What's on top of your desk?

[Canice]

OK, so I can't answer the Christmas tree question yet, as there's nothing on my tree so far but lights. But I just walked past my own office and saw, in plain view on my desk:

"Everyday Food" - the one with all the Christmas cookies on the cover
A credit card
Three bright red Christmas card envelopes, stamped and ready for mailing.

Employers just love this productive time of year :rolleyes: :o

[cookieee]

Well, sitting on the corner of my "home" desk are 5 tapes waiting to be viewed. Santa Clause 2, Polar Express, A Year Without Santa, Road to Perditon and a half viewed Johnny Mathis concert. Any suggestions on which ones to watch and which ones to tape over, please let me know. Also, any of the Santa ones suitable for 5 and 7 year old grandkids?

[DeeK]

My desktop is overloaded --

On portion 1 - the higher portion we have:

1. A Daytimer Calendar (what's left of 2006 + 2007)
2. A Matchbox "John Deere" front end loader
3. A wooden apple paperweight
4. Cordless telephone
5. Orlando Regional Recruiting Center mousepad that I use as a drink coaster
6. Large mat month calendar (w/graduation announcement and the address for Red Scarf Project stuck in the corners so I don't "lose" them)
7. "Dedo" gargoyle (also used as a paperweight when needed)
8. My Travel hard-drive
9. External Modem
10. Monitor
11. 2 speakers
12. A sample of Sunsilk anti-flat that hasn't made it's way out of the office yet. ;-)

On portion 2 - the lower portion

1. Large Pommery mustard crock that holds pens, pencils, letter opener, etc...
2. Router
3. surge protector
4. keyboard w/mouse (and generic mousepad)
5. 5 x 7 file box of addresses/business cards


Sounds crowded when it's all written out, but it's actually a very workable layout. :p

[DeeK]

Well, sitting on the corner of my "home" desk are 5 tapes waiting to be viewed. Santa Clause 2, Polar Express, A Year Without Santa, Road to Perditon and a half viewed Johnny Mathis concert. Any suggestions on which ones to watch and which ones to tape over, please let me know. Also, any of the Santa ones suitable for 5 and 7 year old grandkids?


I am SO not a movie person, but I LOVED Road to Perdition. Of course, that one is not suitable for the kiddies. :eek: Tom Hanks did a wonderful job in the movie. It was a totally different character than he usually plays and I was surprised at how well he pulled it off.

[donleyk]

Well, sitting on the corner of my "home" desk are 5 tapes waiting to be viewed. Santa Clause 2, Polar Express, A Year Without Santa, Road to Perditon and a half viewed Johnny Mathis concert. Any suggestions on which ones to watch and which ones to tape over, please let me know. Also, any of the Santa ones suitable for 5 and 7 year old grandkids?

The Polar Express is all about a boy who doesn't believe. It's a good movie, animation is good IMO. I don't know if it's appropriate for a 5 and 7, though. I'm not sure what the age of the target audience the studio was going for.

My desk, besides the mounds of papers are my 10-key, stapler, tape dispenser, Get Fuzzy daily calendar, candle, hand lotion, poinstettia, Christmas cactus and phone. I also have my steno book open to the page with my grocery list and things to pack for our travel for Christmas.

[aggie94]

Piles and piles of work. :eek: :(

There's also the holiday-design stretch fabric toilet seat cover that my paralegal gave me for Christmas. :p

[patissac]

The Polar Express is all about a boy who doesn't believe. It's a good movie, animation is good IMO. I don't know if it's appropriate for a 5 and 7, though. I'm not sure what the age of the target audience the studio was going for.


Funny thing is my DD whose 2 yrs old loves this movie. We even listen to the soundtrack every morning on the way to school:rolleyes: At first I didn't think she'd even take interest in it. Now when she sees Santa she asks him for a Bell:D

Okay sorry to hijack the thread with PE! On my work desktop is stacks of Open Enrollment paperwork, remember the cartoon comic Kathy? How she'd have all those huge stacks of work? Yup, thats me right now! I have a bottled water, box of prunes:eek: , Paper clips, lots of fishes (my company believes in the fish philosophy) a mug, lots of pictures of DD, DBF and friends, Jasmine tea and a bottle of Winter Candy Apple lotion.

[Chefzhat]

There's also the holiday-design stretch fabric toilet seat cover that my paralegal gave me for Christmas. :p
What every well dressed commode is wearing this year. :cool:

[Leslie Ferguson]

At work...
Dish soap
Dead diet coke bottle
dirty coffee cup
insulated lunch bag
"Rubes" calendar
paperwork
candy cane
space heater
sundry office tools (stapler, tape, binder clips, etc.)
notebook computer and monitor
bottle of hand lotion

at home...
I don't even want to think about it :o but probably
two pot holders
piles of papers
a calendar
answering machine
4 stuffed animals
sundry office supplies

This is fun...
Les

[little_bopeep]

Quite an assortment:

my laptop and mouse (with Brak mousepad)
2 Neil Diamond CDs
lamp
mail sorter/organizer thang
coffee cup with a crawdad on the side and a grape tootsie pop inside
sheep planter pot with pens, an emery board and a dead pager inside
a jar each of clotted cream and double devon cream, to go with the bag of blueberry sour cream scone mix
some maple white chocolate chips
a cat....no, he's gone now
assorted flavorings that need to find their way to the kitchen
assorted medications
my son's glasses that he broke at school Tuesday

Actually, this is kind of an improvement over the way the desk usually looks. :D

[FruitsAlive]

What every well dressed commode is wearing this year. :cool:

lmao! Now I feel bad for never having dressed up my poor commodes. They really do put up with a lot of $h!t all year.

