Chewed Up Nipples

What a week. Let's see, the drama has really been going down at work. A new girl started about a week before I came back to Kroger (or about three weeks ago), and has been really stirring up trouble. More specifically, she's been accusing just about everyone in the pharmacy of having "bad attitudes," and has in general been acting cocky about how she's "fifteen times too qualified" for this position. Now, I pride myself in keeping neutral ground in the workplace, and life in general. I learned long ago that drama isn't worth the headache. So, I listen to people when they need to vent, give a little advice if asked, but mostly just call doctors, take scripts, and talk to patients to avoid it all. But even I was getting a little peeved by this chick, especially when she started calling a small handful of community college credits which focused on pharmacy technician training "pharmacy school." Bitch, please.

The other night she wanted to leave early, family emergency, but wouldn't ask anyone to cover her shift (as she was closing alone, and couldn't just up and leave). Finally another of my coworkers agreed to stay, saying that all she had to do was ask. Upon agreeing to take over said shift, the Newb had some sort of meltdown, snapping about how she didn't want to "catch attitude" from anyone who covered her shift. I'm writing a note to a patient a few feet away, and I swear to God, it was like a reality TV show. I could not believe this chick was attacking a coworker who just agreed to work an extra two hours for her sorry butt. Heated words were exchanged, and the Newb left. Left, and apparently quit. ??????! Wtf? I later learned more horrible dirt about her, like she was fired from her previous job, she was trying to take over the job of our head trainer (who's been working for Kroger about 10 years longer than her), and she's pretty much mouthed off to and accused everyone of having an attitude. Whatever the crap that means.

Uuugh. And I still haven't gotten a paycheck yet. Like I'm a monkey in this circus for free.

In other news, I visited with the Always Hilarious Beth tonight, which was as awesome as I knew it would be. She made me a delicious dinner of chicken tacos, and gave me a grand tour of her lovely new house in Swartz Creek. I was very excited; I love it when friends buy houses and give me tours. Especially slightly older houses which have interesting little tid-bits of character here and there I can squeal about, like the stained-glass mirror in the bathroom. :D OMG, and her kitties are so cute. I can't even stand it.

She's over seven months pregnant now, so among the usual hilarious quotes I get to enjoy are various gross things about how her body is all jacked up now. For instance:

Me: I'm brushing the cat hair off my boobs.
Beth: I know you just want to touch them.
Me: You know me too well. *jiggles boobies*
Beth: Yeah... I can't do that. Mine leak.

And....

Me: So, how long do you want to nurse?
Beth: Probably until he starts teething. After that, no way. I don't want my nipples to look like chewed up pieces of gum.

Good times, good times.

Had a great time last weekend with Mike. He took me to the Jazz Festival in East Lansing, and on Sunday for Father's Day we invited Mom and Dad out to El Azteco to eat on their rooftop patio. By far the best Mexican food ever. I think they had a great time. :)

Next weekend is my birthday people, so get your spankers ready. ;-D

Dow Gardens

I took Mike to visit the Dow Gardens in Midland as a surprise today. :) I'd never been there myself, so it was sort of a surprise for both of us. Anyway, I highly recommend it--it was only $1 for us to get in (with student IDs) and has over 100 acres of garden-goodness! Lots of streams, stone bridges, secret paths, and of course gorgeous flowers. I took lots of pictures and posted them to My Flickr if you'd like to check them out. :)

In other news, after two weeks of sitting around not getting paid, Kroger finally got their shit together and called me regarding my drug test. I called Customer Service EVERY single day over those two weeks asking about it, and each day they fed me a new line of bull about how they "can't make it back to check right now." So I finally told my District Manager on them, who proceeded to call them himself to get things done. Miraculously, an hour or so later they finally "found" my drug test. Isn't that amazing? Lazy bastards. So Thursday was my first day and I was so glad for that, because I'm broke and I need to buy lots of stuff right now. Like... a new license plate, and a bridesmaid dress. >_<

Mike is giving me his old iPhone to use as a PDA for 4th year, and I'm so excited!! :D He just finished setting it up for me, and I have all kinds of drug programs and other applications to enjoy. :) Which makes him pretty much awesome. ;)

Kroger-Hate

Seriously, I took my drug test a week ago and I still haven't heard back from Kroger. I was supposed to start yesterday and also work all next week, but instead I'm not doing anything productive. OMG. I'm running out of money here, seriously. Stupid Kroger. 4th year starts in less than two months, and by the time I actually get to start working, it'll only be for a small handful of weeks. Uuuuuuggh.

On the bright side, Mom and I have started to blast the fat away with a bunch of new workouts we're trying, including running! We started running for the first time last night, and I was impressed that I didn't wheeze to death. Hopefully something spectacular will come from this, like a supermodel body before my wedding! :D

Um, I really haven't done anything else exciting, except try on a bridesmaid dress (which I loved!) for my friend Colleen's wedding in October 2010, and wash my car so she's all sparkly and clean. Yep. And I'm pretty sure only I find those two things exciting.

Therapuke-ics

This, ladies and gentlemen, is 5 ridiculous inches and approximately 10 pounds worth of Pharmacotherapeutics. I finally put it all into one binder, and as you can see it barely fits. The top binder is full of my SDL material (Student Directed Learning), which is also part of therapeutics but is material which we are required to look up and complete on our own, outside of class. This therapeutics is just from this year, and I have four other 3 inch binders like the bottom one in this picture filled with material from the first two years of P school. All this in addition to my other classes third year. Just imagine how dense my brain must be!!

Anyway, I have to study all of this by the end of July, before rotations start and they expect me to know at least most of it. The thought makes me want to die.

June

June means more June bugs bothering me at my bedroom window late at night before I turn out my lights. Which makes me want to puke in my mouth.

I finished my IPPE and it was really rewarding. At first it was intimidating and I didn't know what I was doing, but I started to enjoy it and feel useful. On my final day when I received my evaluation from my preceptor, she had so many glowing remarks to make about the work that I did and my progress over the three weeks. It really felt awesome. Just awesome. When I was at Sindecuse I also received a good review, but I felt a little like the pharmacist Bill was biased with me because he knew me beforehand and really liked me. He knew me as a person, and his opinion of me had time to mature and grow with time. At the hospital I was a stranger and I only had a measely three weeks to prove my worth, so it really meant something when they ended up thinking I did really well. Sometimes pharmacy school kind of blind sides me... makes me feel like a complete idiot. It's refreshing when something comes along to give me a bit of a confidence boost.

Kroger starts up later this week, which I'm dreading. Corporate isn't paying me anymore, the actual store is paying me, so now I have to fight over hours with the technicians. That pretty much means I won't get 40 hours a week, which is a bummer. Also, they moved the entire pharmacy and changed everything, to the point that I walked in and wondered if I was in the right place. So, that'll be (not) awesome when I start up again. >_<

June means Mike and I are approaching the one-year-until-the-wedding mark. I can honestly say that the months we've been engaged have been some of the most difficult and trying of our whole relationship. I feel as if we've been tested more intensely and more frequently than ever before. Because love is the only thing which holds us together, lacking as we are in the children and wedding vow department, I know our feelings for one another must be made of some tough stuff. I also know more than ever before that love is giving more when you feel like giving up.