Gaz ordered me a bunch of flowers to be delivered to work yesterday. It was meant to be a surprise only they never turned up and the woman rung me today when i was in work and left an answer phone message saying she had some flowers for me. Gaz was very annoyed that they hadn't delivered them yesterday like they said they would but they said they had lost the address? pretty poor service! However, i have the flowers now and they are lovely :) and a very nice thought! The message said they were for being so great sorting all the moving stuff out over the last few weeks...so cute of him!
Work was awful today and was the first time I've ever failed to start taking a tooth out only 2 hours later to not be getting anywhere and have to stitch the poor patient up and refer to an oral surgeon. I felt so rubbish but the patient was really appreciative for me having tried for so long. I got a bit nervous when he started going all shakey in the chair...6 weeks ago he had a stent put in and has part of his liver not functioning...as well as recovering from broken ribs (he was in a boating accident)...so being the only dentist in work i felt we should call it a day. He's on some antibiotics but i really hope he's ok!
Gaz and i tried out the RSL here in nelson bay and were very impressed. It has a number of restaurants inside and looked very sophisticated. Im sure we shall be eating in there more often. We have just been watching a film, 'almost famous'. Im very tired and ready for bed now! gaz is sorting some things on the computer. Tomorrow we are going to the garden centre to buy a bird table :)
Saturday, 31 March 2012
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Tuesday 28th March - Gazs birthday
The house has been sprayed to kill all the cockroaches and spiders. It has been horrible waking up to dead cockroaches on their backs! Yesterday i had to get Gaz out of bed as a cockroach had blocked the door - he was HUGE! and was still alive albeit a little intoxicated and not really moving much but he was still a big bugger and i wasn't going to get past him to get through the door. Gaz thought he had killed it but i screamed so loud when it ran out of the kitchen roll and back around gazs feet! The other night gaz and i were watching 'troll hunter' in bed....it got to a very tense moment in the film when all of a sudden this big black cockroach started running up our laptop screen! I leaped a mile out of bed...gaz tried catching it in some oiler paper to send it on a journey down the 'porcelain express' (the toilet). I couldn't sleep very well after that, constantly thinking i had a cockroach crawling on me!
Work went great today...my book was full and i loved it! Gaz has spent the day sorting his computer out as he has downloaded some software that has made it run very slowly...he was going to go fishing but that plan fell through as it took him longer to sort the computer out than he thought...i think its all sorted now.
I sang gaz happy birthday at 7.30am...we decided we won't bother with cards and presents for each other but i did go out and find him a chocolate echidna themed cake as he has talked about always wanting to see an echidna! The cake was yummy. i put candles on it when i got home from work and sang for him again...he just can't get enough of my amazing singing...not. We even took some cake around to jack next door. He had been in hospital yesterday to have his yearly scan for bowel cancer which he had been diagnosed and treated for in 2001. He appreciated the cake and we gave him an extra slice for his daughter...together gaz and i have managed to demolish the rest of the cake...thats team work!
As it is gaz's birthday i took him for a meal at the hogs breath cafe. He managed to eat the half a cow on his plate and now we are sitting at home trying not to explode!
I have another full day in work tomorrow...cant wait! Is it really sad to enjoy work so much?
Work went great today...my book was full and i loved it! Gaz has spent the day sorting his computer out as he has downloaded some software that has made it run very slowly...he was going to go fishing but that plan fell through as it took him longer to sort the computer out than he thought...i think its all sorted now.
I sang gaz happy birthday at 7.30am...we decided we won't bother with cards and presents for each other but i did go out and find him a chocolate echidna themed cake as he has talked about always wanting to see an echidna! The cake was yummy. i put candles on it when i got home from work and sang for him again...he just can't get enough of my amazing singing...not. We even took some cake around to jack next door. He had been in hospital yesterday to have his yearly scan for bowel cancer which he had been diagnosed and treated for in 2001. He appreciated the cake and we gave him an extra slice for his daughter...together gaz and i have managed to demolish the rest of the cake...thats team work!
As it is gaz's birthday i took him for a meal at the hogs breath cafe. He managed to eat the half a cow on his plate and now we are sitting at home trying not to explode!
I have another full day in work tomorrow...cant wait! Is it really sad to enjoy work so much?
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Sunday 25th March - spiders galore!
This week has flown. Work is very laid back about what hours i want to work...im even contemplating extending my hours on a thursday to do a late night surgery as a big request from patients is to have appointments after they finish work...i said ill give the extended hours a trial period. Im really enjoying work...the money is just a bonus but I'm loving every thing about private practice. The patients really appreciate you and are so polite! I have given myself half hour for check ups because that gives me enough time to do all i have to get done as well as being able to relax and have a chat with every patient about their day, this that and the other. Im a little bit sceptical about some of the work i have been given to do by a previous dentist as fillings have been marked down...yet when i look at the tooth, i can't see a reason as to why the tooth needs to be filled. Im morally only going to do what needs to be done, i earn enough without trying to find extra work to do on people!!!
