Where I Spend My Life

So I originally took this picture.

In August.
Shows you how often I check my calendar . . .


Well once I took a picture of one thing, I figured I may as well (might as well?  I've never been good at that one) take pictures of the rest of it and show everyone where I work!


First of all, I HAVE A CORNER OFFICE!  Well not really.  We have half-wall cubicles and my office is next to the head of the mechanical department's office and he gets a corner office.  So I essentially get one :)

I spent two summers interning here and never brought anything to decorate my office.  So one of the first things I wanted to do was bring in pictures.  So for Christmas mom got me a cute hanging system with some colorful paperclips.  So I printed out pictures and hung them right behind my desk so I could see them all the time.

Here is my pantry.
I have oatmeal for breakfast, peanut butter for breakfast, green tea and a mug when it gets super freezing cold and I'm wrapped in a jacket and a blanket, honey to sweeten my tea because refined sugar is bad for you, and water and iced tea.

Here's what I work on.
These are riser diagrams for a garage.
I also have my Kansas State University paper weight that Daddy got me for graduation.
And my graph paper.  My lovely gorgeous graph paper.  I brought this all the way from Kansas with me.  500 pages.  I'm going back this semester for a football game.  I'll be getting more then.

Here is my fountain (I need more rocks to make it actually a hardcore fountain.  Remind me to bring more rocks to work.  Thanks).  The jar is my scented oil that I use with reed diffusers.  Yum.  It's the best scent ever.  Makes me happy.  And at work I need all the happy I can get.

Aaaaaand the piece de resistance, my ball chair!
In the first few months my back was starting to hurt after sitting for only a few hours, my feet were swelling, and my posture was atrocious.  So I thought about a standing desk, but decided against it due to the whole half-wall cubicle thing.  Could get awkward.  I saw these chairs online and all it is is an exercise ball in a stand with wheels on the bottom.  So simple but it makes a WORLD of difference.  I highly recommend this chair for anyone who has a desk job.  My back doesn't hurt and my posture is better without me even thinking about it.

(my desk isn't dirty, btw, I just messed with the brightness of the picture and it messed it up)