I've always loved Halloween. Its always been one of my favorite holidays with Christmas being close behind it. It should mean a lot to both Joe and I since it was at a Halloween party that we met and drunkenly made out. Aww, the memories.
But as I grow older, my Halloweens seem to get progressively more and more boring. The bright spot to the 'season' if I can call it that is dressing up the pets and taking them to PetCo for the Halloween contest (see an earlier post for the results of that). Then on Halloween, I actually take them 'trick or treating' to the apartments of the various vet school neighbors and show off my handiwork a second time. I didn't even do that this year since wrangling Riley and Bess by myself would have been too much. Instead, I watched Night of the Living Dead back to back while I repacked my snowglobes. Exciting, I know. Not even one trick or treater. Which meant more candy for myself. But I've been eating it all along anyway. Trick or treat.
I just wish that I could have a Halloween where I would be exciting to dress up like a slut (since apparently that's how costumes for 20-30 year old women are) and get drunk. I want to have a good time. I should have gone to the med school Halloween party as a real doctor. Sigh.
Oh well, eventually, at least I know given the care that I put into animal costumes, I know that my kids will have the best Halloween costumes in the neighborhood.
In other news, I am starting to wonder if I even know how to study for NAVLE. Its only three weeks away and time to get serious but do I know how to compress four years of my life into studying for one big test? Each day on VetPrep, its one big disappointment and one big surprise (when I get things right). I just don't know what to do. And Facebook and its damn farmtown keep getting me distracted. Joe tries to make study suggestions (such as studying with others (which I HATE doing) but I'll still be distracted. And what does he know anyway?
Radiology is going fine. I'm getting a little tired of it. Monday, I'm on call. Sigh. So thinking about radiology here is a picture of what I look like when taking radiographs (x-rays for everyone else).
So that blue thing is the heavy lead apron we wear. That black blob in the area of my neck is the thyroid shield. And the green monster mitts where my hands used to be are lead lined gloves. They are very difficult to work with esp. when trying to hold something very small. Like a cat leg. This is the thing I don't get. We have all this new technology in all of medicine, yet no one has thought of a better way to make gloves to take radiographs with? Seriously? Nothing flexiable and light yet radation proof? Disappointing. Tisk, tisk.
I've been a little blog crazy tonight. I had a lot of things that have been going through my head. The cat says its time to make some biscuits so I better go.
But as I grow older, my Halloweens seem to get progressively more and more boring. The bright spot to the 'season' if I can call it that is dressing up the pets and taking them to PetCo for the Halloween contest (see an earlier post for the results of that). Then on Halloween, I actually take them 'trick or treating' to the apartments of the various vet school neighbors and show off my handiwork a second time. I didn't even do that this year since wrangling Riley and Bess by myself would have been too much. Instead, I watched Night of the Living Dead back to back while I repacked my snowglobes. Exciting, I know. Not even one trick or treater. Which meant more candy for myself. But I've been eating it all along anyway. Trick or treat.
I just wish that I could have a Halloween where I would be exciting to dress up like a slut (since apparently that's how costumes for 20-30 year old women are) and get drunk. I want to have a good time. I should have gone to the med school Halloween party as a real doctor. Sigh.
Oh well, eventually, at least I know given the care that I put into animal costumes, I know that my kids will have the best Halloween costumes in the neighborhood.
In other news, I am starting to wonder if I even know how to study for NAVLE. Its only three weeks away and time to get serious but do I know how to compress four years of my life into studying for one big test? Each day on VetPrep, its one big disappointment and one big surprise (when I get things right). I just don't know what to do. And Facebook and its damn farmtown keep getting me distracted. Joe tries to make study suggestions (such as studying with others (which I HATE doing) but I'll still be distracted. And what does he know anyway?
Radiology is going fine. I'm getting a little tired of it. Monday, I'm on call. Sigh. So thinking about radiology here is a picture of what I look like when taking radiographs (x-rays for everyone else).
So that blue thing is the heavy lead apron we wear. That black blob in the area of my neck is the thyroid shield. And the green monster mitts where my hands used to be are lead lined gloves. They are very difficult to work with esp. when trying to hold something very small. Like a cat leg. This is the thing I don't get. We have all this new technology in all of medicine, yet no one has thought of a better way to make gloves to take radiographs with? Seriously? Nothing flexiable and light yet radation proof? Disappointing. Tisk, tisk.
I've been a little blog crazy tonight. I had a lot of things that have been going through my head. The cat says its time to make some biscuits so I better go.
[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger-11/2/11]
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