Songs For The Soul

I watched/listened to several musicals this past week. Wouldn't life would be so much more passionate if it were a musical and we all just sang how we felt?

For every phase of our lives, there's a song that speaks to us at that moment and it will speak to everyone differently and for different reasons. For every person that has come into my life there's a song to remind me of them. For every hardship I've endured, there's a song that got me through. Each memory has its own soundtrack. Every song has a feeling. There are songs that you can never listen to again because they are too painful ("I Won't Give Up" - Jason Mraz), songs that lift you up ("Titanium" - David Cuetta), songs that sound like they were written for you ("Wild Things" - Alessia Cara), songs that everyone knows ("Don't Stop Believin'" - Journey), songs that make you long for a certain location ("Happiest Man Alive" -Machel Montano), songs that make you want to dance ("Can't Hold Us" - Macklemore), and songs that you always sing at karaoke ("Black Velvet" - Alannah Myles).
A person's playlist says everything about them. Behind everyone's favorite song is a story, what's yours?

Fantastic Lyrics: 

"So hey, we brought our drum and this is how we dance....Then leave us alone, 'cause we don't need your policies, we have no apologies for being. Find me where the wild things are" -Alessia Cara "Wild Things"

"You can find me where the music meets the ocean" - Zac Brown Band "Jump Right In"

"Let me remind you this was what you wanted. You ended it. You were all I wanted but not like this, all you had to do was stay"  - Taylor Swift "Stay"

"I only wanna die alive, never be the hands of a broken heart"  -Ariana Grande "Break Free"

"Shoot me down but I won't fall, I am titanium" -David Guetta "Titanium"

"So wake me up when it's all over.  When I'm wiser and I'm older.  All this time I was finding myself and I didn't know I was lost" -Avicii "Wake Me Up"

"The rest of the world was black and white but we were in screaming color" -Taylor Swift "Out Of The Wood"

"Run away with me, lost souls and reverie. Running wild and running free....Living like we're renegades" -X Ambassadors "Renegades"

"See the line where the sky meets the sea, it calls me" - Moana "How Far I'll Go"

"I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies; I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife" - Hozier "Take Me To Church"

Wildest Dreams

*Blog update!* Make sure your volume is on

Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams
"Say you'll remember me, Standing in a nice dress, staring at the sunset, babe...say you'll see me again even if it's just in your wildest dreams"
I adore the lyrics in this song because I believe everyone can relate and will have a different reason for singing this.  Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind, heals the heart and makes it whole. It's an escape that no matter who you are can relate to.  Music is such an explosive expression of humanity; it slips you into an intimacy which you cannot recover. That's exactly how I feel when listening to these poetic words.  

I didn't have any patients in the hospital this past weekend, so I was able to have a relaxing weekend and catch up on little things I've been wanting to do.
We had our cat neuters on Monday and presentations on Tuesday and Wednesday.  I've had several patients this week, but none of them went to surgery which in some cases was great for the animal, but for some it was a more poor prognosis.

Surgeries this week: Lateral suture stifle stabilization (video) and femoral fracture repair

Next week I will be onto Internal Medicine which is one of the most demanding rotations, so lots of sleep and preparation will be done this weekend!

Routine

I'm still trying to develop my routine for the semester, but it's been harder then normal.
I had my surgery exam on Monday, belly dance that night, and then I went out to meet some of the people in my new semester.
I've been trying to catch a pregnant cat that comes around our apartment complex.  She's really sweet but won't let you touch her stomach and isn't thrilled when you pick her up.  I've also still be trying to fix my side mirror which hopefully will be dealt with really soon.

Apparently the gas station by my place was blasting music on Thursday night, so this was what I got to listen to all night while attempting to study:

My semester is putting on a faculty auction on Saturday, where you can bid for various activities with different professors.  For example: Dinner with Dr Illanes and Fuentealba; Paddleboarding and dinner with Dr Read and Dr Hall; Scuba and Spear fishing with Dr Little; Salsa night with Dr Ebner, Dr Koster, Dr Aruaz, Dr Knight, Dr Huck, Dr Sithole, and Dr Bolfa, Beach walk and dinner with Dr Roberson; Extreme ironing with Dr Knight; Snokeling and fishing excursion with Dr. Betance; Game night with Dr French and Patty Lebow; Wine party with Dr Pereira and Dr Scorpio.

I have a nice long weekend because I have no class Mon - Wed next week.

An insightful friend posted this the other day and I wanted to share it because I really enjoy and am inspired by his words:

"Our grand adventures, be it clean or dirty – are the ones which are derived from the constant ability to always thirst for our greater meaning. We lift ourselves up. We bring ourselves down. We face torment and ridicule. Judgment and misconception. We make mistakes, own them and wish for greater lessons. Then – we stumble across the centrifuge of notions that dignify who can be as an individual. Do we love? Do we pray? Do live? Do we think we are, but really aren’t? Do we chase? Or do we stand still and choose to turn around for another direction. Is it wrong to NOT live in reality? Or is it right to continue to stay in it and wish well for others? Along the way, something grabs us. Takes hold and if all beauty has it, will never let us go. Our most endearing pride – is our smile and our laughter. Finding a way to both. And keeping it close and warm in our longing to breathe. I smile on virtue. I laugh on life’s spontaneity. And I love a long distant road into nowhere. So I can lay down, with what means most to me. So I can do just that. CAPTURE IT ALL. I am blessed. Thankful. So much, that it almost hurts to even imagine anything else."