Happy Christmas

Merry christmas everybody!
We are in sevilla still, we got up and opened some presents, i got a pink jumper and a starwars badge. then we went to find some breakfast but the only place open was a patissarie, so it was tuna sandwiches and hot chocolate.
We overlooked the fact that everything would be closed for the last two days so yesterday we watched a film in a cool little old cinema and ate kebabs for dinner as it was the only restaurante left open.Today looks similar.
its really beautiful here and feels all christmassy because its bloody freezing (for us!)
Last day tomoro, down to ikea for some new curtains then back home for a big christmassy dinner and some more presents!

Hope your all having fun and eating way too much

Love cyd x

Christmas Conundrum

It hasn't been a great start to the day, but ill start with yesterday.
Yesterday started with a cold shower! The element in the boiler had broken again, it was painfull. When i got to work i found the water had been turned off which is a right pain when you spent most of the day cleaning.This morning there was just a miserable dribble coming out of the taps so worse than a cold shower i had no shower, then i found that my washing hadnt been washed in the machine which i need for going away, then i spilt and broke a glass of orange juice (last drop in the carton) and realised i had no bucked to mop it up in. And now there is still no water at work. Things can only get better right?
Anyways its the last day of work before christmas and im getting exited, we are driving up to Sevilla tomorow and the weather is supposed to be good!
I hope you all liked your "countdown" christmas cards. As Jon rightly pointed out glitter glue does not stick to shiney paper, why didn't any one tell me before. Oh well, i hope you all manged to stick the letters back on in the right order, yes the answer to the christmas conundrum was

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Have a good one xx

In an effort to give myself more energy i have resolved not to go home and sleep in my siesta but to do some exercise! Therefore im quickly eating soup from a tupperware box and writing this before i go for a walk. I acctually have a few christmas presents left to get too. Then i will probrably come back and sleep on the waiting room chairs. The problem with this clinic is tha tthe chairs are not as comfortable as the massive leather sofas in the old clinic.
Im going to visite Isis tomorow and bake her some fruity shortbread pillows (an interesting variation of mince pies i found in a cook book) .
Last weekend i went out for hollys birthday #2. it was good, i got a bit drunk and came home at half 4. i was greated with, You smell, from an asleep michael. I then spent all of saterday feeling pants, not helped by being dragged out of bed earley to go food shopping, eargh.
Michael crashed his dads car yesterday so as you can see our luck is really getting better, fingers crossed for getting to sevilla!
Im might try to make the house look christmassy at the weekend, my pionsettia just isn't doing the job.

I acctually did something worth telling you about lastnight (ie i didn't just stay at home watching films). It was Hollys birthday yesterday so we went for a meal, it was cool, i had really yummy vegetable lasagne and they bought out a massive chocolate cake for Holly and the whole restaurant sang happy birthday (rather her than me!). Fortionatly there were some other english speaking only people there. Ileft them drinking stange but tasty and very alcoholic cocktails in a bar. I an going out with them on friday too so there may be more tales to come!
SO i had to get a life to work this morning as i had let my scooty at Hollys, meaning it was an hour and a half early for work and i even had an hour to spare after eating cake and hot chocolate in a cafe. Admittedly i had to walk around for a while till i found a cafe with not only men in. I have nothing against men but a whole cafe full, especially spanish, ones can be a bit intimidating!

Well the suns up so i had better do some work

So back to work and cleaning the house and driving to work in the rain and all those mundane things that real life involves.
I asked about a vacancy in a bookshop in fuengirola so im going to hand my cv in and see if they have any saturday work. Umm, yummy books.
On saturday im helping Holly choose paint for her bedroom and maybe paint it.
I heard from sonia, my friend who went back to england, she sent me a letter and a poppy in case i couldn't get one.
I had a good weekend at home, oh how i miss England. Fear not, im sure i shall be back soon!

El Tiempo

The weather has been pissy. Its just been raining on and off for over a week. Sometimes the clouds are really black and they cover the mountains but the sun is still shining in front and it lights up all the little white pueblos it looks awesome.
This morning it was damp and almost frosty and there was mist coming off the little ponds on the golf course.
Its really dark in the mornings, it feels like im getting up in the middle of the night. That always reminds me of christmas because i always got up so early it was still dark.
The sun is out now for a bit. but i think it will rain again later. Because of the rain i have been having lots of baths and eating lots of soup. yum.

Its raining. Hooray because it means our water might not get cut off, and oh crap because i just got wet.
Things are moving on slowly with the house. We are all in now with hot water included. The element was gone in the boiler so i went to some dodge spanish electrical shop and the woman gave me the scankiest element ever, and ive only seen 2! Michael managed to get it all wired in with the help of my head torch and some swearing. Yeaterday we got some temporary lighting up and we even cooked dinner on the new oven! So only 9 months late, not bad eh? For Spain.

Keys!

New house at last! Unfortionatly we are still waiting for the water and electricity to be turned on.
Went to Ikea in Sevilla on saterday and got everything for the house, we spent about 7 hours in there, missed lunch and dinner! We got stopped by the police on the way back. They looked at all Michaels papers, then asked us to open the back of the van. When they saw all the flat packs they laughed and said Ikea?
So we got away with that one. Most stuff is out of the old house now so we should be in sometime this week, Fingers crossed!

