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!


The other thing that confuses me when thinking of what kind I want is my office chair. There are so many to choose from, in so many different styles. I’ve known that I needed a new one for some time now, as this one is just about smushed out of all its stuffing. And ever since Lynn Terry had her back trouble and got her cool ‘recline-y’ type office chair, that threw yet another wrench in my decision-making process! I just can’t get her comfortable-looking chair out of my head. I’m not sure, however, if I really can sit up and be productive in a chair like that. I have so much trouble motivating myself as it is. Not to worry, though – Office Supermarket has a ‘map’ for this, too! That’s right – they have a buying guide for office chairs, too! I’m definitely going to bookmark those two pages for help with my shopping.

Another really cool thing they provide is a phone number for expert advice, if you’re really getting stuck. They offer this from Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. If they truly offer advice, and don’t try to hard sell you while on the call, that would be an awesome deal! I haven’t tried calling it, but, if you do, I’d love to hear how the call went!

I’ve had a post in my head all day (I know, I know, posts don’t do anybody any good stuck in my head!) about not losing your voice. I’m not talking about from laryngitis, either. I’m talking about being true to yourself, and not shrinking into yourself, or quieting the you that is YOU – for any reason! There are many reasons we all do that from time to time, but, waking up from it is great! And I seemed to have ‘woken up’ just this morning. Well, fixing up MY OFFICE (yes, Patrick, you crazy teenager – it is MINE!) will play a LARGE part of my ‘hearing my own voice’ again. Looking at this Office Supermarket website is getting me all excited about that, too!!