Day Off

Today begins the weekend before I return to graveyards. I'm obviously not adjusting right now as it's 9am and here I am blogging. Soon I'll be waking up at 3pm and going to bed at 8am. My mission for the weekend is to get back in the groove of bringing lunch and dinner to work instead of breakfast and lunch. I usually do this with frozen food and supplement with Sean's excellent cooking when he has time to cook.

My other mission is to find another guitar controller so we can both play Guitar Hero and Rockband at the same time. Watching Sean play last night was fun, but I'd rather be part of it than an observer.

And then there's the run. Today is my long run day. I've got a half marathon in 16 days. I'm going to try for 8 miles today. Shame is it will probably be the longest run I've done pre-race because I need to start taper a week from Sunday and schedule-wise I won't have the time for that distance. If you thought I was fast- think again. I'm hoping for a 2:30+ half if not to just finish the thing. If I have a bad day it could be 3hrs or more.

Wow, I got in...

Gosh, it's been a while since I posted here. I guess I felt so down after being wait-listed by Western that I gave up on this whole idea. Didn't want to be that chick that whined at my non-existent readers about everything.

Well. I'm back. I've been accepted to St. George's University, Grenada, West Indies for their DVM/MPH dual-degree. I don't even know where to start with how grateful I am to everyone who supported me in my path to get here. Right now I'm still in shock, and yet trying to take care of as much as I can as fast as I can. I've got about four months left at my job, but I'm going back to graveyards rotation on Tuesday. Then again, once the schedules adjust, graves might not be that bad, if it means less public contact and customer service chit-chat. I don't wish emergencies on anyone, but I'd much rather actually help someone in an emergency than field 50 calls about where the live scan office is and how to do things for your child who is an adult.

So on my list right now:
-Flights to and from Grenada
-Supplies I'll need (I still have no idea where to start with some of them)
-Decide whether or not I want to do the masters in public health (I'm 90% sure this is a yes.)
-Decide when to leave my job. (I know everyone says to do this earlier and take the time off with family but I don't want to forgo the pay, benefits etc. and I'm not sure I can justify living without an income for more than half a month.)

And those are just the big ones biting at me.

Maybe more important than all that is the half marathon I'm hoping to finish. It's coming up in 17 days! I'm woefully under prepared of course, but I will finish it, dang it! Anyway, there are lots of things going on in my life right now, some of which I want to happen faster, others I'd love to not face at all.

The Bottom line: Four and a half years from right now, I will be fromthebox, DVM!