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This creeps me out a bit, since it involves giving a relative stranger the keys to my place - but it could be pretty awesome if you live somewhere that would work for that. It's like, what vet schools are in locations that would get a lot of airbnb traffic? College game day aside, I don't think many have prime locations for stuff like that. Hmm. Maybe UPenn? Minnesota?

I'm not sure I would do it, but it's an idea that's crossed my mine. Or sublet to study abroad students. I'm looking to move near Providence, RI for my internship cause housing is cheaper there than near the hospital.
 
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All I want in life right now are Thin Mints but I can't find any freakin' Girl Scouts. My coworker and I have been stalking the cookie finder page and they were suppose to be at the grocery store by work during lunch, but I went and they weren't. I just want cookies!
 
All I want in life right now are Thin Mints but I can't find any freakin' Girl Scouts. My coworker and I have been stalking the cookie finder page and they were suppose to be at the grocery store by work during lunch, but I went and they weren't. I just want cookies!
I got my Tagalongs and Trefoils!


@jmo1012 , any tips on purchasing island airfare at the best price? Are you aware of any price drops during certain times of the year? I'm heading to Grand Cayman in August.
 
I got my Tagalongs and Trefoils!
The best 😍

I don't get why some cookie names seem to differ geographically, though...when I was a little girl scout in the Austin area they were called Peanut Butter Patties, then down here and while I was at LSU they've been Tagalongs, but a couple weeks ago my mom had bought some from somewhere out of town and the box said Peanut Butter Patties again. Hmm. Whatever, Tagalongs/P.B.P. are still the best cookie 😛
 
All I want in life right now are Thin Mints but I can't find any freakin' Girl Scouts. My coworker and I have been stalking the cookie finder page and they were suppose to be at the grocery store by work during lunch, but I went and they weren't. I just want cookies!

I may or may not have bought 4 boxes each of tagalongs, Samoas and thin mints. And may only have a half box of each left...
 
Samoas and thin mints are my favorite!! Fun fact: I discovered that if you take a twix and an almond joy (without the almond) and eat them together, it tastes just like a samoa! So good
 
The best 😍

I don't get why some cookie names seem to differ geographically, though...when I was a little girl scout in the Austin area they were called Peanut Butter Patties, then down here and while I was at LSU they've been Tagalongs, but a couple weeks ago my mom had bought some from somewhere out of town and the box said Peanut Butter Patties again. Hmm. Whatever, Tagalongs/P.B.P. are still the best cookie 😛
There's two different bakeries that make the cookies, and for some reason, the two can't name them the same thing. I think the recipes are the same, though? Where I'm at now, they are called peanut butter patties/shortbreads. Still delicious.
 
There's two different bakeries that make the cookies, and for some reason, the two can't name them the same thing. I think the recipes are the same, though? Where I'm at now, they are called peanut butter patties/shortbreads. Still delicious.

They're not 🙁

The tagalongs here have dairy in them so I can't eat them. If I'm ever on the east coast during cookie season, I will be buying all the tagalongs. I haven't had them in 7 years *cries*
 
They're not 🙁

The tagalongs here have dairy in them so I can't eat them. If I'm ever on the east coast during cookie season, I will be buying all the tagalongs. I haven't had them in 7 years *cries*
Ha, maybe I should check my box now...

You'd think I'd be more careful after dealing with this for several years, but my boyfriend still reminds me to take my lactase pills. He's such an angel haha
 
Are girls scout cookie orders coming in? I ordered some from my Virology professors daughter a pretty long time ago and they still haven't come in.
 
I got my Tagalongs and Trefoils!


@jmo1012 , any tips on purchasing island airfare at the best price? Are you aware of any price drops during certain times of the year? I'm heading to Grand Cayman in August.
Buy ASAP, in my experience prices only go up (though i've never been to GC). Also, don't fly with Liat (a Caribbean only airlines). I always flew directly from miami to grenada, so i'm not sure how much of a hassle flying through another country is for a layover. i guess i'd ask around for people who may have been there for vacation. sorry thats not much help.
 
