The Home Office: Ideals vs. Reality

As someone who works from home, Centsational Girl's round-up of inspiring home offices is great eye candy, even though a majority of her finds are a bit too girly for me.

For some reason, our home office/guest room is the place we stuck everything that didn't "go" in the rest of the house. It's on the long list of "To do's." Here's a shameful glimpse at what's behind me as I type:
Although, I am pretty excited/proud of the lamp I found will thrifting this weekend: