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Nov. 1st, 2009 @ 11:08 pm (no subject)
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I got my own store!! The district manager called me on my way to work on Wednesday and asked if I'd be interested in a staff position and I talked to Greg about it and called back and accepted the offer and then squealed like a little girl. Also realized I'd gotten so excited I'd gotten on the wrong interstate and was 5 miles in the wrong direction. It'll be about a 45 minute drive, but I'm willing to do that for the stability of working at the same store(s) (it's going to be split between two stores now until they can transition me into a single store) It's at the busiest store in the district, which actually interests me because busy keeps me motivated and interested and the shift goes by much quicker that way. And with any luck I can move to a closer store if a spot opens up. I feel totally awesome about it because my manager said part of the reason I was being offered the position is because they've had good feedback about me as a pharmacist from stores and customers seemed to really like me. I'm a sucker for validation. The big reason I got the position is because I'm an immunizer and I got licensed 3 weeks before the rest of my classmates did, so I technically have seniority over the other recent grads and the few older floaters aren't licensed to immunize. So circumstances really lined up to make this work out but I'm still over the moon. I was pretty convinced I'd be floating for the next year or two since they've stopped building stores in my area to focus on updating old stores. But they added hours at the busy location so yay!

I can't wait to get there and meet everyone and start learning the day to day stuff like making orders and stuff like that. And I can't WAIT to get my own safe keys so I can stop showing up 15 minutes early to track down a manager and sign out the floater keys. And getting a logon to the email system so I stop missing big announcements.

The house is marching along. We have some siding now and the roof is shingled. We have windows and doors and they're putting up drywall tomorrow. Everything is ordered and Greg spent all of Friday wiring the upstairs for cable. We are officially closing in less than a month, oh holy cow. We've been reassured over and over again that the mortgage is fine and we'll have no problems but they keep asking us for more documents and paperwork and they just asked for a letter from my bosses explaining the huge discrepancy in my yearly salary and my year to date income. Since I was only working one day out of every two weeks before graduating I earned probably $2000 between January and June and then I started working full time and earning my salary so it does look suspicious. I will be so relieved when we get the final ok on it and I can stop stressing.
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Oct. 25th, 2009 @ 10:12 pm (no subject)
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It's been a good day! Greg cleaned the duplex really well and took pictures to post on Craigslist to find somebody who'll rent from us and get us out of the last half of our lease. He also emailed the landlord to let her know we're moving out in early December (like six weeks from now, holy cow!!) and we're looking for new tenants to lease the place. She called him around 6 o'clock to say "so, you're moving out huh?" and Greg said "yeah, I guess you got my email" only to find out she hadn't checked her email until she got six calls wanting to rent the place and got into an argument with at least one of the people because she didn't realize our place was being advertised. It's a great rental, three bedroom, three bathroom, huge master bedroom (18x18) with a walk in closet for well under a thousand a month, dead easy to rent out, but she never advertises so they sit empty for ages. So anyways, now she wants to know exactly how early we can be out of here. We've settled on December 7th, hopefully the house is done (eep!). If nothing else my parents live here and we can stay in the guest room for a week or so until we can officially move in. With any luck we'll be able to get access to the garage or something to store our stuff while we're waiting because as of right now, if everything goes perfectly, we're giving ourselves 7 days to move from one house to the other. I'm going to ask for some vacation days, but not sure if I'll get them. We'll be in the thick of Christmas season and cold and flu season is busy time for pharmacists.

Speaking of cold and flu season, if I get ONE more phone call asking when someone can come in to get their seasonal flu shot I will go nuts. I am not looking forward to when we get the H1N1 vaccine in, yikes! Though thankfully the earlier rumors weren't totally true, it's not just a nasal spray. They're making a nasal spray, a preservative free, and a multidose vial. Strangely enough I am WAY more comfortable giving someone a shot than spraying something up their nose. Probably because the nasal sprays cause stuff to leak out your nose and snot on your hands is NOT fun. Blech.

