Up The Farway Tree

Working 9-5....what a way to make a living!

This week (and until the end of January) I will be working every day. Why did I think this was a good idea a few weeks ago?! I already mentioned that I have agreed to facilitate a whole block at university which starts tomorrow. We had the briefing meeting last week to give us the notes and some general information on the block - it's hearts and kidneys before Christmas and lungs in January. I am looking forward to it but am a bit nervous about working every day (albeit half days at uni) but it will be a good challenge and some extra pennies for Christmas shopping! So tonight I will be reading about heart anatomy and physiology - of course this is clearly relevant to my current work in psychiatry ;-)

Last week I was talking at the carers group at work - they meet once a month in the evening for support and information, so I was wheeled in to chat about medications. It was interesting to meet some of the carers who play such an important role in the lives of our patients, yet are often left on the sidelines and I think they found it helpful to have the chance to have some questions about medications answered. It's all good experience for me in learning to talk for different types of audiences so I think it was worthwhile going along.

I had a mad cleaning thing over the weekend - last weekend I was 'sorting' but this weekend I was moving sofas to hoover behind them, washing windows and all sorts of other things. I was totally shattered and went to bed at 9pm last night! Andrew went out to tidy the hut but I am sure it was to get away from me in case I gave him any more tasks haha. It was very cathartic though and it's nice to get all sorted before Christmas - especially since it's nearly time to put up the tree :-) I can't quite decide when to put it up yet but probably this weekend, if I can last that long. Since I go home for Christmas I feel the tree has to go up as early as possible so I get plenty enjoyment from it before then - which I think is fair play. Only 25 sleeps :-)

I will leave you with a Seb picture. This was taken driving back on the motorway after buying the 7ft Christmas tree. We had to fold the seat down so Seb managed to get himself up on the raised seat beside the tree so he could stare out the front window. It was SO disconcerting having a back seat dog driver peering over my shoulder!