More troubles aka Bloodspill III

On Monday I was all ready to go to work. The neck was sore but it was loads better then last week. But any proper activity was not meant for me that day. The nose bleed started again (8:45) and 10 am I was still bleeding. Pretty or not I stuck 2 vaginal tampons into my nose (they immediatelly soaked with blood), put a bowl under my chin and took the car keys! Thanks God I have an automatic gearbox! When I was at the lights or somewhere other drivers can see me, I slightly covered my nose with hand so that no one can see. A driver with vaginal tampons in her nose! Call the papers!

My Mum took me to D.L.O., who stuck (in a very violent way) some other type of tampons into my nose (which actually stopped the bleeding) and sent me to a hospital. But hospital D.L.O. made a conclusion that the tamponade is nicely done and I should come on Wednesday so that she can take it out. Awesome! Another 2 days in bed! Awesome! I could not breathe via nose as both holes were stuffed with some shit. Awesome! And I looked as if somebody rammed me. Awesome! Constantly thirsty. Awesome!

On Wednesday she took the tampons out and instructed me with proper care. I will go there in 3 weeks so that she can burn the bad vessels to prevent them from bleeding. No more slaughtering in 2011:-)

Up and Down

I had a dream on Wednesday. It is not that important what it was about, just the end of it.
I though that I might go to pee so I sighed, streched my body and all of sudden I heard (more precisely - I felt) a click at the back of my neck. At that moment I woke up. Misery! I couldn't move as my neck was blocked and every move was a terrible pain. Ddesperate situation. After several minutes I somehow managed to find a way to get out of bed and I crawled to the doctor's. Nothing is bad as it seems so I got one pain-killing shot, the chiropractor/doctor worked on my spine (ouch, that was not a pleasant moment), I got some drugs and chiropractic sessions. I relaxed for 3 days, off work, and the cervical collar also helps - my head doesn't dangle from one side to the other:-). It is ok to dangle only in yes-no direction:-D. I will be fit for Christmas. Amen!

Nightmare Before Christmas

This is not going to be about Tim Burton but about a real life story. Unbelievable story, almost a thriller.
Some time in the spring of 2010 a man came to my grandparents' door and explained that they might have cheaper electricity if they signed his paper. They signed. Not long after that, grandfather realised that he did a stupid thing and called me. So I took some serious actions: I called the company to ask how I can cancell the contract and then I wrote an official letter cancelling the contract. Grandfather was scolded for what he did and also we besought him not to sign anything for any stanger that might come to their door. He also received a confirmation letter from the "new" company, which cancelled the contract. We were so relieved!
Nevertheless, this was not the happy ending yet. First warning arrived in September. My grandfather received a letter from his usual provider announcing that his current contract has expired and someone is coming to dismount the electricity gauge he possesses. This alarmed us so I called the company, explained what happened and everything was fine again. Happy end!

Last week I went to see my grandparents again and grandfather announced that he signed a contact again! This time not only for a new electricity provider but for a gas provider! too! I almost got a heart attack. After some serious reproches and nerve-wracking shouting on my grandfather I confiscated the new contract to study it. Shame on me - I was really shouting on him. The guy told them that they will have cheaper electricity and gas but still, they will be supplied by their usual providers (but the payment will go to his company) and that they will be able to save some money. Wow! As if the savings of 3% would matter!
Me and Dad studied their offer - apparently no reasonable saving was guaranteed and it looked like huge troubles. So I produced a new letter of cancellation and sent it to the new company. on Monday. To make sure nothing goes wrong I first called he gas provider to tell him problems are on the way. I was told by a nice lady that we have to wait for the confirmation of cancellation and then send it to the gas company and the electricity provider too. Damn! So grandfather is condemned to waiting for the confirmation of cancellation and to hoping it won't take more than 3 months.
Does it sound like a fairy tale to you? It is not a fairy tale! True story. Tell your friends. Watch your grandparents!

Comfy

My bedroom is a nicer place to sleep in now. I finally bought a carpet (of beige colour), which replaced a 25-year old carpet (yuck!). Morevover, new chest of drawers, some furniture shuffling and clean window brough fresh wind of change into my sleeping kingdom. The overwhelming and fresh smell of novelty cheered me up in the time before Christmas. So which part of the flat is next? I wish I could rebuilt the kitchen but I can't unless I buy my own flat. Which is very unlikely.

Desperately lost

It wasn't that bad but almost got a heart attack! Christmas is approaching so I thought I might bake some cookies and it is really boring when you don't have anything to listen to. So I took my laptop with the power cored and was about to remove it to my kitchen. The power cord got stuck and the laptop (on and open) flew on the tiled floor, scratching heavily my kitchen wall on its way. So saaaad! I even shed a tear for my laptop because it started with some crunchy sound and wanted to formate my harddisc. How can I (blond woman, linguistically skillful, technical antitalent) formate a harddisk and deal with a broken laptop???
But...End's well, all's well. There are happy endings in real life too! My IT prince bough a new disc drive, installed it with Windows 7 (good bye freaking Vista) and my laptop is as good as new! All this within 2 working days! I can't be more gratefull! I don't want to be offline ever again. Even if it were for 2 days!
Believe me, true story!

