The new digs

The lovely Aurora from Confessions of a Cocktail Napkin, posted photos of her classroom and the redecorating that went down. While reading it this morning I realized that since I moved my office I haven't posted about it. As a matter of fact I am not even sure I told you all it went down.

In May when I lost Nick and my assistant due to budget cuts the powers that be decided that Marisol and I should centralize our department by moving in together. About 2 years earlier they had spent a chunk of money making a custom events office for my staff so it was only fair that I agreed. I gave up my cushy office and crammed all my junk into a smaller desk. Smaller desk but MUCH larger office. After all it is two of us.

The downside is that when I have meetings, which I do often, Marisol has to listen to my blabbering. But thats pretty much the only downside. I get to spend my day with Marisol and our office is very homey. So without further ado here it is.

All the photos can be clicked to enlarge them

My binders, this is only 1/3 of them, as I have a bookshelf full and 3 drawers in a filing cabinet that is housed in a different office. We keep a binder for EVERY event. So with 25 events a year it gets rather cumbersome. I've tried to convince them that binders are a waste, no luck thus far.

My side of the office. Its just as colorful as before. Its a much smaller desk space and I am kind of a messy marvin but that will never change. Yes that is a container of Triple Cheese Easy Mac in the cabinet, its emergency lunch. I still get crap for having too many toys and doodles but my work life would be depressing without them so I refuse to give them up.

This is our shared space. Its a miracle we don't burn up with all the technology we have in our office. Between the two of us we have 3 computers (4 monitors) and 2 printers. The entire facing wall is made up of windows, which we never open because we work in the ghetto, but its nice to be able to look out and find out if its raining.

Marisol's work station, she is anti-clutter (which I totally don't get). Her binder shelves go all the way to the ceiling in our office. About 4 shelves high.

Its hard to see in the photos but our office is actually really open and spacious, all the clutter is contained to the walls and the shelves chock full of binders. The one major issue with our office is that we have pretty much already grown out of it and we've only shared it for 5 months...I'm not sure what its going to be like a year down the line. I have a feeling we'll be like the princess and the pea, except instead of sleeping on mattresses we'll be sitting on binders.