I can take on the world!

As someone with an irrational fear of needles from an early age I can now profess that I had my second Hep B dose this morning and DIDN'T CRY!

Go me! Go me! *does a little dance*

I felt so damn victorious.

I know though,
"You're studying nursing, how can you be scared of needles?"
It's alright when its going into someone else (how cruel of me, I know). For a week or two I was injecting penicillin into my boy Charlie's rump daily for an infected abscess. Not a problem in the world, until he began to expect it, then we'd get a lot of muscle tension resulting in needles bending....not fun, but we got through the whole lot in the end. And he hasn't had a major one since come to think of it. He hasn't been on that property since then too. (I wasn't proposing it was some miracle drug to prevent all future abscesses, it was plain anti-biotic.)

(such a photogenic dog-not that I'm biased at all)

In other news, life is flat out! I'm pondering how to tell an employer no thanks to weekend, cheap labour (I've never been very eloquent with my on the spot wording), while keeping on top of assignments for nursing, as well as managing my garden and tending to my dear animals. Oh, and all in conjunction with saving my precious cents for Europe!
All my research time I'm devoting to studying nursing seems to be falling away to research for Europe and the cheapest ways of getting about, eating, sleeping, etc..
Oh well, at least once I get back I'll be able to concentrate a bit better, maybe...

Hello!

 This is me in my garden holding a whopper 350g tomato!

We're still in suburbia. Still finding ways to get out and save money. Out of town rentals are few and far between and when found, quickly snapped up. But we have some leads to follow...

How can some people do so much in their lives?!
Ah well, all we can do is try!