Hamster-troubles
Well, great news….the operation of granny went very well! Allthough the operation went better than expected, initially some complications were there. Quite drugged by the medicines, granny told us something had gone terribly wrong; she was a hamster now. Allthough we all felt she still looked quite like a human, we were quite worried. After all, my mother already has so many hamsters but only one mother, and we have only two grandmothers, so all in all we were not very happy with the prospect of an extra hamster ;-).
So we told granny she is not a hamster, but she was not listening to our feeble arguments. She assured us she made a big misstake, pressed on the wrong button (of the elevator where she fell asleep), and now had to be a hamster forever. Moreover, she also told that in the night weird things were happening in this hospital. She told some guy smoking drugs was there (well yes, smoking softdrugs in Holland is kind of legal as you all know, but it is not that that happens in the hopsital ok?) who was killing the hamster in the night and than selling them. She told my father to take steps and start investigation on the internet.
Well, in the end it seemed the only thing we could do were just talking along…’ yes, we will do that’….Because we did not feel arguing was the best thing to do now. After 3 days, granny managed to get out of the hamster phase; she is doing well now, being healthy and shifted from intensive care to normal care. Our relief is great.
So, what else last week…Work went quite well, and Friday-afternoon I got a nice compliment. Since my direct boss left last Firday, I got more responsibilities, which I try to take as much as possible. I believe that if I give full energy in something, I could be successfull in everything…It is just a matter of putting enough efforts in it. So suddenly I was the one preparing as list of over items that had to be ordered in an over 4 million euro’s project for the purchase department…Quite funny to do, because if I make a misstake they buy the wrong stuff, but I double checked well so I believe it is ok. It seemed the project manager of the project was quite impressed, because he enquired if i would like to stay longer than the planned 4 months, to assisted him…He told me he was very impressed with fast way I understood things there. Well, it is not bad after two weeks already getting such a compliment…It has give me a lot of confidence for sure :-).
The weekend will be nice…tonight going to the yearly summerfestivals in Nijmegen. They take 6 days, and are combined with a walking tour lasting four days…but in general, I ussually choose the evening programm. Artists are everywehere, thousands of people gather…A great event, in the city where I lived for four years.
well, that will be it for now….Gonna coock my diner.
Ps: Thanks Helen and Wanie for the encouraging words…such things mean a lot in this kind of situations. Thanks 
