Recently, I’ve been playing a game called “Let’s Build a Zoo”.  It’s a pretty simple concept…you build a zoo. You have to manage not only animals, but all of the infrastructure, as well.  You build habitats to best house the animals that you have. You can add enrichment to the habitats and you can trade with other zoos to get animals.

I had seen a meme the other day where someone mentioned that they started calling ordering things from Amazon  as “procuring enrichment for their habitat”.  Which made me laugh.

I’m probably an overachiever in the “habitat enrichment” game.  But my home office is definitely my happy place. While it is where I work, it is also the place where I have many items that I love dearly. If I had to pick one room in my apartment that is my favourite, it would DEFINITELY be my office.  My office is definitely what I consider to be my primary habitat.

Interesting (?) side note. I have mild OCD.  This shows up for me as being absolutely unable to work when things are cluttered. If I can see the clutter from where I am working, it’s virtually impossible for me to work on anything until the clutter is taken care of.  Sometimes I can get away with just moving things out of my line of sight but most of the time, I have to completely take care of the issue and then I can get things done.  I hate that that is the way that my brain works, but it’s the way things are and I just have to deal with it.

It throws me off completely when I go and visit my Mom and work in her “den”.  I love a lot of things about that space (built in desk and bookshelf) but I usually end up tidying up her space. I’m sure she is a little annoyed but she has never complained.