Today was the last day of my very first rotation. It's been a long journey, but at the same time, I'm surprised it's already over. I am also surprised at how easy it was. It was hard emotionally in many ways, but with so much going on, one just needs to learn how to deal with it. For example, two days ago, I deep cleaned and rearranged the office. It's going to be great for studying, reading, and hanging out in now. It feels so nice to take control of some part of your life again, especially when there are aspects you have to accept to be out of control...like people being sick and dying on you all month long.
This month will be very different, I will be following around a pharmacy district manager all month. It's going to be quite an adventure I do think. Already the plans for day one have changed three times in two weeks. Seeing that I start tomorrow, I don't believe it will change again. My advisor has been trying to pin me down to have our September meeting, without much luck so far. I think the most stressful part will be not knowing what my schedule will be like. I'm hoping it will have some semblance of normalcy. We shall see.
So, on another topic, Max, my larger younger dog, has been doing wonderfully this week at being free in the house when we're not there! He loves it by the way, he's a completely different dog. I think he has a whole new level of respect for us since we have given him the respect of our trust in him that he will behave and not become master and destroyer while we're gone. I've only lost two high lighters so far. I told him I was disappointed in him while holding them and he just hung his head, put his ears back, and walked towards me slowly. It was so cute. So, I got him a plastic bone with an inlay of edible goodness and he chewed the end off of it today. It worked splendidly. He's my constant buddy now too, no more hiding under the bed. Lana does not seem thrilled. She's been rather grouchy today, after three days of not being able to escape her own kennel. She carries this massive bone I got for Max around that is as long as she is and she growls up a storm at both Max and me, but she knows better than to do that to me, so I grab her anyway.
Tonight I'm going out with a couple girls from my rotation to celebrate the end of the first with margaritas. It will be fun, I'm looking forward to it here shortly.
Anyway, this weekend we're having a Labor Day pool party on Sunday, so I'm excited to get the house ready and have all our friends over for the fun. I want to paint our other bathroom, but I may not have time to finish that project and clean house, so I will have to see about that, maybe next week. I need to get more small rollers anyway. I think that is what I will continue doing until I'm sick of it though...repainting the things unpainted so far. It's so stress relieving, and I look forward to the transformation!
Talking about painting, I'm trying to come up with a vertical two canvas idea for the wall space behind my television. I have the blank canvases hanging on the wall to help inspire me, but I'm not sure yet. Not to mention there's this huge hurdle of getting a space ready to oil paint in that I would have to figure out. It'd be great to do it outside if I could keep it clean and keep the bugs out of the oil paint on the canvas. It's such a messy ordeal...and complicated when it comes to waste materials.
I think starting tomorrow morning, I may start running in the mornings since I have some extra time now with the new rotation an all. I need to, and I'm tired of waiting for it to cool off out there. Soon, soon, it will be cooler. This may be one of the last pool weekends this summer. It will probably be open until October, but I'm not sure how long we'll be swimming, hopefully awhile.
Well, that will be all for today, I need to go get ready for margaritas!
