weekend. Luckily not all weekend, just a few hours each day. These are on the wall above the desk in our office. You know, in case we need some motivation to get our work done.

I shamelessly ripped off these awesome prints, because I ran out of office decor budge before I got to artwork. Clearly I need to make up for it by sending you all to buy pretty things from her store, and then by buying the actual prints themselves as soon as my next bonus/promotion rolls around (which will hopefully also lead to me WFH more often).

For kicks…

View from the doorway

I left work early. I was sitting on the couch trying to decide if it was too early to break open the bottle of bubbly in the fridge, when I decided it was finally time to move the furniture in the living room to the arrangement I had been thinking about for a while now. Pete was still at work, and despite Barley’s interest he was not helpful in muscling around the furniture…but I finally got it all moved (perhaps or next media stand will be on casters).

Excuse the smart phone photo – I was really just taking pictures to send a friend and get feedback, I wasn’t really planning on blogging about this…but then I was catching up on the last month and figured why not? There is still some fine tuning to do, but we’re really liking it!

Madness!

3.19.11 March Madness

Yup. We’ve been watching lots of basketball.