Friday, August 8, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
4th of July
Amber, Bobby, Andi, Melisa and I all went to the Eric Church concert at the Warren Co. Fair. :) Yes Eric Church came to Warrenton! lol! It was a lot of fun, but a little short. But he's still hot! Then we all went back to my house for fireworks. 4th of July is my favorite holiday, so that's always fun. Dad got some awesome fireworks at the new place in Wright City, Phantom Fireworks.
Then Saturday Andi and I went to Rich's for their 4th party, so we shot off a bunch more fireworks. Rich made a contraption with 3600 bottle rockets. It was chicken wire stapled to 2X4s. Then he strung cannon fuse through the whole thing. We all stuffed bottle rockets into the holes, and then Rich used the extra fuse to attach a few more fireworks. This was of course the Grand Finale. His uncle fired off a few fireworks at the same time, and the whole thing lasted about 5 minutes. And only a handful of bottle rockets failed to launch :) He plans to make it bigger and better next year!
Then Saturday Andi and I went to Rich's for their 4th party, so we shot off a bunch more fireworks. Rich made a contraption with 3600 bottle rockets. It was chicken wire stapled to 2X4s. Then he strung cannon fuse through the whole thing. We all stuffed bottle rockets into the holes, and then Rich used the extra fuse to attach a few more fireworks. This was of course the Grand Finale. His uncle fired off a few fireworks at the same time, and the whole thing lasted about 5 minutes. And only a handful of bottle rockets failed to launch :) He plans to make it bigger and better next year!
North Carolina
Rich and I had a blast in North Carolina!
We had a few mishaps while driving... on the way there one of the tires on the camper blew, so Rich had to change it on the side of the highway, at like midnight. Then when he got the spare on, it was also flat. So we tried calling AAA, but they said since Dad wasn't there they couldn't do anything for us. So I called Mom and Dad back and they suggested trying the bicycle pump we happened to have with us. Neither of us expected it to actually work, but somehow it did. So we were back on the road. We drove until about 3, then we took a short nap, lol about 3 hours outside of Louisville.
We finally made it to the campsite at Jordan Lake, right outside of Raleigh. The campsite was awesome! Nice and shady, not many other people around, and a little lake right next to us. We set up the camper without too much trouble and then took a bike ride down to the beach on the lake.
We drove down to Fayetteville and visited the Airborne and Spec Ops museum, and a friend of Rich's who is based at Fort Bragg. Then we kept going down the Carolina Beach. We got our campsite there and set up our tent. Then we headed to the beach, which was awesome! Rich just sat in awe for a few minutes since it was the first time he had ever seen the ocean. He was a little leery of actually getting in, and I told him I wouldn't get in with him so I could take pictures :) But once he got in he LOVED it! Except for the taste, lol. We even built sand castles :) We got some ice cream and headed down the pier.
The next morning we walked all the way to the beach to see the sunrise. It was a little disappointing because of the clouds, but it was still unlike anywhere else. Later we took the Ft. Fischer Ferry to Southport and walked around there. Got some souvenirs and then headed back. We went to the Ft Fischer Aquarium which was neat. And spent a little more time at the beach before heading back to the camper. We got there after the gate was already closed, so then we had to walk back to our campsite.
We went into Raleigh for the next two days, and spent some time checking out the museums and took a couple tours. We took a carriage ride and a trolley and got to see all of the Victorian homes.
Then it was time to pack up and head home. It was sad to leave, I definately could have spent more time down there. The weather was amazing the entire time, and we found a bunch of free stuff to do, and it would have been neat to rent a boat and go out on the lake. We took a different route home, and got to see more of the Smoky Mts. But they took longer to get through than we expected, and Dad's gas gauge stopped working... and we ran out of gas 4 miles from the next gas station. Rich offered to ride his bike to get some gas, but I wouldn't let him, cause it's a mountain road and wasn't very wide. So I used the GPS to find the closest Tow business, and an hour and $80 later we had four gallons of gas to get us to the closest gas station. Since we lost that time we decided not to drive all the way through and stopped in Nashville, and our hotel had a pretty cool view of the city. And it had a king size bed which was awesome :)
Then it was time to get back to reality. We both had to work the following day...
We had a few mishaps while driving... on the way there one of the tires on the camper blew, so Rich had to change it on the side of the highway, at like midnight. Then when he got the spare on, it was also flat. So we tried calling AAA, but they said since Dad wasn't there they couldn't do anything for us. So I called Mom and Dad back and they suggested trying the bicycle pump we happened to have with us. Neither of us expected it to actually work, but somehow it did. So we were back on the road. We drove until about 3, then we took a short nap, lol about 3 hours outside of Louisville.
