A Stand-Off
I’m so excited! I am soon to join the latest craze in office work. I’m getting a standing desk. It’s not as ambitious as a treadmill desk but not as lazy as sitting in a comfy office chair all day.
For years I’ve used an exercise ball as my “desk chair”. It forces me to (usually) sit up straight and engage my abs while I work, which is good for my horrible back (slipped disk, generally knotted muscles so bad I make massage therapists weep). Every now and then, in our old house, I would pick up my laptop and move it over to a half-height bookshelf in my den and stand there and work. It was fine. It was almost comfy. I worked up to standing a good portion of the day. But then my husband would complain about my laptop and my papers sitting on the bookshelf in the den (if I forgot to move them back to my desk in the office).
When we moved, I told my husband that I really, really wanted a standing desk. He proposed that I use the bar table we were planning on using as our kitchen table (the kitchen in the condo is too small for an actual table, and we’ve had this bar table acting as a printer stand for years). While the construction was going on, we placed the bar table in our sun room and I used it for my desk. It was great. But then my husband complained that all of my papers and laptop were there, how were we supposed to eat?
Um…
That motivated him to find me a real standing desk. My husband is an expert on-line shopper. When he wants to find something, nine times out of ten, he can not only find what he wants, but he can find it at an amazing price. He found me a beautiful standing desk—at Amazon of all places.
It’s due to arrive next week and I can’t be more excited! We’re going to put it in the sun room, which I like because it’s got windows all around (it’s also not air conditioned or heated, but fans and space heaters should solve that problem). But the best thing is that I’m going to be able to stand and work and have my own space to do so.
Of course, I’ve already bought a gel mat to stand on (the sun room has a beautiful tile floor which just kills your feet if you stand on it for too long). And I’ve read up on standing while you work.
We, of course, have all heard about the benefit of doing so—better for your posture, better for your health, keeps your metabolism at work, lowers the risk of cancer, ups your mood and alertness—all great stuff. And I’ve read that I shouldn’t stand still all day either. The point of working at a standing desk is that you move. Take a walk around every so often (when I’m formatting, I put on pop music, so if I’m standing, it’s really easy to bop and move along with the music and doesn’t interrupt my formatting hardly at all). And when I get tired, I can just pick up my laptop and move over to my desk in the office. Easy! Good for my health! I’m so excited!!
As soon as I get my desk, I’ll be sure to post a picture of me standing at it on Facebook!
Oh, and to celebrate my move being finally over, and starting my new life as an apartment dweller, I’ve put the start of my Children of Avalon series and my Merry Men series on sale. Air: Merlin’s Chalice is free wherever I could make it so—Smashwords and Google Play (I set it to free on Kobo, but they haven’t updated it); and An Exotic Heir is reduced to 99 cents everywhere. The sale lasts until the 14th, the day after we officially sell our house, so don’t wait, get your copies now!