[cookieee]

lmao! Now I feel bad for never having dressed up my poor commodes. They really do put up with a lot of $h!t all year.

That is hilarious. Thanks for the laugh:D

We dressed up our commode with a beautiful red and white beaded doilie that my mother made. Unfortunatley, sitting on top of that is a figurine of an outhouse with Santa and a few raindeers crashed into it. Santa is saying, (remember this from some years ago?) "Whoa Dammit! I said the SCHMIDT house"

Thank you Deek, Donleyk and Patissak for your movie reviews. They will come in handy in a few days when the grandkids will be here.

Sorry Canice for the hi-jack:o

[clairea]

Surely I am not the only one with the leaning tower of paper?

In our new house I have 2 desks (one in the kitchen and one in a little office off our bedroom) and these both seem to accumlate the leaning tower. In addition, the kitchen desk has:

several bottles of medication
a laptop
ipod and speakers
3 goodie bags my kids brought home from their school holiday parties
a bottle of guinea pig vitamins
a bottle of mineral dust for the gecko
my knitting
cell phone charger
a couple of cookbooks

The desk in the office has:
a coffepot
a basket full of medical receipts and EOBs I need to sort through
my calendar
gift wrapping supplies
fabric swatches for window treatments
several catalogs
scrapbooking stuff

[Cookin4Love]

This is scary. At home--just my monitor, printer, speakers, and cup 'o' pens.

At work:

Two bottles of water--one half empty.
Seven pictures of my grandchildren.
An envelope full of thank you notes for the police officers who did an assembl yforus.
A coffee cup that has never been used for coffee.
A soft drink cup left from lunch.
A lamp.
Three notebooks.
Miscellaneous files.
Two referrals that have to be processed in the next 8 minutes or they're going away.
A Jamba Juice gift card.
Pretty Kleenex box--almost empty.
Business cards.
A plate of cookies wrapped in cellophane.
My daytimer.
My clipboard with daily notes.
A "Caribbean Cruising" ornament.
My laptop and wireless monitor, mouse, and keyboard.
Class lists.
A mermaid drawing by my granddaughter.
A pin someone gave me for Christmas.
A votive candle.

Do we even want to talk about what's stacked under my desk, behind my desk, on my credenze, and on my lateral file cabinet? I think not. It could make a grown man weep.

[Peweh]

OK, this is in the shop and MAN is the desk crowded today!

crocks of pens, clothespins, price tags, safety pins, paper clips etc.
side drawers from old sewing machine holding rubber stamps, scissors, stapler price tags etc.
Rolodex
rolls of raffia
tape dispenser
cash register
desk organizer with ruler, labels, glue sticks, Sold tags etc
about 25 (this is where it gets crowded) soy candles in pint jars I'm trying to decorate and come up with creative scent names for without my nose going into scent overload
1 soy candle 'Holiday Punch Bowl' burning to attract candle buyers :p
5 Cooking Light Annuals!!

[Gail]

As an erstwhile student of archaeology, I am happy to report that excavations continue on a daily basis, trying to find anything on the mountain of stuff which is my desk.

[tamawrite]

On my home desk:

A stuffed cat.
A real cat.
A stuffed moose from our honeymoon to Canada.
A coffee warmer that just now is playing host to a plastic cup of water.
Dead camera batteries waiting to be recharged.
Sticky notes scribbled with website creation reminders.
Miscellaneous pens (all blue) and mechanical pencils (Bic disposable).
A violet legal pad and stack of multi-colored notecards with novel-plotting notes on them.
Tax-Cut software, free in yesterday's mail. (My cue to buy the whole package.)
Two packages of greeting cards printed with photos of my stallions.
A mouse pad with cats on it.
My keyboard, monitor, speakers, and mouse.
And a partridge in a pear tree.

[HejazSunKat]

My 'desk' at the moment is my kitchen table which contains:

Magazines:

People
Vanity Fair
Newsweek
Gourmet

I'm sure the variety of these publications says something about me.

My pocketbook, which is quivering in fear at the piles of Christmas shopping receipts it contains (or so I imagine). :D

[gertdog]

My "desk" is the dining room table. At the moment, it contains:

Laptop
External keyboard
Digital camera dock
A pair of scissors
A black Sharpie marker and some blank address labels
Packaging tape
A spool of ribbon
A pepper mill
My husband's watch
A bottle of Neutrogena Alcohol-Free Toner

:o

By tomorrow afternoon, it will have been magically transformed back into a dining table so that we can eat our holiday meals here.