I’m sorry. I haven’t been blogging as much as I should be. You’d think that as a brand new vet, I’d have lots to talk about and at some level, you’re very much right. However, by the time I get home, I’m wiped out and blogging gets put aside. That and (www.twitter.com/ponygirlrocks) Twitter takes care of my blogging desires for the most part at 140 characters at a time.
There were two blogs that I intended on writing but I think I safely summarize both now:
Halloween: I love Halloween. That’s when I met Joe five years ago. I love candy. I love costumes. Mary won 2nd place this year as Sherlock Bones at Pet Smart. I love carving pumpkins even if doing so makes my hands super itchy. I carved two of the four that we got at the pumpkin patch this year-one was an owl and the other had a tombstone, ghost, tree and moon on it. I did them all free hand. I’m awesome. I roasted the seeds out of them. They were pretty good. I was really excited about trick-or-treaters but Carlisle and all of Pennsylvania as far as I can tell is weird. Even though Halloween was on a Sunday, they had trick or treating on the Thursday before. Because I work till 7 on Thursdays, I only was home for half an hour. We had one trick or treater. At least there’s more candy for me.
Halloween: I love Halloween. That’s when I met Joe five years ago. I love candy. I love costumes. Mary won 2nd place this year as Sherlock Bones at Pet Smart. I love carving pumpkins even if doing so makes my hands super itchy. I carved two of the four that we got at the pumpkin patch this year-one was an owl and the other had a tombstone, ghost, tree and moon on it. I did them all free hand. I’m awesome. I roasted the seeds out of them. They were pretty good. I was really excited about trick-or-treaters but Carlisle and all of Pennsylvania as far as I can tell is weird. Even though Halloween was on a Sunday, they had trick or treating on the Thursday before. Because I work till 7 on Thursdays, I only was home for half an hour. We had one trick or treater. At least there’s more candy for me.
Tuesdays and Thursdays: Both really stress me out. Tuesday is my day off and the stressful part is that I have a week’s worth of errands and taking care of house things to get done. But typically, I end up laying on the couch for a good part of the day and regretting that decision as well. And I feel because Tuesdays, I tend to make a big meal for Joe-something intricate- and/or bake something, I feel like MY day off is used for everyone else. Many a Tuesday around dinner time has come to tears. Thursdays are stressful because they are my surgery day and I end up working about 12 hours pretty much straight. I’m a very slow surgeon but we knew that from lab. And it doesn’t matter what sort of surgeries I have, something goes awry or surgeries get added on and then its 2pm and of course appointments (most often a single vaccine appointment) start at 3. And I don’t get a nap. I generally take all of this in stride and just keep going. Getting to sit for at least half an hour and eat is okay. Especially if I actually have time to run to Saylor’s and get something. Get out of the building. Something.
SO that pretty much sums up the two most recent blogs I wanted to write. I’ve been toying with the idea of going to blogspot or something but I have hundreds of blogs on here. And I really need to do something with my Xanga (www.xanga.com/ponygirlrocks) blog that I abandoned for this one anyway. Lots of good blogs there too.
In other news around here, Joe got switched to day shift which should have allowed us to spend more time together but alas has not. He ends up working till nearly ten at which point he comes home and eats and plays video games/watches TV. I fall asleep on the couch and go to bed way to late. At least we can sleep in the same bed now which I have mixed feelings about. Mostly because Joe is a cover and bed hog and his bed is terribly uncomfortable. The cat has mixed feelings about the new sleeping arrangements too. Initially, she looked at it as a trend and cautiously slept on my pillow above my head or on the nightstand. Now she has taken to sleeping next to my chest and spooning with us. Very cute.
Joe and I have started watching a show that premiered last week on AMC called The Walking Dead. Its based on the comic book that we read. Its about zombies so naturally, I have zombie nightmares. Its staying pretty close to the comics except that Rick isn’t attractive enough.
I bought my western horse clock finally off ebay.
I got my hair highlighted. We were talking about it at work last Monday and Tuesday I got into a salon and had it done. Its very light. Maybe too light. But looks good…until you really start looking at it and realize that you can see my roots. Oh well.
We took the dogs to the Mechanicsburg dog park last week. Its not exciting either. But there were lots of dogs there so at least they could fake some excitement of seeing other dogs. We’re probably going to go again today.
The weather has gotten chilly here. Not too bad but chilly enough. We turned on the heat but I’m being a heat nazi about it. I just don’t want the bills to run up. We barely save any money a month and haven’t really started to pay off my student loan even. One of the things we wanted to do before turning on the heat was rearrange our living room because the futon sits in front of the bay window where the heater is. However, our living room is only so wide and to fulfill all of our requirements-nothing in front of the bay window, couch sitting with its back out, not blocking all the doors, TV in the corner-we had to leave everything as is. Not that we didn’t try. It just didn’t work. I did rearrange my bedroom some and need to do the office/animal room too. Oh, and tonight, we need to put the window plastic up but haven’t. Again, lots of things we talk about doing but never really do.
I’ve been dealing with a horse and its leg wound for a couple of weeks now. I really like the owner. Maybe she’ll be my friend. I need to email her back too. Ummm…I took the splint off of the sheep with a broken leg. The break healed but now the sheep is down in the pasterns and the hoof is internally rotated. I’m not sure if its because the splint moved or because he might have rotated off the joint. He was nonweight bearing when I left but figure that in regards to the being down in the pastern and nonweight bearing that he needs some time to get back some muscle and tendon strength. I told the owner to give the sheep two weeks before deciding. I’ll call then and see what he wants/how the sheep is doing.
I guess that’s all that’s really going on now. I know that I’ve got a long list of To Dos but probably won’t start it anytime soon. Joe’s playing a video game and then needs to get cleaned up for the dog park. Then dog park and then maybe we’ll get around to either cleaning or putting up widow plastic. Tonight, we’ll cozy up for The Walking Dead sans puppies and eat some popcorn.
[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on 11/14/11]
[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on 11/14/11]
