Sunday, December 21, 2008

Meet George!


This is George! I've always, always wanted a chameleon and I finally got one! It was my Christmas present to me that I saved my cat-sitting money for. He's a young veiled chameleon and I named him George (for no apparent reason). My dad helped me build him a fantastic cage and he lives next to the desk where I study. He's fascinating to watch, and that's about all he'll allow right now. They get stressed very easily so a three hour ride to College Station and switching his cage has him ready to attack me at the moment. But he'll calm down after a while. He's already used his infamous sticky tongue to snatch mealworms off my hand ( coolest thing ever!) and seems to be adjusting slowly. Luckily the dogs don't have much interest in him. If you've never seen one up close you're missing out! They are truly one of the strangest little creatures. Of course everyone knows about the long sticky tongue and the eyes that can look in different directions, but their little feet are weird too! It's split almost perfectly so two toes are on one side and three on the other. But the little toes are fused until the ends so there are just little nubs with nails. And the prehensile tail is just too cool when it wraps around your hand. He's a neat little guy to watch!

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Happy Holidays, Good Tidings, And All That Jazz...

The recent barrage of repetitive, grating Christmas Muzak blared over grocery store PA systems has alerted me that the four-month-long, never-ending Holiday Season is upon is. Yay!

A while back I walked out of another long OT weekday to be greeted by snow. A lot of snow. More snow than I would've expected. In fact, my car was covered with a good two inches of powdery frost. For one night it was quite the wintery wonderland.




We might've waited too long to get a Christmas tree. Our tally of broken necessities rose by an xbox and two cars (one since fixed) so we were a bit preoccupied. At first glance our replacement tree may appear to be a small ficus draped with a sad Charlie-Brown-esque strand of luminous plastic. A second glance would most likely confirm said cursory observation.


We'll be heading back to SA to soak in all the good food and company we can handle for Christmas! See you guys then!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

1/8 a veterinarian

I have successfully completed my first semester of vet school! Finshed finals today...my brain hurts. I came home, curled up in a blanket on the couch and watched movies the rest of the day! It hasn't completely hit me yet but I think sleeping in tomorrow will help with that! I've been living the last few days in the library with my friend Jenny studying constantly. We would finish a final in the morning and study the rest of the day and night for the next one for 4 days in a row. Hopefully it paid off! But my body gave out before my brain did. I nearly cough up a lung on a regular basis, my nose is dripping, and my joints feel like someone severed them. It was worse yesterday so maybe it'll be a fast recovery. It's amazing what a good night's rest can do!

I've been locked away studying so much poor Simon hasn't hardly seen me at all the last few weeks. We're hoping to go hiking with the dogs (who are bored out of their minds) at one of the state parks in the area this weekend. The weather should be fantastic for it! Now that I have a decent amount of free time for a while maybe I can start wedding planning! Lots of good things ahead, I'm excited :)