Since we got back from spring break pharmacy school has really turned it up. We have about 3 things a week. We get through with one test and we have 2 assignments to do. We have to study 4 things at one time. I don't know why we couldn't do some of these things in the first 3 months of school instead of cramming everything into 1 month. So that I why I have been absent from blogging. But we only have FIVE WEEKS left of our first year of pharmacy school! I cannot believe it! God has absolutely blown my mind with his blessing in my life. When I think I can't do it or I am just too overwhelmed, I get a REALLY good grade on a test when everyone else (besides smarty pants Josh) failed it. He is so awesome. Christ will never fail me.
On a different nerdy pharmacy note...Did yall see the news about hospitals having contaminated TPNs? My PPE mentor works at Princeton so she was one of the ones writing orders and giving these patients their TPNs. If you haven't seen the news, 6 hospitals in Alabama recieved TPNs that were contaminated with a bacteria called Serratia marcescens. TPN stands for total parenteral nutrition. It is an IV infusion of glucose lipids and fats (all good at growing bacteria) that has to be prepared and be sterile because it goes straight into the blood. So these Alabama hospitals ordered TPNs from this company who sent them contaminated ones. Every time someone gave a patient a TPN they were infusing their blood with bacteria. Some patients require TPN on a daily basis and it took a while for anyone to make the connection that the bacteria was coming from the TPNs. The only time that the same person does all of the TPNs is on the weekends so this past weekend an AUBURN PHARMACY SCHOOL graduate noticed that every single patient in the hospital that was recieving TPN also had Serratia marcescens. Interesting stuff huh?
March 31, 2011
March 24, 2011
belated music monday
We had a DAD test today and since I took full advantage of Spring Break I have been studying every minute I could for that test. For that reason I missed music monday. Matt Wertz is an artist that I have loved since I was in high school. His older stuff was good then and his new stuff is great too. His new album Weights and Wings just came out last Tuesday and I highly recommend it. This is one of my favorite songs from his new album. Enjoy!
March 18, 2011
home
Spring Break was so much fun. The place we stayed was so nice! It was the end unit so it had the balcony all the way around it. The weather was BEAUTIFUL the entire week. We didn't even have clouds.
We had some good good food. We played some games (don't ever play quelf. it is not fun). The boys even let us watch the bachelor...all 3 hours of it. Josh made some delicious homemade ice cream. We even flew kites!
It was so much fun. I did not want to come home. Now I am back in Auburn and back to working and studying. I hope everyone enjoyed (and is still enjoying) their spring break. Summer break cannot get here soon enough.
March 17, 2011
in honor
In honor of St. Patrick's Day...
and here is the rap remix. It is too funny. You will be singing it the rest of the day.
and here is the rap remix. It is too funny. You will be singing it the rest of the day.
Only in Alabama. Hope you all enjoy the day of everything green. Don't forget your leprechaun flute and hopefully you'll get da gold!
March 10, 2011
SBXI
SPRING BREAK! Ok so we still have class tomorrow but I am skipping! Saturday me, Josh, Kim Claire, Andi, and Ryan are headed to the beach! I cannot wait to have my toesies in the hot sand with a good book, good friends, and the best boyfriend with me. We are staying until Wednesday because we have tests, projects, and assignments the week after spring break. I don't know why teachers do that. What about the week BEFORE is so terrible that you have to wait until the week AFTER and ruin our spring break (or at least part of it)?! I cannot wait to get my tan on and not have to look at a note, or take a quiz, or work a problem for a few days. I hope you all enjoy your spring break!
March 8, 2011
Today was a great day for mail. I finally got my spring break book. I ordered it last week and it is finally here! I decided to read Water for Elephants. I saw the movie previews and it looks so so good (and not because Robert Pattinson is in it) so I bought the book to read first. Here is the trailer for the movie
The second thing I got was my new cover for my iPhone. The bad thing was that it is the wrong color. I bought the case the day I bought my phone and it just now got here. I was so disappointed when I realized they sent me a blue and RED one instead of the blue and PINK one. Isn't it so cute?!?
Hopefully I will get the right one soon. Until then I have my cute and sturdy purple otterbox.
On a completely different note, I have had major car issues the past month. About 3 weeks ago my car was leaking something and it was making a strange noise. Noises aren't abnormal because my car is a piece of junk (i love her still) but I decided to get it checked out. Well turns out I needed a whole new radiator and spark plugs, and wires, and a valve gasket cover. All of that cost me $600. Thank goodness for parents who helped me out on that one. Then Tuesday last week I was riding with Josh when all of the sudden my car just cut off. It would go once I cranked it back up and started going but as soon as I stopped again it shut off. I got close to the car place and it started SMOKING! AHH! Turns out I had a hose burst and it leaked every bit of my radiator fluid onto the ground so it was over heating. If you have never had this happen to you, this is what it looks like.
