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Fairy lights
Today I felt at a low ebb. Work was long, and uneventful, and extremely boring. I brought the girls home from church supper and retreated to my office.
It is actually surprisingly clean these days--clean on the floor, that is. Just about all the piles of paper which used to clutter up the floor for months have been put away. There is actually room to exercise again, and I pulled out one of my DVDs and had a go yesterday (I exercised on the elliptical at the work gym for a short time today, too). Not much, but better than I've been doing for the past six weeks. Hope to keep it up.
I have taken down the old burned out icicle fairy lights that were strung along where the wall met the ceiling, where I have hung up a frieze of art postcards, and I have put new ones up. They are burning now, and give the room a lovely golden glow. Rob, after months of bullying, has cleaned up the mess of computer parts in the corner and put them away, and so all that is left is a large box which is covered with a velvet swath of cloth, making an end table besides the old chair. I have covered its ugly fabric with a burgundy velvet throw, and so now it is cozy and inviting. I haven't quite sorted out the art for the walls--I don't have quite enough space, since there are book cases in the way--and the desk is still overly cluttered. But altogether, the office is more inviting than it has been in years.
So I curled up in the chair tonight, wrapped in my cashmere shawl, and have been drinking hot apple cider and re-reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I did not read to the girls at bed time. I did not do anything productive. I just enjoyed my office, my haven, which was exactly what I needed to do. And it felt so good because it really does look so much better. It feels more like a haven now, for the first time in a long, long time.
It is actually surprisingly clean these days--clean on the floor, that is. Just about all the piles of paper which used to clutter up the floor for months have been put away. There is actually room to exercise again, and I pulled out one of my DVDs and had a go yesterday (I exercised on the elliptical at the work gym for a short time today, too). Not much, but better than I've been doing for the past six weeks. Hope to keep it up.
I have taken down the old burned out icicle fairy lights that were strung along where the wall met the ceiling, where I have hung up a frieze of art postcards, and I have put new ones up. They are burning now, and give the room a lovely golden glow. Rob, after months of bullying, has cleaned up the mess of computer parts in the corner and put them away, and so all that is left is a large box which is covered with a velvet swath of cloth, making an end table besides the old chair. I have covered its ugly fabric with a burgundy velvet throw, and so now it is cozy and inviting. I haven't quite sorted out the art for the walls--I don't have quite enough space, since there are book cases in the way--and the desk is still overly cluttered. But altogether, the office is more inviting than it has been in years.
So I curled up in the chair tonight, wrapped in my cashmere shawl, and have been drinking hot apple cider and re-reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I did not read to the girls at bed time. I did not do anything productive. I just enjoyed my office, my haven, which was exactly what I needed to do. And it felt so good because it really does look so much better. It feels more like a haven now, for the first time in a long, long time.