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“Under Construction”

So we’re under construction at our office. This is our story. Last July, my co-worker Sarah and I decided we needed to update the look of our office. We got approval for our design ideas and went to work. We got all the tools we needed – paint, brushes, trays, tape, wallpaper remover, etc. Sarah and I recruited both of our husbands to help us with this job since we wanted it to be finished over the weekend, essentially one and a half days.
We started out by scoring our wallpaper, spraying on the wallpaper remover and peeling it off for seven hours on Friday night. We were both at work until 2 in the morning ripping off tiny shreds of paper and piling it in the middle of the floor. We occasionally took ice cream breaks and eventually got so delirious from lack of sleep that we had to leave and begin again the next morning.
That day, our husbands came to lend us some extra hands since we painted the walls, the ceiling and the trim as well as our file cabinet and our desks. We finished painting for the most part that day. It ended up being another 13 hour working day and there were still some touch ups that needed to be done. Sarah and her husband came in later that night to finish things up and begin moving the furniture back into the office.
So we got all settled into our new pretty space that was much more soothing than the “stressful wallpaper” as Sarah called it. Shortly after our room was updated, we were blessed with new ergonomic desks and our office was complete.
Just recently, we were asked to move out of our beautiful office to make room for some generators and back up power supplies. We reluctantly took our desks apart and moved them into a larger room with 2 other people in the administration office. Our new office space was nice and open, with a glass door and a big picture window that faces a busy street with many distractions. Shortly after we moved into this space, we were told that they were re-facing the outside of the building and that meant covering up our window to the outside world. So our window is covered up – on the outside; but at least we still have the glass door that lets in some beautiful morning sunlight.
It’s nice to know that we have the freedom to make our office space our personal space as well. The experience of constant construction isn’t something new to me. The home I grew up in was built from the ground up by my father and grandfather. They began building before I was born and surprisingly enough, it’s still not finished. So the sound of hammers and saws makes me feel right at home. The finished product is worth the inconvenience of having to listen to the construction guys’ rock ’n’ roll and dodge the nails and screws in the parking lot to save our tires.

Laura

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