I finally got to walk in the house! I'm the very last one, Greg took mom and my brother and his girlfriend and my little sister through on Saturday (I got called into work early due to a sick pharmacist. 11 to 6 at one store, drive like a bat out of hell to a store 40 minutes away to close it at 10) We have walls and a roof and the weather is officially not a barrier to working on the house so we're still on track!

The holiday schedule finally came out. I work Thanksgiving, which I know they think is doing me a favor, but it's not. My family goes to Chicago every Thanksgiving and Greg's family is coming up to spend Christmas with us. So I could duck out for a 7 hour shift on Christmas without changing plans, I can't work Thanksgiving without skipping the holiday. It has to be easy to find someone who would switch me holidays right? We have to work one or the other every other year, and tons of people would rather be off Christmas right? I'm gonna try to get that sorted out this week.

I made a frittata for dinner for the first time. It actually turned out really well and I'm thinking I have a new way to use leftovers rather than just reheating them until I'm sick of them. Leftover stir fry (my favorite easy meal) would be totally delicious worked into a frittata. Mostly I like it when I can make a meal Greg likes because he's the cook (he makes the most delicious French bread ever)

And in sadder news, please keep Greg's family in your prayers. His aunt just had a baby two weeks ago and wound up in the hospital soon after with bronchitis/swine flu and in ICU on a ventilator. She's off the vent and they've moved her out of the ICU and she is recovering, but the family could definitely use all the prayers they can get right now.
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Jun. 26th, 2009 @ 10:49 am Update!
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So I'm back for a brief period before I head out again later today to go camping with Greg's brother and his wife. The past few weeks have been ridiculously hectic. I did actually get married (yay!!) and we've been in the Bahamas and Florida for the past week and a half. After our plane landed in Florida and I could check my email for the first time in over a week I logged on to check up on stuff and received the news that I passed both my NAPLEX and the IL MPJE and I am now officially a pharmacist. I haven't applied for my license yet, I'm waiting until I have my name change taken care of because I don't want to mess with getting my maiden name and then a week later going in for the name change and having to pay to have it reissued and fighting with the Board over it all. But I passed both exams!! So basically it's been the best month ever for me.
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Feb. 3rd, 2009 @ 05:07 pm (no subject)
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So I turned 24 today, it's kinda funny how little I care. Except it means I'm that much closer to all the crud I need to get done. But Greg bought me a bookcase that goes with the bedroom furniture. It's all big and substantial and not particle board at all! I'm so excited about it!

My aunt and uncle who have The World's Cutest Children (TM) are expecting another baby. I'm pretty excited about it, they have absolutely adorable and hysterical children.

My grandmother is hysterical. She said she was just planning on giving us a check for our wedding but she went to Macy's and got distracted and wound up buying 8 place settings of our china (my aunt bought the other 4). The reason we picked it is because it had a set with 8 place settings and some serving pieces and nifty stuff for around $200, which, uh, great deal! And then she went back today and bought several place settings of our everyday dishes because they were buy one get one free. And she gets a discount. But she's so darn excited, it makes me laugh. With my cousin getting married too, she's just so excited about all the wedding stuff. (I'm kinda ticked about my cousin getting married so close to me, if he weren't she wouldn't know all the stuff she needs to bug us to do!... shit I need to call about a cake)
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Jan. 30th, 2009 @ 10:23 pm (no subject)
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My parents wanted to take everyone out to dinner tonight because mom had a long day at work. Instead somebody from dad's work invited them out for Japanese and a car show and they let me tag along (not for the car show part, blech) Anyways I had to call Greg afterwards because this particular Japanese restaurant does the hibachi-style table cooking and the chefs are in the mood for it they'll pass the bottle of cooking sake around and aim a stream of it into your mouth until you start dribbling it out of your mouth. I wound up with sake all down my cleavage in front of people twice my age. So I was describing it to Greg and he's like "...it sounds kinda tacky" and I was like "THEN YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE NOT HAD AS MUCH SAKE AS I HAVE! IT TOTALLY ROCKS!!"

