Mmm.

If there's one good thing about my summer job (and really there are many), it's the steady supply of birthday cake. Anytime it's anyone's birthday they get a full (and delicious!) birthday cake and a big ol' bouquet of flowers. So far there have been at least three birthdays, all different cakes and ugh; I don't think I've eaten so much cake in my life!

I had to work today, but it was an early finish despite the daunting, every-line-filled schedule. I find that these sorts of days are really the best because they're busy enough to keep you from looking at the clock but smooth enough that you don't get behind and have to run around like a crazy person, make mistakes, etc. So a good day, even if it is the weekend and I would have preferred to sleep in and be lazy :)

A hodgepodge.

Another day off, although this one wasn't quite as badly needed as others since it's only Tuesday. I have quite a bit ahead of me this week with work until Saturday, a barbecue on Saturday afternoon with old friends and riding on Sunday.

I've been productive today at least: got my rabies booster shot and bought myself a lunchbox for school. The lunchbox isn't really as big as I was planning but it was too stinkin' cute not to have so I went for it. It should be big enough to carry what I need plus about half the price of the Vera Bradley one I had my eye on so it's a win-win situation. My sister came with me to buy the lunchbox, and had lunch with me first. It was nice to catch up with her since it seems like preparing to move/vet school has consumed my life and those of the people around me.

Lastly, Danny has a surprise for me and I can't figure out what it is. He says I need to "wait a few weeks" which is right when we're driving up to Canada so it must have something to do with that but darn if I can't even begin to guess. It'll be driving me nuts until then!

Edit: The lunchbox! :)

Ack.

My "before vet school" to-do list is dwindling. So much so that all I'm really left with is sending in paperwork, getting Ella squared away and then preparing for the move! I don't know that I'm really ready to look it in the face yet (i.e: start packing) but I know I'll be better off the earlier I start. So I'm going to start sorting out what will be stored at my parents house versus what will be coming with me. Then I'm going to start getting stuff over there. Apparently I also need to keep a list of things that I'm bringing up in case the border people need it.

A big part of this move is going to be Ella. I'm going to assemble a doggy travel pack and find for a place to stay the night before we cross over into Canada.

I know this post is terribly disjointed, short and likely boring. Hopefully something more productive in a couple days time!

Day off!

I have today off and man have I made good use of it! I've been running around since 8:00 this morning getting stuff done and it feels great to have knocked so much off of my list. One of the highlights of today was visiting my old work and having lunch with my coworkers. It was so nice to see everyone again and eat the amazing food cooked by the boss's wife. Pulled pork sandwiches were my favorite but it was all really delicious. My boss also gave me a couple of leads to follow regarding summer work for next summer, when I really hope to delve into lab animal stuff full-swing as a vet student.

I also found a new facial moisturizer/sunscreen. (I know that seems out of place in a vet-based blog but I hope that I can keep my posts different and interesting, not just "I'm so busy!" or "I'm so tired!" or stuff like that.) Anyway, I'm pretty big into skin care although I don't wear make-up and recognize how important sun protection is. So I tried one kind by philosophy (whose shampoo/shower gels are AMAZING) but had some minor breakouts. Today at the grocery store I bought another (cheaper) kind by Neutrogena - so far so good! I'll see how my face is tomorrow and if no breakouts, I'll have a new winner.

There's so much I could go into about today but I'm going to leave it at that. Back to work tomorrow!

Happiness is...

Getting home with just enough time to relax a tiny bit. Or write a blog post or watch some stupid TV or even read a couple pages of a book. But that time is just about up now so to bed I go. Happy Monday!

Home and all it entails...

So I'm home from Texas. We had a great time down there visiting/meeting Danny's family but boy was it hot down there. The plus side was that while it was hot, it wasn't nearly as humid, so a fair enough trade. Anyway, our flight was in relatively late (for me at least, since I like to get to bed embarrassingly early) and I had to work the next day. Not letting Danny make flight arrangements anymore!

Work is work..long busy days. I managed to snag a day off next week so I can start knocking off things on my to do list, which manages to grow every time I turn around, ugh. It isn't so bad though because it's all exciting vet school stuff but due dates (and my move/classes) are creeping closer faster than I can believe!

Anyway, since it's still early yet I'm going to watch my cooking show on TV and switch my laundry over to the dryer. Goodnight!

Vacation?!

The boyfriend and I are headed out of town this weekend to attend an informal family reunion (of his family). This will be the first time I've had off work for a while - or at least a day where we're open but I'm not in! It should be relaxing, although hotter than hell itself; Dallas, Texas will be at least 100F if not higher all of the days we're there. Ugh. At least the humidity is no where near that of the DC area.

On the vet school front, not much news. I need to get my rabies titer results from the health center but the woman who can give them to me never answers her phone and I don't want to go until I hear from her. I also need to complete more financial aid info but I did manage to get my PIN approved and correct my FAFSA (who spells their first name wrong?! That would be me). So the long and short of it is that I've gotten some stuff done but not lately, with all this work I've been doing. Plus side is that I'm saving a lot, which was another "to do"!

Eeeeee!

Just wanted to update from my NEW ipad2! I've got some excellent free apps already but need to investigate good note-taking ones for school. Whee :)

Holy guacamole.

I don't even know where to begin except to say I'm sorry for falling off of the face of the earth there for a week. I ended up having to work for someone who was sick on my two scheduled days off (Monday and Tuesday), but she couldn't switch with me on any of the other days so I got stuck working every single day this week. Which sounds normal for most people but when the days are at least ten hours long and you get fifteeen minutes to shove your lunch down your throat before going back into the melee...it's not easy. I don't really know how I made it through the week, but here I am on a Saturday morning blogging so it happened somehow!

As though being physically, mentally and emotionally tired were not enough, I came home to a broken air conditioning on Thursday night. I wrote a maintenance request before work and came home to it being marked as completed. Well guess what? It wasn't. So I called the emergency maintenance line and a guy came out (while my boyfriend and I were out at dinner at Chevy's. Best part of my week.) to install a window unit to tide me over until the big guns can come in and fix the thing on Monday. Except I think he means Tuesday because Monday is the 4th of July. Which is tied for my favorite holiday with Christmas, so yay for fireworks!

As you may have guessed, because I had zero time off this whole week, I have an unimaginably huge list of things to do this weekend. Since I got my FAFSA pin information in the mail I can fill out more financial aid info, but I also need to tidy up the apartment because frankly, it's appalling. So off I go to toss in some laundry!