Monday, 16 November 2009

A Day At The Office

My husband has gone to Australia for the week on a buisness trip.
He has quite a big company that has bases in several countries.
Whilst he is away he asked me (or should I say, told me?) to open and close head office, which is in Croatia [where we live].
A simple enough task. I work in the office anyway, on reception and as a PA to my husband. He gave me the keys and strict instuctions.
So what did I do? Well, at first I did as I was told. I opened up, everyone went to their respective offices and rooms. I want to our office, opened the mail. Responded to letters and phonecalls as much as I could without my husbands help. Then I made myself a drink and decided to have a little "break". I had bought my JLS cd with me, and I thought I'd listen to it for a bit. I have it on my IPod and in my car, but the CD ended up making the trip too. So I opened the cd player, put the cd in and pressed play. The next thing, JLS "Beat Again" is blaring out on the PA/speaker system for the whole office!! Every room, every office, even the toilets! The was Croatia's first tase of JLS, I think!!
I was so embarrassed. But that wasn't the only problem I had today. Trying to find information and things in my husbands office, only to find all the draws and cupboards locked. It wasn't very helpful at all. It limited how much I could help people, and how many questions I could answer of clients and potential clients.
When my husband is at work I usually just open the mail, answer basic questions, answer the telephone, and do basic filing.
But this week I have a bigger responsiblity, and yet doing them was twice as hard because I didn't have the nessasary stuff to help me. I was so frustrated!!
I thought I would start writing this blog again, because I used to find it quite helpful having somewhere to write down my thoughts and feelings.
I made another blog a week or so ago called "Beat Again", but I am not going to use that one for now. Even though I have deleted the entries from this one time and time again, I keep coming back to it. There is just something about this blog!!
So anyway, I have four (possibly more) days left of running the office. I spoke to my husband and asked him how I was supposed to do everything he asked of me when he had locked away all the resources? He wasn't too happy with me for speaking to him like that, but he is obviously having a good time in Australia because he didn't fly off the handle like he usually does.
He told me where the keys to the cupboards were, so that I could get all books, booklets, pamphlets and information that potential clients would need. And he told me to direct any "urgent" calls from clients to his mobile. But he didn't tell me where to find the keys to his desk, and I couldn't find them!! I looked!! Because I wanted to know what he was hiding in there!
He is so damn secretive! He locks his study at home too. I can't get in to their either! When he is working in his study in the evenings, he makes me knock before I go in! I should have known he wouldn't give me the oppportunity to snoop whilst he was away!
I don't think it's that he is "up to" anything, I just think that he doesn't trust me. That is a long story, that I am not going to go in to now.
Previous blog readers will know some of the basics of my turbulent relationship with my husband. As I said, I am not going go to too much in to it now, but as you will come to see our marriage isn't exactly what you'd call a happy one.
I had the weekend "off" this week. My friend Cora stayed on Saturday night, so that she could look after my daughter and let me have my first lie-in in months! Cora is such a great friend. She is gorgeous, she has a heart of pure gold and she is so sweet. She is kind and considerate, and always puts everyone else before herself without being a doormat. I am blessed to have her in my life. She had other commitments, so my Saturday tea time she was off. But that extra few hours in bed made all the difference to me.
But do you ever find that two days off isn't actually long enough for you to overcome the tiredness before it all starts again? So I woke up this morning and wanted nothing more than to just stay there all day. Sod work. But of course I couldn't.
So that was my first day in charge. No doubt I will get in a lot of trouble when my husband finds out about the JLS incident. But I am was not too worried about that on it's own. But if you mix in to the equation that on Friday just hours after my husband left for Australia, I curbed his Holden Monaro.. Well that is just me in a whole lot of trouble!! That is two bad strikes against me, after just three days!! And believe me, nothing escapes my husband's attention!
Anyway, I have spent an hour writing this, so I think that will be all for today.

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