It's been quite some time since I updated this blog.
Here's a couple different things that have been going on for you guys - that's if anyone reads this, of course. :)
Vegetarianism is treating me well; I don't miss meat, however it does make things a little more challenging when I try to grab something to eat quickly. But it's helping me make more health concious decisions. It's been almost a month now and I feel better for it, I think. I haven't really noticed a huge difference but I think I'm losing weight slowly. I still eat junk food like it's going out of style, so I'm trying to work on that too, but too many things at once can crowd me and make me shut down. Right now I just want to focus on making better choices, working, and my relationships with my boyfriend, friends, and family.
Work hasn't really changed much. I'm learning more working in the back on Saturdays, and by the end of the summer my technician coworker who does Saturdays with me wants to have me actually taking blood, placing IV catheters, setting up surgery, etc. It's pretty scary, but considering I already know how to clean surgery, set up and help take x-rays, set up IV fluids, clean surgical tools, handle various animals, and remove catheters, I think it'll be a smooth transition. She's a great teacher too, so that's good. Just this past Saturday I learned all the names for the surgical tools (the dr that was working that day helped me out a good bit too, as it was pretty quiet).
Last weekend my roommate and I took a spur-of-the-moment road trip to Nanaimo for shopping. We stayed at a hotel that made us feel like we were in a ritzy neighbourhood...she had to parellel park between a Lincoln SUV and a BMW. It was scary. But the hotel itself was lovely, it was only $130 ish, and it was a nice room. Totally worth it. We spent the Sunday in the mall and wandering around purchasing various things, the best of which was the next 2 seasons of Six Feet Under, which to my dismay Netflix did not have. But honestly I'm fine with owning it, it's a great show, so it makes me happy to purchase it, I feel like it deserves to be bought. Eventually I'll buy the last 2 seasons, and then probably start buying How I Met Your Mother or The Big Bang Theory. Boyfriend hasn't seen TBBT so it'd be a good introduction to a show I find absolutely hysterical. :)
Here's a couple of pictures from our trip.
Me and a tree. I like trees.
Sitting like a hippie in the grass. <3
Well yes, other than that, there was Canada Day yesterday. :)
We spent most of the day downtown with our friends, meeting up here and there, trying to get everyone together. We had dinner at a sushi place, and I was delighted to find a couple delicious vegetarian rolls, and my friend made me a couple "special" ones from her remnants. Then we explored all the goodness that is Canada Day, market stalls, mini doughnuts, kettle korn, walking along the water, snuggling on the rocks watching the fireworks. Then everyone came over to our house where we played an amusing game of apples to apples and got slightly drunk. Pretty fun. :)
I have some pictures but they're still on the memory card, and being the lazy turkey I am, I don't want to bother uploading them, then deleting what I don't want, then editing, etc. PS the above pictures are unedited.
Anyway, I think that's all I have to say about that.
Other things are kind of up and down at the moment, but nothing I dare say on the internet. Sorry! :)
