Only a week late! But it is Friday, and it was a perfect day (with the weather being all messy and raw), to complete the spring clean that was started eight days ago.

Several accomplishments (and I highly recommend this too all) to report from the clean up:

1. Like I said previously, orchids stay where they are. And they are with simple rearrangment and all is well. Also, Sunday, I am going to drive back to work to transport all personal items (all those that managed to sneak into the office and make themselves home there), and some of the orchids are coming home too.
2. Next tackled the three drawers full of stuff.
   1. No idea, what stuff, so I took the opportunity to re-acquaint myself with the stuff hiding in there. This needed the recycling bin next to me. Whatever I have not used, read, written over or required to refer got tossed into the recycling bin. Felt really relieved to get rid of items that were printed and outdated.
   2. I found two scotch tapes, two staple pin removers, old business cards, paper clips about a 100, 15 cents in change, a pair of warm socks (there they are!), wonderful black sandles (oh! there they are!), four spoons (clean, for heavens sake!), old rotting-instant-coffee granule pack (yuk!), old tea packs, clean (thankfully) plastic containers, file holders, plastic folders empty, employee manuals, travel (outdated) manuals, expense reports (old and all paid out), budgets for contractors and zillion little nick-nacks. Each of the items got 10-15 second consideration and it landed one of the four piles:
      1. Keep
      2. Take Home
      3. Send back to Mail room
      4. Toss in trash.
   3. Funnily... actually not funnily, interestingly and happily most of them were in either 3 or 4. :) I am  glad that the trash is not simply being moved from one place to another (namely work to home).
3. Stuff that stayed on the table are of course, laptop, monitor (actually two of them), mouse, keyboard, stapler, three-punch hole machine, and hmmm.. orchids! :) I am pleased with the outcome.
4. Additionally, happy to report that the stuff I thought I was going to move into the drawer space to keep the desktop clean, either made it to a mail room or the trash.

Habits learned (or rather plan to work on):

1. Clean desk before leaving for the day.
2. Store items back and clean up for the day before leaving.
3. ah!... don't collect crap and don't bring stuff from home. If stuff-gathering is unavoidable, then keep in transient file. So, toss out when done. :)

Lofty habits, but worth trying them. :)

Duh! No camera, will take a picture on Sunday when I swing by.