Hey peeps, just a quickie as im at work.
What a crazy week, back to the usuall run of bad luck, yesterday was mad, i had to wait ages to put my bike in for repairs and realised i can't say a thing about scooters in spainsh so i made a fool of myself making motorbike noises to the mechanic, was 40 mins late for work and it was crappy for the first part of the day, second half was ok, got my teeth balanced and now they feel weird. Then michael picked me up and his day was bad, no work tomorow, cars buggered, mechanic sold him dodgy parts... football wasnt on the tv at his dads house, and then.....
He fell off his bike and broke his foot!
we got the doctor guys out which was quite fun for me because i can understand spanish medically things and i was trying my spanish out on them, but not so fun for micheal because he had an injection in his bum. So he is off for xrays today so lets hope its not too bad!

Apart from all this hoo haa i watched Howls Moving Castle (finished at 3, god i was bored!). Its really cool! I totaly recomend it even if you don't like animated stuff. I have to confess i watched it in english even though its japanese becuase i was too tired to read the subtitles (lame i know) but the people in it looked english and it had the voice of Christian Bale. Excuses made.

Hey peeps, just a quickie as im at work.
What a crazy week, back to the usuall run of bad luck, yesterday was mad, i had to wait ages to put my bike in for repairs and realised i can't say a thing about scooters in spainsh so i made a fool of myself making motorbike noises to the mechanic, was 40 mins late for work and it was crappy for the first part of the day, second half was ok, got my teeth balanced and now they feel weird. Then michael picked me up and his day was bad, no work tomorow, cars buggered, mechanic sold him dodgy parts... football wasnt on the tv at his dads house, and then.....
He fell off his bike and broke his foot!
we got the doctor guys out which was quite fun for me because i can understand spanish medically things and i was trying my spanish out on them, but not so fun for micheal because he had an injection in his bum. So he is off for xrays today so lets hope its not too bad!

Apart from all this hoo haa i watched Howls Moving Castle (finished at 3, god i was bored!). Its really cool! I totaly recomend it even if you don't like animated stuff. I have to confess i watched it in english even though its japanese becuase i was too tired to read the subtitles (lame i know) but the people in it looked english and it had the voice of Christian Bale. Excuses made.

Cleaning Cleaning Cleaning

Hi!
So, back in sunny Spain, and it is pretty sunny. im taking a short break from cleaning cleaning cleaning. I have tided and cleaned all the drawers in the main surgery and rearranged everything. I have never seen anything so disorganised, and you all thought i was messy!
Work is going ok, im always busy which is good. I got my new uniform which i was sort of pursuaded to get in a size medium because of course in not as skinny as pauls daughter, and when i put it on it was bloody enormous! I have sent paul off to get me a proper sized one!
God this tea is horrible, its like old dish water. Why is tea in foriegn countries so disgusting?
Anyways bad news as usual on the house, now they are saying a week on monday (My arse!)
Flight home sucked, had to wait 2 hours just to get through passport controll, and we had to put our shoes throught the xray, lucky i had my new pink sparkly ones on. Im still wondering how you get a bomb and a foot in a shoe?!
Oh and Hollys getting double the amount for leaving the calahonda clinic so im investigating!
Right tea break is over, back to cleaning cleaning cleaning.

I start my new job next monday. Only i more week of being over worked and underpaid. The bosses are being so nice and helpfull this week, pity it wasn´t always like that right.
Opps the internet cafe is closing but ill tell you more next week
Bye

Why does it always rain on me?

So i have finally had enough of work. If i were to explain what was so bad about it i would be here for hours, and mum and dad would be bored because the have heard it all before.
On Monday i got stressed at one of the doctors and she told me my problem was that i had never had it hard (i havent lived in cuba!) and that i shouldn´t bring my problems to work (my problems are work!). On tuesay, bank holiday, i got a phone call from the doctor i used to work with, my bosses enemy, asking if i knew any nurses who wanted a job. i said, Yes, Me!
On wednessday me and holly confronted bosses about overtime and pay (9 hours overtime unpaid in 2 weeks!? A regular occurence). We were told we had it better than anywhere else and that this was resonable. Next day holly isnt at work and nobody tells me where she is. I infact already know that she has been told to take 2 weeks holiday. Obviously its not importand for me or the other doctors to know where she is!? The last straw.
So im not wasting my time on people like that, and i MIGHT be getting a new job, admittedly with a doctor i have had a few problems with in the past, but everything cant be perfect right. It is 10 hours a week less for almost the same money.
Fingers crossed everyone that its all turns out alright!

Oh yeah, its rained the other day!

A day off

Thank god i have a day off.
Michael woke me up to say good bye at about 9, i went back to sleep till 10.30 then read my book till 1. It was fantastic.
Now im piddling about in milies chatting to sonia and checking my emails. I don't plan to do anything else exept sit about watching tv.
Thats what days off are for right?!