Also I'm enjoying telling people what a bad boyfriend Greg is. He leaves town for a business meeting on Sunday morning and flies back in Wednesday night. My birthday is Tuesday. Whatever, we'll celebrate later. Of course I work that weekend so not much partying going on there. Then the following Friday he leaves town to go visit his brother in Pennsylvania for a week. Guess what's that Saturday? Valentine's Day?

I bitch playfully but I already told him to go see Adam, Valentine's isn't a big deal for me, it'd probably just be extra pressure to look nice. And he can't reschedule the work trip and even if he were here I work Tuesday and Wednesday and he works night shifts so we wouldn't see each other anyways. Also I'm turning 24 and birthdays just aren't that exciting anymore. (but he'd better have gotten me something pretty)

I also got my veil! It's very pretty and has beaded trim and it cost like $15 on Ebay. Woot woot!
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Jan. 25th, 2009 @ 09:55 pm (no subject)
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Why do I only look at registry stuff when I'm drunk. This is not a good time to be making any decisions!! Also I was supposed to spend today looking up the difference between pleural effusion and empyema and how pneumonia works into that and writing up a topic discussion on the whole thing and I did NONE of it (ok not true, I read a little bit on empyema, enough to figure out it sounds completely disgusting and anything involved with your lungs should not use the words "bacteria rind" because that's just gross)

Also my grandmother called today and griped at my mom that we haven't set a date for a shower yet because all my relatives are asking her. I was under the impression we weren't doing a shower because basically it's all a gift thing and I'm having enough trouble coming up with stuff on the registry for the wedding, let alone a shower. If they'd let me get away with it I just wouldn't register and it'd all be so much easier! Also somehow we went from having no showers for me to having two, one in Chicago and one down here that my aunts will organize. And my grandmother will be coming to both. I'm so very thrilled. This is the grandma from the side of the family that Greg won't stop making fun of because they were talking about a boy my cousin liked and in all seriousness said "he's not bad for a public." My grandmother practically had a heart attack when mom told her we were going to a public high school because I was the first in about three generations to go to any public school. My oldest cousin went to Catholic preschool, Catholic grade school, Catholic high school (and tuition was more for that than my (public) college tuition), Catholic college, and Catholic med school. I AM A TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT WITH MY LIBERAL PUBLIC SCHOOL WAYS!! Anyways now I have to have two freaking wedding showers and I am not exactly happy about it. Also we can't let Grandma know when my little sister's graduation from eighth grade is because we're afraid that if she figures out my college graduation is May 9th, Sophie's graduation is the first week of June, and my wedding is June 13th she'll just decide to stay the whole month and my mother would most likely kill her within a week. Mom's hoping she won't show up for my graduation but I'm pretty sure she will. I'll be the third grandchild to graduate but the first with a doctorate and it may not be an MD but I'm pretty sure she'll still want to be there. (ha beat the favorite grandchild by a year!) She's also incredibly baffled by our pizza and chicken wing rehearsal dinner (technically we didn't tell her about the wings even though that's totally what I'm going there for, duh!) Mom tried to explain to her that Greg worked for the restaurant for years and the owner just loves the whole family and there's the arcade and game place attached that the kids will totally love but she still doesn't understand why it isn't fancier. She'll be REALLY disappointed when the bride disappears to play Skee-Ball with the four year olds, but dude Skee-Ball and cute kids!!

Also is it weird that I'm way more excited about dressing the flower girls than I am about my wedding dress? I have my dress and whatever, I'm getting tiaras for the flower girls and they're going to be so damn excited about them and I can't wait to see how adorable they are. Also the ring bearers will be so freaking cute in their little tuxes/suits/whatever. My cousin's wedding is going to be very formal and Bella will be there for the ceremony as a flower girl but she will be the only kid there and she's leaving before the reception. I'm gonna have every cousin there (Unless Mary Kate makes it to diving Nationals in which case I will grudgingly let her miss the wedding (not really, I'm pround of her awesome skill) but her family will hopefully still be there) and I cannot wait to see them running around the dance floor and being all fun and cute in their dress clothes. I have the best picture of Sophie and I at Dave and Sureiya's wedding where I'm twirling her on the dance floor and she's just smiling so big and I'm in my bridesmaid dress and she's in her flower girl/ringbearer dress (technically she was the ringbearer but she was a five year old in a white dress, I'd call her a flower girl) and I want my cousins to have that much fun, all of them, 3 to 25.
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Jan. 23rd, 2009 @ 09:25 pm (no subject)
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Apparently Elmo and Grover were at Children's for a large part of the day and I managed to miss them! It's really sad when the most exciting part of your day would have been seeing life size Muppets (I would have squished Grover so hard, he was my favorite)

