day 26-28: hello weekend!

Wuddup!! It's the weekend!! Finally! I can't really complain 'cause this week actually felt pretty short since my preceptor gave me today off to "study" lol. Can we get a wuddup for a 3-day weekend?! (wow... I just read what I wrote and I'm going to have to blame the coffee for my excessive use of exclamation marks lol). I thought we were supposed to go over HIV/AIDS regimen selection yesterday but apparently not, so yay! I'm done with my work for another week lol. Next up is opportunistic infections.

So I've still been going to Borders to study and Wednesday was my third day and the barista actually remembered my name! I was really surprised. It's probably because he was the one that signed me up for the Borders Rewards card and I had to give him my email and you know how my gmail one is pretty memorable lol. Anyways, on Tuesday, this guy (that comes to this Borders all the time with his guitar) randomly comes up to me and starts talking to me. I was like err? And then on Wednesday this guy comes up to me and asks me to use my phone because he left his phone at work. It was cute though 'cause he was calling his girlfriend and was telling her that he was such a fail and that he'd be home soon with dinner lol. I also forgot to mention that one of the baristas at this Borders looks like Lea Michele from Glee! I keep staring at her whenever she's working lol. I must look like such a stalker hahaha.

Anyways, I'm going to start getting ready to head out. I have to close my Chase bank account before they start charging me $10 a month for being poor and jobless haha.

I hope ya'lls have a great weekend! 

day 21-25: massive update

day 21: errands
My day started with a call at 6:30 in the morning from my dad who was calling to tell me to come to the emergency room 'cause he wanted to bring my mom's meds so that the doctor could see what she was taking. I switched places with my dad so that he could go home and rest for a little bit and stayed until 10:30. Since my prescription for my contacts expired, I had to go to the optometrist to get a new prescription. I eyesight didn't get worse! yay! I was thinking it was going to be worse since I'm so blind these days without my glasses. I think the thing that makes my eyes so bad is straining to see those powerpoint presentations in class.

In the evening I went to my friend Annie's birthday shindig at 38 degree Grill & Ale House. It was super packed (probably 'cause there was a Laker game). We had a party of 15-20 people and we couldn't get seated until everyone got there. We waited about an hour before we just left next door to Tony Romas haha. But I got to try the 38 degree mojito which was pretty good. My cousin was saying the tuna tartar is really good and shoestring fries. I guess I'll have to try that next time. But it was a good night of catching up with old friends. Although it is a little weird mingling with someone who used to date the same person as you. Maybe it's because I don't see her very often but I don't think that weird feeling ever goes away. It's like "hi, we used to date the same guy" haha.

day 22: history repeats itself
Remember the other day when I said that I was late for work because I set my alarm for the weekdays and I had to work on Saturday so the alarm didn't go on? Well, guess what happened again?! lol. This time I woke up at 9:30am, called the pharmacy and told them I was going to be late and then bolted out of the house. I didn't get to work until 10:30am. Luckily my preceptor wasn't mad and it wasn't busy. Whew. And I thought he was going to make me stay the extra 1.5 hours but he ended up letting me go home at 4:30! So I get in 1.5 hours late and get to go home 1 hour early lol. Not too shabby haha.

This was also the day that I got the "C" news from my preceptor so once I got home I was really determined to get started with my studying. Luckily Judy was online and we decided to go to Starbucks to get some hardcore studying done. Then we went to Tea Station.

day 23: lazy sunday
Had this under-the-bed storage bag thing that I had to return at Walmart and enlisted the help of Pearl :). I forget how cheap food is at Walmart! I bought a 24-pack of Coke for $5! I've been meaning to stock up when it goes on sale but I've just been so tired after work. So after that I wanted to go to TJ Maxx because I bought this king sized duvet from West Elm online and I thought I had a random king sized blanket lying around but apparently I didn't. They have some pretty cheap stuff at TJ Maxx. I ended up buying these Jessica Simpson sunglasses for $12.99. Deals! But I had no luck finding the blanket 'cause the king sized blankets they had were around $100 and I was looking for something less than $50. So I headed over to Target and they had a king sized down alternative blanket for $17.99! All sizes are $17.99 if you're interested. Let me just say that king sized blanket for a full/queen sized bed (I still don't know which one it is lol) is wonderful! My feet never stick out from under the blankets anymore and my bed seriously looks made everyday which is orgasmic! Ah, my obsession with bedding continues! I think I have 5 different duvet covers for my queen sized down blanket lol. Really should donate some of those away. I bought this Target one a while back and it totally got bleached by my benzoyl peroxide. That's why I stick to whites now lol... although the new duvet I bought is "Sea Breeze" and looks blue/green-ish.

