Birthday Project

In just a few short days I will turn 33.  Yes, 33.  Normally I like to just say that I’m 29 +, but this year I am owning 33 because this is the year I’ll earn that damn PhD.  Me + 33 = PhD!!

A little rhyming math humor for ya.

Anyway.  Hubby asked me a few weeks ago what I might like for my birthday.  I gave him the general list…  a sewing machine, a chance to sleep in, a garden gnome named Seamus.  But, then I realized that our time (and money!) might be better spent on a project for the house.  Since our birthdays are only a week apart I figured this would be a great way to cross something off the ginormous home project list.

And, this year’s birthday project came out of a desperate need for a home office.  See, we don’t have the space to dedicate an entire room to a home office – especially with all these little weirdos living in the house.  In the past we tried to turn my closet into an office.  That just made me feel like a prisoner.  We tried to make our dining room into an office, but I missed the grown-up furniture and the fact that the dining room was the one clean, decorated room in the house.  We put the desk in the living room for a while, but that just screwed the shit out of the feng-shui of the place.

So ultimately we took down the big desktop computer, gave up on a home office, and decided to work off laptops.  Not a bad option, but that leaves little room for the kids to get computer time since I’ll be damned if I let them touch or breathe near Macbook.

But, I had the brilliant idea of adding a workstation in our kitchen to act as a mini-home office.  I knew we could extend the cabinets and counters already there and create the perfect space! Plus, it would put the computer out in the open and allow us to monitor the kids’ computer habits big-brother style!

Here is what we are thinking…

thanks, home depot guy, for creating this to our specifications!

Are you doing the jazz hands of happiness like I am???  Well, you should be.  And, if you’re not – well, don’t kill my buzz, man.

While we hoped to have the project done within a week or two, it’ll take at least 3 weeks just for the cabinets to come in once they are ordered.  So it’s more like an October project.

That’s fine with me.  I have no problem extending my birthday celebrations for a whole month.  I’m unselfish like that.

So, what do you think??  Do you love?  Do you hate? Are we just crazy? Do you have any advice for creating a kitchen workspace?