Also this hospital is way different than Ranken. Ranken kids generally started out with problems and issues and their parents knew what to expect with them. These kids are almost uniformly perfectly healthy until suddenly they get an infection and it snowballs and their heart fails. Or they come in and find out they have cancer and their life will never be the same. Kids have this amazing ability to bounce back and get better and be just fine after all sorts of crap so as depressing as the situation is, it's so much better than adult medicine.

And I have orders from doctors to never name my kids Dakota, Cheyenne, or any sort of place name. They apparently get sick a lot. Names like Trinity and Miracle and Sunshine are bad ones too. We have yet to figure out what's going to go on with the new batch of Miley's and we had a consult on a Trig in the NICU today (of all the things to idolize about Sarah Palin that are a bad idea, her kids' names are possibly the worst) I think they also were working on a formula for how many extraneous y's a normal name had and how that correlated with getting sick. I was like "well shit, what's Katherine going to do to me? Eleanor? Can I name them Buttface and be ok? PLEASE GIVE ME GUIDANCE!"


As far as wedding...
Pre-Cana - signed up for, just need to mail in the check
Cake - Greg found a place that does fake cakes that we could design our own and use it as a model cake for other weddings and then sheet cakes for eating. There'd also be strategic slices to cut and feed each other and an anniversary topper. I also have a different lady to contact that does normal wedding cakes, I need a quote though.
Flowers - I have to call the neighbor as soon as I can and book them. All I need are bouquets, boutonnieres, and corsages, I don't want floral centerpieces, I don't want to move the church's decorations at all so I won't need anything for by the alters,
I'm pretty sure I just bought a veil on ebay (I may have taken sleep medicines about twenty minutes ago. This also explains why I have NO IDEA what I've registered for technically)
catering - done
reception hall - done
service - doneish - I have the hall but I have to talk with the priest for premarital counseling and he's not so interested in doing much of that (he retires two weeks after our wedding) and I have to meet with the far more highly strung musical director
favors - meh working on it
rehearsal dinner - Greg took care of it, good boy!
Gifts for bridesmaids and groomsmen - suppose it's time to start thinking about those... hmm
invitations - picked out the invitation, got the wording, now we need to figure out reception cards and response cards.
Showers - if I don't schedule a shower soon my aunt and Grandma will come down and tear my head off with their bare teeth. My Aunt Julie wants to hold one down here and would like a list of friends I would like invited and I was like "friends... like Greg? not fiances... Paul? no that doesn't work either "Oh! I know I have a chick friend! Nicki! Is that it? Uhhh yeah, did I mention I don't particularly want a shower"
Hotel - need to reserve a block of rooms at the local hotel (Dad's in charge of that)
I think other that it boils down to even little details that blah.

but I do need my dress resized and looking at pictures of it it won't completely hide my belly fat so I should work out before I go get it sized. Also I need to buy some durn shoes and I can wear.
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Jan. 8th, 2009 @ 08:32 pm (no subject)
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So I'm sitting on the couch but I've made the mistake of draping the green blanket over my legs and the green blanket is the dog's favorite. So she's currently pulled most of it off my legs and is laying on it and me with her belly up at me hoping I'll give her a tummy rub. I love this stupid adorable dog (but she needs a bath)

Also, less fun stories, my mom's normal radiologist was on vacation and he looked at her films when he came back and said "no, this is cancer." But it's small and they'll just do some more radiation and she'll go back on Zometa every month (the every three months things was kinda dumb, but insurance was giving her crap since she'd been on it for too long supposedly, but it was keeping the cancer out of her bones so whatever) I think she's sad (duh), but thankfully she's keeping one step ahead of the hot new treatments for breast cancer and she's responded fantastically to everything.

