M.I.A....take it 2 da house!

so i realized that i've kind of abandoned this here blog of bloggatory bloggings since the MS150 bike ride nearly 4 months ago. that experience is still one of the most amazing things to be apart of! Things have just been non-stop as usual. it slowed down enough for me to regain some sanity which was helpful only to lose it a bit more each day.

i'm into my last semester of school...approximately 105 days left but who's counting. i'm still overwhelmed with how much information they cram into this 2yr program! I'll take national & state boards in June. Then i'll have to officially join the real world & find a full-time job....so in reality it's crunch time more than ever!

we organized our very 1st Vet Tech Adoption Day last fall & had great success with it so we're planning another one next month for our new slew of amazing cats & dogs!! if you know some one who's interested in adopting a pet, you'll be able to check them all out at this website very soon! http://mcckc.edu/main.asp?P=DP_VETT.

as for classes, we're getting back into the swing of things. Surgery rotations are starting even earlier now. its always a little nerve racking only because there's a real world way we do things at our jobs & then there's the Maple Woods way where everything is by the text book. the MW way always stresses ya out but last semester my group did good despite some ups & downs & us always getting the crazy animals with weird issues!

i did a lot of house sitting last fall too & at one time was watching 3 different houses with dogs. Luckily they were all great dogs & the houses were close by each other so i just made my rounds every morning, noon & night. i should of asked to get paid by the mile. good news is Jake, the dog i was fostering finally found a home the first of October right before my house sitting maddness began! perfect timing...i miss Jake but he immediately took to the older couple who came to meet him. i wasn't expecting him to leave that day but he did & i was sad....yes i'm a sap & cried after he left but oh well...i guess that means i'm not as cold hearted as i thought.

i've been playing volleyball Monday nights with friends from school. its just co-ed recreational thru the NKC school district but it's been a lot of fun! i didn't realize how much i missed playing volleyball until that first night. sadly i can't do my wicked overhanded serve like i used to thanks to my shoulder injury in college (falling off a computer chair..sober!) but it's still a lot of fun. plus more friends from school are playing with us this semester! what's even more entertaining are the other people we play with. couple of younger people my age play but it's mostly folks in their mid-30's, 40's & 50's....its fun to watch some of them get competitive & angry when other people mess up & then go silent when they screw up. my favorite will always be Rick, the old dude with a sweat band, cut off sweat pants & sweatshirt, bad knees & a pulled groin getting mad at me when i missed an easy shot couple times & i laughed at myself....later he "accidentally" spiked a ball at my face.

speaking of injuries...on Halloween i broke my own toe. well alcohol & a heavy bowling ball were involved so you can imagine what happened. my big toe was dysfunctional for about a month & half. i'm still waiting for the nail to fall off....its not a lovely sight for anyone to see that's for sure!

i thought i'd start writing on this blog again for my own sanity. the holidays came & went so a healthy diet went right out the window & of course with winter upon us means no more nice weather for bike riding. so needless to say i've fallen off the band wagon. do bands really have wagons anymore? um more like i fell off the pimped out band tour bus. a lot of things are happening for me this year & i want to get ready mentally & physically for what lies a head in my future. so i gotta get my butt in gear again!

all i have going right now is school & that takes up most of my time & brain space but i must balance it with something entertaining...hence the random babblings of me! no one will probably read this anymore just like no one used to read my other blog years ago during my fun run in radio (feel free to check it out at http://amy-d-28.xanga.com/) but that won't stop me from writing it this time either!

so here's to me wasting my time & probably yours...but it'll be worth it right? just tell me it will be worth it so i don't feel guilty for doing this occasionally instead of studying.

and we're off....