The Mystery that is my Job

July 1st, 2008

Well I am a Pharmacy Tech at CVS/Pharmacy… with Hippa laws I am not allowed to talk about patients or their medications etc. But I can tell you the Kind of people I deal with all day long… So lets get started…

First of all, The Angry Pharmacist  Who by the way is so right and so funny has Nothing on our Pharmacy or the people We deal with. But I am sure that he thinks the opposite. Anyway… On a daily basis we deal with the inbred white trash that come from the down under side of our town. These types of people don’t care what they look like, they all had kids with their cousins and cousins nephews at the ripe old age of 12.  These types of people are on so much medication you think they would be in a hospital.  But most of these medications are over the counter, but are covered by their insurance because they have State Insurance.

We also have the men and women (mostly) that come in to get a prescription for themselves for Ibuprofen and Vicodin then come through drivethru and we tell them it will be $3. Then they start complaining while they are on their $400 cell phone and sitting in the AC in their $30,000 SUV about their $3 copay because the State told them they get everything free.  So because you have state aid means you get everything free? I wonder if they go to the nail salon where they get their long ass nails all perty and said well since I have state aid I get this for free. Ya I’m sure that flies over real good.

Our pharmacy seems to always get the druggies and addicts more then the other pharmacies in our area. We (as in our store) have been in the newspaper twice this year(2008) for catching drug rings. I think this is hysterical. We have teens and young adults writing all kinds of fake prescriptions and bringing them in at night when the night pharmacist is on and getting ther Oxycodone. We had a huge drug bust that the DEA was involved in a few months back got a lot of them arrested. Then another one not to long ago. What are these people thinking? Seriously, like we’re just going to keep giving out Oxycodone for every Tom Dick and Ashalee that is around? Please its ridiculous to think that so many 19 year old girls named Ashalee or whatever have So much pain that they need to get 20 Percocet every 2 days.

Then we have the times we have to call 911… Yes we call 911 often, not because its fun to torment the people at the call center but because some odd shit happens around our store. A few months ago someone drove straight across from the Exxon across the street to our stores parking lot and rammed into a few parked cars. He had passed out or had a seizure or something. He didn’t want to go to the hospita, hmm wonder why? Drugs of course.

Then we’re all just working one day like normal and we hear the assisant manager yelling at the top of her lungs “Call 911!! Call 911!!” We freak because the first thing that comes to our minds is someone got stabbed… lol. well we call 911 and we have no idea what to tell the operator and the lady on the other end of the phone is like can you please send someone to find out whats wrong. So we do and apparantly all that was wrong was a little kid about 8 or 9 years old was stuffing his backpack full of merchandise to steal. A little over dramatic don’t ya think?

Then we have the people who are deathly sick, but come into our store anyway and just throw up on the floor… that’s it. Just puke all over and either 1 they don’t say anything or 2 they don’t apologize like its a normal thing to go into a store and puke all over the place.

The Angry Pharmacist said in his most recent post about how people send their small children in to get their meds. Yep that happens here to, but… the kicker here is that they send their kids in to get their vicodin and because its a controlled substance we cant let the 6 year old girl take the medicine for her mommy. So then the mom comes in and goes all ape shit on us because she doesn’t feel well.. hello… we have a drive thru?!  Then we get the people that don’t speak english but they have their 3 year old daughter doing translations so they can drop off their prescriptions. Omg this is irritating.  How horrible is it to tell a 3 year old that their parent needs to use their cream they are getting for their herpies or genital warts for 2 full weeks or it won’t go away. Seriously now?

Anyway I have nothing else to say today… Oh yea except 1 more thing. Last night I was scheduled to 9pm. At 8:55pm we check our computer where all the prescriptions come in on and there is a 10 bagger (a person that has x number of prescriptions at once) then I answer the phone and someone is calling in 15 scripts at once. Then after those are in the Que… we get another 6 of them from one person. Lord have mercy. Oh btw… most of these prescriptions are being rejected by the insurance or by our computers because #1 there are no more refills or #2 they are too soon.

