I’ve been tagged!

It’s Friday night, the kids are in bed including code monkey and so I decided to read and catch up on reading my favourite blogs (I’m Australian hence the Australian spelling). I have to confess that I haven’t been keeping up with my own blog never mind anyone else’s. Long story short – I’ve discovered that I’ve been tagged by Fiona at Moment by Moment and Melissa Khalinsky of Business Mums to share 8 things about myself. It comes at an interesting time for me. One of my listservs has been discussing the pros and cons of sharing too much information about ourselves and our personal lives and the impact that has on our professional branding/image. Yes there comes a time when that is possible but how can we build a collaborative relationship with our collegues, clients and suppliers without some kind of social discourse?

So the rules of this tagging game is:

1. Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves.
2. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed.
3. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people, posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

So here goes…..

1. I LOVE technology. I have gadgets galore and I can’t imagine going without them. Being a Virtual Assistant AND a WAHM (Work at home mum) it’s important to me that I can take my business with me and be mobile. This includes having a fax to email service (yay to Ozefax – I love you guys!!), a VoIP office phone number and my Palm Treo 750.
2. We used over 300 metres of networking cabling in our house when we built it just under two years ago.
3. My business was named after my daughter. I chose Tilda Virtual Services because my business and my daughter were born at the same time. I also wanted a unique name that ‘hinted’ at my Aussie-ness and one that was special to me.
4. I started my business 34 weeks pregnant with my third child Matilda and after she was sent to a NICU 3 hours from home at birth with complications it became my mission to stay at home with my children while still retaining a little something for me. That something is my business.
5. My appendix nearly burst when I was 15 and I had to have an emergency operation. I now have a scar 10cm long.
6. Each of my children are 3 years apart in age and no we didn’t plan it that way!
7. My husband aka code monkey and I have been together since I was 15 and we will be celebrating our 8th wedding anniversary this December and 13 years together this year. Yes that makes me 28 this year for those of you who are wondering.
8. We recently bought a brand new car for the first time. It’s a Mitsubishi Outlander. After it’s first service, the dealership broke my bluetooth. I cried because I couldn’t use it to talk on my Treo while driving anymore. Consolation prize I suppose is the DVD player for the kids in the roof. Talk about a sanity saver!!

I now tag Carrie, Crystal, Kathie, Pam, Laurie, Lisa, Erin and Candy!

Tagged as: Blogging & WordPress, Working with small children