If you visit here much, you’ve probably read a reference or two to the fact that Tim is working from home full-time. We both love it, especially me! It’s been such a blessing to have him here, and for us to be able to spend so much time together. We converted one of our spare bedrooms years ago into a computer room/scrapbook room. Since we run our own website (Hambones.org), we have several computers back there already. When he started working from home part-time, he worked some in the den and kitchen, but that is hard on your back to sit for long periods of time at a non-computer chair/desk. Then, he moved to the computer room/office and we got me a laptop to use in the den and kitchen (where I spend most of my time anyway!). We have a computer desk and chair, but the chair is probably 11 or 12 years old and not ergonomic in any way.
Tim has been having problems with his upper back and shoulders for nearly two weeks now. Yesterday, he got up and decided to go to the doctor to get it x-rayed and checked out. But, by lunchtime, he talked himself out of going, saying it was starting to feel better. He’s been using a heating pad, and we have been applying those heat patches to his back a couple of times a day. FYI – Tim is not a guy who gets sick or has physical problems. He’s as healthy as an ox. When he gets a headache, he doesn’t even like to take a Tylenol. He prefers to just “tough it out”. 🙂
Anyway, I suggested that maybe it was time to look at getting a) a new computer chair for him to sit in all day and maybe b) a new mattress for our bed. Our mattress is 9 or 10 years old – does anyone know if that’s about the lifespan of a mattress/box springs?
So, last night, we went and got Tim a new chair. He picked it out, and then when we got it home, I was told that I was going to be putting it together!
Tada - instead of Tim "Tool Time", we have Stacy Tool Time...
Concentrating (I normally stick my tongue in the side of my mouth when I concentrate!)
Posing
So, now Tim has a nice new chair to sit in all day. And at night, he works nights sometimes too, like last night. Poor thing. I’m so proud of him, he works so hard to support us and give us a comfortable, happy life 🙂
P.S. Tim said to add that he “loves a woman who can build a chair!!” 🙄
This brought a smile to my face today! One, that you love that he works from home – that is so sweet. Not many people I know could say that. Kudos to you guys. And two, that you are the putter-together chief chair assembler. I am kind of that person around our house too. Not that he can’t, I just enjoy doing it. Something about following all those directions and seeing the finished product! Oh and cute pictures too!!
Back to w.o.r.k (a little bored today, albeit no lack of stuff to do).
Good for you, Stace! I’m glad he got a new chair. Now for the mattress….they say they should last 10 yrs. Mine has been sagging and my back has been aching. We seriously need to get a new one and it sounds like you should too! They are so expensive though! I want one of those sleep number beds that are guaranteed for about 20 yrs. I think they run $2,000 or so!
A new chair, fun! I think I need a new one….although I don’t really use the desk anymore. I’m impressed you put it together.
And I see your tree there in the background, good job! Mine needs working on if you want to come up and help….Don isn’t able to do much!
Tim’s a lucky guy, in more ways than one! I had to laugh at “the tongue.” One of my father-in-law’s expressions, when you are doing something intricate and have to get it ju-u-st right is “It helps if you hold your tongue just right.”
So, should we just call you Jill now instead of Stacy?
I LOVE TOOL TIME!!!! Probably better not to have Tim put it together, if he’s anything like Tim Taylor he’d end up in the hospital! Hope his back gets better. If it doesn’t, please have him go to a doctor before doing anything like a chiropractor. I’m not a fan, and it seems that if you go once, you “have” to keep going back. I may be a little biased, but I just think that for, at least initial, treatment, a physician is better.
I think you’re incredibly cute in these pics! Like a high school girl. That’s quite a compliment! 🙂
Has anyone ever told you that you look like Sandra Bullock?
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