Okay so life has obviously been fairly busy, which is proven by the fact that I have not posted anything lately. Whatever happened to posting once a day in november…. oops!

Anyways, my busy life…. today I had a written exam in Small Animal Lecture, a practical exam in Small Animal Lab, a quiz for A&P, and a quiz in Cat Anatomy. Oh and this is just my monday, tomorrow I have a math quiz & a large animal practical and we won’t even start with how much I have left in the next 3 weeks (2 weeks of classes & 1 week of finals). Needless to say, coming straight off of thanksgiving break it wasn’t easy to take all of those tests/quizzes today. Although I did survive and the stuff for tomorrow shouldn’t be too bad at all.

Thanksgiving was good. Lots of hours in the car, visiting with family, and eating. No turkey for me of course, but there was plenty of other good things… fruit salad made with a recipe that has been passed down in our family (lots of cherries, yummy, and no one minds that I steal all of them), stuffed portabello mushrooms (with garden vegetable cream cheese) on top of spinach leaves, and delicious homemade rolls (made by my wonderful mom-in-law).

Axel actually laid on my lap in the car and just cuddled up to me. Apparently he isn’t a wiggler when he is in the car, I think there is just too much interesting stuff going by the windows. It was nice though to get to cuddle him for a couple hours, since that is a rare occurence (other than when I am trying to sleep at night and he thinks the world should be paying attention to him). Pounce apparently prefers traveling in the late afternoon/early evening during the time he would normally take his incredibely long nap. It is just no fun to be in the car when you could be running around like a crazy cat chasing toy mice in the morning:)

It was good to see my sister with her long dark hair. An interesting contrast to my short blonde hair:) I am sure she is also feeling the crunch of the end of semester and finals nearing. It will be over soon though & we can celebrate:)

Off to read some & study a little (maybe:)… Have a great night!

So I have been slacking off on posting…

I suppose everyone who hasn’t seen me lately would probably be interested in my new haircut & color. However, loading a pic off the camera just seems like too much work.

Really everything seems like too much work.

Hmm, maybe it is because the semester is so close to the very end and I feel slightly overwhelmed with everything I have left to do.

Yeah that is probably why…

Oh well, I suppose I could start working on some of it.

Although cuddling up with the cats on the couch, eating chocolate, and reading sounds like a better plan :)

You have no idea how excited I am! My pictures finally uploaded to blogger after how many days… seriously I thought I was going to have to give up and I was not at all happy about that thought:( So now that I have probably forgot half the stories I was going to tell about this pictures, here they are:) The horse pics are slightly blurry because you cannot use a flash around them. Horses are very skiddish and the smallest thing scares them, so using a flash can really freak them out. Oh and 1000 lbs of freaked out animal is not a good thing! :)

This is Sabrina (the horse) and Sheepie (the sheep). These two have the cutest relationship! Horses do not like to be alone, they like company (hence why you will sometimes see a sheep or goat with a horse) so they gave Sabrina a sheep to hang out with. The funny thing about Sabrina & Sheepie is that Sheepie is the very attached one. He hates it when you separate them (and sheep can cry very loudly!!). Definitely adorable:)

This is a pic of me with Annie, one of the other horses besides Sabrina that we have been working with in lab. She has a little more spunk to her and loves to move her head around a ton, but I think she is a great horse. I would actually really like a horse with her coloring some day. Both her and Sabrina are being held in the stocks that we use to keep them fairly still or at least in one place while we do a physical exam. Working with horses is definitely different in some ways than working with small animals, but I love it!

Me walking Ren (I have no idea how to spell his full name and it is hard to say so we will just go with that version:). This picture doesn’t really do him justice, he is a huge horse and since he is moving his head you can’t really see how much taller he is than me. You will just have to take my word for it that he is quite a bit taller than I am.

Now for some small animal pictures…

This would be a picture of me giving an IV injection on a dogs leg. I would show the whole pic, but obviously one of my friends is in it holding the dog so I figured everyone would get the idea from this. I just figured it might be fun for everyone to see me working with the dogs a little:)

This pic is me with my favorite dog at school, Jack. He is slightly crazy and a little hyper, but I love that about him. If you take him out for a decent little run/walk right before you work with him he totally calms down and is an amazing dog. The glowing green eyes in the background is Roxie, she wanted someone to play with her too:)

So I know that it is a little after midnight, but I think this post counts for friday instead of saturday since I have yet to go to bed! :)

Apparently the answer to that question would be “NO” which means that I still cannot post pictures…. Bummer, definitely. Hopefully, cross your fingers I will be able to finally post the pics tomorrow! Or the next day…

I think I like large animals… this revelation from the girl who was unsure of what to think about the cows and sheep at first. (The horses I always knew I would like.)

