Holidays, Exams, and Work-Work-Work!

Hi everybody,

It’s been a while since you heard from me, I know, and I am truly sorry. Thanks for all the e-mails asking where I was and if I was okay etc. It makes me realise that you do care! Lol

I’m back in study mode at the moment, as I try once again to be the hottest and sexiest college chick around and pick up my accountancy studies again after an 18 month break. I really haven’t done as much work as I should have though, especially with my exam less than two weeks away. To indicate how little work I have actually done, I’m taking a paper on corporate and business LAW, but up until a week ago, I thought it was corporate and business TAX that my paper was on! I think that really shows how unprepared I am, and also the fact that my study text books were still in their original cellophane wrapping until just days ago!

I think I may have to pull out the big guns for this one. With the exam format being that the passing mark changes depending on how well everybody does, if lots of people get high marks, the pass mark may be 60%, if most people do poorly, the pass mark could be 50%. So it gets me thinking, how few clothes would I have to wear to my exam to distract everybody enough that they all do so poorly that I can scrape a pass having not particularly studied at all? Oh, life’s big questions, how you torture me so!

I’ve been incredibly busy lately even without study though. I’m a bit of a go-to-girl at work when it comes to problem solving projects. It’s like the other side of me that often gets overlooked in this blog. I overlook my super intelligence and brilliance in favour of my sluttiness! LOL. But in all seriousness, at work I often get given the problem projects or tasks, with the reasoning being that I love a challenge to sink my teeth into, and I’m pretty good at getting to the bottom of things, solving the problems, and creating new checks and procedures that help prevent them from becoming a problem again. I think I’m so good at it due to my determination and abilities combined with my friendly, flirty nature. I find it’s a lot easier to solve problems when you have the type of personality that encourages people to want to help you, and I feel I have that. It almost feels like I’m in a work performance review here instead of writing a blog! Lol. So I spend a lot of time at work getting things handed over to me to work on, and then handing things back over when I’ve done what I need to do on them. The problem with this is when the crossovers become a bit tight, I get handed a new thing to do on the assumption that something else is winding down and is ready to be handed back over to somebody else, but if there are any delays, I end up hanging onto things for a month or so extra, and suddenly my workload is incredibly full and I have too many balls to juggle.

I like to liken it to an orgy – once you get more than three guys in there, suddenly I run out of places to put them! LOL

So, to sum it up, currently at work I have a few too many guys, I’ve ran out of places to put them, and they’re all feeling a little neglected that I’m not giving them as much attention as they deserve, which causes me to work extra hard and put in the extra hours to make the extra time to dedicate to each one.

And away from work, we went away on holiday a few weeks ago. It wasn’t a big holiday, we like to call it our secondary holiday – a cheap and cheerful week in the South Wales countryside. We’ll do a bigger, better, “sun, sea, and sand” holiday in a few months time, which will be our primary holiday for the year.

We had a really good time though, I love doing countryside holidays as I get to take my dogs with us and spend some quality time with them in giant parks, fields and beaches just having a blast. And originally being a South Wales starlet myself, and being damn proud of that fact, I also love any chance I get to head back to home soil.

And after quite a few trips to South Wales in the past couple of years that I’ve dragged J along to, he has finally agreed with me that South Wales has by far the prettiest female population around. Everywhere you go, gorgeous and beautiful girls everywhere. I always stood by the fact that Wales was full of the pretty people of the world, but J was never truly convinced. Despite the fact that’s where I come from, surely he wouldn’t need any more proof than that!! LOL. But he had to agree this time as I pointed out every pretty girl we saw on our trip, and there was no denying that I pointed out a lot of girls!

It always reminded me of one of my Dad’s favourite quotes – my dad being a stout northern Englishman who met my stunning and beautiful (and Welsh) mother whilst he was working in Wales nearly 30 years ago. He always used to say in an absolutely awful put-on Welsh accent, “They sure make them pretty in the valleys!” It was a joke at my mum’s expense really, as she has a really thick but natural Welsh accent. I’m somewhere in between if anybody was wondering, I have a noticeable but slight Welsh twang left in my otherwise accent-less voice.

Anyway, I just wanted to check in with everybody to say hello, and assure you all that I’m still alive and kicking! I’m going to go hit the books hard for a few weeks now and hopefully pass my exam and put myself back firmly on the path of becoming a financial whiz on the way to earning the big bucks.

So I’ll speak to you all again in the first couple of weeks of June! Hopefully in a positive “my exam went well” type of mood!

Lots of love and kisses

Your faithful Blogslut xx