Appraisal Time

The time of the year has come wherein we sit and retrospect what went good and what went wrong through the year. We write it down and present to our seniors wishing that they see and understand the value we have created for the company.
Its all the more hard to face the people and tell them (not convince them since they will never be if they dont get the top rankings) that they are not in the top echelons of the grades. Its very difficult that we have to fit in the number of people that we have in the bell curve with some percentages. But then thats the irony of being a boss and having people to appraise.
I am not sure how people manage to convince their reportees otherwise. Suggestions are truly welcome.

The next steps

Then we went to a doctor who took all the tests. It was confirmed.
She told us all about what to eat, what to do what not to do (I wouldnt go into details of the same.)
Then came all the site visits - babycenter.com. We registered onto their site and began receiving regualar updates from them.

New member to the family

Well the day has arrived after so long a time. After much dilly dallying we had decided to go for the plunge. We decided that yes we want to expand our family. So here it is - we are expecting a baby. It just came all of a sudden. I don't how I should reach to this news - I am internally so happy to hear this but at the same time i am too much worried as to how i would be able to manage the baby and every responsibility that came with it. All kinds of thoughts started coming into my mind - how will I be able to sustain the baby, will I be able to provide all that it needs, will I be able to give him/her good education, good upbringing and so on and so forth......

I have always been a happy go lucky person, hardly caring about whats coming in next. But this time its really worrying me to no end. I know this is a very very common phenomenon but obviously this is a first time for me, you see :-) (at least legally hahahhaah )