Not sure if anyone else watches The 100, but the latest episode just destroyed my soul.
 
Buy ASAP, in my experience prices only go up (though i've never been to GC). Also, don't fly with Liat (a Caribbean only airlines). I always flew directly from miami to grenada, so i'm not sure how much of a hassle flying through another country is for a layover. i guess i'd ask around for people who may have been there for vacation. sorry thats not much help.
Sure it is! Thank you!
 
I just got a brochure packet in the mail from Ross. I'm a little freaked out about it. I've never given them my name or address . . . how did they find me? Does VMCAS give out that information? 😵😕
 
Thin mints accquired. traffic was horrible and I took forever to get home, and I may or may not have eaten nearly half a box on the way home....
 
I just got a brochure packet in the mail from Ross. I'm a little freaked out about it. I've never given them my name or address . . . how did they find me? Does VMCAS give out that information? 😵😕

I got one of those recently too, pretty sure they have sent me an e-mail or two over the months as well. I figured they got the info from the GRE since I seem to remember something about unchecking some box if you didn't want to receive offers, but I'm pretty sure I didn't uncheck it.
 
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I saw my biochem professor from 2 years ago at Walmart tonight buying a giant bottle of vodka. :laugh: He and his wife are also clients at the clinic I work at, and I'm pretty sure he recognized me either from there or as one of his students, but I wasn't sure so I didn't say hi.
 
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I just got a brochure packet in the mail from Ross. I'm a little freaked out about it. I've never given them my name or address . . . how did they find me? Does VMCAS give out that information? 😵😕
Hah, same thing happened to me this week! My mom handed me the packet and was like "Did you request this from them? It says inside that they sent it because you were interested." I never requested info from Ross specifically, so I'm also pretty sure it came because of the GRE.
 
Not sure if anyone else watches The 100, but the latest episode just destroyed my soul.

My friend loves this show and had me watch it with her this week to try to convince me to get into it...whoops! This always happens though - every time she tries to get me to just sit down and watch a random episode of a show with her to convince me to watch it, it's always a really spoiler heavy episode. 🙄 Obviously I had no idea what was going on, but based on the amount of screaming/crying my friend did I would agree that it was a soul-destroying episode.
 
I just got a brochure packet in the mail from Ross. I'm a little freaked out about it. I've never given them my name or address . . . how did they find me? Does VMCAS give out that information? 😵😕
Did you attend any APVMA symposiums? Sometimes they find you that way. If you've ever signed up for any sort of pre-vet info emails or anything of the sort, that may be how.
 
I found thin mints!

With some seriously intense pusher girl scouts. "You sure you only want two boxes? You can get three more for your twenty! Have you tried the cranberry ones? Buy $20 worth and get entered into a raffle for free cookies for a year! They freeze well, you could give the extra boxes as gifts!" etc.

I was never that intense as a girl scout haha.
 
I found thin mints!

With some seriously intense pusher girl scouts. "You sure you only want two boxes? You can get three more for your twenty! Have you tried the cranberry ones? Buy $20 worth and get entered into a raffle for free cookies for a year! They freeze well, you could give the extra boxes as gifts!" etc.

I was never that intense as a girl scout haha.
Cranberry thin mints????
 
I found thin mints!

With some seriously intense pusher girl scouts. "You sure you only want two boxes? You can get three more for your twenty! Have you tried the cranberry ones? Buy $20 worth and get entered into a raffle for free cookies for a year! They freeze well, you could give the extra boxes as gifts!" etc.

I was never that intense as a girl scout haha.

Nobody entered me in a raffle! Bad Girl Scouts
 
I can't wait for /dreading when my girls are old enough to be girl scouts. I miss having that many cookies in our house from cookie order season.
 
