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GP Assistant

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I think the Universe was trying to tell me something yesterday, below is a clipping from yesterday’s paper, a joke about GP assistants. The appointment went well today, I filed a complaint… In my case the assistant was patronising me, talking to me like I was a 13 year old child. It happened before, several times actually. I’m an adult woman, I don’t wish to be spoken to like a kid leaving me the impression that I’d done something wrong.

The GP even mumbled some kind of apology today and said she would talk to her assistant. The problem (that wasn’t really a problem to begin with, just a misunderstanding) why she had to see me was solved once I showed her my previous records. All of this took about three hours, just to rectify something, three hours of which one hour and half spent in the waiting room… The positive side is, that it’s solved and I got what I came for… Justification…

Cartoon below:

  1. Many believe that doctor assistants are not friendly
  2. You wish to see the doctor? What are the complaints?
  3. …That his assistant is extremely brusque, impertinent and grumpy.

© (?) Clipping my mum gave me

Granted Aspiration

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The Gods must have been pleased or something: yesterday, right after I posted about my frustration with Barclays all the pieces seemed to come together all of a sudden. All problems got solved one after the other and best of all, even the Barclays problem was finally solved. I thought it wasn’t real… yesterday wasn’t real, I must have been dreaming *pinch me!*

I’ve sent out an email Sunday evening, the first job application I sent to NL, which I found online. Closing date was ‘before May 4′: Monday morning basically. I was late and probably too late if you’d calculate in office hours but I didn’t want to let this opportunity pass so I explained why I was that late and sent it off 22.45 UK time (15 minutes before midnight NL time).

Tuesday I received a request for a digital portfolio. I worked all night and stayed up till 07.00 Wednesday morning, slept for four hours and got up again to finish a new designed, improved and updated-with-all-the-recent-stuff-I’ve-been-doing digital portfolio. I sent it off in the afternoon 14.00 NL time. That evening I had an appointment with a client to discuss new projects.

Yesterday morning I received a call from the company in Amsterdam about an interview. They explained the procedure and asked if I happened to be in NL within the next few weeks. I wasn’t but I wouldn’t mind booking a flight if I had to. Later that day they called again after meeting up to discuss this. They really wanted to see me so I booked flights ten minutes later…

Right after I received the long-awaited phone call from the local business banking manager who was extremely apologetic telling me that what happened should never have happened. They’ll reimburse all charges and she’d personally make sure the account is closed. A little voice in my head tells me that she must have been afraid to get it in the neck from her boss *hehe*.

Like I said in my other posts something is going on in the Universe… everything seems to go so amazingly smooth lately and it all turns out so incredibly positive and inspirational for me that it scares the hell out of me. Why? Coz it’s going too smooth *LOL* And this Capricorn doesn’t trust smooth transitions…which doesn’t necessarily mean that she can’t get used to it ;)

Flights are booked, days are planned and a place to stay is arranged so while I’ll be going to have an interview I’ll also be treating myself to a mini vacation while I can. I so deserve it.

Have a great weekend!