Greg started working shift work so he'll work a series of 6AM-6PM shifts or 6PM-6AM with some scattered times off. It kinda stinks 'cause he's doing the overnight this week so I wake up and go to work right as he's coming home and I get off work and head home as he's heading to work. I haven't seen him since Sunday, but I get to see him tomorrow!! I'm heading over there and we're going to try eating at some bar that was featured on the Food Network. Yummy!

Working at another pediatric site. I'm doing infectious diseases and it's a consult service at the hospital and we don't start rounding until 10. It's great! Also it's my first actual teaching hospital (kinda weird) and the whole teaching rounds and all that is great. There's also tons of conferences and journal clubs and clinics so yay for that.
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Jan. 2nd, 2009 @ 02:12 pm (no subject)
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My mom had an appointment today and the suspicious spot on her hip is NOT cancer. Hooray mommy!

OK so I called to get a cake for the wedding but the place my mom wanted me to go is booked and now she's pissed that I procrastinated. Meh whatever, that place was expensive and not all that fantastic and they charged an asston to deliver outside a five mile radius or something stupid like that. So I called a different place and got that started. I'm waiting to hear back from my priest on premarital counseling sessions and we're signed up for a pre-Cana class (now to get off work for it, sploops!). I also picked out three inexpensive invitations I like and will present them to Greg as a "pick one of these" and order them. Hooray for getting a lot done!

I also wrote well over half my rough draft of my senior project today and contacted a guy who set up a similar program and we're all meeting sometime in the next few weeks and he's giving us ALL of his documentation and information which will be so amazingly awesome. I probably won't make the meeting because I'm on rotations again, but meh, I'll get Angela to forward me the information. I should have my rough draft done tomorrow and I'll send it in and it'll all be fantastic! Hooray!

I love feeling accomplished.
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Dec. 2nd, 2008 @ 09:43 pm (no subject)
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I spent about three hours today unstringing lights from our Christmas tree and then another three with Greg unstringing more. We also went to Target and bought lights since the whole "prelit" thing was crap. The tree is six years old and I spent days upon days last year tracking down all the burnt out lights and it still didn't work so now it's a plain fake tree. We spent about twenty minutes looking for a second package to match the first we'd decided on, discovered that we'd grabbed the last set, and said "screw it, let's get the plain lights".

We set the tree up and Mikey promptly climbed two thirds of the way up it. I tried to get a picture but he jumped down before I found my camera. No matter, he'll do it again before the season is over.

I woke up this morning with a cold. It's basically miserable and I had no cold medicine in the house so I bought some to stock Greg's cabinet with at Target. Boy doesn't know what a properly stocked medicine cabinet is. If I'm sick I want to be able to reach in there and get something to make it better, not run to the store and fight with everything to feel better. I get sick every year because mom teaches fourth grade, I spend a bunch of time in hospitals and around sick people at work, and Sophie brings home all the junior high germs and drinks out of our water glasses to generously share them with the rest of the house.

Mikey is kneading my belly right now. I can only see half the screen so blame typos on him.

I have a dinner with Schnucks tomorrow and an open house/look at our cool pharmacies! thing. I feel like crap and don't want to go, but I really want a job offer so I'll suffer through. I wonder what I should wear. I'm saving my nice suit for the real interview, but I want to look professional and nice. We're also eating italian s0 something that hides marinara stains would be nice. (totally typed that last sentence with cat butt in my face) The worst part will be the pharmacy tour because it's in my old store and everyone that works there still knows me. I mean, it'll be kinda nice because the managers will say hi and the pharmacists know me and they mostly all loved me at that store, but still, kinda weird. Also the fact that I met the recruiters at the job fair and they said "Corinne, I know that name... wait didn't we offer you an internship last year?" and I had to be like "Yeah I turned down one of three spots in the St. Louis area to take a Walgreens internship and they basically give one to anyone who has a pulse and shows a vague interest in pharmacy, but you know, I learned my lesson!" That and the fact they pretty much offered me my own store right off the bat, but only in locations two hours away. Bleh on that.

