Okay, let's start with date night and we'll finish with work. So Joe and I have taken to going out the Saturday after paychecks if I'm not on call. The paycheck before last, Joe and I went to Red Lobster. I was going to wear my strapless sundress that I wore for graduation. It was a little crumpled but overall still looked okay. I put it on and was waiting to get into the bathroom when Joe came out and said that the dress wasn't flattering. Ugh. What a way to start a date night! Even though I really wanted to pout and cry and throw things at Joe (and probably rightfully should have), I sucked it up, put on jeans and we went to Red Lobster. I don't know if they still have it or not but they were having the Four Course Feast for $15 thing and it was worth it. I had potato soup, ceasar salad, a bunch of shrimp and then a brownie for dessert. I was stuffed. This past Saturday, we went out again for our date night. The day started with working the horses followed by getting Joe a new iPhone since his crapped out. I found out that AT&T gives a discount to veterinarians! Sweet! Then we did some clothes shopping. I was looking for a navy skirt to wear with a t-shirt I had but wasn't having any luck. At Kohl's I found some cute shirts for work and made Joe approve of them. He asked why I didn't wear long skirts because he thought they would look cute on me. He had found a long white one he liked. This was after I had tried on a peasent top (which I typically hate because invariably they make you look pregnant) and agreed to get that instead of the fancy t-shirt I wanted. I tried on the skirt and he wanted me to get it which I did but only after an agonizingly long time of looking for a shirt to go with it...which also ended up being a peasent shirt. Ugh. So for date night, we went to the Japanese resturant next to Giant. We sat on the hibachi side so we had dinner and a show. It was really good and reasonably priced. Then we made a stop at Wal-Mart for lawn chairs and home for a radio before going to Newville for the drive-in. Captain America which was good and Transformers 3 which was not were playing. It was a good but late date.
Okay, wedding really quick. I talked to my mom. She didn't give me an exact amount of money that they could help us out with for the wedding. (Of course.) But did agree to pay for little things here and there-so maybe I can at least get the deposits taken care of that way. HOWEVER, I have not done any further planning. I have no motivation to do so. Everytime I get frustrated, I throw my hands up and state that we'll just go to the courthouse and then I get mad because I really do want the big beautiful wedding. The leading theory right now is CE at Western States Veterinary Conference and then a Vegas wedding.
I entered two baked goods at the Shippensburg Fair-apple cake and peanut butter stuffed chocolate cookies. The apple cake won third place netting me a whopping $2! My mistake this year was baking it the morning of. It was still warm when I cut it so it fell apart pretty easily.
Crafts: As usual, lots of projects, not a lot of time. Mostly again because of my love for TV, which got fixed today. I did buy a bookcase at a yard sale which may help motivate me to be upstairs more in the evenings. Motivate me because I can bring a TV for DVDs up here. Anyway, as usual, lots of things planned including a quilt, quilting photos of animals, etc, etc. AND now Amberle has me started on this website called Pinterest which only feeds the fire even more. On it, you can find things such as craft ideas, projects, clothes, etc and 'pin' them to a virtual bulletain board. Apparently, you can do it from all over the internet but I don't know how. It would be really helpful when I'm trying to update Joe's room as it is void of decoration. Oh, this is where owls come in. So at the same yard sale where I bought the bookcase (which I think always has great stuff), I purchased an owl lamp. Its equal parts awesome and hidious. Well, judge for yourself.
Amberle suggested that if I painted it all white, it might even be trendy. I'm considering it. A very glossy white with maybe some navy accents as Joe's room is going to be blues and birds. He doesn't know this. Thoughts?
Rachel mailed me a tropical plant which I have continued to ignore. It didn't make it here in great shape and continues to live haphazardly on my porch. Its repotting is actually on my list of things to do today. I also got my oil changed, hair cut and had the cable man over in addition to my normal Tuesday chores-laundry and dishes as well as making dinner. I need to continue to do some cleaning upstairs though. Motivation Fairy!
So now on to ponies. A little while back, we started breaking Nell to drive and it wasn't without its difficulties. Mostly because she refused to stop without looking at you by turning around and also because turning to the right was seemingly impossible. I was on the lookout for a cart when I happened to find one on Craigslist. It was in rough shape but fit Nell pretty well. That and the father of the girl that was selling it was this awesome equine vet! He gave me and Joe a tour of the facility and we had a great time. Anyway, Nell has been since hitched less than a dozen times to the cart and was making some good progress until last week when I was super busy.
All of the problems of stopping and turning the right had disappeared and I was left with a nicely trained pony. A week off and this has sort of disappeared. She still listens okay but has also taken to deciding she doesn't want to turn, walk or trot as asked. She's not bad but last week when hitching her solo while she was tied to the fence, she freaked out and then tried to take off with the cart partially attached. Not a good situation. But practice, practice, practice. I'm hoping to get her in with a pony trainer for a day of pointers this fall.
So finally work. Two weeks ago, TH was on vacation leaving us even more short handed since TS is still out on maternity leave. She comes back towards the end of this month. We've been super busy on small animal and sort of on large-lots of health papers for the fair. Non-emergency wise, I've been dealing with a dog with high calcium. There are about five things that cause that and to figure out why, you need to run some expensive tests. I did and had no answers so I'm referring it for an ultrasound. I smell cancer. I hope they smell cancer too. Last Friday, I TB tested about 120 cows. I got stepped on and had a nice hoof shapped bruise on my foot. It was a very hot and somewhat poopy job. Last Thursday night, it was pretty light and I had only had one surgery that morning. Of course, I ended up adding in three somewhat complicated cases including a whelping dog. This pug was only 9 months old and had been accidently breed on her first heat. She came to me with most of a puppy hanging out of her. With much difficulty, I managed to get it out and we x-rayed the dog. She had one large puppy in her. I suggested we do a c-section because I wasn't certain she could have the pup on her own. While I was in there, I was going to spay the dog. So after we finished with appointments, Lisa and I did the c-section. We are quite the surgery duo. It went well for the bitch but her pup died shortly after. Lisa and I had done another 'emergency' spay one Monday on a cat for some dead kittens which I think were alive. Now oddly enough, that cat may have gone blind? I don't know.
Despite being busy, we had to test the processor so Meg and I gathered an assortment of items to x-ray. It was so much fun!
In terms of emergencies, I was on four days straight. I had four days straight this month too but have now swiched some things around and get Sunday off. Thursday was okay. Friday, I oiled a horse that didn't really need it. It went pretty smoothly. Saturday, I pulled a dead calf that had been in the cow for about two days before she started to have it-it had a twin born two days earlier. It went pretty smoothly despite the 100 degree heat. I just kept moving my chain and pulling. At midnight, I got a call for a beef cow having trouble. I found four feet and a head and was convinced that the calf was coming transverse but apparently it was twins fighting about who came out first. I had a hard time with it and then decided to do a c-section. Then couldn't get the uterus up to my incision even though I made it low for that reason. It was too heavy. At 2:30am, I called BF and he came and managed to deliver the two dead twins vaginally. I sewed the cow up and we went home and to bed at 5am. At 8am, I was called out for one of the tech's horses. It was down laterally when I got there and I was sure it was a bad deal until the horse got up and trotted over to greet me. I also saw a dog with diarrhea that morning. Needless to say, July will be a profitable month for me.
I guess that's it. I'll go sit around watching TV and not cleaning like I should until its time to make dinner. Maybe I'll repot that plant.
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