Gaz still hasn't had much luck on the computer. He's going through a bit of a bad patch.
Yesterday our neighbour, jack, came over to our house to let us know that he had cut our hedge back. Gaz was meant to be doing it next week with him but he said it had been annoying him and he just wanted to get it done. for some stupid reason, whoever designed these houses made it so that poor jack has to go through our back garden to put his bins out. He said he put them out the other day and a funnel web latched onto him as he came through our gate. Jack had put the clippings in apple on the floor and had kindly offered to clear them up and put them in his bin. i beat him to it this morning, i was up at 8am so i was out the back clearing away the hedge clippings. I got the house pipe and began squirting through the thick cobwebs hanging from our house. i didn't expect to find so many spiders!!! Big ones, small ones, poisonous ones, deadly ones and HUGE GOLF BALL SIZED ONES!!! look up a 'garden orb spider'. huge things and they make these very large webs in-between trees and the webs are so fine, you don't even know its there...unless your like me and you walk into it. gross. This orb spider was so big that when i washed it off of the house, you could hear it as it smacked the floor!!! I gave a loud shriek as one spider landed on me, dropped the hose pipe that began waving around uncontrollably on the floor like a manic cobra and then composed myself whilst looking around to make sure no one just saw. Our house win infested with red back spiders...the nice thing about red backs (if 'nice' is the right word) is that at least you can identify them! Funnel webs...not entirely sure what they look like other than i know for our far tour house has them and i probably washed a few away today. Funnily enough, i asked gaz to help me with the garden and his reply was 'i aint going any where near that place until the pesticide people have sprayed it all tomorrow'. i must have been crazy. Jack came over to tell me how good the garden was looking!
After tackling the garden i did another blitz around the house as the cleaners we had were pretty rubbish so i went over everything again. Gaz and i went for an evening stroll on the beach and we were talking to some people catching yabbis to use as their fish bait tomorrow. They had this long metal pump that they used to pump up the sand and then they grabbed the pinky orangey yabbis that were sucked to the surface. The woman offered gaz to hold one...i was amazed at how big they ate with huge lobster like pincers. The seagulls were hovering around catching the odd yabbi that the people missed poaching.
I have taken a few pictures of the house as not everyone has seen it yet...
Our house :)
Gaz still hasn't had much luck on the computer. He's going through a bit of a bad patch.
Yesterday our neighbour, jack, came over to our house to let us know that he had cut our hedge back. Gaz was meant to be doing it next week with him but he said it had been annoying him and he just wanted to get it done. for some stupid reason, whoever designed these houses made it so that poor jack has to go through our back garden to put his bins out. He said he put them out the other day and a funnel web latched onto him as he came through our gate. Jack had put the clippings in apple on the floor and had kindly offered to clear them up and put them in his bin. i beat him to it this morning, i was up at 8am so i was out the back clearing away the hedge clippings. I got the house pipe and began squirting through the thick cobwebs hanging from our house. i didn't expect to find so many spiders!!! Big ones, small ones, poisonous ones, deadly ones and HUGE GOLF BALL SIZED ONES!!! look up a 'garden orb spider'. huge things and they make these very large webs in-between trees and the webs are so fine, you don't even know its there...unless your like me and you walk into it. gross. This orb spider was so big that when i washed it off of the house, you could hear it as it smacked the floor!!! I gave a loud shriek as one spider landed on me, dropped the hose pipe that began waving around uncontrollably on the floor like a manic cobra and then composed myself whilst looking around to make sure no one just saw. Our house win infested with red back spiders...the nice thing about red backs (if 'nice' is the right word) is that at least you can identify them! Funnel webs...not entirely sure what they look like other than i know for our far tour house has them and i probably washed a few away today. Funnily enough, i asked gaz to help me with the garden and his reply was 'i aint going any where near that place until the pesticide people have sprayed it all tomorrow'. i must have been crazy. Jack came over to tell me how good the garden was looking!
After tackling the garden i did another blitz around the house as the cleaners we had were pretty rubbish so i went over everything again. Gaz and i went for an evening stroll on the beach and we were talking to some people catching yabbis to use as their fish bait tomorrow. They had this long metal pump that they used to pump up the sand and then they grabbed the pinky orangey yabbis that were sucked to the surface. The woman offered gaz to hold one...i was amazed at how big they ate with huge lobster like pincers. The seagulls were hovering around catching the odd yabbi that the people missed poaching.
