Since posting last, a lot has happened.

First and foremost, I picked Danny up from the airport last Thursday (Thanksgiving). I am so happy to be reunited with him and not have the end of winter break (or summer break, or whatever) looming over us. We are finally together permanently and it is a glorious feeling.

Anyway, I still had to go to my farm services rotation on Friday, but after that I came home, we packed up and hit the road Saturday morning for the journey home. Per usual, we stopped over in Portland, Maine and had dinner at Chipotle. Chipotle is always delicious, but the experience was extra-special as I hadn't been there in six months. Then we went and wandered around Cabella's for a bit and then turned in. Sunday morning we left decently early and made good time until about an hour or so away from home, where we hit pretty bad returning-from-Thanksgiving-weekend traffic. Ugh. But we made it home!

This past week has been spent doing my final studying for the NAVLE. I got 100% of the way through Zuku's study mode and about 50% of the way through their test mode before calling it quits and just browsing my notes all day yesterday. I got up bright and early this morning, made my way to the testing center and even found a parking garage very close by, which I'd been worrying about. Got checked in and started my exam...and just kept going! I forced myself to take a break half-way through (there were six blocks, 65mins each, though I got them done in about 45mins) but other than that, I just kept plowing through. Overall I felt like it was a fairly reasonable exam; for me, the first few sections were a lot easier than the last three sections. There were definitely questions that I had to outright guess on, and some where I'd whittled it down to two reasonable options (at least in my opinion) and had to just pick one, that sort of thing. But overall I feel like I probably passed, which is all that matters!

In other news, I received two preliminary interview invitations with residency programs!! Those will be happening in the coming weeks and while I'm pretty nervous and don't exactly know what to expect, I'm excited to be given the opportunity.

So everything is going pretty well for me. I feel as though with NAVLE and my clinical conference behind me, I had a pretty big weight off my shoulders. I still have some paperwork to do, the two interviews to prepare for, and various other non-vet related stuff to do, but I'm looking forward to the chance to do some fun stuff, prepare for the holidays and catch up with everyone back home :)