Have a fabulous day

xoxo

Mix Tape 1

June 5th, 2008

Songs not in any order
(when you get to the page scroll down a bit to videos & u can watch)

Tomorrow is D day…

April 30th, 2008

well.. B day at least.. My birthday.. well woopdidoo.. lol I’m in a somewhat good mood today. I had a good night at work last night and am eagerly awaiting money from president bush. lol. Josh did our taxes when he was having bipolar issues and it seems our Pennsylvania return was messed up. I contacted them yet again and they wrote me an email to tell me I should be hearing something in 4-6 weeks.. WONDERFUL…

My brother left yesterday for Afghanistan, he called the night before. I’m glad he called. Sucks that he has to go though. He won’t be home until February 2009. He did say that he won’t actually be in Afghanistan for a month. He goes to Germany for a little while, then to Kuwait City for a little while then to Baghdad then to Afghanistan lol. Geezus, but I guess they have to syke up the troops before they get there instead of just dropping them in there. It’s pretty cool that he’ll be able to see places we probably wouldn’t have seen ever in our lives. But I am so proud of him. It’s hard for me to put into words how I feel, always has been. Plus I am super sensitive and cry lol But he’s my little brother and I haven’t spent much time with him the last few years because of stupid crap and I regret that. So much… I regret not being more involved with him, or with my step dad or my sister. Things just happen I guess…. and if my mother hadn’t been feeding me lies upon lies… maybe I would of been able to spend more time with my brother and my step dad, before he died 2 years ago. Anywhooo….

I just wanted to let whoever reads my blog.. if anyone lol.. know that I’m better today just had a little freak out the other day lmao

I knew it couldn’t last…

April 25th, 2008

My depression is slowly coming back. This medicine I’ve been on has been working very well but it’s coming back… and I hate it. I hate the feeling of being sad all the time. Of crying any time of the day or night for no reason. Well most of the time there are a few reasons. I was on top of everything, on top of the bills, the rent everything. And now I’m not… that is one thing that has triggered it. Another thing was work… I love my job. I enjoy it.. but then the new schedule comes out and my hours totally sucked. I left a note for them and told them we really need to talk because I don’t know what the hell I did wrong if anything at all.

It also sucks because my birthday is Thursday… and I just know it’s going to suck. My last like 4 birthdays have sucked. Why? Because we have NO ONE. No friends no family around nothing. And it sucks. My brother probably already left for Afghanistan and he never called me back and that hurts. I’ve been trying to get a hold of my sister for 3 months and she never calls back. I stopped calling her about 2 months ago because what the fuck is the point if she’s not gonna call me back? She’s “busy” well what the fuck ever im your gdam sister for christ sake. No one fucking cares. I do everything for this family and work my ass off and what do I get?? NOTHING a big fat nothing. I get to sit here and cry quietly so I don’t have to bother my husband or let my children see that I am upset. I get to go to work and pray that I can make it through the whole crappy 5 hour shift. And it’s not like I can just get another job because we don’t have a fucking CAR. We can’t even go food shopping when we want to because we don’t have a car or money for the damn bus. Well most of the time we do have money for the bus but I can’t get Josh to go with me cuz he doesn’t want to leave the damn house.

Right now life just sucks… I am trying so hard. I stopped smoking to save $ but apparently it doesn’t even matter. Our internet/tv/phone will probably be shut off shortly because I can’t pay that bill.. well I paid more then half of it and i have between 3-5 days before the 9th of may to pay the other half of it. I always seem to pay it so I’m not too worried. I just wish that things would just go right for more then a few months at a time. I”m trying to keep everything together so Josh doesn’t have another bipolar episode because as much as I hate when he’s just sleeping all day and not talking to me or the kids. I hate even MORE when he’s all wired and loopy and leaving the house at all hours of the night and staying awake for days on end I HATE that and if it happens again we’re gonna have to do something about it. Anyway… I can’t type anymore because I”ll just start talking in circles

