Goodbye, 2010

Well, I survived another semester and the (supposed) hardest part of veterinary school is now behind me. All I know is that next semester's schedule rocks.

In other news, Christmas went well and my trailer survived without incidence this year. I was even able to bathe all 3 dogs -- trust me, this is a big accomplishment when 2 of them are 95+ lbs and hate baths with a terrified passion-- and 1 of our cats with my brother and older sister's help. The dogs were also brushed, many nails were clipped, and my sister's "little" (60ish lb) dog got badly-needed a haircut**.

I had a few more things I was going to write about, but heck if I remember them right now. Before I go... I usually don't do new years' resolutions, but since there are a few things I'd like to accomplish:

1. Take more time for art. Tentative goal is a (digital) piece per week, but we'll see how that goes.
2. Clicker-train my animals, both to help stave their boredom and to spend more time with them. And get Van a kong, and take him for nice long walks on a regular basis once the weather starts to warm up.
   
3. Go home more often.
   
4. Get in shape. Sitting in a desk all day isn't really conducive toward fitness.

**Imagine a mostly-black, fluffy dog. Now imagine longer hair forming a force field extending several inches from her body. Dogs don't need a force field.

So... close...

Three-point-five finals down, two more to go.

I have had roughly 9 hours of sleep in the past 2 days.

I am considering pulling an all-nighter tomorrow (Wednesday) night because our last final, micro, scares the living daylights out of me.

Let's just fast-forward to Friday, shall we?

Impending doom

The midwest got hit with a massive winter storm yesterday. While we weren't dumped with as much snow as other places, the excessive winds turned pretty much the entire state of Iowa into a blizzard. Excessive wind = it sounded like the roof was coming off = a very nervous, and very whiny, Vanyel-dog. Finn could have cared less. We're still under a wind advisory (up to 35mph gusts! -14*C with the wind chill!) and the bitter cold is supposed to continue into tomorrow.