I have taken a few pictures of the house as not everyone has seen it yet...
Our house :)
Downstairs lounge
Dining room/Gaz work station
Our bedroom
Second bedroom
There is also a 3rd bedroom but theres nothing in it.
Main bathroom
Ensuite
Kitchen
Upstairs lounge
Balcony
Upstairs lounge from a diff angle
View of the sea from balcony
View from the upstairs lounge
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Thursday 22nd march - Jack
Work was great again today. Im not quite as on the ball yet as i was in hervey bay though and I've made 2 very stupid mistakes with regards to taking a tooth out on 2 people, both of whom are at risk of osteonecrosis...one of which i warned about but didn't give antibiotics for which i should have and the other i didn't realise what drug she was taking until i looked back at her medical history when she had left. I feel really stupid and fingers crossed the sockets will heal ok without the antibiotics but I've managed to find my little checklist of things i had in hervey bay that i used to look at if people were on certain drugs. I need to be more careful in the future. They couldn't find me any patients for the last hour so i got to go home early...i didn't mind as they have filled my book for tomorrow and my half day on saturday...they did warn me it will tai about 3 weeks to get a constant patient flow so i wasn't expecting to have as many patients as i do atm anyway. All of my patients have been lovely so far :)
Gaz has had yet another bad day on the computer although he has had an eventful day! the police called around this morning asking if our car had been stolen. Gaz was very alarmed but it turns out the previous tenants still had their car registered to our address. The policemen saw gaz's computer and started asking him about what he was playing. The electrician also came over and told us our stove was rubbish but it was working and the smoke was from all the cleaning product that has been used to clean the oven.
When i got home i saw Jack, our next door neighbour putting the bins out. I went out to put our bin out and gaz came...we had a nice long chat with jack - he's lovely! he has invited gaz out with his friends fishing and said their circle of friends and his daughters mates have social gatherings and he said he would let us know when he next one was so that we could go over there and join them. it will be a good way to meet new people! I asked jack if we could borrow his shears so that gaz could cut our hedge out the back garden. Jack looked pleased as he said he had been looking at the hedge and was going to offer to cut it for us anyway. He told gaz to call round when he's going to cut the hedge and jack will go help him! very nice of him.
Gaz has had yet another bad day on the computer although he has had an eventful day! the police called around this morning asking if our car had been stolen. Gaz was very alarmed but it turns out the previous tenants still had their car registered to our address. The policemen saw gaz's computer and started asking him about what he was playing. The electrician also came over and told us our stove was rubbish but it was working and the smoke was from all the cleaning product that has been used to clean the oven.
When i got home i saw Jack, our next door neighbour putting the bins out. I went out to put our bin out and gaz came...we had a nice long chat with jack - he's lovely! he has invited gaz out with his friends fishing and said their circle of friends and his daughters mates have social gatherings and he said he would let us know when he next one was so that we could go over there and join them. it will be a good way to meet new people! I asked jack if we could borrow his shears so that gaz could cut our hedge out the back garden. Jack looked pleased as he said he had been looking at the hedge and was going to offer to cut it for us anyway. He told gaz to call round when he's going to cut the hedge and jack will go help him! very nice of him.
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Wednesday 21st March - BBQ at the beach
Work went great again today! i had 3 people tell me i was a great dentist and my dental nurse said she enjoyed working with me and was impressed at how fast i got teeth out! i feel chuffed! Gaz meanwhile still hasn't had any luck on the computer...he says it isn't getting him down but i think it is :(
We still don't have the hobs working but gaz has rung the estate agents and they are getting an electrician round at some point to try and fix it...me thinks it may be a case of a new oven/hob which will take ages! If they don't get it fixed for a while then there will be hell to pay as I'm not paying 400 dollars for a house that doesn't even have a stove/oven! On the plus side, it is nice being round the corner from work and being able to pop home in my lunch break.
As the weather was nice and we can't cook in the house, gaz and i went across the road to have a steak burger on the free bbq that is by the beach. It was lovely and really great to see people out walking their dogs.
Back in the house and I've found another cockroach crawling around in a cupboard under the sink...must have come up through the pipes...gross. cockroach and spider killer man is coming on monday. Carpet cleaner coming friday. Electrician...to be decided. By the time its all sorted, it will be time for gaz and i to come home!
Day 3 in work 2morro....so excited! I am soooo shocked by how expensive dental treatment is out here....a comparison for you...in the uk, on the NHS, a checkup which may include a scale and polish and routine x rays will cost 12 pounds. In Australia, the same thing costs 150 pounds. And thats before any fillings are done! To take a tooth out is 140 pounds per tooth (more if its a back tooth) and thats before the consultation fee on top and any x rays...a half hour appointment to take a tooth out can total over 200 pounds. Back home its 30 quid and people still moan!!!