November ain't over yet

I randomly checked 2009 and 2008 headlines on my blog and found out that the history repeated! Apparently the autumns have been the same one after another in past few years and nothing new is happening in my life...
Vienna trip has been planned for next weekend so - check. Concert season has commenced: November concert of MIG21 at Fleda - check. Jirka Macháček was cool as usual, no change here Movie - I went to see the first half of last installment of Harry Potter movie (HP and the Deathly Hallows) - check. Sushi becomes a tradition - check. This time I went with my Mum. It was her first time to sushi restaurant and I think she liked it though she wasn't totally mad about it (what is there so special about a raw fish and rice in soya sauce?). And it is raining a lot (every November).
And I almost forgot to mention baby boom! All around me but November has nothing to do with it this time. My best friend has had a baby too! I haven't had a chance to meet Darina yet but the time will come...soon!

Mind the gap!

Sounds familiar? Yeaaaaah, London. Last week of September - that was my first trip to the city of all cities (in Europe) - to London.
What awaited me after landing? Rainy London - what a surprise! I didn't expect sun all day but I believe that weather can get you down sometimes. But London offers more than that!

TUESDAY
Beginning of my first sightseeing day was a bit stressfull - my Oyster Card was invalid and there were no cards available at the stand. Damn! And the train was so full too! Any impressions? Yes, bad impressions! This was meant to change soon. There is something magical about the Tower of London - historic spot with genious loci. That castle is so overwhelming, exhibitions in all the towers and buildings are exquisite (especially the one in the White Tower about armoury) and the Crown Jewels are simply magnificent. And coffee was only 2 GBP! That made my day. When I arrived to St.Paul's, it was already closed so I got me a muffin and I simply enjoyed the scenery. Actually, I had to bulk up for my evening climbing lesson in a sportscentre...so plus 1 cheesburger. Climbing was fun too - I didn't care what colour those plastic handles were, I just kept climbing. At the end, I made it for 4+ level (that means you climb the handles of one colour only). Am so proud of myself:-)

WEDNESDAY
Middle day of the week was a highly spiritual day - me and Pilki (half of Saw Brothers Ltd.) visited Westminster Abbey (but we ate Ben's Cookies before, which improved our mood), which is a place packed with history so much that I almost peed. Second part of the trip was Thames Cruise to Greenwich. We had just one hour to enjoy "hop to east part of the Earth-hop to west part of the Earth". But it was worth it...I checked my pics at home so I can declare "Yeah, I was at the Prime Meridian. Photos don't lie." Our cruise back to London was an adrenalin - we embarked to a ferry that wasn't ours to embark. This is how I became a black passenger. Fortunately, the black lady-conductor didn't check our tickets.
Wednesday spirituality included also a cultural event - Phantom of the Opera was a total success and nothing but superlatives would follow. Why aren't such thing happening here? Or they are and I am just not going to see them? Thank you Saw Brothers for being my companions on such unforgettable event.

THURSDAY
Thursday sightseeing included Buckingham Palace - but Elisabeth wasn't at home anyway - Trafalgar Square, Leicester Squra, Piccadilly Circus and also some Oxfort Street shopping. At the end I bought some books and a pair of jeans. That is not much but I had to leave a towel at Pilki's because my luggage was full and I was not able to fit it in.
In the evening we had a meeting with a friend of mine and his girlfriend. He is a Londoner, who worked in Brno but is back to London now. When he was in Brno, beer seemed impossible to agree on, but when I am in London, we meet up. Awesome!

Bloodspill II

Hmmm, donating blood is a cool thing that made me feel usefull but is this what is happening these days related to it somehow? I've been suffering from massive nose bleeding recently. This has never happened before up to such extent. It is really alarming so I guess I will go to see my doctor if it doesn't stop till....end of October or so. I understand that it starts if I clear my nose to be able to breathe but it sometimes starts all of a sudden. What the heck? I have swallowed and spilled so much blood for past two weeks that my surname can be Cullen (does it matter that it was my own?). Eeerrggghhh...disgusting, isn't it?

Bloodspill

It has been my dream since childhood. People who donated blood meant a world to me and I always knew that I can rely on them and that this quality guarantees trust. Why would someone give away the most precious liquid? Samaritanism is fashionable these days but as far as blood is concerned, you hardly ever meet a soulmate. So I decided to do it just all alone. It paid in the end. Blood is pouring away from your body and you are contemplating if you did the right thing. If there is nothing left of me in this world, my blood pack will be safe in a hospital fridge and eventually it may save someone's life. This is the way how to make myself unintentionally usefull. Is my blood donation an objective excuse for being so selfish? Indeed, I am selfish.

