Thankfully, this week, Mother Nature has let off on the sub-zero temps. It's around 30 outside right now. And that feels like a heat wave after the minus degrees we had. We got a crap load of snow yesterday. But it was the heavy snow. Great for snowballs, and not too awful to drive on. 

Last night, I was wandering around my kitchen, making a little snack to go with my shows I was watching in the living room. We have a "baby gate" in the door way of the little sunroom so the dog doesn't eat the cat's food all the time. I leaned over it to toss a cardboard box into the recycling bin and must have hit the gate, which then came down on my toe. OUCH! I hopped around and swore a bunch. My cats sat and watched me from a distance. Must have looked funny. I took some Advil, and attempted to forget about the throbbing going on in my toe. 
It still hurts today. But at least I'm not limping around anymore.
Don't you hate when you do something like that? It just makes you feel clumsy.

Ever notice that on TV the commercials for people using their computers, the desk is always neat and tidy. Most of the time, the computer is in the living room. I think that those people don't live with anyone else, and they never actually do anything with their computers. 

I'm lucky enough to have a room in the house I can set all this stuff up in. In the room I have, there are built in shelves on the wall. One of them was meant for a TV to sit in, that's where my monitor and stereo sit. I have my sound jacked through my stereo. Kinda nice to have. A shelf up and off to the right of my desk, sits my printer. The shelf below that, various dictionaries, note pads, and reference material. All the other shelves have things on them. Encyclopedias, my program cd's, blank cases, music books, etc. The shelf off to the left, my VCR usually sits there. But at the moment, it's in the living room connected to my DVR. So I can pull the episodes I recorded off and make VCD's out of them. 

My desk isn't a total disaster, but it's not pin straight either. I have spindles of cd's sitting on my desk. One is blank cd's, the other is cd's of mp3. I have a stack of VHS tapes I have to capture things off of yet. Various items like my chapstick, white out and nail file. I have two pen holders. One with a varied amount of markers, highlighters and sharpies. The other has my good sharpies, a ruler, pencils and pens I use most. My web cam sits off to the side. Since I don't use it much. I also have various scrapes of paper. Lists. What's on what tape, what has to paid this week, receipts from stores I went to and used my debt card, so I don't lose track of what I spent. Oh, and my trackball is on the desk. I have a desk with the pull out keyboard tray. So that's not sitting up there too.

What's on your desk? I just had a flash of the "What's in your wallet?" commercial. Funny.

Ah. It's 11:30. I have to go wash my hair. Otherwise, it'll never be dry enough by the time I have to go to work.

Take care of you today!

Ali

The Misfit Chick