DIY with the Van Zyl's

Yesterday we moved and we did it all by ourselves :)  (with this statement off course I mean without any parentals.  We had the help of two very strong guys and a maid that made the move a little less difficult)

What I can say about moving:  IT IS NOT EASY!

I went to bed half past 12, with my back in all sort of spasms, but with at least a presentable living area and a semi-usable kitchen.  We won't speak about the bedrooms yet:)

I also discovered (not that I didn't kind of know this before) that my husband is not the handyman type. When we had to eventually take the dish off the wall, we had the following conversation:

Jaco:  "I need you to go buy me a spanner at the hardware shop"
Me:  "Where's your spanner?"
Jaco:  "I don't have a spanner"
Me:  "What type of spanner do you need?"
Jaco:  "Something between the number 10 and 15.  Or maybe a multi-tool of some sort if they've got"
Me:  "Don't you think it will be better if you had a toolbox for these kind of things"
Jaco:  "I guess.  Maybe my wife will buy me a toolbox"
Me:  "Okay, I will"
Jaco:  "Can it please not be this Christmas,  I really want a DVD"

*  I really love my husband

John Robert Lee

Since I've written quite a few blogs about my favourite patient and in Word of the Week, his identity was made known,  I guess I might as well introduce him formally to you:)

• His name is John Robert Lee
• He is one of the two John Robert Lee's (not related at all) in our frail care centre
• He used to try and kiss me or slap my bum every day, but now it is only once a week
• He has an amazing sense of humour
• He is very clever and has a good general sense of knowledge
• He loves music of all kinds
• He is a little forgetful at times
• He is a little bit inapropriate at times
• He makes me laugh everyday and gives me endless writing material

This is a few funny incidents from the past week:

We started to make some Christmas Cards for family members on Monday afternoon.

John:  Why are we making Christmas cards?

OT:  Because it’s almost Christmas.

John:  No, Christmas is still long gone.

OT:  Look at the board John, today is the 28^th of November.  Christmas is still coming.

John:  Hmmppfff…So is a goose.

OT:  What do you mean John?

John  Well, if Christmas is coming, so is a goose.  We just need to feed it fat before Christmas Day. 

We've been walking all around my workplace setting up Christmas Trees and John and his girlfriend was helping me out.  After a few minutes John started feeling tired.  (This normally goes along with some very heavy and loud breathing.)

OT:  Come on John we are almost there. 

John  I need to sit down.  Where’s the horse?

OT:  Why do you want a horse John?

John:  Because I want to sit on it.

OT:  Why would you want to sit on a horse?

John:  Well, it’s better to sit on a horse than to sit on nothing , isn’t it?

We were busy putting up the Christmas tree in one of the wards this afternoon, but it was very skew and we needed some rocks to keep it steady.  I asked John to try and hold the tree straight untill I come back with some rocks.  He agreed, but as I started walking away, I heard the following conversation:

John:  "Will you please hold this tree up straight?'

Mrs J:  "Off course I will"

John:  "I just want to help that young lady to fetch some rocks outside."

Mrs J:  "  I will keep the tree straight untill you come back"

John starts walking towards me.

John:  "I am coming to help you young lady"

OT:  "Thanks John, that will be lovely"

John take one last look over his shoulder back at the Christmas Tree. Startled he says:

John:  "Did you see that lady is using that tree to support herself?  I dont think that is a good idea"

This is the man of the moment :)

My New Name

OT:  "Hallo you two (my favorite resident and his girlfriend). I'm back."
Favorite Resident:  "Who are you again beautiful lady?'
OT:  "I'm Charlene, the OT"
Favorite Resident: "That is not possible, you don't look like her at all"
OT:  "Who do I look like then?"
Favorite Resident:  "Mrs Philly Phitz Widdle Witz"
OT:  Speechless as usual

*Did married life change me that much?

This is how I imagine someone with that name would look like...