Dali Lama

Last weekend was very hectic! I Flew to england on thursday, spent all weekend travelling around, up and down to bristol for mock exams and things and queing for ages at Gatwick airport.
I did fairly well in my mocks and i did get to chill out with mum and dad and will if only for a few evenings. We ate yum food at the italian in twyford.

Anyway, back to a very rainy spain, although its brightening up now.
Paul was in a foul mood today,he shouted at me and and Janice for something that was totally his fault, especially as me and janice weren't even at work when it happened. In the end i just nodded my head and said 'yes Paul'.
It is his birthday tomorow so last night i made a lemon drizzle cake. It was bloody scruptious! Funny because i just picked a recipe of the net in the afternoon, grbbed some ingredients and voila! Sometimes those quick cakes are the best.

But, the funniest thing that happened this week...Bill, the other doctor told me yesteday that apparently the Dali Lama lives just up the road, on the mijas road! He has a very nice villa.
I will keep my eyes open, maybe ill see him shopping in the market at the weekend!

Goats and guacamoli

So, saterday was fairly hectic this weekend, Michael went to work and i made a carrot and apple cake for my friend, some guacamole and some biscuits. (i was going to make home made cookies but i was running out of time so i found a packet mix which you just add water too. (to be fair they were probrably better than what i was going to make). Carrot cake was good.
Then we went to the butchers, the bakers and the candle stick makers.
After craming food in my cakehole i met my friend Goga and we went to check out this buddhist stupa in benalmadena. It was small. There was a little gallery with tibetan paintings and statues in which was pretty interesting. I was really suprised that you can find something like that around here.It made me want to be a buddhist but i have a slight problem with reicarnation.
The views were amazing too had it been a bit clearer.
Goga took me to this big park too, there was a big pond with turtles in and we saw wierd plants and cactusses and lots of animals. Goats, peacocks, ostriches, rabbits...
So, rushed back home because we were invited to a bbq at the peoples house who live below us (hence the guacamole and cookies). Its was good, we chatted and ate. We sat outside and it was bloody freezing. My feet went numb so i had to warm them up before we dashed off to a bar in fuenirola to watch a spanish Guns and Roses cover band. I was funny, they all dressed up to look like GnR and the singer (Axle rose espanol) was only wearing boxer shorts for most of it. he had a good voice even if the other band members weren't quite as good. Michael got very drunk.
So as you can imagine he spent most of sunday sleeping so i sat about watching fortunes of war. I managed to drag him out for a 10 min walk but that was about as energetic as it got on sunday. We got roast chickend and chips from the pollos asados and i ate loads till i couldn't move off the sofa.
Next weekend ill be taking mock exams!

Una leccion de Espanol

Yesterday i had my first spanish lesson. it was good and i understood everything even though she did her whole lesson in spanish. We did regular and irregular verbs with verb endings. Now i just have tot go learn it!
I might join the gym tomorow too. Time to get off my lasy ass and do stuff. But tonight im going to concentrate on my revision so i don't make a tit of myself in my mock exams. Oh and watch fat people on you are what you eat.

Me and my new friend Goga went to Malaga on Saterday. We went to the new shopping center and i bought a top. It takes ages to get there on the train but it was good to get out of Fuengirola for a bit. We ate bbq (prawns on the bbq) at Michaels mum and dads on sunday. The weather was lush, i sat on the balcony in my bikini top! Its cloudy today though.
I going to iceland after work to but a double decker! yum!

Miracle

A few weeks ago i started platning my seeds for my balcony veggies im going to grow, so i put them in yogurt pots in the bathroom, and this morning they poped thier little green heads up out if the soil! I havent been so exited in ages!
Soon they are going to grow big abd strong and have lots off chillies on them, and when the weather gets better we can have carrots and courgettes and preppers and spinich!

Ague

Me and Michael have both been pretty ill for the last week with mega bad flu. It was really horrible and i was all sweaty for ages and then i couldnt breath through my nose but now im feeling a bit better and so is michael.

Costa del Viento

The weather had been crazy this weekend, its been really windy, you can hardly walk in it and the waves are huge. Branches have come off trees and huge metal signs have just bent right over. Now its just raining but it acctually hailed on saterday!. Apparently its going to be stormy for the next week and we already had a power cut this morning, but not at work unfortionatly.
So there, we can have bad weather too!

We had our long overdue christmas dinner last night, it was yum! i also made some scones but they were crap.
There has been a bit of scandel at work but it all comes down to the receptionist leaving (on good terms) and me having to do more work! oh well only 43 more years till retirement!

Zoo Tomorow

Me and will went to the zoo yesterday, it was cool, we saw the tigers having sex and chipanzee's clapping and kingfishers eating and stuff. We got to go in with the lemurs and they jumped on us and one of the pood on me!
We went to the pub and played pool and i beat will, and we watched wik choppin films and evangelion and we ate cake as well.
It was good

Hey Peeps

Hey Peeps
Back to normal hours at work. I forgot how irritating paul can be, oh well give a few more days and things will be back to normal.
Last weekend was pretty good, went out! for the first time in ages and played pool and stuff in the pub, then on sunday i went round to annoy Holly so we got some lunch and a moo shake ( on of those places where they put any chocolate bar into a milkshake, but i chose healthy friut one, Yum))then went and played some more pool in the pub.

Michael got a new synema system but it will only play dodgy lookie lookie man dvd's not regular ones. Back to watching dvds on the play station!

Will is coming out this weekend so we can watch wik films and stuff

Better go becaus ei have to buy Paul a baguette for his lunch. Slave or nurse? Hehe

Christmas is over although not for the spanish, its the three kings tomoro, so lots of parades and preasents. Ive just taken down the decorations at work. It was a strange christmas but good. I did miss having a proper christmas dinner but if michael doesnt make me one ill get mum to do one when i next go home!
New year we went to michaels mum and dads for dinner, it was tasty but the main course was purple chicken (i guess it had soaked up those 2 bottles of wine that was in the sauce!). I made bavorois for pudding and it was yum yum. We also did the spanish tradition of eating 12 grapes, one on each chime of 12 o'clock. I managed 6 amd michaels mum nearly choked but she did get all 12 down.
There is no doctor at work this week and next week will be really quite too but it gives me a chance to catch up on my homework. I have mock exams im march so i will be home for them, scarey.
Hope you all had good chrimbo festivities!

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.