Between then and now

Since the last show I've come home and traveled to Ocala again. Last weekend wasn't as great of a show as the one before that. I took Bruno in addition to Nick and Wally this time. Wally was pretty horrible and ran over both Peggy and myself but he was great to ride on Sunday. Bruno was pretty good, it was his first show back since getting his neck injected so I knew it wouldn't be great. Nick was good, as always -- it was just a 4 fault weekend for us. We finished third in the classic though!
I've been catching up on errands I have to take care of for school. The girl that's collecting our checks and giving them to the landlord asked for them early because she'll be out of town so I sent her my rent and then I paid a deposit on the furniture I bought from the girl who's moving out. I have a doctor's appointment to do my physical, look over my bloodwork, and potentially get vaccinated tomorrow morning. I have to get my rabies vaccine taken care of too, which is going to be a pain just due to the cost.
Friday is payday, whoo! It won't be fantastic though, I only got 14 hours this week and 17 next week... kind of a bummer.
I take off for Georgia on the eleventh, and I'll be back on the twenty-third so I'll be missing all of those hours too.
My dad ended up buying me a ton of textbooks for my birthday:

I've already started reading through Miller's Anatomy of the Dog to go with the colouring book my stepdad bought me as a joke. I think I'm going to make it a goal to go through Functional Anatomy by Reece (top left) this summer, and hopefully be done when I get back from Georgia. Functional anatomy, when paired with physiology, I've always felt allows someone to get a more basic view before moving on to master more complicated techniques. The Budras books are really nice too, they have phenomenal pictures that I'll probably end up photocopying, blowing up, and putting around my room.

Horse show days!

Been pretty busy lately, working a lot. I had five euthanasia cases at work last week which was pretty bad. I did get to see two necropsies though, which was a great learning experience. The first, a rabbit, had an abdominal mass (it was huge!) as well as ovarian cancer. I got to feel everything as well as see a bladder stone out of the body. I actually have the stone in my room. Kind of weird, but I think it's cool! I also got to learn to suture on the rabbit by closing it for the doctor. 

The second necropsy was a poor cat that had thoracocentesis done a couple of times and had almost 200 mL fluid removed over three days. The owners refused to admit anything was wrong and wouldn't take it to the emergency clinic because they had to go to a wedding, even after we told them we didn't have overnight staff. 

When we cut the cat open, the lungs were pretty much full of fluid and one of them was really dark purple. She had tumors on her lung and liver. 

I took the last three days off of work to horse show in Ocala with Nick, my jumper: 

and Wally, my two year old: 

Nick was great and won his first two classes and then I don't think I placed yesterday. Wally didn't do too hot in his hunter breeding but that's because he's small and awkward right now compared to the other two year olds. But, I did ride him for the first time away from the farm and he was great! We just walk/trotted because the footing where I rode him wasn't treat and he fell over while he was lunging because he tried to kick out. He hasn't quite figured out how to canter and kick out at the same time. 

Being a good baby!

Trotting around the ring like a big boy

I went and saw Paul McCartney last night and he was amazing! For a guy in his seventies, he put on a great show. I'm so glad I got to see him live, and mark that off of my bucket list.