Oh how I've missed you this spring break week!


10 Things Your Dog Would Tell You, 

If It Could Talk


1. My life is likely to last 10 to 15 years. Any separation from you will be painful: remember that before you get me.
2. Give me time to understand what you want of me.
3. Place your trust in me- it is crucial to my well being.
4. Do not be angry at me for long, and do not lock me up as punishment.
5. You have your work, your entertainment, and your friends. I only have you.
6. Talk to me sometimes. Even if I don't understand your words, I understand your voice when it is speaking to me.
7. Be aware that how you treat me, I will never forget.
8. Remember before you hit me that I have teeth that could easily hurt you, but I choose not to bite you because I love you.
9. Before you scold me for being uncooperative, obstinate, or lazy, ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps I might not be getting the right food, or I have been out too long, or my heart is getting to old and weak.
10. Take care of me when I get old; you too will grow old. Go with me on difficult journeys. Never say: "I cannot bear to watch" or "Let it happen in my absence." Everything is easier for me if you are there, even my death. Remember that I love you.

Listening to: More Than Miles - Brantley Gilbert

Quote of the Night: One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why.  ~Author Unknown 

It's hump day...

Well it may not be a happy hump day but I can say that I am glad it's mid week with only two days left till the weekend. I have a HUGE Drugs and Diseases test on Friday and do not even know where to begin. I have spent the last 3 days (with hardly any sleep) working on this disease state powerpoint presentation that I had to give in PPE today. I was told this assignment would only take me a couple of hours, maybe one day to complete. yeah.... not so much. So the past 72 hrs I could've been studying for DAD but instead I have been working on a powerpoint that is not even graded. I haven't put together a powerpoint presentation in such a long time that it all seemed so foreign to me. I know that the Microsoft Word has been updated a couple of times and I just had a hard time figuring out how to put it together. The lesson learned.... to not wait until the week of to put together a presentation, ESPECIALLY when you have a Drugs and Diseases test coming up. With that being said, the presentation went well and I am just so glad it is over. I now have less then 48 hrs to cram as many drugs in my tiny little brain as I can. The worst part about it is that I really want to learn this stuff and commit it to memory but I just feel like we have so much busy work that there are just not enough hours in the day to do it all and sit down and thoroughly study all of the drugs and diseases. We will see... Friday will be here before I know it and then it will be time to start on Test 2 material.  I promise one of these days I am going to have a positive post! Hope you all have had a fantabulous hump day! <3 font="">

Quote of the Day:  There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. - Oscar Wilde 

Listening to: Stubborn Love - the Lumineers

My lil beauté

I had a friend/colleague lose her little white fluffy dog the other day after being hit by a car. Her puppy Bella always makes me think of my little Coco when she would post pictures on facebook/twitter/instagram and my heart is absolutely breaking for her. When I found out, it moved me to tears because I cannot even imagine what I would do if I lost Coco. She pampered and loved her dog with the same amount of passion and care that I do for Coco, like our own little baby. I feel so bad because there are many times (just yesterday) that I have let Coco out in the backyard without a leash on and she takes off running across the road to see another dog and could easily be hit by these crazy teenagers that come racing through the neighborhood. I feel bad always having her on a leash and want her to have some independence and freedom but it is so not worth it at the cost of her life. Being in school so much, constantly consumed with studying all the time, and being active has kept me from being home as much and really spending quality time with her. I feel so guilty for just having her as my pet and not being the parent/owner that I should be. The best thing about having little dogs is they always love you unconditionally no matter what you do/don't do. For that I should never take Coco's unconditional love for granted and give her all the undivided attention and care that she deserves. My heart hurts for my friend and keep her in your prayers as this is going to be a very difficult circumstance to overcome. 
I hope you all have a beautiful Sunday! 



