Many updates on many things

Wow where has this semester gone? It seems not to long ago that I started filling out Vet school applications and now I've heard back from one. Sadly it was not the way I wanted to hear from one but I still have many schools to wait for. I also finally came up with my back up plan for next year just in case the worst happens. I found out that I'm only a few classes away from being a registered Vet Technician. Having done almost everything a Vet Tech does short of taking x-rays I can say this is something I can be happy with while waiting for a Vet school to accept me. I recently signed up for my final semester of classes at my current school and I will graduate in May hopefully.

I'm still making up life as I go. But I have to say right now I love my schedule and routine. School could be better but the two days I spend at the Vets office every week is some of the greatest experiences I have ever had. I'm with like minded people who are more than willing to take a couple of minutes to answer all my questions, and believe me in a true Jewish tradition I have many many many questions. Each Vet Tech has taken me under their wing and really taught me some valuable knowledge that I will hopefully take with my into my future career.

I don't know why on the night I have to wake up at 5:30 I have the sudden urge to write this blog. Maybe its to get some things out there. I feel I started this blog because I had no idea what was happening in my life at the time and it would not settle down. This has change drastically. I know where I'm going I know what I'm doing and I finally feel like my goals are within reach. Hopefully I will update this blog again before the end of the semester but if not I will during winter break. 

Update

I'm sure nobody checks this anymore because it has been so long but I decided tonight that it was time to update once more. Sadly I have no kitten pictures for you to enjoy (you can blame my mom) so you will just have to be okay with my inner ramblings. Since the last time I posted I have moved, taken the GRE, almost completed my Vet school applications and become one step closer to graduating. The move was relativity painless, I say relatively because I had to deal with one of the sleaziest people I have ever known but now I don't live with him anymore and will probably never have to talk to him again. The GRE was stressful but I can honestly say that is probably the most I have ever put into a single test and I'm so grateful for my mother who helped me study not stop for two months. Then came the hard part, applying to vet school, what everything I have worked for the past four to six years. This is the scary part, seeing if any of the schools actually accept me, I think I have a strong application and I think I am tossing my net just wide enough but who knows with these things it feels like a toss up. I wish I had found the internship I have now a year ago so I could put that on my application but that is neither here no there.

Oh yes I did find an internship, its a vet clinic call The Pet Doctors of Sherman Oaks. This is probably the best opportunity that I have found ever. I will be able to shadow the vets there through their routines as well as learning how to probably do many things including: restraining animals, clipping their toe nails, read their vitals during surgery and my personal favorite (.......)  how to expel dogs anal glands! Yeah I know pretty gross stuff, but it should be a great opportunity and worse comes to worse I  will have this experience for applications for next year if need be. My biggest worry is that my mom is going to want me to do this stuff to our family pets so right here right now I'm saying NO! Okay maybe.

School starts again in two weeks. Hard to believe that I am a senior in college. Wow this seemed so far off not that long ago. So many mixed emotions. Happy.excited to be past college (almost) scared for the next parts. But such is life and I got a pretty empty class schedule this year compared to years past, more time to work!

So that is my life in a nutshell right now, maybe I will try to update this blog more, even if its once every week or so. I start my internship tomorrow so that should be fun/exhausting. But hey I get to wear scrubs!

Till next time.

Update on the kittens

So I recently went back home for winter break. This of course led me to see the kittens from the summer for the first time since I dropped them off. Now I did not see most of them (or only quick flashes of some *cough* Moony *cough*). Oreo was out and about the most but did not like being petted or held in public. I saw Ty a couple of times but not for extended periods and as I sorta said up there Moony was only seen in quick very brief flashes. So without further ado I present pictures (My mom got the pictures of Ty and Moony and I got a couple of Oreo)

Moony is the one on the left? (I think)

 So there we have it some very pretty young boys. I was also there over Hannuka so I snapped a couple of pictures.

And last but not least I captured a couple of pictures of the other adult cats around the house.

I start school again on Tuesday and since all my free time seems to be taken up by work (and hopefully studying) I will only be able to update once in a blue moon.

A look back.....

