Moving and Graduation!

Well, I haven't updated in a while. I've been incredibly busy with school, and PACKING!
My current roommate in Columbia (Ashlee) and I are moving to a house in Columbia (that just so happens to be RIGHT next to the vet school, yay!). We move on Saturday the 5th, so we've finally realized that if we don't start packing, we're not going to be able to enjoy the 4th! The motivation of yummy BBQ and beer is getting to me, so I've been a very busy girl!

I really didn't realize how much crap I've accumulated over the last 7 years of college, but I think I've filled at least 6 garbage bags, and I'm not even close to being finished yet! The plan is to move the majority of my things to Kansas City, and only the necessities to the new house. Since I'm moving everything to KC in December anyway, I might as well move most of it now.

And on a completely separate note....
Graduation is still a while away, but we tried to book hotel rooms last week, and a bunch of hotels are already full! So I guess it's not too early to start planning. Graduation will be May 15th at 1pm (yes, that is a Friday afternoon...apparantly the vet school isn't important enough to have a graduation slot on the ACTUAL weekend). Anyway, if you think you might be interested in coming, please let my mom know either by phone- 630-926-7391 or email (grayj11g@yahoo.com). She has booked a handful of hotels just in case for now, but if the event that we need more, we need to book them sooner than later, so think about it! I definitely don't expect the turnout I had for undergrad, but I just want everyone to know that all are welcome!

I'm Old...

Apparantly I've gotten old. In the last week I've had 2 back injury problems, and it's killin' me!
I pulled some sort of muscle in my neck/back earlier this week and couldn't move my head for a good day or so. Then yesterday, I was doing dishes and all of a sudden felt a really sharp pain in my back (midway down, on the left). Immediately I was thinking that something was wrong internally because it wasn't a typical "muscle" pain, so Ron took me to urgent care and I was evaluated for suspicion of kidney stones and/or pneumonia. Well neither of those seemed to be likely after they examined me, so the doctor sent me home with some horse-sized pills (ibuprofen) and a muscle relaxer. Hopefully I'll feel better in a couple of days, but wrestling with cows and alpacas doesn't seem to be helping my cause. Oh well!

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there!!

Fun with Wii Fit

Ron and I got "Wii Fit" a couple of weeks ago (for those who don't know, it's a new game for Wii, that has a balance board controller that you stand on to do arobics, yoga, balance games, and strength training). It's a lot of fun, but you really look quite funny while doing it...Have fun laughing at us!

Scott (a friend from undergrad who is a Law student and staying with me for a month while doing an internship in Jeff City), doing the hoola-hoop.



Ron and Scott playing Mario Kart (not Wii Fit, but still funny to see 2 grown men holding little plastic steering wheels).



More Hoola-hooping pictures:

Sue


Me

I actually have a video of Ron doing this too...lets see if this works:

Kickboxing

Yoga! I believe this is the "holy crap I'm not this flexible" pose.

Another One Bites The Dust!

Well, if you've looked on the right side of the blog, you'll see a running log of my clinical rotations. I finished Pathology this week (THANK GOOOOOOOOD!!) No more cutting up dead, smelly animals! I'm now on Food Animal, so I deal with live, smelly animals. I guess not much of a change, but I'm having fun at least!

Today we sheared 3 llamas. That's right...Llamas! It was fun, until they started trying to kick us. They're like horses in that they can use all 4 legs to kick in all directions, plus they can bite, and as a bonus...they SPIT (with amazing accuracy)! It was a good time.

Yesterday I spent the majority of my day covered in cow poop, but I got to do a rectal palpation and feel a calf, that was kinda cool. The cow actually had the calf today, she's adorable!

So I meant to post these earlier in the week, but I was pretty busy with the exams I had Monday and Tuesday. We were brave and attempted to bathe Sampson this week because he's losing his winter coat right now and there's hair ALL OVER the apartment! It was quite an adventure, and we got some fun pictures, so here ya go!

In the tub...


Ryno stayed in his bed the entire time for fear that we were coming after him next. He finally came out once we were done!



Of course Sam got a treat for being such a good boy =)

Update: Ron's Grandma

Grandma Betty had surgery on Sunday (surprisingly, since they originally said they wouldn't even attempt it until Tuesday), but she came through, and is doing well. She's in pain, and resting a lot, but at 96, she has a right to be a bit exhausted from this whole experience! Ron's mom Jane traveled to Vermont to keep her company, so that's good. Hopefully it will be uphill from here. We appreciate the thoughts and prayers!

Royals Game 5/31/08

In appreciation for the work he did on a big project at work, Ron was given 2 of the American Century season tickets for the Royals game on Saturday. They were AWESOME seats. About 8 rows directly behind home plate! Although we had the net in the way, I still got some pretty good shots, AND...They FINALLY broke their 12 game losing streak!!! YAAAYY!!

Here's a few pictures from the game:

It was John Mayberry "Bobblehead" night. That's him interviewing with Fox Sports, and the bobblehead!

I thought this lady's had was funny.

Playing with the color features on the new camera

The Dugout

Hot Dog race!! Relish won...I was rooting for ketchup!

Slugger gettin' down with his bad self.

It was a gorgeous night!!

In the stands...

Royals Win!

Here's the Old hag who popped three...yes THREE beach balls. At Kauffman stadium people always bat around beach balls during the game (which occasionally get hit onto the field, but otherwise cause no interruption). Well this lady had apparantly hit her "fun quota" for the life, and everytime a ball got near her, she'd snatch it up and puncture it with her pen. One poor little kid even came over to ask for it back and got upset when he was told that it got popped. A bunch of people around the area were giving her crap, and she proceeded to point every single one of them out to security. Seriously lady....get a life!

And these are a couple of cute monkeys the people in front of us carried in with them.

They're adorable!