Three days to go

We'll I'm definitely on the downhill now. Only three more days of formal employment for me. I'm filled with nervous energy & just want to get there already :)

Plans are proceeding well in terms of converting the existing guest room to a home office. The two rooms (existing home office & guest room) are quite deceptive. The existing guest room looks bigger, but it is actually the same size as the home office - just a different shape. The problem in the home office is that on the wall where the external door should go, there is a space heater & a power plug, so we are sticking to our original plan to swap the two rooms around.

We have had two builders in to quote on putting in an outside door, which will aid my coming & going without having to go through the main part of the house. The first chap was very helpful, made suggestions & came back promptly with an estimate.

The room we have earmarked has cupboards on one wall & windows on two. In the interests of allowing for more wall space, we have decided to go for a single door & double windows, that way I can still put a credenza under the window & my desk against the remaining wall (where the power is).

We'll have to put a security gate on the door, but the windows come prefitted with burgular proofing. I'd like to be able to sit with the door open & allow air to circulate, so a gate is a must.

Work starts on Thursday, with our gardiner Bizier relocating a yucca, rose bushes & aggies who currently live in the bed outside the window. Then on Friday, the builder will put in the door & we'll have to match the external paint. We have some leftover pavers we used elsewhere in the garden, which we will use in the bed, so no need to extend the brickwork to the door.

The weekend will probably see us swapping the furniture around, then Monday will be a general cleaning day, ready for Day 1 on Tuesday.

My fully configured, Dell laptop arrives today with all the software loaded so I'm hoping to be able to advise all my clients of my new e-mail address tomorrow. I'll write more in the next blog about the machine & its features.

I'm in the process of setting up a LinkedIn profile for the business, which I'll link to Twitter & Facebook. Watch this space :) My intention is not to have a company website, but to use my LinkedIn profile for that purpose & use the address on all my stationery.

Oh & I bought the kettle & cups, so if anyone is in the neighbourhood next week, pop in & have a look.

'Til then...