Balance, I thought I was the only person with a stuffed Bun-Bun atop a monitor.
At work, well, until I manage to balance something on a half-inch-wide surface tilted at 30 degrees, my laptop screen will just have to live without plush animals.
I have a sticker that says “I bet Einstein turned himself all sorts of colors before he invented the lightbulb” and the infamous “Out out demons of stupidity” dilbert cartoon. and dust.
Several powerful magnets. I can’t see what I’m typing.
Don’t try this.
Work:
A couple of lists pertinent to work (names/extensions etc.)
Image: some marketing glurge - we can’t have our own pictures or even opt to have a blank screen.
Home:
Dust
A small stuffed pooch (I think it might be a Jack Russel Terrier) sits on the top left side of my monitor.
Taped to the other corner is a clipping that my sister-in-law gave me that says that men find teaching to be the third most attractive occupation a woman can have (after massage therapist and flight attendant :rolleyes: ).
Between these two items on the front of the monitor is a quote I got (probably from here) by Hemingway that says, “The first draft is always sh*t.”
Image: Sybilla of Cleves by Cranach (Trivia: This was one of the paintings destroyed by that stupid fool of a woman who tried to protect her son, an art thief, by destroying the evidence via canal and garbage disposal.)
I have a little plastic sign that my sister gave me. It’s a miniature version of those yellow “Caution: Wet Floor” signs you see at grocery stores, only this one says “Caution: Caffeine Addict.”
A coffee cup that says “JITTERS” on it, and is filled with unsharpened pencils, non-working pens, an emery board and the Junie B. Jones stuffed dolly my friend Beth gave me.
A sticker that says “Hand over the coffee and no one gets hurt.”
(See the “what’s the deal with coffee?” thread for further explanation of the above items.)
A teeny little resin alligator (named Gallymator) my friend Kevin got in the Everglades. An oddly shaped plaster-of-Paris Easter egg my daughter painted for me when she was four. The bottom third of a Betti Spaghetti doll that I took away from my dog. a small container of cinnamon Altoids, and a smaller package of SenSen.
Around my monitor, on my desk and in my cubbyholes, are a buncha CDs, some paper and labels for printing, a cordless phone off its base, a can of Coke, an ashtray complete with burning cigarette, a card with a painted silk insert (also from my friend Beth), four Yankee candles in various stages of used-ness, the Yellow Pages, a small stack of books about parent involvement in schools, a memo block, a cigar box with embroidery floss in it, an oil pastel collage my daughter did tonight, which is propped in front of a bunch of framed black and white antique photos, two computer speakers and my Palm Pilot base thingie.
a plush zebra named charlie.
My cat is there usually. But right now, nothing.
Erm…my cat just jumped up there after I posted this.
At work: A row of post-it notes with, from left to right, my password for PVCS, a telnet pwd for one of our servers, another server password, my password for Remedy, another server password, km/miles conversion (km/1.6 = miles), and the asset tag number for my computer and the number for the help desk. They always need the asset tag number when I call them, and it’s a pain getting under my desk to find it.
Okay, I don’t actually have my passwords on post-it notes on my computer. I have hints, like, if the password was “dope”, I’d have “straight” on the post-it note.
I have two stickers that have help numbers for work, a pic of me and the boyfriend smooching, a Spongebob Squarepants, a Prozac clock, a tiny Mini Cooper symbol, and a sticker that says “Bob Esponja”. On one side, I have a picture of me and the band Smashmouth, and on the other side, I have a picture of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out.
I also have a picture of a Mini Cooper. At the bottom, it says “If you’re looking at this shiny new MINI Cooper,” and I added “Buy it for Skerri!”
Snot from me sneezing on it and not giving it a good wipe-down.
Oh, and a nice, bland blue background.
Home:
Gefilte fish ;j (from McPhee http://www.mcphee.com/bigindex/current/M5514.html )
2 Jawa
Monitor lizard (stuffed & tye dyed)
Roz (Monsters, Inc.)
Work:
Mike Wazowski
“Coffee now dammit” sticker from www.unamerican.com)
many, many Post-It notes (1*2)
A really cheezy snow globe of (and from) the NYC Guggenheim.
A fortune from a cookie that reads, “You are never bitter, deceptive, or petty,” from a gripe session/lunch after I was not promoted.
One of my business cards, so I know where I am.
A small chart of ACI standard reinforcing bars (in imperial units).
Various Post-Its ™ with passwords and phone numbers.
I have an HP Laserjet 110 printer on my monitor (it’s a big monitor)
And it makes really neato wigglys on my screen when it prints something out.
It’s also mathematically juuuuust the right height so that the page, when ejected, smacks the lower monitor bezel, and lays print side down. If it’s a big print job, I can come back to a nice stack of paper, still in the right order.
A Ravens sticker in one corner, a Terps sticker in the other.