Warning!

Running may result in additional house projects. I really love to run through the neighborhoods and look at other houses for ideas. Especially on weekends I feel like I'm always running by great garage sales with no money and no car. Yesterday - I took to my old college hobby of dumpster-diving or recycling as I like to call it. I've gotten many a good find this way especially in NYC, but here there can be good loot, I've even gotten a Christmas tree a good two weeks before Christmas from outside a frat house. Yesterday, it was a desk that was calling me. I ran past it on my way out from my house starting out on my run. "That was a really good looking desk" I thought as I went by it. "There must be something wrong with it, wobbly legs, stains, ghosts. Well," I figured. "I'll just see if it is there on the way back and check it out a little closer then." I can't say I didn't pick up the pace on my way back to up the odds of it still being there and it was. I moved it around, no wobbles, I opened the drawers, no severed fingers inside, hmmm. It did look a bit short, but I'll run home and have my roommate come check it out and if it is still here... I started running home even faster now. I saw Jen working in her front yard waved a hello, but didn't even break stride as I was on a mission. I burst through the front door, "You have to go check out this desk I saw." The more I described it, the more I realized that it was a actually a project desk. "There is a loose handle, but just one, and yes water stains on top, but maybe we can paint it ." Fifteen minutes later and I now have an old wooden desk in the garage waiting for some TLC. Anyone good with a paint brush?!