It's awkward when one of your high school Facebook friends ends up in a Crime Stoppers wanted post and that person has been active on FB in the last 24 hours.

Grand theft felony. This woman has four kids. She was just in trouble for driving on a suspended license. WTF

It's sometimes interesting seeing the trajectory different people's lives have taken in the last nine years.
 
A couple of my internmates and I saw zootopia tonight (it's adorable) and apparently we were all doing the math when the fox said he makes $200 a day selling popsicles (the math being that he makes more than double a day what we make as doctors saving lives hahaha)
 
It's awkward when one of your high school Facebook friends ends up in a Crime Stoppers wanted post and that person has been active on FB in the last 24 hours.

Grand theft felony. This woman has four kids. She was just in trouble for driving on a suspended license. WTF

It's sometimes interesting seeing the trajectory different people's lives have taken in the last nine years.

There was a guy here that shot and killed a cop. He was on the U.S Most Wanted list or some other and he ended up getting caught when he logged on and POSTED on FB like the day after he shot the cop. They had the house he was in surrounded in minutes. People are not smart.
 
My area is supposed to get 10 inches of rain next week... Eeek!
 
don't know if anyone has ever posted this.. .but the study on pet restraints in cars is pretty sobering..

https://www.thedodo.com/pet-safety-crash-test-videos-1418731624.html?xrs=RebelMouse_fb

At least there are a couple of options that actually do something. If I were a vet, I would provide this info to all my clients. Could save more lives than most anything else.

That's frightening.

On a side note - are you not a vet? I know you're a pilot but I thought maybe you did both?
 
I've been binging X Files on Netflix. I wish I'd watched this when I was younger, though I probably would have told people I wanted to be Scully when I grew up*. Also Duchovny gets cuter the more I look at him.

*Okay, I probably still do. She's short, and a doctor, and totally bad ass!
 
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don't know if anyone has ever posted this.. .but the study on pet restraints in cars is pretty sobering..

https://www.thedodo.com/pet-safety-crash-test-videos-1418731624.html?xrs=RebelMouse_fb

At least there are a couple of options that actually do something. If I were a vet, I would provide this info to all my clients. Could save more lives than most anything else.
And here I am, just throwing my cats into a dog crate in my backseat so they can have a litterbox 😕 The crate is literally jammed in there, so it won't move. The cat's would probably turn into ping pong balls, though. My rabbit's in a cat-sized carrier in my front seat because that's the only way I'd have room for him.
 


Has anyone ever made/eaten meringue cookies? They're so pretty but I'm not sure if they would taste good or not!
 


Has anyone ever made/eaten meringue cookies? They're so pretty but I'm not sure if they would taste good or not!

My roomie makes meringues as gifts fairly often - just kind of taste like sugar and air. They're not my favourite cookie on the planet, but are pretty and nice as a change from your typical chocolate chip or something.
 
They're light in texture and in my experience not super flavorful except for the citrusy ones. Good with tea or coffee though. Some of them are pretty bland. Lol

My roomie makes meringues as gifts fairly often - just kind of taste like sugar and air. They're not my favourite cookie on the planet, but are pretty and nice as a change from your typical chocolate chip or something.

Thanks guys! I was thinking about making them but not sure if it's worth the effort.. Especially considering how much I love cookie dough.
 
Fairly easy to make if you can control humidity while making them. And you can certainly flavor them however you like. I've made mine with Vanilla flavoring or almond flavoring. Also have added mini-chips to them on occasion. The hardest part is whipping the eggs
 
They're just so pretty! Maybe I'll do a ton of baking this summer to find the best comfort cookie recipes before vet school...
 
I've been binging X Files on Netflix. I wish I'd watched this when I was younger, though I probably would have told people I wanted to be Scully when I grew up*. Also Duchovny gets cuter the more I look at him.

*Okay, I probably still do. She's short, and a doctor, and totally bad ass!
Same 😍
 
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