birthday surprises

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that not only was Steve taking me out for tea, but he had arraonged for Rob adn Em to meet us there. I put a spanner in the works when I made a booking at the restuarant which was our second choice and the kids were off the the other one. A quick phone call when Steve pretended to have some ebay stuff to tend to fixed it and the kids went there instead. We had a great night and both of them stayed overnight. Nice end to a nice day.

46

Well i am officially 46 years old. Steve was surprised to hear that last night as I think that he thought if he was 48 turning 49, I must be older.
I had a birthday bonus today, I have a half day holiday.
This week I have been, in the words of the manager, a proper community nurse and I love it. I have a small round at present so that there is room to fit in learning new stuff and visiting interesting clients with the primary nurse. I am sure that I would love to do this forever, it is rewarding and interesting and you are not stuck indoors all day. One draw back is the car I am alotted, a Holden Viva station wagon which smells like pickled onion. I have just put an airfreshener in it and if that doesn't work, I will scrub the floors and seats. I am struggling to remember which side the indicators are on the work car and then get confused when I get back in my car and have been indicating with the wipers quite a lot. Still it is all good.
Hope that you are all having a great day and a good week.

Friday

Hi all, Praise the Lord it is now Friday! I have survived a very long week as I have worked every day since Monday 9th of Feb. As well as my real job as a community nurse I did the weekend in the residential aged care facility. I love both jobs but it is very tiring to do both.
I now have clients of my own so I will be out and about next week, Yay!
Matthew and Liz and co arrived safely on Wednesday night at 2205 and we have been enjoying their company bery much. Matthew is feeling the cooler weather, he wears a coat until around 10 am. It has been very autumn like lately, cool morning and evening and around 25 in the middle of the day. I drove through heavy rain to get home tonight so I am waiting for it to reach here with great anticipation as it is almost as dry here as it was in Victoria.
Well, I hope that you all had a good week and are going to have an even better weekend.

this week's thoughts

Well, I have now had two weeks as a community nurse and I love it. I haven't been let loose on my own, but that is ever closer and I am really looking forward to having some clients for whom I am at least partly responsible.
Another event to which I am looking forward, is Matt and Liz and co arriving on Wednesday night. I have missed them, well Liz anyway and will be glad to see them again.
I am very poor at proof reading stuff so if this blog of mine makes little sense, I appologize, I know what I meant and you can guess.

just beginning

Well it is my turn to start a blog. I am very boring and not necessarily consistent with things I start but I will give this a go. I can't be outdone by either my sister, sister in law or kids.
I hope that this will provide a way to keep in touch and let anyone who really wants to know what I am up to at present.