Part of the domestic executive plan was to get some home companions in the shape of Basset hounds. Well now were in it seemed prudent to start the search for our new additions to the household.
As luck would have it there were puppies born in the Coramandel on 16 November. Here they are [...]
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New additions
Posted in Domestic Executive Countdown on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Countdown @ zero
Posted in Domestic Executive Countdown on September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
After blogging about this for a year the time has actually arrived and I am now officially a domestic executive again. Well, part time anyway!
I’ve trundled my desk drawers to a pod down the office to free up the desk for the incoming Acting GM. Written up the desk file and signed over [...]
Lame duck GM
Posted in Domestic Executive Countdown on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It feels really wierd at work. I think I am now officially a lame duck General Manager.
With only 8 more working days in this role my email traffic has almost ground to a halt, the phone only rings to recruitment consultants or advertising sales people and my staff look at me with that [...]
Domestic Executive Countdown: 35 days to go
Posted in Domestic Executive Countdown on August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
At last, I’m on the home run to domestic executive life. Only 35 more days to go before I finish my full time contract with MSD. Can’t wait.
After months of people being in denial they headhunters have finally been called and the search is on to replace me. They are a [...]
Numbers are not my friends
Posted in Domestic Executive Countdown on May 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For someone who had to retake her GSCE in Maths numbers have never been my friends. Living with someone who can delight in reading pages of numbers this is often a reason for discussion on how I should improve my mathematical abilities.
Thank goodness for spreadsheets that’s all I can say. After years of following the [...]
Countdown to being a domestic executive: 24 weeks to go
Posted in Domestic Executive Countdown on April 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a while since I looked at the countdown position and it seems that time has stood still, or I simply couldn’t count earlier in the year. It is now 24 weeks until the end of my contract with MSD. If I want to have the fancy tiles in the hall and a new [...]
Counting down to Easter
Posted in Domestic Executive Countdown on March 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Phew, another week passes in a flash. Now it’s only a four day countdown until the Easter long weekend. Can’t wait to step off the executive grind for a few days and seek out some warm weather up on the East Coast.
We’re off to Hawkes Bay www.hawkesbaynz.com for some r&r with hop [...]
30 weeks left on countdown
Posted in Domestic Executive Countdown on March 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a lovely kiwi phrase which sums up how I feel this week. “I’m so over it…..”
This covers off the results of about 3 months work to prepare for a senior management conference which was completely thrown out of the window due to a last minute rethink by our leader. It’s been a tortuous process [...]
Countdown to being a domestic executive: 32 weeks to go
Posted in Domestic Executive Countdown on February 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Boy was I pleased to leave the office at the end of this week. It feels like it’s gone on forever with every day bring new and interesting (not) challenges to face.
We started with a story on the front page of the Dom (Wellington Daily) with a Hells Pizza manager claiming that Work [...]
Countdown to being a domestic executive: 33 Weeks to go
Posted in Domestic Executive Countdown on February 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a gorgeous week and definitely not a good place to be in the office. It’s been hot, stuffy and people have been generally grumpy to be stuck inside. Still, it was only a three day week this week for this executive after taking a day’s leave and then Waitangi Day so I shouldn’t [...]
