Hooray Friday.

Quick update: looks like we won't be puppy-sitting after all, they moved Becky's surgery up to next weekend. Also, yay for getting paid! (and getting our tax refund, it looks like!)  Both of these things will be very useful for moving (if the landlord ever gets back in touch with me...)

Today's celebratory Friday deep conversation ( Read more... )

It's been a long week, and I have been bad and haven't posted anything. Yesterday we did the early morning chicken plant thing. I'm still feeling a bit off from that; it was very difficult to wake up this morning ( Read more... )

I'll get to those challenge entries later, right now I'm in the middle of labeling sample materials, but for those of you who are interested...

Tomorrow we have a surprise farm run (five houses of the big birds to sample) plus the final stage of sample testing from the plant run on monday morning. Then at noon we head out to pick up Ellie and ( Read more... )

After our last foster dog got adopted, Pippin was very lonely, luckily we've been exhausting him with lots of opportunities to play with his doggie friends, and visit the family, and while we are out of town he will get to go the Heather and Matt's and spend lots more time with other dogs ( Read more... )

 So, this weekend we made surprise trip to Phi's parents' house; Happy Birthday Becky (Mother-in-law). Pippin is completely exhausted after the long weekend of driving and playing with their new pup (Wilson, SOOOOOO cute)!

This week is going to be short, and culminating in 'Cadder Con' aka, Flogging Molly concert and hanging out at
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Tomorrow is going to be full of Salmonella (thanks DX lab). I and my co-workers will once again be loaned out to our lab-mates to help them with their Gigantically huge salmonella trial run, which usually takes all of the morning and most of the afternoon. But theoretically we get free pizza out of the deal, so it shouldn't be too bad ( Read more... )

Hooray, I e-mailed the graduate coordinator of my program today, and it would appear that I am indeed accepted, and was not accidentally sent a letter from the University! Oh, the happiness ( Read more... )

Hooray, it's the end of the week! After the last weeks 3-day work week I thought this week would never end. But here we are! Yay ( Read more... )

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Fair warning, the title says it all...

I switched birth control a few months ago to this wonderful pill that allows me to skip periods. Just "4 menses a year", as my gyno put it. Good news, hell yeah! 
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Bad news, I've reached the first one. I'm tired, not really grumpy (yay!) but very easily irritated (I've managed to avoid acting on this for the ( Read more... )