This one's for YOU Buddy!

1. Totally should be packing/cleaning

2. May slightly be obsessed with Jib Jab

3. More than slightly don't care about Jib Jab obsession.

Work it Girl!

There aren't many things I will miss while in Spain.

I will NOT miss hearing my alarm everyday at 7 am, 7:30, 7:45, and then finally 7:50.

I will NOT miss wearing scrubs.

I will NOT miss driving to work, or working AT. ALL.

I will NOT miss how tired and grumpy I often am after work.

I will miss my lap top.

I will miss Kitty Bear.

I will miss you too Pete.

And maybe most of all, I will miss seeing this woman who dances on the street I work on, dancing everyday and making me smile. By the way, thanks for those smiles Dancing Sign Lady, you rock my world.

Make sure you continue to do your thang while I'm gone.

Zoo Adventures

I told myself I would only slack off on the computer until 12:30. It is now 12:3536. Crap.

I went to the Zoo yesterday with Pete, Carly, Don, and Liz. It was good time, lemme tell ya. Side note: it will always be a Fun Adventure going anywhere that combines Liz with many, many, small children and their many, many, small children ears.

Our day started out just fine, but then, three pictures deep into the Zoo Adventure, Carly's camera died. No worries! I had my camera and I was there to Save The Day. But wouldntyaknowit I took one picture and "battery exhausted". GRRRREAT. So all I managed to get out of our Zoo Adventure was one lousy monkey video. That's it! And a couple pictures of some lions sleeping with their backs to us. W-O-W.

I was disappointed, clearly, but! I did learn a whole lot from them there crazy animals which made me smile. I learned that dears pee just like dogs do, and sometimes I see a turtle and think "Look a frog!", and sometimes worm-like-things come out of bird's butts and they like to try and eat it, and monkeys scream just like humans, sit just like humans, and roll their eyes at dumb people just like humans, and Man Oh Man do creatures like to poop! Oh, and one monkey showed us the "Spread Eagle" and went to town on herself. The End!

And that was my day at The Zoo.

Now I have to leave you to do some packing. urgh. I loath packing. What I wish I could do was go on a shopping spree because a big reason why I loath packing, especially for this trip, is because I have ZERO Fashionable American clothes to make me look like a Fashionable American. And I'm afraid people in Spain might confuse me for a Gypsy. A blond Gypsy looking very confused in her worn out flip flops and jeans.

Happy Birthday TonRo!

It's my brother-in-law's birthday today, and because I am very very broke, I couldn't afford to give him much. However, his greatest goal in life has always been to become a Rhythmic Gymnast, so I thought at the very least I could help his dream become a reality. I choreographed a routine and coached him, along with my sister Coral, for months. As it turns out, Tony has amazing ability as a Rhythmic Gymnast. He's turns aren't the best but his splits are superb!

Watch for yourself:

HAPPY BIRFDAY TONY!!

I'm feeling like complete TERD right now.

Yeah, that's right, I SAID IT.

I'm uberly stressed out about my recital dances, maybe because they're half made up at best(or choreographed but un-taught) and after tonight's class I arranged an emergency practice tomorrow night to help prepare them because I'm leaving for two weeks and they will miss two practices (or just have them, but without me, ya know, their TEACHER) and so they need to KNOW the choreography so they can practice while I'm gone and so yeah, extra practices and run-on sentences.

POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP.

The thing is I always work best when I'm time crunched. Hardcore deadlines drive me, make me work harder, get my creative juices a flowin', and this is all fine for ME, but the girls need time to get it down and looking good. Because YOU ARE REPRESENTING ME AND MY TEACHERING SKILLZ SO LOOK GOOD DAMMIT! or something like that.

Big Fat Sigh.

Anyways......Go check out this awesome guide Coral and Tony put together for us for our Spain Trip. A warning though, while surfing the site, try not to drool over all The Cool Things I will be doing because you might short circuit your keyboard and then I'll feel bad. And I like to feel good.

Spain is going to sneak up SOOOOOO fast on me because of all this dance worry, and extra practices, and Thursday night TV, and Zoo on Sat, and next thing I know I will be on a plane.

I need to pack!!

P.S. This post makes me sound like a Weirdo.

P.P.S. Oh God! AM I A WEIRDO?!? Why didn't you people tell me?

P.P.S.S. I blame how sleepy I am.

P.P.P.P.P.S.S.S.S. I have no idea if I went through the right progression of P.S.'s. I should go ask Rylee. I bet she'd know. She's like 13 already.

She's growing up so fast...

Rylee came bouncing into my room a few minutes ago and this was our conversation:

R: "OHMYGOD JAMIE you have to Google "gummy bear song" it is SOOO funny!"

J: "Wait, Google it? Like... wait, what? Have YOU looked this up in Google? You're six."

R: "Noooo, the adults at the gym(child care while my sister exercises, not creepy adults) showed me it! But you have to watch it in Spanish, it is more funny that way"

I was completely thinking I would not actually get anything from this Google search, but low and behold...



R: "Okay, now lets type...BIG GIANT THUMBS!"

J: "Is this another video the adults at the gym showed you?"

R: "No, I just think it would be funny."

The Wild Wild West of Pharmacies

Wooey Wooey Wooo...Wha Wha Whaa...There's a new girl in town... err I mean, a new technician in our pharmacy.

This excites me greatly.

Mainly because I can feel better about myself, as she is new and doesn't know anything and I know it ALL. Except she does know everything. She's a certified technician, which means she knows useless information such as brand names vs generics, and drug interactions and what the drugs actually do, and how to pronounce them. Again, useless. She seems like a sweet, yet somewhat mousey girl, who's soft spoken and wears the same multi-colored sparkly nail polish as I did in 7th grade. I don't know how I feel about that last one, which may or may not make me a snob.

There is one thing however she is not accustomed to, and she is having a little bit of a hard time adjusting. She's worked at Walgreens for like 8 years or something and she knows all the ins and outs and rules and procedures that must be done with every prescription filled. What she can't get used to is skipping all that crap. The way we work 'round these parts is straight slingin' scripts. Medications take names like "xanie bars" and "blue footballs" and people get in and out of our store FAST. No half hour waits here. She'll have to learn to be tough and yell at people, and learn who owes the pharmacist five dollars from the last time they were here and who has paid him back. Who's a shoplifter, and who might hit on you a bit, and watch out for that guy, he burps a lot.

Really she's nice though, and I hope this works out for her. She was recently laid off from her job at Walgreens and she has a husband and five year old daughter at home who depend on her. In her exact words "A Robot stole my job" and we all know Robots are a very, very, real threat these days. Any day now we could face an attack. Robots are taking small steps towards taking over this planet and apparently they are starting by counting pills and filling our prescriptions. So watch out. Seriously though, it sucks having your job taken away by new technology, machines, or robotsorwhatever, and apparently the staff spends more time trying to clear wedged med bottles out of this machine than they would have filling the scripts themselves. So it's really a PCJSWM (Piece of Crap Job Stealing Waste of Money).

Technology. Who needs it?

Not our pharmacy, we're too cool for that business.

The End.

Oh wait, not The End...

This afternoon I came into my room to find a sticky note stuck upside down to the center of my TV screen. This sticky note read:

"Look-3 small poopies and one that looks like a fish w/ 3 poopies on it-wow it does- quick take a picture of it"

For the next two minutes or so, I searched around the house for three small poopies so I could take a picture of them and their fish-like appearance. After not finding the poopies I called my sister and asked her about the note. She said it was a transcribed conversation between her and my niece earlier in the day...can you guess which one was the proud owner of the fish-like poopies??