till next time

OMG! *drool*

April 23rd, 2008

Guess who’s coming back after almost 20 years? I bet you can’t even guess… ahaha I bet ya did tho. New Kids On The Block! OMG lol I FREAKED when I heard this. Check out their new site NKOTB.COM I still can’t believe it. I was IN love with them just like every other girl my age back in the early 90s. They were the hottest things since Jelly shoes. You girls HAVE to remember the dolls, comforters, pillow cases with their giant heads on them, buttons, everything! OMG lol I remember it like it was yesterday. I went to their concerts and omg I even had my 10th birthday was NKOTB themed lol. Our front door had a HUGE 6 ft tall NKOTB Poster on it LOL. So I can’t wait for them to go on tour in the fall. A bunch of us girls from work want to go LOL Don’t know if it is really going to happen but I just want to go lol

Ok So I am obsessed with Daughtry LOL TOTALLY hahaha. I can’t stop listening to their(his) music and of course he’s totally hot lol

Daughtry-It’s Not Over
Daughtry-Home
Daughtry - Over You
Daughtry-Feels Like Tonight

Head on over to Scrappin Dead Girls at the ghoullerie and check out my newest layouts! I got to work with some of their most awesome newest kits! While you’re there why not stop by the forum and say hi, and check out the store where they have some awesome freebies.  Here are two of my newest layouts….

To The Moon  Made with Mz Pimptress’ new kit To The Moon coming Soon to SDG!

Magical Garden Made with Mz Pimptress’ new kit My Magical Garden also coming soon to SDG!

Well everyone hope you have a fabulous day, I’ll update again this weekend when I have THREE yes THREE days off in a row :)

15 Days…

April 15th, 2008

Until I turn 28 years old… omg I feel So old right now ahaha. I know I know, I have some friends that are like, you are NOT old lol. But I feel it. I’ve been married for 7 years, I have 2 kids one is going to be in 1st grade next year, My little brother is almost 22 years old and in a week or 2 is leaving for Afghanistan. My oldest nephew is going to be 18 years old! OMG!

I just hope that this birthday, is better then the last one. Last year when I turned 27 we were living with “friends” and I had the most horrible night. My husband wasn’t home and I was home with ALL the kids. (When I say ALL the kids I mean My 2 AND our “friends” 3) It was just horrible. I cried on my birthday, can you believe that? I know that it will be a little better because we have our own place now and I got my kids and my husband here with me. That is all that matters. And you know whats funny… our so called “friends” that we lived with (we paid half the rent, all of the cable/internet/phone and bought almost all the food) they haven’t spoken to us once. I don’t care about him because he’s a dick and can disappear for all I care. But her… we had been friends since we were in junior high school. We had lost touch but got things back together. I thought we could be friends again, but I guess not. I guess they are just “too good” for us. But ya know what? I’d rather have NO friends then to be friends with them, or even converse with them. I don’t even think they live there anymore. I wouldn’t be surprised. They were always searching for money because he would spend it all on stupid shit. They would take vacations and spend hundreds of dollars and then at the end of the month be freaking out on how to pay their half of the rent. Ugh anyway I don’t know what got me thinking of that but I’m done lol.

I’ve had the last 2 days off and its been SO nice. But now I have to go back to work,and I’ll find out when my next day off is… it’s not till after Sunday I know that for sure haha.

I’ve added a link on the right in “My Stuff” to all of my layouts. I’m gonna add the new ones later today that I’ve done with Scrappin Dead Girls products. Their stuff is so awesome. I had a blast with the kits. I’m gonna end this post with the songs I can’t get out of my head! lol

Sara Bareilles “Love Song”

Nickelback - Rockstar

Avril Lavigne - When You’re Gone

TAYLOR SWIFT: TEARDROPS ON MY GUITAR

xoxo

it’s kind of like a saga…

April 11th, 2008

…when I come back because you never know when the next one is going to happen lol. I’m hoping that what is going on in my life will get me back into blogging again.