2011. Lots to say about you but most of it is not good. This year has been one of the weirdest, longest and most trying years of my (albeit short) life. The first couple of months are all kind if a blur and mostly unremarkable and filled with nothing but drama. Its funny to think but most of what has happened to me this year was after the creation of this blog still to fully go over this past year I have to kinda recap this entire blog which at this point is kind of a ghost town on the blog world. So here goes nothing.

This year started with me in what I would come to discover is one of the most unhealthy relationships that hopefully me or anyone close to me is ever in. It also was the first time I introduced my parents to someone I was dating and surprisingly it was not as embarrassing as my parents have threatened my entire life (I'm still not totally convinced they have baby photos but I don't want to poke the tiger).

Then probably can only be described as the most uneventful semester of my college career. But that is not to say it was a bad semester just not much happened. But I'm also very proud of my brother who graduated after said semester and now has a full time job. My entire family including one of my cousins come out to LA to celebrate his graduation and go to disneyland. Oh yeah and they all had to help me move into my house but I think the big draw was graduation and disneyland. But I was very lucky to have them all help me and now I live with my best friend. The end of the semester also brought the end of my year and a half relationship and probably one of the worst summers of my (again albeit short) life. IN fact if thats the worse summer ever for me I'm going to be pretty happy.

I also started volunteering at the animal shelter which helped with some of the cat withdrawal and filling up any would be free moment. But of course all my free time then got taken up by the reason for this blog, KITTENS. I don't think I realized at the time but it came at the perfect time for me. I was literally trying everyday to make sure every minute of everyday was taken up so I did not have to worry about my problems. The three kittens came and took up that time as well as giving me things to put my mind on. It was not the easiest thing ever to catch all three and transport them all the way form CA to NM but I could not be happier that is how my summer went. Even now as I'm home again I am amazed how much they have grown and how Oreo is brave enough to be seen (not so much Ty or Moony but hey 1/3 is pretty good right?) and I am amazed that I was able to catch all three and now they live comfortably.

Then once again another uneventful semester. But this time it was different. As I have said before it there was less drama and just more friends who wanted to hang out and do shit. I will give short shout out to my parents who got my a new computer halfway through the semester when my old one broke and I can't thank them enough for everything they have done for me this year and my entire life. Oh and right before my finals I should mention that I hit a home run in a softball game! But of course this led to me spraining my foot. Why do I even play sports anymore? Anyways now I have to walk in pain for eight plus months. I should just retire now.

One last little subject I feel every person from Boston has on their mind. Sports. The Bruins, Patriots, Celtics and Red Soxs. I have never gone through one of these epic collapses that my father and grandfather had to go through until this year. Have to say it was a Mona Lisa of collapses. Celtics are just plain old. The Patriots are fun to watch for half the game (aka whenever the defense is off the field). But I have to say that this year for the first time since I have truly enjoyed watching a team and following them because they actually seem to love what they are doing and are dominating, The Bruins. I was surprised but I actually think that the Bruins have won my favorite team of Boston.

One last shout out to my Cousin who won for international board of his youth group. Proud of you cousin and I hope you have an amazing year doing that.

Giving thanks

I think the most obvious place to start is by thanking my parents. They have supported me in almost every way this year. They have paid for my rent/bills for the house I live in. They have flown out to CA just to take three little kittens home. They have listened to me during one of the toughest times of my life and not once told me to stop talking about the subject (which I would have after the first couple of hours). Or helped me when I lost my word program when I had papers I needed to work on. They make it very clear even though I'm not in the same state I can always call (though they prefer if its before or after 1-4 AM). When my computer broke and I had two papers (again) due the next week they got me a new one ASAP. They are all you can ask for in parents and more.

I guess the next logical ones to talk about are my siblings. We don't talk much (we are all busy) but each of you differently has helped me over the year in one way or another. Miss you guys and I look forward to winter break.

L J and C. You guys make me happy! Waking up to pictures of C is great and L I'm so happy you found someone who makes you happy with J.

As I seem to say every time I write a blog post I have amazing friends here. I would like to take a paragraph and thank them (though they don't read this but everyone should know how great they are). If these people weren't in my life I think everything this year would have been 24893028 times harder. But the constant support I got from people was the difference. They have helped make the transition from relationship to single so easy for me and I can't thank any of them enough for that. This has been one of the best years of college for me and I'm only half way through!

