Former White House Bureau Chief
"I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?"

~Helen Thomas, former White House bureau chief.

Labels: fun, Helen Thomas, life, White House bureau chief, wild women, wild words, Wild words from wild women, work

  posted by Matildakay at 1:01 PM 0 comments

Starting from here…
To quote Robin Slick’s blog today, “If you only knew all the reasons I have not been blogging…”

There has been quite a lot going on in my life lately. It’s been hard for me to keep up with everything and unfortunately my blog has suffered.

Unlike Robin, the fabulous comedic erotic fiction writer, who didn’t divulge all the reasons she hasn’t been blogging, I’ll tell you what’s been going on with me.

In the last few weeks or so, I’ve been negotiating a deal to buy my very first home. Who knew that buying a house was so stressful. Back and forth with the offers and counter offers, the inspections, closing costs, the money and the anxiety. Is the deal going to go through or not? And the paperwork! My goodness. All this work to be more in debt than I’ve ever been in my life. In fact making this big of a financial decision on my own has been quite difficult and very stressful. My parents and friends have been supportive but in the end I’ve had to make these decisions on my own.



When it’s all said and done I’m sure the money, the debt and all the stress of the last few weeks will be worth it when I finally own my own home. I just keep telling myself to be brave. To just go out there and do it. To make my dreams come true.

And then in the midst of all the house stress, my assistant at work quit. If I worked for a big company, this wouldn’t be a big deal. But I work for a small company and her quitting was huge. Not only was my work load going to double, I now had to hire and train someone else to replace my assistant who had been with the company for five years.

Did I say I’ve been under a little stress lately? Ha!

We received 400 resumes in response to our ad for a new assistant. 400 resumes! I have to review 400 resumes and find the 10 best applicants to interview! Oh and I have to do all of my work and my assistant’s work too while running around like crazy trying to get everything done on my house deal.



Can you say MIGRAINE!

And if that wasn’t enough to do, I’ve been preparing my taxes and a friend’s books for his taxes and meeting with tax people. And once I finish Noveltown’s sales tax return I don’t want to hear the word tax again for a while. I don’t like paying taxes anyway. The IRS already punishes me for being single with no dependents. I pay more taxes out of my check than anyone else in my office. (I only know this because I do payroll).

With the house, the assistant who quit, and the taxes, I’ve had a hard time keeping up with everything. I’ve tried. But at the end of extremely stressful days all I’ve wanted to do is come home curl up on the couch and lose myself in dvds. I’ve watched some really good movies these last few weeks, but unfortunately I haven’t had the energy to write in my blog. At first I tried to keep up, but it was a losing battle.



I’ve posted March’s wild words from wild women quotes, you can go back and read them if you want, some really great women had some really great things to say. I also posted a few photographs. At this point, I’m just going to call March a wash and start from here…

I’ll be blogging again even though I’m busy. Did I say busy? I still have to pack and move!

I just have to remember to breathe, take one day at a time and keep moving forward.

Labels: buy a house, debt, dreams, housing market, Keep moving forward, mortgage, taxes, work

  posted by Matildakay at 11:49 PM 2 comments

Prime Minister of India
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."

~Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India.

Labels: daily quote, grandfather, India, Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, wild women, wild words, Wild words from wild women, work

  posted by Matildakay at 4:23 PM 0 comments

English Thespian
"Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you."

~Dame Flora Robson, English thespian.

Labels: blessing, daily quote, Dame Flora Robson, English thespian, God, wild women, wild words, Wild words from wild women, work

  posted by Matildakay at 1:01 PM 0 comments

The Panic Button
Still working in the construction zone, my office is being painted and work stations rearranged. Last Friday my co-worker dismantled my desk to move my workstation to its new location.

“What’s this button for?” He asked pointing at the button mounted underneath my desk.



“It’s the security system panic button,” I explained. “Why?”

“I pushed it.”

“You pushed the panic button! The cops will be here in a few minutes.”

“I didn’t know what it was.”

“It’s the PANIC BUTTON!” I began to panic.

“I didn’t know we had a panic button,” he explained, “What if there was a robbery and I didn’t know we had a panic button?”

“You knew, you just forgot.”

“I didn’t hear any alarm when I pushed the button.”

“It’s the panic button! It’s a silent alarm.” I explained.

It was at this moment that the city police department called to inform us that they had received the panic robbery in progress alarm signal and there were cops surrounding the building at that very moment.

“The cops are downstairs.” I informed my co-workers.

One of my co-workers went downstairs to explain to the police that we accidentally pushed the panic button while dismantling a desk.

The cops came upstairs to inspect the premises for burglars and to verify that we were telling the truth about the panic button. Of course my boss was out of the office during the panic button pushing incident and was not there to verify to the cops that we were indeed his employees and rearranging workstations.

With dismantled desks on the stairwell and computers systems unhooked and sitting around the office, we looked like we were robbing the place. We showed the cops the panic button still mounted on the bottom of my dismantled desk hoping they would believe our story.

Finally, we convinced the cops of our innocence and they left.

My co-workers and I burst into laughter!

“At least they didn’t come in here with their guns drawn like they do when the building alarm goes off.” I said.

We laughed until our stomachs hurt.

“What’s going on?” My boss asked taking in our obscene laughter.

“We’ve had some excitement,” I explained. “We accidentally pushed the panic button and the cops came!”

“Did they have their guns drawn?” My boss asked.

We laughed some more…

Labels: Alarm System, co-worker, construction zone, Panic Button, Security Systems, Silent Alarm, work, workstations

  posted by Matildakay at 11:24 PM 3 comments

Working in the Construction Zone
Last Thursday morning I arrived at work to find an orange cone in front of my desk.



“What’s with the cone?” I asked my boss.

“I’m fixing your desk.”

I had recently complained that my desk was falling apart.

“If my desk is in a construction zone that means I don’t have to work, right?”

“No, you still have to work.”

“You wouldn’t want a Worker’s Comp injury on your hands would you?”

“Its just glue.” My boss informed me.

“Glue? You’re fixing my desk with glue?”

“Gorilla Glue! It fixes everything.”



Glue! Maybe my hands will get stuck together and I won’t have to work. I thought.

I worked in the construction zone all day Thursday and Friday as my boss gorilla-glued the corners of my desk. I wonder if I should bring a hard hat to work with me on Monday?

Labels: construction zone, gorilla glue, orange cone, work

  posted by Matildakay at 10:36 PM 1 comments