My New Office!

This is how it looked the first (and only) time I saw it. My office-to-be.

When I got home from seeing it, I wrote this in the blog:

"I must admit it was a bit hard to picture what the office will look like when it's done - you see, they still have to put in a floor, a ceiling, a couple of walls and a loft. At the moment it's more like a... corner. 

But the house that it's in is so amazing - it's this old, quirky house by the railroad where they once used to store locomotives. Some people bought it recently and are starting to fix it up, and they're renting out some of the rooms as offices and studios."

Six weeks later, I open a door (one that certainly was not there the last time) and I think: no way. No. Way. No way. 

I honestly thought I must be on the wrong floor or something. I mean, it's taken six months for the carpenters we hired to fix the water leak in our house, and in six weeks the people who own the office building have turned what you can see in the photo above into this:

I mean... it's just perfect. Asbolute 100% perfection. I simply can not wait to move in! I will go to Ikea tomorrow and buy a desk, a chair and some lamps, and then I'm good to go. I never, ever imagined that I would get to work in such a beautiful office. I always thought the one my boyfriend is renting is great, but compared to mine, it's like he's working in a public restroom. ;) (Just kidding, darling!)

The only thing that's not top notch about the whole situation (I hate the expression "top notch" but I can't seem to stop using it, don't know what that's about) is that I really don't have any money at all to buy furniture. I'll just get the cheapest desk and a decent chair, and then the rest will be empty for now. Not that that's a tragedy in any way, it's just that with such a lovely office, it feels like a shame not to decorate it the way it deserves. But who knows, working there might make me so efficient that I start earning a lot more soon! One can dream...

Oh, and for you who don't know: I'm a freelance writer, I write columns and articles for different magazines for a living, and until now I've been working from home. It's been okay, but it's hard to be alone so far out in the countryside all day - I get a bit isolated and lonely. And most of all: when you work from home, you're never free. When you're doing the dishes, vacuuming, watching tv, mowing the lawn or playing with the cats, you always know that you really should be working instead. That way, I feel way more stressed out about work than I should, and I can't thoroughly enjoy living in this great house. Hopefully all of this will change, now that I'll go to work every day, get everything done, come home and be way more care-free.

The hardest thing will be not to hang out with my beloved cats all day, every day - but I guess I can't be a stay-at-home cat mom forever! At least now, when I leave them, I get to go to a pretty awesome workplace. That should make the transition into "working mom" a bit easier - at least for me. ;)