Now for none people thankfulness. The opportunities I have been given in my life have shaped who I am today. Being home schooled taught me a lot (especially the last two years) for what it takes to make what you want in life a reality. Nativ was probably the greatest single year of my life and taught me a lot about myself as a person and a Jew. The college I picked might not be the greatest (but thats another post) but it was an easy transition from home school to a school of that size. My teachers know me and especially for the first year were watching out for me and that was just so helpful. I'm thankful to be single and really just have the time to hang out with friends and rediscover myself and to have a better idea of what I'm looking for in a relationship moving forward.

And back to people. I would just like to thank all my aunt, uncles and cousins who have also affected my life and helped to make me the person I am today.

I hope everybody has a happy thanksgiving!

Moving right along

Only one month left in the semester. Boils down to three or four tests three papers and one presentation. That is doable.

I feel like I had two things I created this blog for: the kittens (which my mom assures me are doing very well and Ty even rubs on peoples legs now!) and 2 the break up I was going through. This week officially closed out the break up period. I realized though in the beginning I was going to try and remain friends that it was near impossible. There was too much stuff that went on behind my back during the relationship to remain friends. I finally got the chance to let her know that I don't have interest in being friends for reasons I don't want to fully go into here but I can say that it was probably one of the best overall decisions I have made in a while. I finally realized that I needed to take my own feelings and life into account more than the other person. I have a supportive group of friends that have made this transition between the year and a half of being in a couple and now being single. I can say that I have finally gotten back to who I was before. My sarcasm is back (to the dismay joy of my friends) in full swing, I'm spending more time studying and just getting to enjoy my life once more. Its just starting to feel good to be single again. I'm  very happy to say that this blog is over! Well at least the part of the blog about the break up. I will continue to post on this blog when I can. I still have plans to post on thanksgiving break. Other than that I can say I'm happier than I have been in a long time.

TV

Wow a brief moment to relax. Only a month left to this semester and this time next week I will have my schedule for next semester. But anyways what am I doing on one of my few stress free nights? Rewatching a show called Wonderfalls. About half way through the second  episode I realized there are very few shows I have truly loved and I watch a lot of TV. This is a sad season because I'm trying A LOT of the new shows and none of them are catching me like I want (one notable exception but I will get to that later). But why why WHY must TV networks kill all the best shows before they really get a chance? I mean when they first order the episodes they have to know that the show is off color right? Here is the list of shows that I can watch a hundred times and still be depressed over the cancellation of years later:

Firefly (obviously name one nerd without this on their list...)
Reaper (Clever and funny, seems like that is a rare combination)
Wonderfalls (wound reopened by watching it again)
Dollhouse (When Joss Whedon says five year plan GIVE him five years people)
Dead Like Me (See reaper)
Tru Calling (not my typical kind of show)
Pushing Daisies (Such an amazing show with an amazing cast. Also created by the same guy as Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls)
Better Off Ted (Only show I would laugh at every joke)
Arrested Development (finally getting new stuff soon)
Angel (it got five seasons but cancelled as it was getting good)
The Tick (short lived but another amazing comedy)
Scrubs (not the Zach Braff that goes on 8 seasons but the reboot season 9)

Not to say that networks don't let random good shows live through (see 30 Rock, Community and hopefully Breaking In). But these shows have one thing in common, they are the normal show. Each and everyone of them have their unique brand of drama or comedy that was not main stream. So this all leads me back to the question, why order a show that you know is unique and is not going to work on network television? Luckily now we have cable networks who are willing to save shows (See Friday Night Lights and Damages) but they can't save them all. And many of the shows  on my list have lead to a lot of these quality actors being found and moving on to new shows, but what I would give for another season of each and every one of those shows on the list. Btw if you are ever bored I would suggest checking anyone of these shows out (not like other than Angel its much of a time commitment (and yes that made me sad to say))

OH! Almost forgot the loose end. The only show these season that has caught my interest as a show is Homeland. Its hard to explain because it wouldn't be my normal show but it is creative, well acted, well written and has production value. Always a nice combination.

Anyways I think I'm going to enjoy my night off (might be the last till thanksgiving and I will try to update then) And lastly those kittens are getting so BIG