A special Friday night

            Well today I’ve been mainly reorganising my office. Since I came to the new company, I’ve been in an office with two desks. Both desks faced the walls of the room and not each other meaning my back was both to the door of the office and to the other person in the room. This affects me, even in an empty room. When I was told yesterday that I would not have the office to myself for a further 6 months, my immediate reaction was that I needed to rearrange the furniture. I can’t handle working like this for all that time. So this morning we’ve been moving furniture.

We’ve got rid of two pedestals from the room and now the desks are facing each other. We’ve gotten rid of a lot of paperwork from the office and streamlined a few filing tray systems. We’ve reorganised the IT systems to make them suit us rather than the other way around. I have to say that I’ve also noticed the difference it makes to me. Sitting with my back to the wall and facing the room feels so much better than the old way.

I think I’ll do the same with the bedroom tonight at home. I’m not happy with the flow around there either. I might go online and have a look at some feng shui about bedrooms. I think we need a chair in there as well since the clothes just get dropped on the floor otherwise and the current arrangement with the mirror just doesn’t work..

Having had a quick look, our current arrangement could be the reason for my bad sleeping habits. We have the bed at a place where access to one side is difficult and we have the place cluttered with bits and bobs. So some streamlining is in order. We have a lot of junk in the room – old make-up, unused or not working appliances, wasted space with mirrors etc, clothes that are too old, too big or too small to currently wear. Stuffed wardrobe but empty shelves above them……generally a lot of clutter and not much to ease the mind.

So steps I need to take to make the bedroom more accessable:

1. Declutter clothes. Again.
2. Remove everything we don’t use from the bedroom.
3. Turn the bed 90° so it has easy access both sides.
4. Put a bedside table at each side.
5. Put the chests of drawers at the end of the bed.
6. Get rid of the various baskets and boxes in the bedroom.
7. Place one chair by the end of the bed for clothes.
8. Empty out the underneath of the bed and decide what is going where – and put it there.
9. Hoover and dust the whole room!!!

OK a lot of hard work. But if it makes the room more accessible and nicer in general, plus gives us more space, then it’s worth it.

So that’s my Friday night. Plus making up the spare room cos we have visitors coming tomorrow. The nice kind though – the kind that won’t be looking and judging etc.