Wine-tasting and Pill-slinging

It's been a busy few weeks for me since the last time I updated my blog. It's been the long sort of in-between-updates that makes it awkward and difficult to make a sudden, halfway decent and worth reading post. Anyway, I'll take my best stab at it.

Spent a lovely weekend up in Traverse City touring wine country with two of my best buds Nick and Colleen. I think over the course of the day we hit 10 different wineries and saw some beautiful countryside, and spent a nice night at a hotel in downtown TC. We're talking about making an annual thing out of it because we all love wine-tasting so much, and there's a lot more to see and do that can't really be squeezed into one day. After wine-ing it up, we spent the rest of the long weekend at Nick's Cabin on Burt Lake, enjoying some BBQ, boating, and playing with their adorable puppy, Mary Jane.

I also got to see my friend Beth for her baby shower last weekend, which was a lot of fun. I can't believe this girl, whom I spent long summer nights playing old school Nintendo with, is about to become a mom. I can't wait to meet her baby (a boy, Nolan)! She's due at the end of August, and I know she must be getting excited. She and her husband Matt got lots of great stuff for the shower, and I had fun seeing some of my high school friends and catching up after years of going in separate directions.

Mike took me to another Lugnuts game, which surprisinly enough we won! Also got to meet and hang out with some of his FB coworkers. Tried to get some stuff done for the wedding and that felt good--I haven't done anything it seems in so long. I'm such a procrastinator. Working on our photographer, save-the-dates, invitations, DJ, and cake right now. *whew*

Someone stole a hubcap off my car yesterday. No really. I couldn't even believe it, because it's not like I have really high quality ones or something. Just some plastic snap-ons. I thought perhaps it had fallen off, but the other three were so hard to get off, even with tools, that I knew the fourth hadn't just rolled off while I was driving. A coworker of mine also told me that one of hers had almost been stolen, except hers are bolted to the wheel so the theif eventually gave up. Anyway, all was well after I got some new caps and Dad helped me put them back on.

In work-related news, I've been doing prescription audits lately, meaning I go back and check the scripts within 24 hours of filling them to catch possible mistakes. I already stopped a big one (wrong drug strength) from reaching a patient. Not to mention, it makes me feel slightly more important. I also counseled a diabetic patient whose blood sugar level was dropping too low on his current medication regimen. And today, when a little old lady came in and said, "I take a small brown pill before bed each night. Do you know what it might be called?" I promptly told my technician, "Zocor." My technician looked at me skeptically, right before the woman said, "Yes yes! That's it!"

And I did my badass walk all the way back to the script counter.