We finally made it to the campsite at Jordan Lake, right outside of Raleigh. The campsite was awesome! Nice and shady, not many other people around, and a little lake right next to us. We set up the camper without too much trouble and then took a bike ride down to the beach on the lake.
We drove down to Fayetteville and visited the Airborne and Spec Ops museum, and a friend of Rich's who is based at Fort Bragg. Then we kept going down the Carolina Beach. We got our campsite there and set up our tent. Then we headed to the beach, which was awesome! Rich just sat in awe for a few minutes since it was the first time he had ever seen the ocean. He was a little leery of actually getting in, and I told him I wouldn't get in with him so I could take pictures :) But once he got in he LOVED it! Except for the taste, lol. We even built sand castles :) We got some ice cream and headed down the pier.
The next morning we walked all the way to the beach to see the sunrise. It was a little disappointing because of the clouds, but it was still unlike anywhere else. Later we took the Ft. Fischer Ferry to Southport and walked around there. Got some souvenirs and then headed back. We went to the Ft Fischer Aquarium which was neat. And spent a little more time at the beach before heading back to the camper. We got there after the gate was already closed, so then we had to walk back to our campsite.
We went into Raleigh for the next two days, and spent some time checking out the museums and took a couple tours. We took a carriage ride and a trolley and got to see all of the Victorian homes.
Then it was time to pack up and head home. It was sad to leave, I definately could have spent more time down there. The weather was amazing the entire time, and we found a bunch of free stuff to do, and it would have been neat to rent a boat and go out on the lake. We took a different route home, and got to see more of the Smoky Mts. But they took longer to get through than we expected, and Dad's gas gauge stopped working... and we ran out of gas 4 miles from the next gas station. Rich offered to ride his bike to get some gas, but I wouldn't let him, cause it's a mountain road and wasn't very wide. So I used the GPS to find the closest Tow business, and an hour and $80 later we had four gallons of gas to get us to the closest gas station. Since we lost that time we decided not to drive all the way through and stopped in Nashville, and our hotel had a pretty cool view of the city. And it had a king size bed which was awesome :)
Then it was time to get back to reality. We both had to work the following day...
Thursday, June 12, 2008
My last post sounded worse than I intended :) I usually only come across people like that maybe at most once a day. Most of the people I deal are very friendly and most are patient (to an extent :)
Today work was a mess, but it wasn't anything to do with the customers, luckily they were all very patient as we had all kinds of problems :)
The crew putting in the drive-thru was there again today, so we had several ladders, and banging going on for a good part of the day. Also part of the new system we put in last year includes upc scanners that we use to verify that we are picking the right stock bottle of medication, and of the of the scanners was not working. Not really a big deal because we have two more, and that was the one in the corner that we don't use very often. But then we couldn't approve any refills that we received from the Dr's offices, we just got a system error message. So we had to delete them all, and enter them as an entirely new prescription. Again not a huge deal, but it took a bit longer. Then we couldn't scan a copy of the prescriptions into the computer. Again we do this to ensure that the prescriptions are correct every time. We file the hard copy, and any time we work on that prescription, including refills the image comes up. Again not a huge deal, because we still have the hard copy and we can always scan them in later. But then we were getting faxes (which come straight to our computer to save paper and we can print them if we need to) had no image, so we didn't know who the prescriptions belonged to. And apparently this was Dierberg's wide problem. So we had to call all of the Dr's offices who had approvals waiting and tell them not to fax us. Most of this happened within an hour, as we were starting to get busy. It was interesting for sure :) But like I said everyone was very sympathetic and polite so that was good. Everyone just asked if we were also getting remodeled or moved, because they are remodeling the entire store as well.