Quote of the Day: We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults.  Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.  ~George Eliot

Spring Semester

Well I know it's been a while since I've blogged about what is going on and I actually really miss it so I am going to try and get back into the swing of writing everyday. So I got through my first semester of Pharmacy School last fall and was so excited to be able to start this next semester. I have made some close friends and feel mentally, physically, and emotionally ready to take on this new semester.  We do have 2 more classes added to our school load and the course work is a lot more than last semester but I guess that is to be expected that it's just going to get tougher with each semester. I haven't been feeling too well the past 24 hrs and feel like I am coming down with a stomach bug that has been going around down here. The plan for today was to stay at the school and study all day but after class, I could not make it due to feeling so neauseous so I came home and trying to relax and feel better. I really cannot afford to get sick with the amount of work I have to get done by lab tomorrow so keep me in your prayers. Hope you all doing well, I'm going to be better about my updates and actually have a bunch of updates on my place and some new decorating to show! *Lots of Love*
 
 
Quote of the Day: All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole France

The $50 Lesson

Recently, while I was working in the flower beds in the front yard, my neighbors stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their dog. During our friendly conversation, I asked their little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, "If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?" She replied... "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people." Her parents beamed with pride! "Wow...what a worthy goal!" I said. "But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that!" I told her. "What do you mean?" she replied. So I told her, "You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my hedge, and I'll pay you $50. Then you can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out and give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house." She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?" I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party." Her parents aren't speaking to me anymore.

 (I love this story although these days it seems the Republican and Democratic Parties are about one and the same, what matters is the lesson behind it! 
- Ron Paul 2012!)

A change is going to come...

Change is inevitable. This is one thing I have learned from my life thus far. It seems just when you get adjusted to life a certain way or everything in life seems to be going just right or as planned, a change comes and throws it all off course. Sometimes we are resposible for these changes and in most instances, it is out of our control. I am going on my fifth week of pharmacy school and this has been a huge adjustment for me! I am sort of in the "could've should've would've" phase right now. I was so used to studying all night and working all day and then nights I didn't study, I was out with friends and just always busy when I lived in Birmingham. Moving to Auburn, I did not have one friend here, quit my job, lived by myself, and took only my classes. I thought this would be great to give me some down time since I had been non stop busy but I now feel that it has only created a crutch for me that I am having a hard time getting rid of. No doubt my classes were super hard and I took all science classes but that was all I did, go to class and study. If I had any down time, I watched tv or sat on the computer. When I lived in my 280 apt, I may have turned on the television not even a handful of times the entire year I lived there. So needless to say, I got a little lazy relaxed. I started having too much down time and not knowing anyone, I laid around all the time and got in a slump. So now pharmacy school is non stop; classes, meetings, conferences, projects, patient visit,s and then studying at night. I'm having to make a HUGE change not only in my lifestyle but in my attitude because I just want to come home and have down time since that is what I have been used to here. I know pharmacy is going to go great and I know it is going to be hard and I am totally prepared for that. I am just wanting to get this whole sun up to sun down, life consuming, busy bee thing down. And the crazy part about it is that a year ago I would have had no problem jumping right in. So, what I am trying to say is; all of life, things are not always going to go as planned and won't always happen when you're most ready for them. A change will always come. Every where we go we see things changing in our towns, city, country, the world, and in each individual life. All we can do is embrace change and anticipate our ability to evolve and keep going. I know it's been a while since I have blogged, due to many changes that have been going on in my life but I haven't given up on it yet! :) Hope you all have a blessed rest of the week!


Quote of the Night:  Change; we don’t like it, we fear it, but we can't stop it from coming. We either adapt to change, or we get left behind. And it hurts to grow, anybody who tells you it doesn’t is lying. But here's the truth: The more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes change is good. Sometimes change, is, everything. ~ Greys Anatomy

Listening to: Run to You - Whitney Houston

Dream a little...



At some point maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves that reality is better. We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all. But, the strongest of us, the most determined of us, holds on to the dream or we find ourselves faced with a fresh dream we never considered. We wake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful. And, if we're lucky, we realize in the face of everything, in the face of life 
the true dream is being able to dream at all. 
~Grey's Anatomy
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