day 24: magnificent monday
Monday was pretty awesome considering its Monday. So I've been stuck in traffic for pretty much over an hour to go from work back home so I was just thinking to stay somewhere in to kill some time so that I wouldn't hit so much traffic. The other day, my rotation mates and I went to Kavikas for happy hour and I realized that there's a Borders at the Pike. There's also 90 minutes of free parking with validation so I've just been doing some studying at Borders to wait out traffic. It actually only took me 30 minutes to get home so it definitely cut my commute in half. PLUS, I get some studying done too. I also signed up for a new Borders rewards card because I realized that my old card actually belonged to an ex-boyfriend lol. Plus the new card is nice white color :) (me and my obsession with all things white). Apparently, if you buy 5 drinks, they'll send you a coupon for a free drink. I think I should be getting there real soon if I end up coming here after work everyday. Plus, I always end up getting coffee at the Borders at the Santa Anita Mall before going to the movies so I don't fall asleep haha. (Btw, their white chocolate mocha is the bomb diggity!! They actually give you white chocolate shavings on the top.

When I got home, I had two awesome surprises! First was a package from Tanya which contained some awesome goodies (pictured below) hehe. And 2nd was my first People StyleWatch! woohoo! I'm so glad I finally got a subscription (thanks to my secret santa Juday!). Now I'm just waiting on my Cosmo to make its way to my house.

After reading through my whole People StyleWatch, I went on an organizing frenzy and organized all the stuff (OTC presentations, case presentations, drug charts, etc) I've gotten during my rotations into separate binders. Everything is just organized into the major categories but everything within the different tabs is still a mess. I'll have to finish that on another day. My next major endeavor is organizing all my school notes. I really didn't like how they organized all the disease state and drugs because I feel like everything is everywhere! The only thing that's semi-organized is ID.

day 25: terrific tuesday
Today was a pretty good day at the pharmacy. We had filled over 350 scripts by 3ish and it didn't feel that busy at all. Now I'm at Borders breaking the rule that I made for myself that I wouldn't update my blog that much lol. There's not much that goes on on the weekdays but I just wanted to update about the weekend. I'll do more studying once I get home. I need to start studying for my disease state quizzes.

Anyways, hope everything is starting their weeks off right and have a happy hump day :)

day 21-23: *sigh*

Welps, I got my mid-evaluation from my preceptor on Friday and apparently I'm getting a 3.2 which is a "C" because the cut-off is a 3.35 or something like that. A part of me is like "woohoo! I'm passing!" but the stupid Asian "you must get straight A's" side is a little disappointed. I mean, I'm pretty much doing community right now so there should be no reason I'm getting a "C". So I asked him what I needed to improve on and basically he said I needed to improve on my drug knowledge. He's right though. It's the 4th rotation and that means I have 2 rotations left to really step it up before the boards :/. I asked him what he did to study for the boards and he's like "oh I read the Lexi-Comp Drug Information handbook... twice." =O <--- my expression. Wha?! That thing is like 2000 pages and the pages are thinner than cheap toilet paper! So I guess what I'm trying to say (and what I'm beating around the bush about) is that I'll probably just be updating on a weekly basis now unless something.... supercalifragilisticexpialidocious happens :)... like if Snoop Dogg decides to stop by RiteAid in Long Beach to say hello lol.

Alright peeps, I'm going to finish up my HIV/AIDS regimen discussion that I'll probably have to go over on Thursday. Thank goodness I get a 3-day weekend next weekend, what-up! The week hasn't even started and I'm already looking forward to the weekend haha.

I leave you with my latest playlist. A mix of old and new songs. Enjoy! 

