august in a nutshell

I think one of the greatest things I've ever discovered is Google Calendar. It is seriously God's gift to the organization/planning freakazoid like myself. It's extremely useful especially when I'm trying to describe the entire month of August in a single post.... Here it goes!

The first week of August pretty much flew by with me working 40 hours since I had taken those 3 weeks off to study for the NAPLEX and CPJE. I also wanted to work more since I was going on the cruise to Mexico the following week which meant I was taking another week off.

8 oz lazy ox burger with cantal cheese & green peppercorn mustard - lazy ox canteen

That Saturday, August 6th, Tony took the train up to Union Station since I didn't want him to leave his car at my house for the entire week especially since it'd be such a hassle with street cleaning and such. I happened to buy a Bloomspot coupon for the Lazy Ox Canteen so since we were in the area, we decided to try it out. Burgers and beers were pretty good and we even got a free taster! The place is right near Little Tokyo and there's a bunch of apartments there that look really nice so we were going to check them out until we realized that some of them were senior living places lol.

ricotta pancakes with meyer marmalade - lazy ox canteen

For dinner, I had a get-together with my elementary school/middle school friends. There's 6 of us total and well, we've been friends since forever. It was definitely a nice reunion since it's so difficult for us to all get-together these days. Some of us went to different high schools and some of us went to different colleges but we've remained close friends. We went to Ichima Sushi in Pasadena. Pretty good prices, good selection and sushi was pretty good. Pretty great service too! We pretended that it was Amy's birthday so we got a free cake :)

ichima sushi - pasadena; l to r: helen, me, amy, christina, annie, anna

**oooo... please bear with me as I adjust to the newest changes to google calendar. The lightened past events is making my eyes all weird**

August 7th thru August 14th was our adventure to Cabo San Lucas and Puerto Vallarta. That vacation deserves its own post so I'll do another post for that later.

adele - the greek theatre, los angeles

Monday, August 15th was long awaited bestie time with Judy at the Adele concert at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Such a great concert! Apparently there were a bunch of celebrities at the show but me and Judy were too enthralled by the presence of Gordon Ramsey to notice (we were pretty much watching him the whole time before the concert started!).

enjoying the sunset at the greek theatre

loving the stage set-up. p.s. me and judy can totally be adele's back up singers. we've got those moves down!

fantasia at the hollywood bowl

Ended up finishing up some training I had to do for the rest of the week. On Thursday, August 18th, I went in to do my QA training and the pharmacist (who happened to go to my high school! such a small world!) was telling me to check to see if I was officially licensed yet. I had checked the Board of Pharmacy website the night before and my license still wasn't posted yet so I wasn't expecting it to be posted. Plus, they hadn't cashed my check for the license fee either so I was thinking it wasn't going to be posted. But there it was! Posted in all its glory! Didn't really celebrate much that day besides vegging out when I got home lol.

BUT... took the next day off and went to see Disney's Fantasia (not the American Idol person! lol) at the Hollywood Bowl. The fireworks at the end were amazing! Wine, food, and great company. Could not have asked for more! If you look at the picture below, you can spot the fire trucks on the left hand side. Apparently some trees caught on fire from the fireworks.

Ended up working on the Saturday and Sunday after that doing some more practice QA sessions.

Went to my grandmother's (Dad's side) birthday dinner on Sunday and then drove down to San Diego to spend some time with Tony. I got there pretty late on Sunday and he had work early the following morning but when I woke up, I went downstairs and found flowers and breakfast waiting for me. I didn't have my phone with me at the time so I took this picture after I got home on Tuesday. Seriously, I have no idea why and it seems almost illogical but flowers are the way to a girl's heart lol. Maybe it's because it shows forethought and that the guy actually took the time to go get them but seriously as much as they're practically dying when you buy them, they are worth the monies! You can even save some money and pick them from your garden for all I care lol.

On Monday night, we decided to go to this Brazilian BBQ place in Downtown SD called Rei do Gado since he had a gift certificate and it was super delish!! Their selection was huge! They had so many side dishes for the buffet and the meats were sooooo good!! At the end I only asked for all the meats that had garlic 'cause I was sooo full but I couldn't resist garlic marinated meats! lol.

Drove back to LA on Tuesday and then went to happy hour at BJ's with one of my old rotation-mates from the Long Beach VA to celebrate her engagement! So exciting! We went to Forever 21 and did some shopping afterwards but that was a fail.

Just vegged out on Wednesday and cleaned my room a little before my first official day as an RPh on Thursday (that horrid day... mentioned in my previous post). I guess we're all caught up! Hope everyone is having a great week!!