A New Chapter

Been about 5 months or so since i have blogged. I always say I am going to do it more often but never do. I will recap what life has been like since than: The winter months went by in a blur. The weather in coastal Maine was crap. Every time we got a lovely bunch of snow it would rain soon after and i never got the chance to do some good snowshoeing. I did it about twice, had to go visit my parents in the western part of maine to get the good snow. I spent most of the time trying to find an externship site for my large animal skill section which was extremely frustrating as i continued to be turned down one after another even went as far as NH. I have been looking since December and it's May now and i had to unfortunately reach out very far, Cornell NY far. AND i am going to have to more money to actually get my skills done there. Thankfully work is counting it as a CE day and i wont have to use my vacation and i can use $250 of my CE for the trip. I will have to drive 6 hours th...

So I have been at the new job since November 29th and things are going great! I never realized how busy I was at cape that I would just come home exhausted/stressed or anxious. I feel like a weight has lifted off my shoulders. It's not that I disliked working their it just became a lot of stress especially with the distance I was driving. I think that made it really hard. I don't regret being there at all I was just ready to move on to someplace closer and different. So far I am enjoying the larger clinic aspect. I mean not all larger clinics are like this one but its so nice to have HELP when things get crazy. Different set of eyes and minds coming together. Being able to talk to other doctors on cases and such. Just having so many extra hands is nice. All of them usually willing to help when needed. Yes I have less responsibility and I do not do surgery as much or dental at all yet but it doesn't bother me too much. There has been crazy days at work according to the...

As 2018 comes to an end i'm sure most people are reflecting on it. Either they had a great year or had a shitty one. That;s pretty much how it goes. I have to say it was and an up and down year. Can't say it was amazing or shitty. 1. Previous job; had coworkers leave  got very stressful and exhausting. 2. But than the new coworkers were great and made new friends 3. GOT MY FIRST DOG:) 4. Moved to west Bath (which was farther from my previous job, added to the stress) 5. Got a new job 7 minutes from home (loving it and working with a previous cowoker) 6. Started hiking more and enjoying the outdoors 7. Picking up snowshoeing this winter (too poor to ski or learn how to ) 8. Took said dog to east grand lake (best thing ever) 9. Corey and i planned for a vacation for 2020, UTAH baby. 10. Paid off my car 11. Paid off Pennfoster 12. Startig my last bit (internship) in the new year for tech program 13. Making new friends at new job, welcomed with open arms 14. First ch...

WE HAVE A DOG. WE HAVE A DOG. June 1st we got our nugget. My post before last talked about test driving her and we convinced the roommate, since its his house, to let us have her. Didn't take much effort. She is pretty lovable. I'm just going to show her off a little bit: Her name is Presence. 4 1/2 year old black Labrador retriever. sweet as pie and loves to swim, retrieve, hike and snuggle (that's one probably her favorite). We are so in love with her its crazy. She was super scared at first but finally is acting like a real dog and being spoiled rotten. In other news we have been living in a house which is great. Better area even though it adds 10 mins to everywhere but that's okay, its worth being out in the woods. Work has been busy which is good. We are hiring more people very soon so that's good news. I paid off my Pennfoster in the beginning of August which felt great. Huge Relief. just have to finish my last semester now haha. ...

A few days a go I reached out to someone I hadn't talked to in 4 years as we had a falling out because they started dating a crazy person so naturally there goes the friendship-not the first time this had happened. I had been blocked from all their social media outlooks so I thought why not text maybe wont even be the same number anymore could be someone else. I said hello they replied with who they were and asked if I had the right number as my number was not saved in there phone. I KNEW as soon as I told them who I was they would either block me or stop talking and lo and behold as soon as I told them who I was they stopped replying. Saw that coming a mile away but I thought it couldn't hurt to try. Then this morning at 1 am I woke up and just was felt like even though they had probably blocked me I needed to say what I wanted to 4 years ago when I kept quite and just let it happen. I wrote: "You know what no i'm not sorry I bothered you. Ive held it in for 4 yea...

So it's been awhile since writing in this blog. I don't do it very much because well I'm really only doing it for myself as it's not a blog people read. Its been a busy few months. Work has changed (promoted in a way). co workers have left and new people have started. sad and new changes. We will be moving into my boyfriends roommates house in a week. West Bath away from the city a bit. I can't wait. The drive will be longer but the "promotion" makes up for that at least for a little while. I have an agreement to stay there until at least November.  Then i may go some place closer. Baking and Cooking like the usual! Oreo Peppermint Crunch cookies Chocolate chip banana bread cookies Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup Creamy Cheddar potato and kielbasa soup cucumber tomato feta Kalamata olive salad Babka Babka Peanut Butter Cookies Funfetti Scones Garlic Mushroom noodles Blueberry lemon muffin cookies ...

The new year had been going pretty well. I have had issues with my shoulders for awhile now and they hadn't bothered my in months. I don't know what happened but they got bad again. I ended up seeing a physical therapist in November but because the first visit cost me an arm and a leg I did not keep doing back. So I did the stretches that he recommended but I wasn't feeling much of a difference. He said my posture was horrible (no surprise my job doesn't help that) and my shoulder blade muscles and that whole area is just a mess. He said it is fixable but will take awhile. As days went on I started feeling pain in my rotator cuff area on both sides, right was worse obviously. I talked to the physical therapist at our work who's first job is with humans and also does dogs. She told me to start doing strengthening exercises with an exercise band. Since I have started that I have not had too many issues with my shoulders but I can still tell that my arms get tired qui...