Your exam will be $95, we need 24hrs notice if you need to change or cancel your appointment and please leave all dogs at home.

This new trend of sticking your dog in your purse and heading to the mall, is really getting ridiculous.
I usually refrain from sharing too many clinic stories b/c this is such a small town. But I'm quitting soon, so.....
I should preface this by saying that all of us in the clinic are against people leaving a dog in a car in hot weather, in fact I'm sure most of us would be more inclined to break the window and rescue the dog if we had to choose between the animal or the patient. However....

Today a woman came into the clinic to pick up her glasses. The girls at the front counter directed her to have a seat at one of the dispensing desks. I was in the lab and I happened to look up through the window to see her sitting there patiently waiting while we got her glasses ready for her. It's right about here that I do a double take and notice a dog sitting beside her. Not a poodle, or a chiuaua, but a fullblown dog, like a collie or something. I'm thinking "that better be a guide dog that forgot to wear it's guidedog jacket..."
It wasn't.
So we told her it would have to leave the clinic.
That was followed by a snotty response of "I can't leave it in the car....." She was appalled that we wouldn't allow her dog in the clinic.

I think my jaw hit the floor at this point. We don't expect people to leave their dogs in cars, but you also can't bring them into clinics!
When did this become acceptable?

The strange thing is, this is the third time this has happened in the last year.

I just have to shake my head....

Confessions...

I'm 30 yrs old and I've only been to 2 concerts.

Sad I know.

(I should clarify that I am not counting all those christian concerts from youthgroup days...'cuz, well they don't really count)

X always wanted to take me to a headbanging concert and see me in moshpit. Not quite my style. I'm somewhat claustrophopic...

So I was pretty excited to go see The Police last night.

I realized though, that I think I know more Sting songs than Police songs...but none the less there were still plenty of songs I knew. And of course the whole crowd knew them too so it was kind of like a sing-along with Sting (okay, not really.....)

Things you won't find in the city

I was headed to bed last night at about 10pm. My bedroom wall faces the street. Just as I was turning on the lamp I heard "clip clop clip clop". Odd, I thought, and I listened closer. Yes, it sounded like horses.
I headed to Andrew's room to peak out the window. And there they were, two horses, taking a leisurely stroll down the road.
And no one in sight.

Why God made Moms

WHY GOD MADE MOMS
(Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:)

Why did God make mothers?
1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of?
1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from men's bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?
1. We're related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's moms like me.

What kind of little girl was your mom?
1. My Mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.
2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

What did mom need to know about dad before she married him?
1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer?
3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

Why did your mom marry your dad?
1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my Mom eats a lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that Mom didn't have her thinking cap on.

Who's the boss at your house?
1. Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dad's such a goof ball.
2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.
3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What's the difference between moms & dads?
1. Moms work at work and work at home and dads just go to work at work.
2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. Dads are taller & stronger, but moms have all the real power 'cause that's who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend's.
4. Moms have magic; they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your mom do in her spare time?
1. Mothers don't do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your mom perfect?
1. On the inside she's already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Dye it. You know her hair. I'd dye it, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your mom, what would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid of that.
2. I'd make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister that did it and not me! .
3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.

calling

I was reading Darla's blog the other day, about how she truly felt that nursing was her calling. I think it's wonderful to know where you should be and enjoy what you are doing.
The optometric field is certainly not my calling. I don't hate it. It's a good job (save for the people who feel the need to yell and make a scene in the clinic). But I can not say I am passionate about it.

One of the things I remember most about about my interview at Langara was when the interviewer asked me what career I was in now, when I told him I was an optometric assistant, he looked at me and said "oh...no...that's not the right field for you". I chuckled to myself and thought "if a perfect stranger can see that, why can't I?"

So now they've replaced me at work, if I want I can quit in as little as two weeks (don't freak out Jackie, I won't be going that soon). It's a good thing they did. It's easy to take the comfortable, safe road....which is what the clinic is to me.

Unless everything blows up in my face, we will be moving and (hopefully) renting out the trailer. Taking the scary, uncomfortable, unfamiliar, road to the unknown.

I'm a little freaked out.

But pretty darn excited.

I'm so over this whole flood threat thing.

Happy 30th Birthday!

they replaced me...

it happened so quick. they put out an ad. they interviewed. they hired. so....
it looks like now I really will have to leave!

I'm okay with that.