Playing with fire

A couple of days ago i decided to play with fire. I grabbed some matches, a chair, lighter fluid and my guitar...Ok i skipped the lighter fluid and the guitar and took my camera instead. I tried to get in touch with my creative side, gosh was it deeply buried this time, it was not that easy to capture the flame, nor was it easy to create smoke. Here is the end result though:

(no chair got harmed during the photo shoot, just some minor burns on the fingers)

I say no!

This is just so funny :+)

Life

I love nature, i really find it fascinating. I have seen the discovery series "planet earth" a couple of times now and every time i see it i discover something new. Saw this on the telly from a series called "Life" and just had to look it up and watch it again. Gosh how extraordinary nature is. Amazing!

Lemming altert

I have been tired of my hair for quiet some time now. Its dry, split ends, outgrowth and bleached to buggery... so i decided to add some zest to it by putting a dye in my fraggle type hair. What was i thinking! There i was in the bathroom drying my hair, awaiting the final result...oh, my god...Sh*t! It's green!! Ha ha ha i looked like a lemming! In distress there is no law, first thing in the morning before the doors even open i was at a drop in hair dresser. The guy at the counter called in a hairdresser and while doing that he described my hair with a big grin on his face. The people sitting on the sofa awaiting their turn where quietly smiling to themselves eavesdropping to my conversation with the man at the desk when i described how i ended up with this fine colour. Finally, there she was my catcher in the rye. I sat down in the chair and took a last look at my lemming hair...

Days at work

Gosh what a week! I arrived at work and it's total chaos. Nurses and doctors are running around, four patients are lying in the hallway as there is not enough room. New patients are arriving, others are pressing the alarm button as they need help and the doctors ask "so can we do a round now?". Crazy! As that was not enough...one of the nurses came in to work the evening, she had quiet a bit of a pain in her stomach and during the round the doc said to her "you are walking like an appendix, let me examine you" ... two hours later, she was walking around in her patient clothes awaiting surgery. In the end we all could not but laugh. How ironic... Later on she sat in the office in her little, white patient outfit and the i.v dripping nicely into her veins, giving the nurse that came in as a replacement a report about her patients.

The next day it was just as hectic. I didnt manage to go to the bathroom or eat. Everyone was running around like a duracell rabbit. Thank god that those batteries last long! Even though the work is stressfull there are some moments that you never forget. Like two of my patients that we were "finished with" and they were being signed out from the clinic. There she was in the hall and i in the office preparing the medications... "Regina..." i heard someone calling me. I approach her, took her hand and crouched next to her as she was in a wheel chair. "Thank you", she said. "Oh its nothing", I replied "thats why we are all here". Then she smiled a tired smile, as she is very weak, fighting metastatic cancer. "I am going to the palliative care now, but I want you to know that everything you have done, i and my family will always be grateful for. I will always remember you". Just as she was sitting there in her wheelchair awaiting her paperwork to be finished, a man passed by in the hall smiling. He was signed out from the clinic on his way home. He stopped. He expressed his gratitude and said that he will finally continue with his life now after two weeks in the hospital. I smiled and wished him all the best. In that very moment it hit me..there they where standing next to each other in the hall, two people that really touched my life. Two people standing next to each other, one on the way home the other one on the way leaving this world...

The imaginarium

The other day i saw a film called "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" by Terry Gilliam. Its not often a film leaves me with a feeling of "wt....huh?". I have no idea whether i thought the film was good or bad. It was just different and weird at the same time. Tons of famous actors including; Heath Ledger (his last film) Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Christopher Plummer and many more. Terry Gilliam is the man who directed and wrote some of the Monthy Python, so it was bound to be a bit different. The scenery was awesome, like a little fairytale world with some weird additions. The acting was over all good. I liked Heaths performance but not so much Collin Farrels as he just reminded me too much of Johnny Depps character in the pirate films. It took a while to get into the film...and well the story is original to say the least. I would say that either the man is crazy or a genius. Then again thats a fine border for some.

Feeling off...

The last couple of weeks i have been fighting a huge head ache and stomach ache. On monday i had a rather embarrassing moment. I recently have started my practical bit at the hospital and during a round with all the doctors and nurses everything just went black. Im still feeling off and really start to worry. Im not the one to complain about pains here or there but this is just very weird as i cant even keep the food i am eating. My head is constantly thumping and the second im eating something it wants to head back up. Hope this will change soon...

Long time no see...

Trying to pick up writing again...cross fingers ;+)