My Sisters Are Coming

This week has been filled with good news. My sister Melissa is arriving in town for the weekend and we are all taking a road trip. Both Charlie and I wish she could stay longer, but are just glad we get to see her at all. With her living on the west coast it gets hard to get together. We would love for her to move here so we hope she enjoys the trip and never leaves! (I even stocked up on soy milk!)
My sister Karla, who is in Romania with the Peace Corp just told me she is coming home this summer for a week. We are actually going to be able to celebrate her birthday with her and do all sorts of fun stuff. I have her booked for all the pampering I can think of since she gets none of that in Romania. I am so happy that we'll get to see her, but saying good-bye a second time is going to be miserable. Watching her leave before about broke my heart.

Anyway, I guess I shouldn't borrow trouble. No reason to think about the negative. I will just keep on smiling, knowing I get to see two of my favorite people.

Why Do We Hold On

Why do we hold onto things long past when we should let go? Why do we hold onto things in the false hope that they are the way they used to be or that they will once again be that way? Why do we hold onto these negative parts of our lives, allowing them to pull us under? Once we are pulled so far down, it makes it harder to remember the sun, the happiness, the healthy parts of life. It is important to do a reality gut check every once in a while, look around at your life and decide what is really helping you on your path through life and what is blocking the sun. Cut the ties with the negative, let go of the unhealthy. Hold onto the wonderful memories that make you cling so desperately to these people or things, but understand that life goes on and we can't go back in time, we can't make what once was exist again just because we want it to. We can't change people and when life has changed people's character into someone you don't recognize, it hurts less in the long run to let go of the friendship and appreciate those around you that are still good friends. Life is too short to have anyone or anything in your life that isn't there to lend a hand when time are bad and share a laugh when times are good. As the old saying goes, sometimes the ones you expect to pick you up are the ones to kick you while you are down.

Veterinary Medicine

Why do people actually open their mouths and say, "oh you are a veterinarian, so you aren't a real doctor"? Are they not aware that this comment ranks up there with "I always wanted to be a vet, but I couldn't kill animal so I went into something else" - as if that is what we do all day, kill animals. (Actually our job is to keep them as happy and healthy as possible, in case there was some confusion) Does this comment mean I am a fake doctor? Did I get my diploma off the internet or by responding to some late night TV infomerical? Do people really not know that veterinarians go to college, then to 4 years of veterinary school and spend countless hours in a classroom and teaching hospital, then have to pass national and state boards? If they don't know this and assume that I am an insomniac who discovered the career path of veterinary medicine while surfing the web or watching those infomercials, why on earth are they trusting me with the life of their animals?! Why do I even still wonder these things?