P.S.: I hope the Cullens or Salvatore Brothers are nowhere near Faculty Hospital of Bohunice:-D

Holiday-ing

Holiday...the best invention ever! In June I haven't spent single weekend at home. Roháče hiking turned out very well - terribly hot weather but nice atmosphere and nice guys. Hiking was actaully fine, I managed even some steep routes. Oooh, I am proud of myself:-D. On Saturday, our hard-core team was so shattered that they planned a short trip via a beautiful valley with waterfalls and afternoon visit to the spa resort in Oravice. That was everything I dreamed of.

Last weekend I was in Belgium with my parents. Familly stuff. Beer (cherry Kriek, yuuuum, white beer,yuuum), hot weather, a pissing boy, nostalgy, Parliament, Support Lesbiens (yes! they threw a concert in Brussels...amazing), sleeping in the park at St. Michel, overcrowded train to Bruges, grachts, boat ride in Bruges, Haagen Dazs (unbelievable that someone can make ice-cream so tasty; that was orgamismic), a pissing girl....all decent.

I love holidays. When is the next one? :-/

Being busy

Am I really that busy that I do not have time to update my blog? Jeeeh, I haven't made a contribution since March - omg - and that's a long time.

It is supposed to be almosti summer but it is so cold that I had my high-heel shoes on today - on 2nd March! Unbelievable. Let's hope that this weekend will be warm so that some outdoor activities can get into progress. So far it has been just raining raining and raining. I was in Holland for the Queensday and it was really cold and raining too...but great athmosphere there. It was hightime to go for a holiday as I got rather stressed at work so I needed some time just on my own. It paid in the end and Vlady outing time is not over yet! 2 holidays aheald - hiking in Tatras for three days (hopefully a visit to thermal spa will be included) and also a weekend in Brussels, which is a FAMILY holiday with my parents! No time for loitering, always on the watch out for new impulses:-)

How I became a stalker

Stalking is not my style, really. Fair enough, it happened! And it became an amusing activity. I went to one of Brno clubs to a Bday party - our usuall club. Music was terrible, young kids hanging around, too much of a smoke, not much to do though. And then I saw HIM. That was not him of course, just some young student looking slightly alike Jacob Black! Short black hair, huge smile, black T-shirt and black jeans and - OMG - the same casual Nike shoes with white rubber at front. I almost passed out:-D. And that's how we (me and my colleague) started to stalk him. We wanted to talk, so we had to talk right next to him. He was talking to a girl, that was smaller than him but slim with the same hair Jacob's real life love crush had. What a coincidence! He went up to dance with that girl, so we went up to dance floor too. He moved to a bar to get some drink, so we followed to a bar to get some drinks too. At one point I lost him in the crowd and that's how our search mission began. Mission was sucessfully accomplished. Uuugh:-) At the end it turned out to be a great fun. It would never come across my mind that I would be able to stalk some young guy in a club (I do look like a pervert a bit, don't I?:-/) and that I would enjoy it:-D.

Kilos down, boobs down

Dieting has also unpleasant side effects. I am not only losing some extra fat around my tights (which is great) but also my boobs are shrinking! All my bras are too big for me to wear and I have to walk perfectly straight so that nobody notices the discrepancy between my breasts and my bra (and aslo so that the boobs fill in all space inside the bra - either push-up or not). But if I walk straigh, then it is good for my back...isnt't it?

Skiing Season

This winter's rather annoying. It is freezing cold and it is snowing a lot, there are heaps of frozen snow in the streets, cars have to be cleaned from snow, carefull walk is necessary, jacket on/off....grrr:-(. But there is one positive thing about all this - there is enough of everything for great skiing. The conditions in CZ or in Austria are great! The Danish, Dutch and Austrians found it out immediately and are occupying the Alps. I could not believe that there was so many people at cable car exit in Kitzbuehel yesterday morning. Loads of people, like you even could not get through them to run down!

I wonder if there are some more skiing trips planned for me this year...

Do you twitter?

Not only common people like me sometimes have an urge to share their feelings/experience/thoughts/news (...wow!). If I have anything to say, I share it either on Facebook - the gratest time killer of all times (but who would resist) - or write it on my blog, which is quite rare these days (and who reads it?). Honestly there is nothing much going on in my life these days and I am miles away from being "known".

Does being a celebrity guarantees profound invention and eloquence? Read some celebrity twitter comments and you would agree that hell no. Celebrities use twitter more or less every day to convey their daily rituals straight from their homes, sets, TV shows and shoots. They do not lie and do not show off but make sure you prioritize. It is the most truthfull gutter press and those who have enough of moral credit try to be constructive and are letting their fans know about chartiy projects, interesting or funny youtube videous and marginally relevant gossips about their privacy. This is good as long as their tweets have at least tiniest value for a reader. I do not have to be a loving fan to appreciate Kevin Spacey's tweets about his theatre performances, John Stamos' nostalgic Beach Boys project, Demi and Asthon's charity work (their comment are actually quite funny), what's new on Ellen or Justin Timberlake's lates views of music stuff. It is always handy to know what is going on in the huge pond of Hollywood just at the moment when you are bored at work. No need to sign in, just follow and you're in:-).