imagine if you took someone on a first date here! do you think that would be appropiate??? LOL

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this is GOOD!

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A bit about "ME"

I was born in november 1972.I was 8 weeks premature.My mother tells me she didn't even get to bond with me as i was placed in a humidity crib for 3 months.

I developed a turn in my eye at 6 months of age.The pediatrician told my mother i have this condition as she had toxoplasmosis while pregnant. An infection which is flu like that is contracted from cats.I am permanently partially blind in my right eye.

Visits were never ending to and from the childrens hospital.I have severe asthma.Mum and dad are told the worst, that i may not survive the night from an intense, severe asthma attack.They prepare.But i pull through.

At age 10 i have grown out of my asthma.I still have the turn in my eye, and i am costantly teased at school being labelled as "bung Eyes."
I have an operation on my 15th birthday to straighten my eye. Its a success.Both my eyes are corrected but my vision will always be impaired.After the op, i freak as i am seeing double.I am reasurred that this is normal as the muscles in the eye have been shortened to correct the squint.It takes a good year or so until i see normally.

I attended a private school.I Was an average student.The fees are phenominal.My parents send me to a girls only private school.Big mistake!

Here i played up.Wagged school.Didnt study.Was oh sooo naughty.Coped detentions.Even saturday ones where i had to go to school in uniform! How embarressement.Was suspended and then expelled.

So, its off to the local high school where i get my act together.
My grades improved.I made some great friends.I have lost some but remain best buddies with nicky.

I complete year 11 successfully. Mum and dad give me the option to go and work or complete year 12.I opt to go and work.

I started off working as a personal care attendant(PCA) in a nursing home.They provided me with on the the job training.I continue this path until im 24 and decide to go to tafe to do nursing.

I remember having to have an interview infront of a panel.A very nerve racking experience!
I studied hard that year and the results showed.My report came back mainly with distinctions and one or two high distinctions. I was proud,as well as my parents.

I had a partner of 3yrs.He wanted to propose.I declined as we were in a long distance relationship.It eventually fizzled after 5yrs of dating.He was my first true love.I still think of him today.I saw him 3 yrs ago in the city.A very weird heart stopping experience.

I continued to work in a few nursing homes, then i took the plunge for a change.I applied for a job at a public hospital.I got it! I have now been working in the acute setting for 5yrs.And i continue to study short courses here and there.

I live alone.I hate it and i love it.I work 8 shifts a fortnight but i am able to do more as there is always a vacant shift available.

I work hard.I own everything off my own back.Nothing has ever been handed down to me on a silver platter.I have never had a loan,nor a mortgage.Mind you i am currently renting.The rent goes to my parents as its their house.I'd rather pay them than some other tom dick or harry.They worked hard to raise me and my sister.She is another story.There's some stories here in my blogs about her.I will leave it there about my relationship with my older sister.We dont see eye to eye.

I felt like writting a little about my life.There's so much more, But i will leave it there until another entry.Night night blogland buddies....

THE POOH WARD

Far out brussel sprout! The ward has been struck down with SHIT. And i mean literally.

Staff are currently off sick with gastro, and we have had to close beds due to the lack of replacement employee's. We also have approximately 10 patients with diahorrea. So we have a four bed room that we have labelled as the "Poo Room".LOL!

I hope to god i dont get it. I have only had gastro once. It was full on projectile vomitting, and being glued to the toilet seat for 48hrs. It hasnt hit all the staff at once. Only in drips and drabs. Wrong choice of words their.They are having drips and drabs.LOL!

Lets just say every 2 days someone has contracted the feral bacterial lurgy, and has been ordered by my nurse unit manager to have 4 days off.

Where is the source? It was thought to be the staff room. So that was scrubbed down with miltons formula. But the lurgy continues to linger. Who, and where is the culprit??? I say it has to be a visitor that has so un-kindly shared THEIR microscopic germs...

Please god, i dont want the lurgy! there's nothing worse than vomitting and constantly defacating. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

THE PRESENT

Today is a gift.


Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation.
Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside. The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.
As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.
One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man couldn't hear the band - he could see it. In his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.Days and weeks passed.
One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed.It faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.
The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall. She said, "Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you."