Hope you start your Monday off right with some Frosted Flakes... because You're Great! (ok I know "they're great" but you are too! lol)

day 20: work

Working 1:30-10pm today *barfs*. At least the load is coming today so I'll be kept busy.

Apparently, (according to all the newsfeed posts) today is the Cheesiest Day of the Year aka National Cheese Lover's Day! Look at this scrumptious dish!

Yum-o!

So my errand running yesterday was a big fail. I always thought contact prescription are good for 2 years but apparently they are only good for one so I'll have to go get my eye exam on Friday so I can get new contacts.

Things to do before I go to work:

1. Email Ms. Luevano and make sure she got my paperwork.
2. Thank you cards.
3. Email student about region quizzes.
4. Deposit Dividend reward check. 
5. Laundry

So my friends and I all use Google calendar to kinda know what we're doing because our schedules are pretty busy and lately we've barely had a chance to even talk to one another. It was easier when I was still in school because I could be online while studying and I'd get to talk to them even for a brief moment before they go to work. But now, I'm working as well and so it makes it a little more difficult to keep in touch. Anyways, so there's supposed to be this birthday party that one of my friends is throwing this Saturday and I saw that all my friends were going so I was like yay! But then one by one I saw it disappearing from their calendars and I was like "hrrmmm?" So I finally went on the event and found out that they changed the date lol. And apparently all my other friends had already changed the date on their Google calendars lol. I guess I was the only slow poke haha. Thank goodness for the date change though 'cause I am just absolutely exhausted from work these days. This weekend will be a nice way to catch up on school work and just relax.

Anyways, gotta go get ready for work. Toodle-loos! (haven't used that word in forever!)

day 19: wake up in the mornin' feeling like...

p. diddy :)

Finally got to sleep in today and by sleep in I mean get up at 9 lol. I moseyed around in bed for awhile though (45 minutes lol).

About to head out and start on the errands of the day.

1. I still haven't gotten my contacts yet so I'll need to go to Costco for that. 
2. Must buy this Living Social Amazon Gift Card deal! (http://livingsocial.com/deals/21336-20-amazon-com-gift-card)
3. Finish my HIV/AIDS drug chart.
4. Laundry.
5. Regional Meeting in Long Beach and then happy hour?

Have a fantastic Wednesday!

day 14-18: lotsa action

Whew! What an eventful weekend its been! So lets get right to business...

day 14: work
Super lucky. I had to work the 1:30-10pm shift which was super. It was super chill after 5pm until there was a huge rush from 9-9:30pm. Me and my preceptor went over NRTIs and NNRTIs on my drug chart. Still have to work on those PIs and random drugs. Not much happened today... *snores*

day 15: times when I wish I had a swiss army knife handy
So I woke up around 9-ish and got ready to go get my nails done. I hadn't gotten my nails done since I was back in Stockton and I only went to get my nails done 'cause I was in desperate need for a pedicure. So while I was getting my nails done, I realized they were playing Time Traveler's Wife on the TV! I had been wanting to re-watch it for such a long time so it was super perfect. I think the nail ladies must've thought I was crazy 'cause I was smiling the whole time I was watching it haha.

Anyways, me and Tony decided to meet up at the Irvine Spectrum 'cause we were going to go to Great Park and do this:

