Ok, I’m not in the UK, but, can I just say? I love the Office Supermarket website! Yes, it is a retail website – but, it is a helpful retail website! I have been thinking about what all I want to do with my home office, in terms of decorating and organizing, a lot lately. It is my ’space in this world’, if you will – and I want to make it, not only, all my own, but also, an easy place to accomplish all the things that I want to do. And that list of things I want to do is long, let me tell you! So it has seemed an overwhelming task, trying to figure out how to incorporate all the home office furniture and space for the many things I want to do and have it look kind of nice!

There are two pieces of furniture on which I get stuck making decisions all the time! The first one is my desk. I just love my “desk”. I put that in quotes, because, it is not really a desk. It is a piece of furniture that my husband got off a job about twenty years ago. He said it was being used as a dining room table. It actually looks neither like a desk nor a dining room table! It has this odd, sawhorse-type frame underneath made of wood and metal and the surface is just a giant piece of really thick glass. I absolutely love this hideous thing. Of course, I loved my ‘79 Delta 88, too. A lot can be said for my taste – or maybe, of my taste. It has such a wonderfully large surface, though, that I have avoided giving it up for a very long time. The really cool thing about Office Supermarket is that, for those of us looking for office desks, they offer a office desk buying guide. It’s actually really simple, but, it helps me to map out the choices in my mind. It neatly puts them in sections for me. I love it! Choice can be really overwhelming to this ADD-girl, so this kind of help is priceless!

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Quit scaring me off! I can’t take it anymore! I miss tapping and tapping and tapping away at my keys. See, what happens is that I don’t blog for a while – usually cuz stuff comes up. And then I don’t blog, because, I feel an itsy bitsy out of touch with the whole medium, so I delay. And then I balk. And pretty soon, it’s been forever and a day since I had my way with this here ol’ keyboard. And by that time, I’m just sure that I can’t do it. Me? Blog? About what? What will I say? Whatever will I write about? And the fear grows and it grows and it grows and I cower in the corner, feeding my blog-hungering soul with endless mini-blogging, or the addiction we all love so much – Twitter! And then I’m reduced to nothing more than a ‘Twitter blogger’. A Twitter blogger? And that’s it? Are you serious? How lame is that? Gah!

Well, and another part of the problem is that I’ve been hanging out with and listening to and learning from some pretty successful marketing people. I’m learning a LOT from them. A lot of times, I’m just getting swept up in the industry gossip. And let me tell you, that can be quite entertaining. Anyway, though, reading and learning from these people is great, but, it’s making me think that I need to sound just so and I need to write just so – you know? Well – pshaw! I just need to jump back into the game – period. If you’re not in the game, you’re not in the game. And besides that, this is not a marketing blog.

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