Epilogue:There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations.Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled.If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy."Today is a gift, that's why it is called the present."

The origin of this letter is unknown. I got this as an email. i liked it and wanted to share it with my blog land buddies.

WOMAN

NATIONAL GIRLFRIENDS AND SISTERS WEEK.


I am only as strong as the coffee I drink, the hairspray I use and the friends I have. To the cool women that have touched my life. Here's to you! What would most of us do without our sisters, confidants and shopping, lunching, and traveling girls.

It is good to be a woman:
1. We got off the Titanic first.
2. We can scare male bosses with the mysterious gynecological disorder excuses.
3 Taxis stop for us.
4. We don't look like a frog in a blender when dancing.
5. No fashion faux pas we make, could ever rival the Speedo.
6. We don't have to pass gas to amuse ourselves.
7. If we forget to shave, no one has to know.
8. We can congratulate our teammate without ever touching her rear end.
9. We never have to reach down every so often to make sure our privates are still there.
10. We have the ability to dress ourselves.
11. We can talk to the opposite sex without having to picture them naked.
12. If we marry someone 20 years younger, we are aware that we will look like an idiot.
13. We will never regret piercing our ears.
14. There are times when chocolate really can solve all your problems.
15. We can make comments about how silly men are in their presence because they aren't listening anyway.

Granny power! cool as..

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CIRCUS OZ

Nixie, her kids and I ventured to the circus. I was really looking forward to it. I last went to a circus when i was knee high to a grasshopper! One thing though. I had visions of seeing the trapeze, clowns and tigers.There was no clown, no tigers, and no trapeze.
There were acrobats - interesting. No backflips!!
There was juggling - clever.
There was performing COWS - odd and different.
There was performing ducks - Hello! Where are the fucking tigers?
There was a comedian (i think he was meant to be a clown) - funny at times but used sexual type humor! (the 6-10yr old kids will now be going home asking the parents "Whats sperm mum?")
Some more juggling
Hoolahoop woman - stuffed up her routine a bit
And, some more juggling - yep, ok seen enough now
Then there was performing dogs, lama's, and horses
And performing camels - misbehaved and coped a whip. Scary, thought it was going to be a case of "Attack of the mad camels."
And some more juggling- just for something different!
Dove woman - had 5 doves who's tails were spray painted different colours performing on apparatus.
more juggling - WHERE ARE THE TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!!
and last but not least, tight rope walking and tight rope bike riding.
So nixie said its a wonder they dont have singing cats!LOL
nixie and i had a good laugh.we made sarcastic comments to each other. It was dissapointing. But it was an experience.It was run by an australian company called circus royale.I have heard that silvers circus is worthwhile.Maybe i will go there one day....

september horoscope

This month for scorpio.


For everyone, September is likely to be a month of rapid changes and switches in direction which, for you, can be a little disconcerting. You are okay with the idea of endings, and making way for the new while you put an end to the old, but this month it could be hard to find some peace, as all around you seems to be a little chaotic. But nevertheless, super conditions are around for you at the start of September, and the full Moon in Pisces on the 18th can bring a dream to fruition. Venus is in your sign until next month, and on the face of it Venus can bring a boost to your social life and the chance to do what you love to do rather that what you feel obliged to do. On the downside, you could be feeling very lazy and self indulgent. Okay, what of it.

The washing Machine of Life

Forrest Gump said, "Life is like a box of chocolates."

I say, "Life is like a washing machine."

1) You are showered with joy,happiness and love
2)The waters are calm
3)you cringe as life mills and churns
4)things can then spin out of controll
5)then you are left to dry. But the cycle will eventually start all over again and again...

Grass.

I have the best looking lawn in the street. Im stoked! What a thing to get excited about. Maybe i am a nut bag!?

I took the plunge to get someone to do them. i did think about the hire of a lawn mower to do it myself. But that thought passed. Bugger that. Usually my dad does them, but he's away on holidays with my mum. They are the frequent holiday makers that i know. What a life. Im jelous as hell. Much envy indeed.

Anyway, the grass has been mowed, well manicured edges and the woft of freshly cut grass lingeres in the air. What a pleasant smell on a fine sunny day. Spring has arrived. YAY...