Today work was a mess, but it wasn't anything to do with the customers, luckily they were all very patient as we had all kinds of problems :)
The crew putting in the drive-thru was there again today, so we had several ladders, and banging going on for a good part of the day. Also part of the new system we put in last year includes upc scanners that we use to verify that we are picking the right stock bottle of medication, and of the of the scanners was not working. Not really a big deal because we have two more, and that was the one in the corner that we don't use very often. But then we couldn't approve any refills that we received from the Dr's offices, we just got a system error message. So we had to delete them all, and enter them as an entirely new prescription. Again not a huge deal, but it took a bit longer. Then we couldn't scan a copy of the prescriptions into the computer. Again we do this to ensure that the prescriptions are correct every time. We file the hard copy, and any time we work on that prescription, including refills the image comes up. Again not a huge deal, because we still have the hard copy and we can always scan them in later. But then we were getting faxes (which come straight to our computer to save paper and we can print them if we need to) had no image, so we didn't know who the prescriptions belonged to. And apparently this was Dierberg's wide problem. So we had to call all of the Dr's offices who had approvals waiting and tell them not to fax us. Most of this happened within an hour, as we were starting to get busy. It was interesting for sure :) But like I said everyone was very sympathetic and polite so that was good. Everyone just asked if we were also getting remodeled or moved, because they are remodeling the entire store as well.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Work
Our pharmacy is getting a drive-thru... not really sure if that's good or bad? It will be nice for the patients I'm sure. But people harass us enough when they're in the store about getting their prescriptions done quickly. Now our pharmacy is fairly small so our prescriptions are already done pretty quickly, in about 10 minutes or so usually, but people are impatient. Some people stand at the register and refuse to leave, even if there are customers behind them... what happened to manners? Just today I had some lady yelling at me because she wanted me to hold a cough syrup for her that was out in the OTC aisle... first she asked me if we had it, and she didn't believe me when I told her we did. So she made me go look for it, and tell her how much the big bottle was. Then I told her and she asked if we had the little bottle? How am I supposed to know you asked about the big bottle... so then she wanted me to hold it for her, and when I told her we didn't do that, she yelled why not? So I told her there were plenty out there and she would just have to look for it (like everyone else) when she came in. So then I hear her husband in the background telling her not to let me not hold it (if that makes sense :) He didn't want to have to look for it, and wanted to make sure we had it. So eventually I just gave in. I don't understand why people think they deserve better treatment than everyone else? I'm a nice and helpful person and I will definately go out of my way for people when asked politely, or when people don't ask at all. But when people get that demanding it just is very irritating. Pharmacy has a lot of contact with people like this (really any retail position). Most days I greatly enjoy working in the pharmacy, but people like that just irk me. I just hope that the drive-thru won't encourage more people to act this way.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Photo Blog
Well I finally got my camera back (and all my pictures!) I had forgotten it at Aunt Linda's while house-sitting. So just a picture update I guess, and comments here or there.
These first few pictures are from Rich's backyard! A few weeks ago we took a hike in the woods! It was awesome so peaceful and beautiful!
Can you spot the BEAST!!?? :) 
That happens to be Rich's dog Princess!
Andi's college graduation!! NOT FAIR lol
Andi's college graduation!! NOT FAIR lol 
All this rain..... is wrecking havok on our lake. This is only one of several times when the lake flooded. 
The dock you can see is no longer there, it was uprooted and is now floating by the dam. 
Adam's baseball camp on Mother's day.
Jessie's bachelorette party! Good times!
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Trips and New Car!
Rich, Dad and I set up the camper yesterday so that we'll know how to do it when the time comes. Also we wanted to air it out a little since it's been sitting around for about 2 years... which also means that the tags are expired... So now we have to try to get that fixed. But I think everything else is pretty much ready to go, it'll just be the fact of getting it all together.
Rich finally got his car today. His truck has an electrical problem that he doesn't think he'll be able to fix so he started looking for a car like 3 weeks ago, found a Saturn (which is what he was looking for because of the MPG). The car was in good shape, fairly cheap so he found out about a loan which he got, but then he found out that somehow there was a clerical error and the VIN on the title was one character off, so they had to apply for a new one and it took like 2 weeks to finally get done. But we went today to his Mom's work (State Farm which is where the loan was through) and he signed the paperwork. Then we went and got his car, and got the temp tags. But he didn't get to drive around or anything cause he was already late for work, but at least he got his car! :) He was so excited!
Rich finally got his car today. His truck has an electrical problem that he doesn't think he'll be able to fix so he started looking for a car like 3 weeks ago, found a Saturn (which is what he was looking for because of the MPG). The car was in good shape, fairly cheap so he found out about a loan which he got, but then he found out that somehow there was a clerical error and the VIN on the title was one character off, so they had to apply for a new one and it took like 2 weeks to finally get done. But we went today to his Mom's work (State Farm which is where the loan was through) and he signed the paperwork. Then we went and got his car, and got the temp tags. But he didn't get to drive around or anything cause he was already late for work, but at least he got his car! :) He was so excited!
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