but we were starving so food >>>> fun (spoken like true fatties haha). We ended up eating at Cheesecake Factory and I got the Spicy Chicken Chipotle (w/o peas :)). Soooo good! I've been craving it everyday since. After that, we did a little shopping and this was when the most embarrassing thing happened. It's been absolutely LOVELY weather in LA so I was wearing shorts that day but at night it got a bit colder so I decided to just get a pair of jeggings at Forever 21 rather than walk around shivering. So we head into Forever 21 and I find this pair of jeggings that zip up on the side and they have zippers on the ankles so I decided to go try them on. I get into the fitting room and these jeggins fit super nicely! Score! Looking at the pants more closely, I see that right at the calf area, they had completely forgot to sew one part so that there was a huge hole so I was just going to go outside to get another pair. So I'm trying to take off the pants and the zipper is completely stuck. I'm fiddling with the zipper when I realized that my panties (these RVCA ones that Tanya got me for Christmas which are basically like the super lace ones at Victoria's Secret) were completely stuck into the zipper. This wasn't a small stuck either! It was half-way stuck into the lace so that I couldn't even move the zipper at all!! So I'm thinking that calm is probably the way to go since when you have to untangle a knot, being all aggressive usually makes the knot even worse. So I'm calmly tugging (is that an oxymoron? lol) at the zipper and underwear. No budging AT ALL! >: O Now I'm growing impatient and I start thinking I'm like hulk status. I'm thinking I can probably just take the pants and underwear off and just rip the underwear from the death claws of the zipper. So I try that. Big fail! I obviously overestimated my strength lol. Finally after maybe 5-10 minutes of fiddling with this situation, I decided to just go ask one of the sales associates if they would lend me a pair of scissors. So I go up to the girl and I'm like "My underwear got stuck in the zipper. Is there anyway I can borrow a pair of scissors?" So she asks this one guy employee and he's like "Why do you need the scissors??" and she's like "We just do!" lol. So he gives me the pair of scissors and these were seriously the dullest pair of scissors on earth! I go back to my fitting room and I'm like sawing away at my underwear! Finally it comes apart! Gahhhd. I was so relieved.

day 16: scorching hot... weather!
Went and had Peet's Coffee for the first time. I had a white chocolate mocha which was alright. I think I'm not a huge fan of the bitter coffee. Gotta love the diabetes coffee with at least 6 spoons of sugar haha. Anyways, we went to Peach Cafe to meet up with Christina, Chris, Anna and Daniel. We waited soooooooo long in the scorching sun to get seated!! It was a beautiful day but I totally wasn't dressed for it. I was wearing boots and I literally wanted to take off all my clothes. At least the food was well worth the wait. Chai latte was friggin orgasmic as usual. After that we went to the Santa Anita mall and shopped for a little before heading to Disneyland. The last time we went we didn't get to go on Toy Story so I had to go on it. Ended up waiting 50 minutes to go on! So worth it though lol. Then we went and got a corndog :). I hadn't had a corndog in such a long time that I forgot how good it is! I've been eating the fried chicken the last few times I've gone.

day 17: mlk is not a drug holiday apparently!
Oh my friggin gahd. It was seriously sooooooooooooo busy. I walk into the pharmacy and my preceptor hands me 3 transfers to do (with one of them being the "transfer ALL my meds" from this other pharmacy). Then I was a filling machine for the rest of the day. We filled over 200 scripts before noon. It was crazy. AND the phones wouldn't stop ringing!! I was pretty much exhausted when I got home and then I was stuck in traffic. I wouldn't even have known it was MLK Day! I had to lay on my horn once 'cause this stupid person didn't know that green meant go at this left turn arrow. So I honked at them and by the time they actually started moving the light already turned yellow. I pretty much wanted to stab myself in the car. After dinner I went to Target with Sophie and Judy. We tried to go to Half & Half Tea House off of San Gabriel and Las Tunas and it was freakin' packed!!! The whole time we were thinking it was going to be dead because it was a Monday but now that I'm thinking back, it was probably so busy 'cause everyone and their mom's had MLK off (besides me :( wahh lol).

day 18: the day after
I head into the pharmacy and all is well. It was super calm and then around 2pm we're hit with a wave of new prescriptions. We seriously had maybe 10 waiters and they were all getting A LOT of stuff. When I left at 5:30pm there were still maybe 50 scripts that needed to be filled still :/. Thank goodness I don't have to go in tomorrow! But I have to work Thursday 1:30-10pm (blech!). I have Friday off... but I have to work Saturday (double blech!). At least this weekend seems like it'll be a very eventful one with 2 birthday parties (one of Friday and another on Saturday). Then I'll have Sunday to simmer down a little before another packed week. I get a 3 day weekend not this coming weekend but the next weekend (Jan 28th-Jan 30th) so I'm excited!

I'm leaving ya'lls with my current Temper Trap favorites that have been on repeat since the weekend! Enjoy :)

Have a happy hump day tomorrow!!

day 14-16: quick recap soon!

Hi ya'lls!

Just got home from a fantastic weekend! I will update soon! Here's a picture from the weekend!

I got braggin' rights!! yayeh! :D