Quater of a century
Hard to believe that this little girl has grown up t be a quater of a century old. I guess I reached the age when I can say "it was better in the good old days".
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Birthday aussie time was on Friday. Work work and I successfully flushed an oviduct of a rat in only like 5 min. (I guess I haven't yet told you about my frustration when first learning the technique. Marie (a lady that is helping me with collecting the embryos) showed me how to disect out the uterus and the oviduct from the rat. Then, you have to put it under a stereomicroscope and magnify it like 40 times. So you are starring in front of you but working with your hands below you, using a miniature foreceps and a flushing needle. And Marie basically told me "find the opening of the oviduct, stick the needle inside and flush it). Worth mentioning, the oviduct of a rat looks like a ball of thread and this is to be done with super small instruments under a microscope. I spend 9hrs on Mon and Tues just looking for the damn opening but couldn't find it. So you can imagine my happiness on Friday when, after just 2 min it appeared to me what I was actually looking for!) Anyway. So. Big smile. And then my workmates (who knows me too well) celebrated me with a big fruit plate instead of a cake.
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And gran called from Sweden! Made my day. She was so amazed that she could actually dial the numbers and talk to me when I was on the other side of the wold, feet in the pool in southbank, 30 degrees and evening, while she had minus 10 and morning in sweden. I actually think she forgot to say "happy bday" due to that excitement. Too cute.
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Yday. Spend 4hrs in the morning making cinamon buns, chocolate balls, bread, pumpkin/pasta sallad, french potatosallad, hommus, punch, fruit and veggie plates etc for a bbq at mine. Was really great, excet the gas for the bbq ran out in 5 min and we ended up having to cook in a frying pan. But had abt 20 people at mine to celebrate so it was really a good 25th bday!
