The International Office Tour: a follow up.

ok, so you peeps are rad and asked some stuff. and seeing as i have had complete blogging brain farts lately am super duper giving, i am going to answer your questions.

before i get into it though, i felt i needed to give three cheers to amanda at it's blogworthy, because she started this whole office craze. and now it even has it's own button. so hiphiphooray for amanda. and for cher, for deciding it should be a thing. you girls are clever, and creative, and the awesomeness. so go see both of them, and tell them super nice things- and a congrats to amanda. why congrats? you will have to go visit her to find out...

so for starters, one of my first blogging friends, big boops of boops does tulsa said this:

"Wow! A couple of thoughts: with the water you must be super healthy and you obviously pee a lot. You should post a pic of the bathroom you use. Also, did you know that work environments with views of nature are totally restorative to the mind and body??? So you must be super peaceful. So you are basically super healthy, peaceful and wear rad sweaters. I feel like I'm getting to know you more with every post."

unfortunately, i am not super healthy. i think all the water i drink is absorbed by the pizza, ice cream, booze, etc...but i do pee a lot. so here is where i spend a significant portion of my work day:

again, i am looking out a window. i did not know the tidbit about nature and restoring the mind and body. what scares me about this is how crazypants i would be without views of nature. because i am not all that peaceful. i mean sometimes i make pandora play me spa-like music to keep me calm...but other than that, i am generally a loon.

but i do have a rad sweater. so thank you.

next, mimi of living in france awesomeness said:

"LOVE the sweater.
Want a close up of the tape dispenser.
Why does your boss's business run outta her house and what is it? Or can you not share that...? :)"

you ask and you shall receive:

also, for good measure, i will add in a pic of a chocolate shoe (also, a gift from my boss. a girl could get a complex and curb her shoe obsession. but not me, because i am not a quitter.)

i refuse to eat it. it's too pretty.

we run the business out of the house because it's much easier to just bury the bodies in the back yard at her house than if we were renting an office space somewhere.

i kid. really, it's just one of those sitches where the business has grown bigger and faster than she could have imagined. we are bookkeepers, so payrolls, a/p, a/r, bank reconciliations, yadda yadda. in the beginning it was just her and her sister in law helping out with a few hours a week. over the last three years, the business has grown to 3 full timers (incl. herself) and 2 part timers. we will be looking for an office space to rent this fall. but we want to spend one more summer by the pool. tough gig i have, huh?

then meredith of trifecta fame (and also (flash) pasteurized) prepared a little list for me: (also new format because it easier- my response in black. and bold. to make sure i am heard.)

1. why can't i have a freaking kitchen table and fireplace in my office?! because you have a grown up job

see meredith's office here.

2. i am allergic to cats. i used to be too, but apparently i out grew it. ain't that some shiz?!

3. WHERE THE HECK IS A MURAL OF TRIFECTA???? i don't see a picture of me anywhere in your office and i have a serious problem with this. firstly-i did not see my mug in your office either. secondly- remember on your office post i asked you to make me beautiful murals of pictures to decorate my office with? well, then you could add pictures of you and money. -fyi: money=monique=the surferwife. just so everyone is following...

p.s. i wish we worked down the street from each other and could eat lunch together. agreed

p.s.s. or p.p.s (i can never remember) i am obsessed with your sweater!!!!! i wore one really similar to it today!! twinsies!! as money and i have taken to saying- synergie. that's some trivia for you folks. where is that from?

the hostess with the mostest (miss cher herself) of this little tour also had a few things to say as well:

- your supervisors look like total slave drivers. Especially the one with the blue hair (WTF???)

 it is actually just blue bows. but it would be super rad if her hair was blue- and think i may just do it next time her mommy and daddy go away and leave her with me

- I love that you sit right at the window! Must be awesome on beautiful sunny days. Or highly distracting.

 totally the latter.

- since you're at your bosses house, do you get much blogging done at work or no? 

um. if my coworkers read this: i never blog at work. for everyone else: i totally blog at work sometimes. but that is because i have been keeping my home time internet-free to give my eyeballs a break. i am convinced i am going to go blind, or get a brain problem from staring at a computer screen too much

- a cat calendar? Really? Like you're not already surround with enough allergy inducing cats?

i already explained this to cher, but i will tell you peeps too. for the past two years, there has been a policeman calendar there. because, hello, i love me some men in uniform. but manfriend's dept. did not produce a calendar for my viewing pleasure this year. do not fret though. i have filed a formal complaint.

- I also heart my adding machine! Does that make us finance nerds?

um. maybe a little. but some people just don't understand how awesome an adding machine can be. i mean i have had others, but this is by far the best one ever. it's from like the '80s. we have to ebay them to get them (we have had three of this model).

- no office tour would be complete without a sweater. They seem to be a common theme. Although yours is the nicest so far!

thank you, but i bet you mine would not look nearly as nice if it were on the back of my chair like everyone elses. i kind of flaunted mine.

Okay - I'm off to retweet you and add this to my sidebar! This is SO flippin' fun!

Come on people - who's doing a tour next??

 i can't tell you who is next, but i can tell you who has done it!

- Cher's Office Tour
- Amanda at It's Blogworthy
- Cathy at Antsy Pants
- Foxy at The Fox Den
- Brandy at You Don't Know
- Salt at Salt Says
- Beckles at Foresight Is So Often Blind
- Mimi at Living in France
- Meredith at (Flash) Pasteurized
- Jade at Now That I'm No Longer 25

- The Surferwife at A day in the life of a Surferwife

 ok, that was basically it for direct questions, although kate of and then i was a mom said that she thought one of the cats had a glass eye. so i poked all four, and they all seem real.

and this is like the longest post ever.

so if i think of anything else to add, i will save it for another day because i need more material anywho.