A Sunbathing Toad to Brighten Your Day

I found this little guy sunbathing on top of one of the boulders holding back the ground from invading my driveway. He (or she – no idea how to sex toads/frogs) stayed there quite a while. I thought I’d add this into the post today. Most likely I’ll try and add pictures to most posts. I’ve found that I have precious few pictures of me and most are of plants and animals. I had to scrounge a bit just to find the one for my icon.

I finally signed up for Facebook last week. I feel like I might have just sold my soul. Time will tell. One thing I hadn’t been expecting was connecting with classmates from veterinary school. One of them had even started a group just for us. It’s been interesting connecting with people I haven’t seen since graduation eighteen years ago. Veterinary school was such an odd four years of my life. I look back on it now and wonder how on earth I made it through without becoming an addict of some sort or another. Well, I suppose I am addicted to carbs and sugar, but in the big scheme of all that could have gone wrong, I guess I’ll take that. I’ve often said that going through vet school was kind of like surviving a natural disaster with a select group of people. You may not like everyone in that group, but if push comes to shove, you’ll defend almost all of them with your last breath.

When being a veterinarian isn’t kicking my ass, I try writing as much as possible. My goal on my days off is to write at least 3,000 words. I’m not really sure if that’s good or not but that’s been my routine. I’ve been trying to find comparable published books and am having almost no luck. I’m not exactly sure what that means except for a lot of head scratching on my part. I never dreamed this would be the difficult part. I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve spent putting in different search words and criteria, reading exerts and sometimes whole books only to think that it doesn’t really fit. I’m not gonna lie, it’s frustrating. I don’t know if I’m being too picky but I don’t want to falsely advertise my writing style/content either.

And so, I keep writing. I’m about 80% finished with the follow up book in the series I’m trying to find representation for. I figure if I’m lucky enough to ever find an agent, I’ll probably have the third book done. On the flip side of that, if I never do find an agent and try and self publish, I’ll probably also have book three done too. Cue the long sigh . . .

Well, that’s it for tonight. I’m still not sure if I’m doing this blogging thing right or not. Mostly this sort of feels like a journal entry for others to possibly read. If anyone out there is reading it and cares, I also have an Instagram site called fenfensfollies that basically has pictures and videos of my dog and cats. Sad, but that is what makes up the bulk of my life. Then again, not so sad because I really do love my furry kiddos.

Take care and stay well.