It's Monday! Pharm Test on Friday!

My second Pharmacology test, which is the first of my menagerie of "end of the semester tests and stuff" mentioned last week, is this Friday. It's over heart and athsma drugs! So pumped (pun totally intended). ;)

In other news, I sold my 3 ½ month old piglet. While he was fun to have around, he was draining my time too much and there was stuff coming up where I wouldn't be around to take care of him so it was best for both of us to part ways. The picture though is a quick collage I pulled together just to see how he had grown in the time I had him. When I got him he was a half starved couple week old piglet but by the time he left he was quite the porky chap. :)
So reading... actually I've been doing pretty well with it this week. No books finished but I'm almost done with two that I'm reading.

Finished Reading this Week

• None

Currently Reading

• Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
• Prayer  by John Bunyan
• Death Comes to Pemberly by P.D. James

Coming Soon

• Here I stand: The Life of Martin Luther by Roland Bainton
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Reviews Posted This Week

• King Solomon's Mines by H. Ryder Haagard 

P.S. Don't forget about signing up for my Re-Reading Challenge and my Birthday Month Reading Challenge.

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Piggy Peeps Post #5- The Last One!

Today was my last day of work at the pig farm! I have one week off and then I'll be starting back up at school for my last year of nursing school. Towards the end I was actually really coming to enjoy the work. I finally decided that pigs can be cute sometimes. I loved the little Dalmatian piglets. :)
My last day I mentioned to my cousin that I wanted to ask and see if I could get one of the baby piglets to take home. I loved cuddling the little newborn piglets so I wanted one of those. However, as my cousin reminded it was unlikely they would let me take home a piglet. We went and took our break a little earlier and while we were sitting in the break room in walked one of the employees just randomly holding a pig. Turns out that it had climbed out of the truck when we were weaning and had been running outside ever since. However, because it had been outside and could have been contaminated we had to kill it. A quick phone call to the boss and the piglet was mine! It was incredibly providential how it came about and I'm still shocked that I'm currently the owner of a piglet! My plan is to raise it until it is old enough to butcher and then send it to a meat locker. It's name is Wilbur Laszlo Psmith (the P is silent as in psychology). Wilbur because of Charlotte's Web, Laszlo from Doctor Who, and Psmith from Leave it to Psmith.
We'll see how it goes. :)

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Life and Piggy Peeps Post #4

Hello all of my dedicated and faithful blog readers. :) I know that I am pretty much only posting once a week at best and if you've been keeping up with my blog you know that is because I have no Wifi during the week. The only posts I have been putting out are the Top Ten Tuesdays and I have just been scheduling those. How is it going with my life though? Well I made it back from Costa Rica on the 21st which was an inspiring and challenging trip. I hope to be able to devote a whole blog post to it sometime in the future but for now I'll just say that I was struck over and over again by God's providence throughout the trip and was amazed at the passion for God's word in the missionaries we were working with. I hope to be able to go back next summer.
The pig farm job is getting better. I am a lot more used to it now and I'm to the point where I guess I could say I enjoy it. Honestly the best part of the day is coming home and watching Doctor Who with my cousins. It is their first time watching it and my second so it's tons of fun to see their reactions. We are in the fifth season right now. :)
I've been keeping up with my reading too. :) I finished Little Dorrit in the airplane and then borrowed and read Heart of Darkness from someone else while in Costa Rica since I didn't have any other books. Since then I've also read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and re-read The Wind in the Willows. Next I'm planning to read The Book of Lost Tales. I'm also still listening to North and South. I listened to a chapter from it today for the first time in a long time. I also watched the miniseries of Little Dorrit which was great! So hopefully someday you'll get reviews on all of those but for the most part they were all good... especially Little Dorrit and The Wind in the Willows.  
So that's what's going on with me. :) I hope you all had a great Independence Day and I'll write again (hopefully) soon! :)

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Top Ten Books on my Summer TBR List and Piggy Peeps Post #3

This list and my list of books that will be in my "beach bag" this summer are pretty much the same but here it is. I am currently reading Little Dorrit (halfway through!) so I'm not including it.

1. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
2. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
3. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
4. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
5. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
6. Always Ready by Greg Bahnsen
7. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
8. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
9. The Book of Lost Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien 
10. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

I have no WiFi where I am at the pig farm this summer so if I don't respond to comments don't take it personally. ;) I am scheduling the few posts that I am posting right now. My cousins and I just completed our first week of work at the pig farm and my was it an adventure! We spent the whole week 6-3 processing (cutting tails, castrating, and giving shots) pigs and we were very excited for the weekend. 

This week though I am in Costa Rica on a mission trip with my church. I am very excited about the opportunities I'll have to share God's word and minister to the people there as best as I can. 

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Piggy Peeps Post #2

I told y'all that we would be starting work this past Monday but then we had some issues with the housing situation and as it was just too far to drive and be worth it we decided to hold off till the next week to start. However, we ended up being able getting a ride from someone else Wednesday and Thursday so were able to go up to the pig farm and see just what we had gotten ourselves into! Let's just say it was an experience... an adventure! :) I don't know if I would say I enjoyed it but I don't know if I would say I didn't enjoy it. I am a little disappointed I didn't get to do any pig midwifery yet but hopefully coming soon. :) What did I get to do? Read on!
The first day we got to give some Oxytocin shots to the sows that had just delivered and then we gave some "newborn" shots to their piglets. This was a pretty good warm up for me as I've given plenty of shots in nursing. Then after lunch though (and thank goodness it was after lunch) we got to process pigs, which involves giving piglets iron and antibiotic shots, cutting off their tails and then for the males castrating them. When it was casually mentioned to us that castrating pigs might be part of the job, my cousin and I didn't envision ourselves doing it our first day of work, or with so little training, or actually really at all. We sort of envisioned it being done by someone else. They expect us to castrate pigs? Nah! Someone else must do that... We wish. Let's just say we now both wish all pigs to be female. :)
Overall I think my cousin and I are enjoying it. By the second day we were able to laugh about it and I think that is a good sign. :) We'll be starting full time next week so we'll see how that goes! I'm sure the adventure will continue and will be quite the experience!
P.S. WiFi connection is pretty much nonexistent out in the boonies so I don't know what my blog posts are going to look like. I'm lucky if I can make a phone call.

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Piggy Peeps Post #1

I have been dismally absent from blogging this week. Why? Well life got in the way in the form of family coming in from out of town so I am glad it did. :) My cousins and aunts and uncle from one side of the family all were at my house so it was tons of fun and laughs. Now they're gone though and I have a little time to post and let y'all know what's going on my life. First off, not all of the family left. I still have two of my cousins here with me. Why? Well starting next week we (my two cousins, my brother and myself) are going to begin working at a pig farm; the boys building farrowing huts and the girls birthing pigs! It's probably going to be a crazy adventure this summer but I'm sure it will be tons of fun as well! We plan on spending our spare time introducing the cousins to Doctor Who so they two can be obsessed fans. ;) Please pray for us all as we make this transition as we won't be living at home but a couple hours away (we'll be home on the weekends) so there is lots to work through before we start next week. I'll try to keep you all updated about our shenanigans this summer as best I can though our internet will be limited to our phone hotspots so I don't know how much I'll be able to blog. However, keep on the lookout for my "Piggy Peeps" posts. :)
Thank you and many blessings to you all. :)

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