Sunday again. I fully intend do do not much this sunday.
Last week was pretty crappy, they have opened a new consulta(don´t know the word in english, surgery room?) so we have had to work loads harder and there seem to be a ton more emergency pacients too. Its not the extra work thats bad, ive been writing down all the unpaid overtime i have been doing and its come to about 9 hours in a week and a half. Twice last week we did 2 hours extra in a day! Oh well only another 6 months till i take my exam and if i pass they might just add a few more euros to my pay, Wahey!
Just read one of those i was abused as i child but now im strong books. I can´t belive i used to read so many of those when i was younger, they are crap!
Yesterday me and michael went to sort the lighting in his dads new house. I got the exiting jobs of fitting spotlights in their holders and then attatching transformers (haha, transformers). If micheal ever comes to work at the clinic i will make him clean the gobby spitoon. Yep, i bet when you spit into that little bowl at the dentist you never stopped to think that someone has to clean all your gobby spit out at the end of the day. See why i love my job?!
Went to see about a new scooted at the weekend. Its ok and in much better condition that my old one, but its blue!
Im looking forward to coming home in september, its been a while, about 8 moths i think. I hope i will have cooled down by then becuase i know it will still be bloody hot here. I had to take 3 showers yesterday!
Oh yeah and the word on the new house is about 3 weeks (yeah right!)
Toodle pip xx

Yo

Sorry, its been ages right!?
The computer is totaly bust, it has a dry socket apparently and needs to be taken apart compleatly. So it will be a while.
As for moving house that will be ages to. About another month i recon. But then we should be moving straight into ours rather than michaels dads first.
All our transport is breaking, we nearly blew up my bike and michaels car today but i think they are both fixed now.
As for you lot thinking its hot, its bloddy boiling here to! Just because the paper says its hotter in england than spain it doesnt mean we have it easy. Its been about 35 for a few weeks.
Course work is going ok, bit of a drag without the computer for extra help but ill be ok.
Work sucks as always.
Other than that everythings ok, im even getting a bit of a tan, oh and ive put blond highlites in my hair.
Take care everyone and go easy in the heat xx

Spanish Security Guards

Hi peeps
This is a quick quick blog becuase the computer is a bit buggered up and isnt charging properly, so i have limited time. I haven't been ignoring anyone, really!
Work sucks, i am on my own coz stephs on holiday and Holly is down in the Fuengirola clinic. We have been painting overthe mould in our house and slowly moving bits out to Michaels sisters new appartment which is close to ours, for when we eventually move. My Spanish was really tested today with the security guards. Its only took and hour and a half to get them to open the garage( my spanish isnt that bad, i think security guards may be a bit mentally challanged, thought very nice and helpfull)
So, im having a greek on friday(hehe). Going to the new greek restaurante with a few people for my birthday.. The best thing is that i get to finish work early!
Ill write more when the computer is sorted, Take care.

Ok,shes Asian not African

Clubbing in Fuengirola was kinda fun and weird. I didn't have a bloody clue how to dance to the music. Its very bum wiggly.
Work has been pants. I made a chocolate cake today Its called 'chocolate cake with chocolate in and chocolate on top'. Its pretty yummy.
Me and Michael ate tapas in this cool place today where you just tick what you want on this piece of paper, kind of like doing a multiple choice test, and them they call your name when its ready. They miss heard Michael and called out Marco instead.
So to work off all this chocolate cake and tapas i have been doing a Tae Bo video. Its well hard but really good. I feel all energetic now.
I read Alice in Wonderland. Its was a load of nonsence!
Tomorow we are going to an African craft fair in Toremolinos. Im going to get some rings around my neck and a bone through my nose!

Smug

Who's a clever girl? Top marks for my homework again!
Work has been a bit gay.
Going clubbing in fuengirola tomorow night for Stephs birthday. Yay?!

Today was a good day. I acctually had an ok day at work! Whooba!
I assisted with the first 2 patients, i didn't get annoyed by the doctor, then we all sat around for ages waiting for lunch. We killed time by looking at this hugeantic (one of Hollie great gone wrong english words) book on immpressionists and commenting on how fat the ladies were and how small all the mens willies were. Why do artists paint so many pictures of naked people?
Went to the pub and chatted to Sonia, came out with a good come back at some wierdo who was picking on me (Were you ever a boxer? Why do you have a bolt through you nose?)
Back to work to do the dreaded curetaje (Bone cleaning, lots of blood and views of gummless teeth and bone!)
I wasn't feeling to good about it at first but when i got into it i was having fun. Retracting gum, Sucking up saliva, wiping blood, cutting stitches. Oh my job is a delight.
Then we pulled a little kids tooth out.
Only had time left for a nice sit down and a cup of tea and a chapter of my book.
Just went swimming in the pool (9 oclock!). The weather has been so wierd (muy raro!) it was so cloudy this morning that i couldn't even see across the road. We just get surrounded in cloud, so i took my coat to work thinking i might get cold on the bike, and nearly died of heat exhaustion by the time i got to the bottom! Its been pretty cloudy all day and windy but its so warm. It was like driving through a gigantic hairdryer on the way home.
So now im just waiting for Michael to come back with my pizza.
Not a bad day atall.