A huge thing that has happened is that I was asked to join a creative team of a fantastic scrap site! Scrappin Dead Girls is owned and operated by some of my newest friends and I am so excited to be a part of their team! I will be using the blog soo much more now like I did uh last year lol. I’m super excited to be getting back into creating again as well.

My pixel site is going great. I’ve been coloring a lot more then I have been drawing thoug. My muse just decided to go on vacation I guess lol. Oh well I got tons of stuffies for my members and they are happy, as far as I know lol. I’ve gotten no complaints :)

The job is going good too. Even though it pisses me off more and more every day lol. I am now studying to take the test to become a nationally certified pharmacy technician. I am super excited about that. I really enjoy my job and I … not to sound conceited but.. I am really good at it LOL

I am now on 6 month appointments at the doctors for my blood pressure which is good. I did quit smoking a month ago yesterday :D And I haven’t cheated or anything. I’m still having back problems but the doctor seems to think its all in my head. ahaha. whatever dude lol

The kids are great. Bobby is doing well in school. He likes going.. for now lol. He has been seeing a psychologist in school and now he will be seeing someone for occupational therapy. I have to call a child psychologist that is down town to get him to start going there. There is obviously something up with him but I don’t want to listen to the school because I don’t think their right. And I don’t know what it could be. So taking an impartial person and putting her in the mix should clear up any confusion. He has lost both his bottom front teeth and now he lost both his top front teeth lol. I’ll take pictures and post em after he gets home from school.

Emma is fantastic. Going to be 4 in July. I feel SO old (I’m going to be 28 in less then a month) omg lol. Emma has just a wild imagination. She loves to pretend and make up stories and stuff. She’s super cute lol. And now she’s finally a girly girl. Last year at this time she only wanted to play with cars and she never wanted to wear dresses. Now she does so I’m SO happy lol.

Josh is doing better. He has a new doctor and on new medicine, Abilify. I love him to death and couldn’t imagine life without him. We’ve been through so much these 7 years and we’ve lived through it. It’s been hard, and I’m sure it may get hard again but I believe we can do it :)

I stopped going to school. It was just too much between work, the kids and my recreational activities that I just can’t cut out because I need them to get away lol. I may go back, but right now I want to focus on getting my certification for Pharmacy Tech. It’s important to me.

Anywho… that’s it for now and I’ll be back soon. And sooner then I was a month ago LOL

What’s a blog if you don’t write in it?

February 8th, 2008

a useless piece of internet space thats what it is lol

So let’s see what I can update with now since I haven’t written in forever.

Last time I wrote was before Christmas. We had a nice one, spent it with my brother and sister. My brother is leaving for Iraq in March so that was the last time we’re gonna see him for awhile. The kids had fun and they got bikes from my brother & sister. It was great for the kids.

Josh’s birthday was in January on the 19th and he turned the big old 27 haha. So now we’re the same age until May 1st when I turn 28 lol.

My dad ended up in the hospital and I didn’t know what was going on. He was admitted for complications of cirrhosis of the liver. And he also has emphysema. He was in the hospital for like 2 weeks. My sister took me to Jersey to see him, it was nice but scary and sad at the same time. Now he’s in an acute care center down the street from the hospital. They won’t let him leave yet to live with my Aunt Kathy because his blood pressure drops really low. At one point it dropped to 57 over 17! But it usually just drops to 70 over 40 but thats still really low. We talk once a week like we always have. He sounds really tired and he can’t do much. He’s still learning to walk without a walker, he says he usually uses the walker or a wheelchair to get around.

Work is going alright. But for the last 4 weeks I’ve only had 4 days off… One day a week.. ugh. See I don’t mind but it’s not a lot of hours just like 36-40 which isn’t bad, just sick of seeing that place lol. Next week I have 2 days off, although not in a row at least its 2 days off in one week lol.

