My maternity leave is over and I’m back to work now. 😐
In fact, this is going to be my 2nd week at work. I haven’t really settled down as I’m in the progress of moving office. So, lots of spring cleaning to tidy up the cubicle.
Frankly, after two months of not working, one gets lazy (as in lazy to get back into the rat race 😛 ). I do not look forward to the days of early conference calls and following up on the projects. The only plus of getting back to work is to be able to update this space and share what has been happening since I birthed.
The last one month has been VERY hectic. Let me fill you in on what had been keeping me busy. Firstly, we finally got our new car after 6 months wait. 😕 Am pretty pleased with the car except that the fuel price went up a few days later. 😦
Secondly, it’s the many trips back and forth to my apartment to clean up the place. I think my tenants never once clean the bathrooms in that one year they stayed; it was so dirty aitelyu! If you’ve got an apartment to let, take this piece of advice from me; don’t ever let to company which use the apartment as their employee’s living quarters, and especially if the employees are single guys. I was very upset because the main door lock was broke and they don’t even have the courtesy to inform me! Hmmph! They are also irresponsible as they have lost the main entrance touch’n’go card and 3 elevator access cards, and most of all, the whole set of apartment keys!!! Can you beat that?
Then we have to find new tenant because we are not moving into the apartment due to sudden change of plans. Luckily, the apartment is quite sought after so it was successfully leased without much time lapse (discounting the cleanup time). Now thinking back, I was too ambitious to have planned to move 6 weeks post natal, without anticipating so many things to come up in the same month. I would’ve been so stressed had we gone ahead with my initial plans.
Thirdly, the maid I employed arrived. Luckily I planned for her to arrive 3 weeks before I come back to work. She comes in really handy in cleaning up the apartment. Since her arrival, I was kept busy training her. I hardly get proper sleep because baby gets up to nurse at night, and I have to get up early in the morning to teach her what to do and supervise to see if she does it correctly. It doesn’t help that I’m still staying with MIL and the maild doesn’t have a lot to do during weekends until we move to our place.
So there, a very hectic month for me though it might not sound so to you. 😛
I have another two posts long overdue; that’s baby’s birth and his name. I hope to steal some time this week to pen it down. Stay tuned.
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as fickle as can be 