My project for the day is getting my office set up, and that means assembling furniture. I’ve been wrestling with a large bookcase, and later today I’ll get to work on my desk. My office is really small. It’s the smallest room in the house (other than the bathroom), but it’s the room with the best views (mountains!) and the most electrical outlets, so it makes sense as an office. I had to get creative with furniture. The desk is like a hospital tray table and it’s on wheels so it can move around. It’s not very big, so all the usual stuff that would go on top of a desk, other than the computer and maybe a pen and notebook, will have to go on the bookcase behind the desk.

I think I’m actually going to have shelf space for all my books — until I stumble across another box I forgot about. The spare room is gradually gaining floor space as I get books on the shelves. I put off dealing with the books because I didn’t need them for daily life, but getting them on shelves clears out so much space and makes room to do other things, so it was worth taking care of that.

I hope to have the office totally set up before Monday so I can maybe get back into a regular working routine. I’ve fallen into some bad habits during the move, and I’ll have to get back on track. I’m hoping that if my office is all set up, I’ll be able to focus instead of getting distracted by all the things I need to do.

Sunday it’ll be a year since I arrived in this town, so it’s been more than a year since I’ve had a dedicated office instead of a combined living room/dining room/office/kitchen. I still managed to write a book and revise a couple more, but it’ll be nice to have a real working space again.

Then I’ll have to avoid getting distracted by staring at the mountains.