Apparently blogger is having tons of issues tonight (or at least for me it is). I was going to post a bunch of pictures, but since it is having issues it won’t let me. So instead I figured I would just write a short little note to say that hopefully soon I will be able to post some pics. This week I remembered my camera for large animal lab and also for my small animal lab. So I have pictures of both the horses and dogs:) Maybe tomorrow I can actually share them…

Now I should get back to studying… (oh yeah, studying is also the reason I didn’t post yesterday, too much of it!) I don’t think typing this blog entry is going to help me learn anything about horses or anatomy….

Loving…

• my new leggings from target (warmth for the winter)
• Pounce & Axel’s new carrier (I think we can get two more cats easily with this carrier)
• my L.A.M.B. sweatpants (what would relaxing be without these)
• working with horses (tomorrow)
• new Christmas wrapping paper (I couldn’t resist, I just had to get it when I saw it)
• my new Columbia hiking socks (toasty warm)
• Axel thinking every straw is his (I will have to post a pic of him looking like he is drinking out of it)
• Pounce perking his ears up when he hears Ben pull in the drive (or when I tell him Ben is going to be home soon)
• school (and everything about becoming a vet tech)
• apple everything (cider, pie, apple butter - yum)

A side note… I inserted a stomach tube in a dog today. Interesting experience for sure… Sometimes I get to a point at school when I think maybe I can’t do this, but then I have something like that where I realize yeah I can do this and I really want to be a vet tech. That is a good feeling!

Okay so I missed posting yesterday…. Of course it was bound to happen at some point I suppose. Apparently I went through my whole day, got into bed, fell asleep, and didn’t even realize until about 4ish when I read my Dad’s text message that it had totally skipped my mind. So I guess this entry is going to have to make up for yesterdays and be good enough for todays, or maybe not:)

Today I finally got around to my crazy closet that needed cleaning out desperately. It feels good to finally have it done, a little less overwhelming. Now if I could only get my desk cleaned off… Ben, feel like helping with that next? :) - I have a great husband, let me tell you… he puts up with the crazy amount of clothes that I think I need (but really don’t) and then when I get sick of everything I own, he helps me clean my closet so that I can probably get more new clothes:)

This week promises to be pretty busy with tons of school stuff, I think that is pretty much how the rest of the semester is going to go though! I am going to try, try, try to remember to bring my camera to school (at least for large animal) to get some pictures. No guarantees though… I always seem to forget something and personally I would rather forget the camera than my books!

The rest of the month… remember to post every day again….

My darling little sister, Sari! Your package will be in the mail soon hopefully. (I will email you when I mail it)

Not that she had a ton of competition:) I really thought I had more readers out there, hmm… that’s alright though. I would write even if no one felt like reading my blog, just because.

Edited to include: I know that this probably does not apply to most of you who read my blog, but I am finding that if you use a feed reader (with rss or atom feeds) to read my blog the feed is not working. For some reason when I switched to the new blogger beta it made the feeds stop working. Just a note in case…. if you don’t have any idea what I am talking about, then ignore this little note:) Otherwise, I am going to have Ben take a look at it later since I can’t figure out how to fix it…

This blog entry is my short little study break, then I am back to studying for my vet drugs quiz that I have tomorrow. I promise that my entry tomorrow will have a little more substance to make up for these last two entries…

I probably don’t have any readers left who haven’t entered my 100th post contest, but if you are out there and haven’t commented remember that you have till tomorrow at 5pm to enter:)

I really wanted to write a little about working with the horses during my large animal class, but hadn’t gotten around to it. So maybe now would be a good time:) On tuesday we started the equine (horse) section of large animal and I thought it was great! We did a bunch of the fairly normal physical exam stuff that we do for pretty much every animal, plus we learned how to do leg wraps, tail wraps, halter a horse, groom a little, use a hoofpick, lift their legs, and lead them around too. I didn’t take my camera with, but I am planning on taking it next week to get a few pics.

I registered for next semester’s classes today and since I had such a good time working with the horses I decided to add an extra class too. I am going to be taking a horseback riding class! I am definitely excited:)

Okay now back to the studying….

So this entry is going to have to be short since I want to get some sleep…. It is difficult to keep up with this post a day, but I am enjoying the challenge slightly. This post is fairly late since blogger asked me if I wanted to update and I said yes, but then it told me that it was going to take a while for the update to take… Sometimes blogger can be slightly frustrating:( Although I am excited about the updates and am sure that some changes will probably be made in the next little while to make things a little bit cooler and nicer here:)

I really wanted to write about my large animal class that I had the other day (we started working with horses), but I think I will save that bit for tomorrow. Hope you have a great night!

Just a reminder: You can still enter my 100th post contest until Friday at 5pm. Just leave a comment on that entry (not this one, although you can leave one for this entry too just for fun) and I will draw a winner friday night!