Vitamins on my Desk
My desk is cluttered with various knick-knacks. Three coffee mugs sit on one corner. I use one to drink coffee, one to hold pens and one I fill with assorted rogue bits left over from the days work: paper clips, a hair beret, someone’s plastic floss tool.
I don’t have any pictures on my desk. I used to, but then I realized I was spending too much time gazing at my pictures and not enough time getting work done, so they had to go. Though, I have a handsome picture of my brother behind my desk. Men who are new to the office often think it’s my husband, which I don’t really mind, because it keeps them from hitting on me.
I usually have some project which takes up half the desk, something involving glue, or many paper tabs or an oversized calender.
And then I have a jar of vitamins. I bought the vitamins online from a website my friend suggested to me through a blog. The vitamins are great but they are a bit pricey, which is recently becoming a problem…
The vitamins on my desk are sort of like M&M’s. They come in little packets, and there’s 60 packets in a jar, so I’ve been letting my coworkers grab a packet if they want to. I’ve got a lot of coworkers and the desk vitamins always stir up a bit of interest, so I’m running out of vitamins faster than I want to. If vitamins came in bar form, people wouldn’t say, “Hey, break me off a piece of that vitabar.” But no one has a problem snatching a little packet. I’m thinking about asking my boss for some reimbursement.
