So, NewBoss Anais and I showed up at the office at the same time last Friday, only to find out that the fire alarm was going off again. Instead of herding together in the front of the building with the other lost souls, we took off for Starbucks* and a quick latte run. They finally let us in the building around 8:30.

Note to R.C. - You see? Beyond the pleasure of an unanticipated latte, there was no particular value in me having shown up "on time" on Friday.

Then there was one of those obligatory, "it's so-and-so's birthday this week so everyone is going out to lunch on Friday" gatherings that ate up another 90 minutes of my day.

And there was another obligatory get-together in the conference room at 4:00, the reason for which I never quite grasped but inferred was related to something that happened about a month ago. We all had a glass of champagne, including me!

Not one of my more productive days, Friday, but not at all my fault.

The weekend was fun. Not wildly eventful, but fun. A trip to the Container Store where I finally broke down and bought one of the bookcases I've been coveting for the last two years. I also picked up some planet-killing stackable plastic drawers to organize some stuff in the closet. Tab: $220.00. Winces.

The drawers were just the kind of thing. Everything I needed to have fit in them did fit and it freed up a lot of space in the bottom half of the closet since I was able to remove a fairly massive but un-functional chest. (Unimportant except to me, since what I was working toward was enough vertical space for things like my pants to be able to hang without creasing.)

I disassembled and discarded** the last two black plastic bookcases in my bedroom. As I had hoped, the single wood bookcase held all of those books and has room for more. It's very exciting--I swear the room looks twice as big. Just replacing black with white lightened the entire room up--the black color had a lot of "weight" to it. And it's so tidy! The plastic bookcases wasted a lot of space both above the books on each shelf and in front of them. It's much more compact now.

And then it started to snow.

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* This was a good thing. I didn't know that Starbucks was there - it's almost within walking distance!

** Not in the trash. First floor lobby with a "free to a good home" label on them. As usual, someone wanted them and they were gone in an hour.