I've seen it all now

Posted on Wed 12 September 2007 at 12:24

We were out food shopping the other day and there were 2 men, both with a white cane and dark glasses, leaning on each other, wandering around the supermarket.  I kid you not – it was indeed them blind leading the blind.  You think I'm joking - no, I swear, it happened!!

And this one takes some beating.  We were out on a patient escort and as we drove along the road in Hamilton, there was an elephant walking along!  ‘Tis true I tell you – for there would be no point in making it up.   There is a Circus in town and they just so happened to have their elephant tethered by the roadside.   Ahh, I’m so glad I live here – the simple things in life are equally as important as the major things and as long as I find something to smile about as I go about my daily business: life can’t be too bad!

I was met with total disbelief at work when I said I had been to Whangamata as several people from work were in the 21k and 10k races and I did not see one single solitary person that I knew!!  I walked up to the ward with one chap who had been in the same race and I certainly didn’t know he had been there as I saw nobody!  ‘Yes Karen, we really believe you nearly missed the beginning of the race as you only just got there in time’  'Yes Karen, we believe you hung about the finish line for ages but didn’t see anyone else’  You know, it DOES sound a tad suspicious right enough eh?  Not to worry, I know I was there and I will have a certificate sent out once they process them…..won’t I?........

I have had to  put my health kick on hold as my sodding back aches now!  I would really like to go to the Gym as I am still obsessed with it but having been signed off a couple of times in the past with a bad back, I will wait until it has passed before venturing going again.  Hopefully, I will still feel like going at that point as you will know yourself that the will to be healthy comes and goes.

I had jumped back into bed after seeing Melissa off to school today, only to be rudely awoken by someone knocking at the front door at 8.30am…..’who can that be?’ I wondered as I certainly didn’t expect anyone.  Swearing profusely to myself, I grumped along the lobby and got the front door.  Imagine my surprise and delight to find 2 Jehovah’s witnesses trying to get me onboard.  ‘This is not a good time’ I told them as I started to shut the door.  The woman tried to tell me something but the door was already closing.  Right, don’t these people know that 08.30 is an ungodly hour?  Well they bloody ought to being so close to God eh?  I have it from the chap on high himself that unless it is a work day, the world doesn’t start turning until 10.00 at least.  And I’m sticking to it!!

However, once they had got me up, it wasn’t worth going back to bed, so I got up and stripped the bed linen off for the wash.  Yes I know that’s boring, but I do have a point to make.  So I put it on the line and headed off to buy myself a Maori-English dictionary in town (more of which later).  It was an absolutely beautiful morning – the kind that only comes rarely over the British summer and we are still in early spring. 

This is where the saying about the weather here in New Zealand comes into play – four seasons in one day.  Hey, those Crowded House boys knew their stuff eh?  It went from:

Spring in the early morning:  looks warm but a nippy breeze

Summer just before I put the washing out:  Sunny, balmy, warm

Autumn:  temperature dropped, clouds rolled in, wind got up

Winter:  Suddenly really cold and the rain was lashing down, the wind was cutting.

And by the time I got home from town, back to spring.  I put out a second load of washing, took the sheets in and spun them again and they went out in the lovely sunshine and dried no bother. 

Yes, I know it is the minutiae of my existence – but you are still reading eh?

I bought the Maori dictionary to help me with the course I am currently on.  It seems to have a high proportion of Maori language study within it, which is not what I thought the content was.  However, if it continues as it has, with help from colleagues allowed, I should be OK.  I have met some interesting people on this course and I would prefer to carry on and see how it goes rather than jack in now.  2 people in particular have been really helpful but we have agreed to trade knowledge – we (Kat from work and I) will help them with the clinical stuff and they will keep telling us about the Maori language.  The course has been interesting and I believe it has furthered my knowledge base of the Maori mind set but  I’m not sure what we have done so far is worth the title of Certificate.

Enough, I now have to go and make sure I still rule the world at ‘Bear and Cat’ on:

www.henriluoma.net

Try and beat me if you dare!