How to Save a Desk

To make a long story short; my apartment did not come with a desk, and I have wanted one since I have discovered this terrible tragedy.

See, although the administration counts this workbench thing as a collective desk for all four girls it doesn't really fill the void a desk is suppose to inhabit in my life.

I though the poor lighting added to the picture overall

It doesn't  have much space for long term storage.

It's in the middle of everything so it isn't a nice quite place to work,

And- well- the chairs (harvested from the table) are too short of the 'desk' so every time I sit down I feel like I should be finger painting instead of trying to figure out statistical analysis on debitage.

To fill this void in my life I've been trolling around on various sites and perusing  the local thrift store for the past few weeks. I finally decided that I just had to bite the bullet and buy a new desk and bookshelf from Walmart where it was cheaper and better quality than everything that I've seen on Craigslist.

But at the very last moment! Manna from Heaven!

Or in this case somebody posted a desk on freecycle for my area.

I was able to get one of my friends who owned a truck to take me up to Orem to pick this little beauty up, because this friend happened to a big strong man who had roommates that were also large men I didn't even have to do anything once we got there.

While everybody else was doing the heavy lifting I subtly glanced towards the bookshelf and read the certificates framed on the wall.  The home I invaded belongs to a lovely gun safety instructor and her husband.  The tiny side office was being used for some kind of home business and they had tropical looking plants hanging out on two of the three desks

I decided not to edit the mess out, so you might truly know me.

I fell like these people were awesome, and I'm absolutely certain that my wonderful gift had nothing to do with that judgement.

Of  course when I got home it was to room origami and the place is still a complete mess from gradually putting off the clean up everyday until -tomorrow.

The desk itself came with a side wing that was detachable from the main unit. I was planning on just throwing the thing away since it wouldn't fit but then I discovered that it was mostly held together with easy to remove screws.

The only tricky bit was one screw that just would not come out and the fact that the back piece was actually stapled on instead of screwed in.  Since I'm cute and little I got my dear friend to take care of those steps for me.

both drawers still work fine........splee!

Now I have a sturdy desk with drawers, a new beside table, and several large pieces of wood underneath my bed ready to be reassembled at any moment.

now to acquire myself a bookcase

Something Serious

I know this blog is largely meant to be dedicated to my (totally exciting) adventures here at college-land but allow me to step back a moment and try to be serious.

Today, is my my birthday. And although the little kid in me is still overly-excited to open those shining packages that I got in the mail  I'd also like to take a moment now and thank my mother for all that she is.

I know,  I know,  there's already a saccharine holiday set apart for the occasion; but I feel like if you only do something because everybody else is doing it you don't really mean it as much the other 365 days of the year.

The first thing that comes to my mind when I think about my mom is her wonderful sense of humor.  She is never far from a quick remark, and never further from a good long laugh.  It is this weildy humor that has been reflected in each of her children and is absolutely integral to our personalities.  I for one know that I would not be the same person with out my snarky sardonic lens on life.

We've had a lot of hard times in my family, a  lot of things that for a while I wished could all be a dream, but through all of it my mother maintained her humor.  And she did it in a way that didn't deflect reality or make it less than was it really was but allowed our new realities to exist along side the things in life worthy of a laugh.  I think that this show of humor exposes a great deal of strength on my mom's part.

A strength that I absolutely admire and a strength that I hope that I will be able to replicate if need be.

My mom my also a great deal of charity in her heart for others.  She can see the world with a clear eyes and can think of others and their needs, even when she is having a bad day.  More importantly, she then acts upon her perceptions and reaches out to those in need.   I know that we spent more than one week opening our home to somebody who needed a place to stay for a little while.

I appreciate being shown by her how to a woman, and I can only hope to make her proud in the coming years of my own womanhood.

I love you Mom, and thank you for all that you have done.

Steve!

 This is a hot Thai pepper plant from parkseed that I-


You know what?  We've talked about this already. You know who Steve is, we don't need to go through it again.

The exciting news here is that I had about twenty extra bucks in my budget last month and I was able to get a grow light from Amazon for my poor, poor plant.

That's totally fair right?

It's the cheapest one they had, (which was the only requirement) so I'm sure that it's not the best product around. However, the reviews said that it worked just fine so at least there's that.

I got it in the mail today and was able to set it up in less then ten minutes, so what it lacks in awesomeness it makes up for with simplicity.

So now I have to do is sit back and watch my pepper plant not die.

Hopefully

I'm going to wait a little while to review the light on Amazon.  So that if it gets my plant looking like this; I'll know to give it atleast four stars.










I also drew this picture to further illustrate the coolness of this product to you, because I don't think you completely understand how excited I am about this.

This is essentially what happened when I turned the light on

Because childish drawings are the best way to explain complex ideas.