Music: made possible by a baby monitor.

Because our office renovation project never got off the ground, this is where I work.

Watched by a gun-toting busty graffiti lady.

Amid total clutter of :

• $10 JCP coupons, 
• piggy banks and other breakables we need to keep out of Franca's reach, 
• a ream of blank CDs that we haven't used in years (but FC loves to play with. Shiny!), 
• my awesome OMG notebook (because honestly, that's how I feel about much of my work),
• DELLS, while not the coolest computers, have always treated me well.

But today I have a terrific improvement that is going to make my day SO MUCH BETTER. See that white baby monitor sitting on the laptop? That thing allows me to keep an ear open for a napping Franca, ignore the door to door solicitors, and listen to music on my phone! Why did I not think of this before?

Welcome back to my life dear, sweet music. I've missed you.

The last frontier to to somehow soundproof this room. Franca will nap while being carried around the grocery and poked and coo'ed at by every old lady, but if I take a 30 second business phone call she immediately wakes up. So every time I have to make a call or take a call, I have to quietly sneak downstairs and pretend I can still see my computer screen while furiously scribbling notes into my OMG notebook. Not so efficient.

And when the nap ends, but I just have one last thing to do. I work like this.

(Note the decoy keyboards and mouse.)

In other news, the scary footprints have been identified and the situation remedied. More on that later. Right now I've got to make a 124 page Word document accessible to blind people and rock out to some Tegan and Sara. ;)