First Vet Visit

We hope that all of you had a great Thanksgiving! Ours was lovely. We had a nice quiet day with my family. The food was great and of course to end the day we watched Christmas Vacation, a family tradition. It was meant to snow but we did not see any snow on Thanksgiving. I am still waiting for a really good snow. One that lasts more than a day or two.

Charlie had his first vet visit last Wednesday. He was a bit apprehensive at first, but once he was in with the vet she gave him so much love that he warmed up really quick. He did not even notice when she gave him his vaccine. She gave him the Bordatella vaccine through his nose and some of it went on the table. He licked it up right away. The vet said she had never seen a dog do that before. He loves to eat everything, which makes me go into a panic. I am constantly pulling things out of his mouth. And no matter how much we keep things clean and vacuum he still manages to find things to eat on the floor or wherever.

Work is going well for Rick and I. Rick has his work cut out for him. He is working under a three year grant, the first year has already passed and not too much has been done with it. He is working on a schedule for the four different computer labs he runs so that the people that use the labs have some consistency and know when they can use the labs. Right now they are having difficulty getting people to come to the labs. Rick has to think of ways to get the people to the labs and get them using the computers. All of the computers need to be updated. They are all slow and need quite a bit of work. Needless to say he will be busy.

As for me, things are going well. The census has been low at the hospital and they actually closed our floor on Friday while I was working. We moved all of our patients down to the other med-surg floor and combined staff. The problem with this is that staffing gets cut so I may not be able to work all of my scheduled shifts. I don't want people to be sick, but I also need to work. So I am torn.

We are preparing for Christmas. I listen to more Christmas music then Rick would like me to, but it is only one month out of the year. We have the living room decorated and we are trying to decide now what kind of tree we are going to get...fake or real. It is Rick's year to decide. My vote is always for a real tree. That is what I grew up with. It is nice to have family around to go Christmas shopping with. My mom and I will be driving over to Bozeman on Monday to get some shopping done.

We hope that all of you are enjoying the holiday season. We love and miss all of you!