Rain Rain and more Rain

I like the rain!
I love the sound of it. It's the most beautiful natural sound. It catches my breath.
It's calming - I can sit and listen for hours.
And the smell - it's something surreal.
It's hard to explain, but there's something special in it.
I like how voilent a thunderstorm can be. How it can start and stop so suddenly.
Rain makes puddles and rainbows.
Rain feeds the flowers and makes everything clean.

This morning I dind't have class, so after dropping off my husband to work, and my daughter at school, I headed to Chapters in search of a book on stretching (found a great one, but that's not the point). With my new personal challenge, I parked at the far end of the lot, so the lots closer to the building were open for the people who were rushing around and those with children, I mean it was raining but I was not in a hurry. I wandered around for about an hour, made my slection and headed to get checked out. When I left Chapters I held open the door for 3 people, and didn't get a second glance, they just bustled on in. Ok. Home I headed for home. I opened the car and inhaled the fresh scent of rain before hopping out, weaved around the puddles and bounded up the front step, I just put the keys in the door when the soaking wet mail man turned around the side of my house, he was dripping! So, without even thinking, I told him to stay where he was, it would only take a second, ran into my house and grabbed a rain poncho out of my camping supplies. He was a little hesitant at first, but he pulled it on over his head and mail bag and off he went! I knew there was a reason I bought 6 rain ponchos for my camp kit when there are only 3 members of my family, other than the fact they were on sale for $2 each.

I spent the rest of the morning in the back yard wrapped up under the awning watching the lightening and reading my new book. Yep it was a good start to my day.

On a seperate note, I got the mark from my anatomy OSCE tonight... ROCKED IT! 92%!

Tooting my own horn!

I ROCKED IT!!

I'm not sure if it was the new app on my iPhone, all the charts I have made, the hours barricaded with a classmate in a hotel room with no computer, or that I am simply awsome.... BUT I am quite pleased with my performance.

I won't have my mark until next week, but I am pretty confident that I have passed Anatomy 202 without writing the final... YEAH ME

1st thing I did when I left the exam room, devour an entire pint of strawberries by myself.

Now I'm going to go watch Republic of Doyle, have a glass of wine by the fireplace and review the information for the presentation I have to give tommorrow morning.

Score for today:
Dawn 1
Anatomy 0

Did I just find an anatomy miracle?

Why is it that Monday is the start of the week, but Tuesday I feel the pressure?

I have my dreaded anatomy OSCE tommorrow. I now know about 45 muscles cold (origins, actions insertions, and innervation) the others I still have to work on tonight....I will be barricading myself in a hotel room with a few of people from my class in a few hours and will only be turing the tv on for 1 short hour for LOST.

I wonder if the hotel has a pool.... FOCUS!



I did find a really cool app for my iPhone, Speed Muscles MD

There are 15 different levels, each level has 8 to 13 muscle that you need to identify. You can play in game mode or practice mode. In game mode you need to get 50% of the muscles correct before you can go to the next level.

Practice Mode: You can select which level you want to play (1 -15), and practice on that particular group of muscles. The first two levels you are asked superficial muscles, then it gets more detailed.

You can also zoom in by holding your finger to an area on the screen it will magnify that area.

I found the app during physiology this morning, and have been playing with it ever since. For $2.99 I might have found my anatomy miracle.

Now off to my Easter egg hunt (Girl Guides) and then the hotel to learn something...

Wish me luck!