Saturday, I was driving to the movies and guess what? It shut off AGAIN! This time I was too far away to risk driving it to the car place so I had it towed. Apparently when it rains, it pours. Two of my freeze plugs were leaking. If you don't know what freeze plugs are, I am right there with you. But I do know that your car has EIGHT of them and if one goes bad, the others will to so I had to replace them all. So I was without a car from Saturday night until tonight. I promise you if my car just shuts off again I might just push it over a cliff. I have already told Josh that my first big purchase once we graduate will be a brand spanking new car. After all of this, and all my hard work at school, I completely deserve it.
weighing heavy
This post is going to be a little raw so if you aren't in the mood for that then stop reading.
There is something that has been weighing heavy on my heart. This weekend 3 people that I know are getting married and I wasn't invited to a single one of their weddings. This isn't the first time that I haven't been invited to a wedding and I am sure it won't be the last. But it has just been hitting me really hard lately that I am not friends with hardly anyone that I was really good friends with about a year or two ago. I have had people come to me with girl problems and then not invite me to their wedding to that same girl. There was even a reunion for people who went on the Brazil trip the past 2 years and I didn't hear about it until it was over. That one was particularly disappointing. I know I have been really busy with school because school is hard. However, I still have a social life and hang out with people. Ever since I stopped helping with switch because school became more demanding, the people I was the closest to have pretty much stopped talking to me. Some people don't even know that I am in pharmacy school. There are a handful of people who will talk to me when they see me or reply to something on twitter but for the most part I have a completely different set of friends than I did before. Now I have friends in pharmacy school, my roommates, my best friends from home but sometimes those friendships get a little lonely. One time last semester, a girl in my class asked me if I was going to sips-n-strokes with the pharmacy girls. I hadn't heard about it so I didn't think it was a huge group of people but then the next day I realized that pretty much every girl in our class went besides me and my roommate. We never even got invited. I don't drink or party or any of that so its difficult to make friends with some of my classmates when that is how they socialize. There are some great girls don't get me wrong. I am going to try to start going to the bible study but we have had meetings every week at the same time so I haven't been yet. My best friends from home are THE BEST but they aren't here in Auburn. I wish they were still down the street like in high school but now they're all at least 2 hours (and a phone call) away.
The whole 3 weddings just happened to be the tip of the iceberg but this is something that has bothered me for a while. It is just hurtful to have someone that you know through other friends invite you to their wedding and yet your own friends don't even invite you to game night. The sermon on Sunday about Jesus being our best friend was so perfect for me. I am so glad I have a friend like Jesus that will always be there for me no matter how busy I get. He doesn't care that I am not leading switch, or that I am not in 2:52, or that I am not a party girl. He thinks I am the coolest person in the world and He will always want to hang out with me. He won't ever forget to invite me. He won't ever think I am unimportant. Everyone in the world will disappoint me but Christ never will and there is so so much peace in that.
There is something that has been weighing heavy on my heart. This weekend 3 people that I know are getting married and I wasn't invited to a single one of their weddings. This isn't the first time that I haven't been invited to a wedding and I am sure it won't be the last. But it has just been hitting me really hard lately that I am not friends with hardly anyone that I was really good friends with about a year or two ago. I have had people come to me with girl problems and then not invite me to their wedding to that same girl. There was even a reunion for people who went on the Brazil trip the past 2 years and I didn't hear about it until it was over. That one was particularly disappointing. I know I have been really busy with school because school is hard. However, I still have a social life and hang out with people. Ever since I stopped helping with switch because school became more demanding, the people I was the closest to have pretty much stopped talking to me. Some people don't even know that I am in pharmacy school. There are a handful of people who will talk to me when they see me or reply to something on twitter but for the most part I have a completely different set of friends than I did before. Now I have friends in pharmacy school, my roommates, my best friends from home but sometimes those friendships get a little lonely. One time last semester, a girl in my class asked me if I was going to sips-n-strokes with the pharmacy girls. I hadn't heard about it so I didn't think it was a huge group of people but then the next day I realized that pretty much every girl in our class went besides me and my roommate. We never even got invited. I don't drink or party or any of that so its difficult to make friends with some of my classmates when that is how they socialize. There are some great girls don't get me wrong. I am going to try to start going to the bible study but we have had meetings every week at the same time so I haven't been yet. My best friends from home are THE BEST but they aren't here in Auburn. I wish they were still down the street like in high school but now they're all at least 2 hours (and a phone call) away.
The whole 3 weddings just happened to be the tip of the iceberg but this is something that has bothered me for a while. It is just hurtful to have someone that you know through other friends invite you to their wedding and yet your own friends don't even invite you to game night. The sermon on Sunday about Jesus being our best friend was so perfect for me. I am so glad I have a friend like Jesus that will always be there for me no matter how busy I get. He doesn't care that I am not leading switch, or that I am not in 2:52, or that I am not a party girl. He thinks I am the coolest person in the world and He will always want to hang out with me. He won't ever forget to invite me. He won't ever think I am unimportant. Everyone in the world will disappoint me but Christ never will and there is so so much peace in that.
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