We still don't have the hobs working but gaz has rung the estate agents and they are getting an electrician round at some point to try and fix it...me thinks it may be a case of a new oven/hob which will take ages! If they don't get it fixed for a while then there will be hell to pay as I'm not paying 400 dollars for a house that doesn't even have a stove/oven! On the plus side, it is nice being round the corner from work and being able to pop home in my lunch break.
As the weather was nice and we can't cook in the house, gaz and i went across the road to have a steak burger on the free bbq that is by the beach. It was lovely and really great to see people out walking their dogs.
Back in the house and I've found another cockroach crawling around in a cupboard under the sink...must have come up through the pipes...gross. cockroach and spider killer man is coming on monday. Carpet cleaner coming friday. Electrician...to be decided. By the time its all sorted, it will be time for gaz and i to come home!
Day 3 in work 2morro....so excited! I am soooo shocked by how expensive dental treatment is out here....a comparison for you...in the uk, on the NHS, a checkup which may include a scale and polish and routine x rays will cost 12 pounds. In Australia, the same thing costs 150 pounds. And thats before any fillings are done! To take a tooth out is 140 pounds per tooth (more if its a back tooth) and thats before the consultation fee on top and any x rays...a half hour appointment to take a tooth out can total over 200 pounds. Back home its 30 quid and people still moan!!!
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Tuesday 20th March - First day at work
I woke up today VERY nervous about starting my new job. I had butterflies in my stomach all the way to work! Gaz woke up for a few minutes then I'm pretty sure he fell back asleep - I'm so jealous! When i got to work everyone made me feel very welcome. There is only one other dentist there but he made me feel right at home and showed me where certain things were and offered his time if i needed him. The patient notes are all on the computer so it took a bit of time finding my way around that but i think I've grasped the basic concepts of how to use it now! I really loved the fact the patients were paying A LOT of money for their treatment and yet they were so grateful for everything i was doing for them. They were all so polite and i felt like they actually wanted to be there. it was good. My hours are from 8.30-5.30 with an hour for lunch. We had a staff meeting today so that also took another hour of my time. 3 patients didn't turn up so i had an hour and a half of doing nothing...the girls said you get some days where a few don't turn up and i guess this was just my day. So all in all, i did a total of 6.5 hours work...put it this way, i earned a lot of money! I'm really going to enjoy it here!
When i got home, Gaz wasn't in the best of moods. He had had a rubbish day on the computer and was a little down. Im sure things will pick up again for him soon! We tried to cook some steaks but our stove started smoking out from where the dials are. We then tried to grill the step but the whole grill started smoking after 10 seconds...we need to ring the landlord...they are so going to hate us!
When i got home, Gaz wasn't in the best of moods. He had had a rubbish day on the computer and was a little down. Im sure things will pick up again for him soon! We tried to cook some steaks but our stove started smoking out from where the dials are. We then tried to grill the step but the whole grill started smoking after 10 seconds...we need to ring the landlord...they are so going to hate us!
Monday, 19 March 2012
Monday 19th March
Apologies for the lack of blogging over the weekend - gaz and i have been busy bunnies moving in to our new cockroach/red back spider infested house. I'm afraid this blog will be brief as i am shattered...but basically we had cleaners come in to clean the house today...i can say they did much other than chuck stuff out as i had already cleaned the place! their cleaning was graded average by gaz and i. At some point this week we will have the carpet cleaners coming in to clean the sofas swell as the carpet. I have blasted the trot of the house with water from the hose to get rid of all the cobwebs...on going to turn the tap off, i almost touched a red back spider sitting on the handle. It had obviously been there some time judging by the amount of dead spiders it had wound into its web. It didn't last long before i killed it. To my horror, when venturing to bed, i thought i would have a quick peak int he garage...only to find yet another red back making its web on one of our shelves! that too is dead now. This morning when i woke up there were 2 live cockroaches in the kitchen...gaz was on cockroach duty and dispersed of them. I had my first riding lesson today with my new teacher, Ellen. I must say, this is exactly what i wanted and need....she has a nice outdoor arena and put me on a very lovely horse called Tammy. Ellen is very knowledgeable in riding and i learnt a lot from her in this first lesson, She did point out there is a horse going for lease...but i felt it best i turn down the offer as i don't know how much i will be earning yet and i don't know how i will be fixed for time when i start work. I am off to bed now, sooooo tired! Gaz has had another poo day on the computer bless him. His confidence is dwindling a little but he's trying hard not to let it get to him. Tomorrow is my first day in work - I'm very nervous!!!
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