Bobby is doing alright but he’s as psycho as ever. I don’t know what is wrong with this kid sometimes lol. He’s doing occupational therapy at school to help him learn how to write with his left hand since he’s a lefty. Emma is doing good too she’s just emma nothing really phases her. She has a huge vocabulary now lol. Sometimes I don’t know where she learns this things from.

Another piece of bad news is that my baby, my computer baby died :( So sad, it sucks. I was like in tears lol I didn’t know what to do. Between my website and my online school work I didn’t know what to do. We were without a computer for like 5 days. My sister gave me money to rent one from Rent A Center. So we have this one for a month. And I just put in my request to get my refund for this session at school. So hopefully I’ll get that before I have to give this one back. I lost everything which sooo sucks. All my scraps, pixels, programs everything :( I got some of it back but not all of it. Which really stinks big time.

I have gotten all mine and Josh’s W2’s to do taxes except my one from New York at Pick A Flick where I worked for 2 years. I only worked about a month and a half there in 2007. I still haven’t received it and I know that they have my new address. My friend Becky gave them my new information. I called the store I worked at, then I called their other store which is a few miles away, THEN I called the owners cell phone! I was like yea this is Melissa I used to work there I haven’t gotten my W2 and I really need it. I gave him my phone number and everything. I don’t even need the actual W2 I just need the info on it since I’m doing it online anyway. UGH it so ticks me off. And the IRS says they can’t do anything to help me till after February 15th. That sucks… so I guess I have to wait for that.

Hmm what else… well nothing much. It’s just been stressful and stuff with work and the kids and my dad and the stupid computers. Oh yea did I mention Josh’s POS computer died too haha.

Oh yea school.. I hate school and I don’t want to go anymore lol. I so suck at all this paper drawing and I don’t feel like I can keep up or that I want to do it at all. Josh signed up for school too I don’t know how the hell we’re both going to do this school shit if we have one computer and I can’t even keep up now. Oh well I guess we’ll find out. My student advisor did say that I can take some time off if needed without any penalties. So I think after this next class which is called “Drawing” I will take a break. I was just in a class called “Perspective” and it so sucks lol I have like a few more days left and as long as I get a D or better I don’t care lol.

Alright so hopefully I’ll keep up more often. But I always say that.

xoxo

OMG What A Day!

December 22nd, 2007

What a DAY! omg so it was WAY busy at work cuz the hospital was trying to get everyone out before the weekend and the holiday lol so it was super busy.  And my knee hurts SOO bad today so that made me getting around even worse anywho.. so it was like 5:30 tonight when the Pharmacists were like we want to see you in the back. I’m like OMG i’m in trouble LMAO So I follow them into the back then into the pharmacy “office” and they were like… We wanted to help give your kids a great Christmas so I turn my head and see a whole bunch of presents! I’m like OMG!!! and I started crying lol. They said they had been trying to get information from me for the last like week and a half and i’m so freakin blonde I just thought they were making conversation LOLOL So that was freakin awesome! And I had made some extra money that I didn’t use on the 250 gas bill we have… ugh im dumb. anyway so I got Emma some $5.00 barbie dolls and a pony thing and my friend went to like 100 different stores looking for this Disney cars Mac thing and finally found it! It was $10 more then what we thought but I said just get it lol I wasn’t gonna lose it now lmao.

 

And my sister and brother are going to get the kids bikes for christmas. My brother should be in town in the next couple of days. This is the last time we’re gonna see him until he gets back from Iraq in 2 years or whatever. Gonna take loads of pics.

 

And for my Christmas present I got my Commercial license for Gina Miller Designs!! (link on the right) I am so excited hehe!  So if anyone needs any layouts or cards or anything like that lol I’ll have my portfolio up in the next couple of weeks :) Okay gonna go rest now had a long 9 hour day at work and I’m off tomorrow YAY!

 

-d