catching up...

You take 2 weeks off work, then on your first day back you feel as if you've just started the job for the first time. You swear that all of the equipment is in different places, you have to think twice as hard when setting up surgical kits for certain operations, and when it comes to suturing up something yourself, its takes three times longer than it should because you are mega slow and having to concentrate so hard its painful for anyone watching you. I'm sure a holiday is meant to refresh you, not knock 4 years of training completely from your brain! Just shows how long since I last took a proper break from work!
That pretty much sums up my first 4 days back, retraining myself on my theatre duties. Oh, and having my appraisal at work too. I will admit that this was something I had been dreading for sometime, for one reason or another. I did not sleep very well on wednesday night because that was all I could think about. But it actaully went worryingly well. I am pretty much now in charge of the lab, and Andy and I are working on a grand plan to become masters of cytology (well, he will be, I'll just agree with whatever he says, he's got a book you know) and save the practice lots of money by doing more work in the lab. not sure how well that will go down with the other vets...but will keep the number crunchers happy!
Also, I thought it would be a good idea to write out a to do list today, just so I can make sure i've caught up with everything. Its 23 items long. some of it it the usual weekend jobs like cleaning the car, but others just seem to have accumulated. I'm sure I did half of them before I went away.
Plus, Only 3 weeks till i'm back on the race track. Jump straight in with a big meeting too, the A1GP, plus support races. Back to spending my weekends getting covered in grease, gravel, mud choking on tyre smoke and dealing with angry drivers who swear it was everyone elses fault but theirs that they crashed! I love it, and I can't really think what I would rather spend my weekends doing now i've started this...