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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

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