Tomorrow Greg will hopefully get the lights and garland strung up while I'm schmoozing with pharmacy bigwigs and then Thursday we'll hang ornaments. I should also try to write another section of my paper sometime this week so I stop feeling so bad for being a procrastinator. Really this whole capstone project sucks. I realize most advanced students have to do a thesis and it's a lot more work, but really I'm just whiny and I'm not gonna stop.

I'm gonna go eat cookie dough, drink a glass of wine, and go to bed.
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Dec. 1st, 2008 @ 10:21 pm (no subject)
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I got a lot of christmas shopping done today!

for Mom I got a Nintendo DS and a package of two puzzle games (I'm splurging on her this year, she totally deserves it)

for my little sister I got a set of ten Sephora sparkly lip glosses so she stops stealing my lip stuff

for my brother I got a pack of six highball glasses and six whiskey (or something) glasses on clearance at Linens and Things. Hopefully they're sturdier than the stuff he used to have


for my brother's girlfriend I'm getting a set of Philosophy bath stuff (so my brother won't steal it from her) in delicious cookie and cake scents

I desperately want to get Zach the Lego Castle dwarf mine set, but I think he might still be a bit young. Also I can't promise Greg and I wouldn't open it and play with it. I'm thinking we shouldn't have kids for quite awhile yet because we'd just play with all their toys.

The doll dress I want to get Bella is backordered until January so I need to find something else for her.

And I need to shop for Greg's family and probably my dad. That'll be fun...


Greg and I also bought Christmas decorations today at Target. Too bad our tree still doesn't light up. I'm going to unstring it tomorrow and just get strands of multicolored lights for it. Whatever, it was a free tree from my basement, I'm not gonna argue. We got pretty brightly colored shatterproof ornaments to keep the tree from being completely Madame Alexander Hallmark ornaments (I've gotten them every year for a long time, but they're pretty girly) and if the cat behaves with them, there are some glass ornaments we want, but I doubt we'll be able to get them with Mikey on patrol.

I also want to get some outdoor lights and maybe a lawn decoration (spiral tree or something) to decorate the porch.

I want a bagel with cream cheese and lox but it's 10:30 PM and we have no bagels in the house. I'd be willing to eat toast with the toppings, but we have no bread. Drat
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Nov. 30th, 2008 @ 09:20 pm Round up post
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My poor puppy is hurt. She jumped off my brother's lap to get at a toy and tore some ligaments in her back legs. We had to give her an acid reducer, and two pain pills twice a day. She loved us. Then, about five days later we had to take her back to the vet because her leg was getting better but her ear was full of goop and smelled like ass. Turns out she has something stuck in her ear and it caused a yeast infection in her ear. Yay! So now we have to give her ear medicine everyday too (and they shaved part of her ear hair to look in there, she looks so silly) and after two weeks we take her back to see if the swelling's down and they can pull out whatever she has stuck in there. And then she stopped eating. She ate less over the past two days or so and today she hasn't touched her food. We'll wait and see how she is tomorrow but we may be making ANOTHER call to the vet. Poor puppy.

The Christmas season is upon us. Greg has invited basically his entire extended family to his house for the holiday. This means he and I will be playing host to his mom and dad, his brother and his wife, his twin brother, his aunt and uncle and their two kids, and possibly his Grandma. So basically we will be hosting our first family Christmas before we're even a married couple. It'll be interesting to say the least. But we have a tree, even if the lights don't technically work (Greg's going after them with his multimeter to find the problem, I love my dorky engineer), we decided on a Nativity Set (After I explained what a Nativity set was and why I wanted one) and it's super adorable (http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3150656) - It's Playmobil! I figure it's silly and fun and perfect for us and when I decide to buy a nicer set that's not technically a children's toy, our children can play with it! Heavens knows I've bought books for our hypothetical children (There's a Monster at the End of this Book and Z is for Zamboni) why not toys!

