Unexpected pleasures....

A distant relative bought me some perfume "Provocative Woman" Elizabeth Arden and even though I would never have bought it with a name like that- it actually smells really nice and has some lovely lotion with it.

It started as an IA then switched to an unexpected pleasure: I've been ill with the flu so I missed 8 days at my placement. I couldn't go to do community work as most of the children that  I  visit with my mentor have cancer maybe sickle cell or are going through chemo/blood transfusions  so a simple bug can just be catastrophic. My mentor even told me not to come back till I was healthy (I went to the office for the purpose to show her that I was too ill as she will not believe a medical note )

This is my last week and we've got a practice assessment tool to have signed to say that you completed the placement. Today she said that because I've missed 8 days she's not signing it which means I would not pass the placement....So feeling a bit blue because this 4 week placement out of 3 years of work is going to wreck everything. I text one of my co hort nursing mates and she text me back saying that the assessment tool is for the longer placement which is the NEXT placement. I contacted my curriculum leader and she confirmed this ..I didn't even need to fill an assessment tool AT ALL because it was a short placement. I just have to make up those 8 days at my next placement ..doh!  So I went back to my "mentor" and told her this and the look of disappointment on the face was such a pleasure

Hubby and I stopped into Tesco for a few items and realized we had nothing for tea so we bought those £10 dinners for 2.  The food was pretty good, well the indian one was.

Good customer service!  Had to return an item to a shop yesterday, something that I rarely do.  I was expecting a big hassle, but they acknowledged that the item wasn't working properly and promptly exchanged it for another that DID work!  Woohoo!

I get decent bereavement leave from my company. 

I just got an e-mail from one of my very best and oldest friends who has invited me to spend the weekend in Paris with him..  I would love to.  I wonder if I could get sprung from home for a weekend!!!

My new co-workers are so lovely, when I think I am struggling and not picking things up quickly enough, they are impressed at how well I am doing (I suppose the couple people that were here before me were nightmares).  They are just so great and cheery even when the pressure gets high.

My sister has booked me a massage for when I'm in NY.  Oh I can't wait!

My sister has booked me a massage for when I'm in NY.  Oh I can't wait!

In the words of Napolean Dynamite, LUUUUCKY!!!

A surprise phone call from someone who is becoming really special.

Getting booked onto a course i wanted to do at work.
Usually, so many people want to do it, that names get put into a hat, and somehow my name is never drawn.
But i just went to the boss and told her the reason i want to do the course and i got booked for it immediately... no hats! 

I got a lovely smelling package in the post from a friend.  Now I'm going to be all sparkly. 

In the words of Napolean Dynamite, LUUUUCKY!!!

 

My daughter got her first provisional acceptance to Uni.  Not totally unexpected, but a relief all the same. 

My daughter got her first provisional acceptance to Uni.  Not totally unexpected, but a relief all the same. 

YEAH!!!!