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When I started my job at HealthEquity, Inc., they set me up with the full hardware buffet: a laptop, two HUGE monitors, a docking station, a wired keyboard, wired mouse, and a wired Bluetooth headset (which, yes, makes no sense, but here we are). Eventually, I upgraded. I bought myself a wireless Bluetooth keyboard, mouse, and headset. Fewer wires = less chaos.
Before we moved to Minnesota, I wanted a new longer and deeper desk, a new office chair, and a nice comfortable sitting chair. Somehow Facebook knew as I would see ads for desks and chairs. I belong to a quite a few book groups on Facebook, and when people would post pictures of their own conformable sitting chairs, I would click and check them out. I was very reluctant to buy a comfy chair from Amazon without trying it first.
I found my desk on Wayfair for $180. It arrived at the new house on June 7. I’m usually pretty decent at assembling furniture, but I got stuck attaching the top to the legs. Google to the rescue: I searched for Wayfair assembly help, which led me to Thumbtack. I downloaded the app, found a local helper, and for $120, he assembled the desk and two Amazon night tables (for me and Niko). Worth every penny. He saved my back and some very creative four-letter words from my mouth.
My office chair is from Branch Furniture. I actually bought it before we moved. I usually wouldn’t spend $400 on a chair, but I did—and I have zero regrets.
For my comfortable sitting chair, I got it from La-Z Boy last weekend. My budget was $500, but it ended up being $850.
In our new house, my home office is in a bedroom in the basement. I have a beautiful view of our backyard and the walking trail. I can be cool and close the basement door and never hear a a peep from Niko, Nina, or Riley cat. Not true, as I can hear them talking, walking, and meowing, and I try to leave that door open so Riley cat can go up as needed to visit his food and litter. I just need to work on my bookcase to showcase my things to nobody (as, when I am on work calls, we rarely go on-camera) and hang some posters and my college diploma’s.
Sometimes, when Niko gets bored or tired of hanging out with Nina, he drifts to my desk and pulls up a chair next to me. Yeah, when I got my La-Z Boy chair, I wanted him to test his rear end on it to see if it was comfortable.
In the other areas of the basement, it’s finished with a lot of room. I put my old desk in there (it’s one that the height can be manually adjusted), so we can have a nice flat surface for legos, tiles, marble runs, puzzles, or anything that we desire. Right now, it’s a got a humongous tile build.
Riley cat likes the basement as he can look out the sliding doors. Sometimes, when that door is closed, Riley looks at it, looks at us, and meows. Like, please open the door so I can see the world at ground level. With the movers and for my La-Z Boy chair, for anything that was for the basement, they delivered it through the back and down a hill (that will be great for sledding when it snows) and into the sliding doors.