I need a present for my godson and his big sister. I'm definitely getting them "Here Come the ABC's" and "Here Come the 123's" by They Might Be Giants. Greg and I love TMBG so much, we HAVE to get my adorable cousins their kid CD's. I think maybe for Bella a flower girl dress for her American Girl doll since she's going to be my flower girl (one of them, I have two flower girls and two ring bearers because I have too many adorable small cousins) and Zach will probably get some sort of toy meant to make kids enjoy engineering at a young age because of Greg's influence. I want to get him Lego's, I've seen him play with them, but 4 and a half might be a tiny bit young for the big fun sets I want to get him. Maybe I'll get my dinosaur loving cousin Abby "The Land Before Time" I loved that movie so much and I got it for Bella last year. Hmmm... kids are fun to shop for. I also want to buy my mom a Nintendo DS and I'm debating between the ice blue and the metallic pink. I should buy it soon because they might sell out. Greg, meh, I'll figure it out.


Well my rotations are over for the year. Hooray! However I now need to do the project I procrastinated on for way too long by January. What I really need to do is call the FDA, the EPA, the state police, the local police, and the legal representative for the state pharmacy association. I really really hate calling people. Technically I could write up a slapdash report without a lot of references and get a B or even a C on it and be just fine because I have 15, probably 20 hours of A already this year to add to the ol' GPA. But I feel bad because I'm doing this for somebody else and I want to do a good job for them, but I don't want to work all through my break. Decisions, decisions.

Wedding's going, Grandma pretty much called me fat and told me I wouldn't fit in my dress. It's a good thing she's a crazy old lady and I know it, but it still made me feel really bad, especially when she kept praising my cousin's fiancee (he's the favored grandchild, but still) and how cute her figure is and how much more prepared and organized she is compared to me. Funny, she has a church and a reception venue and that's it, and said she felt like she was way behind compared to us. Anyways, long story short, Grandma's crazy.

And last but not least, the job hunt is underway. Walgreens will totally hire me and give me a sign on bonus. Schnucks seems interested, but I need to call them to set up an interview (I got my first interview suit, I feel like such an adult! Also it's ridiculously cute, even if I need the pants hemmed and the jacket let out a bit in the boob area. But the skirt part is adorable!). Wal-Mart St. Louis has no openings right now but they'll be reevaluating in January. I'm like, well since I won't be licensed until probably July or August, that's cool) Wal-Mart Metro East just called me when I was out of town for Thanksgiving so I'll call them back tomorrow. And hospitals won't be starting their hiring process until January most likely and I want to wait to hear from Children's, Cardinal Glennon, and St. John's Mercy (preferably their new Children's Hospital) before I accept any offers. Though one of the big chain retailers would be pretty nice if Greg were to get transferred...

I'm attempting to be a good class officer too. I need to come up with an inexpensive class gift we can give to the school as a kind of legacy from the inaugural class. We have a medicinal garden and I found a fairly nice concrete bench that can be engraved with a message from us for well within our budget. I also like the idea of planting a tree with a plaque from us. Other options are a stepping stone for the garden (I like the utility of a bench more), a stained glass window (pretty but expensive, and what to put on there?), or a "trophy case" to showcase honors and awards the school has received (which we have quite a few already for being a brand new school. Our first year a student placed in the top ten for the National Patient Counseling Competition, our third year a student placed third in the nation in the same contest, two students won the National Clinical Skills Competition and we've received awards from APhA for our involvement and all sorts of junk) but unfortunately a crappy case is about twice our budget and we don't want a crappy curio cabinet looking thing, we'd like something nice.

I need to write an entry about work and the crazy you can encounter on a Saturday night at your local 24 hour Walgreens. Maybe I'll do that later tonight if my Benadryl doesn't kick in before then.
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