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All you need is Love
by ✌-mel-☮

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09/18/2014




Time: 12:12am

State of Being: tired. cranky from a negative couple days in the pharmacy, but overall pleased and super happy about life. even though the pharm is REALLY pissing me off. lol

Song lyric in my head:
current desire: to quit the pharm.

where am I?: in the living room on the couch

what's that noise?: Listening to the Beatles. trying to get in touch with my hippie side. lol




and I was doing SO well on updating too. *sigh* oh well. That's what happens when you have two jobs. (technically three, but time has deterred me from it. I miss hosting bar trivia and bingo!)

So being a teacher is AMAZING! I absolutely adore these kids. As bratty teenagers as they are. lol! I always have to stop and think, was I that anxty?

Because I'm part time, I don't have to be there until 11. I teach three classes. My middle school science class has four kids. Three boys and a girl. My youngest just turned 12 a week ago. My oldest is 14.. i believe. My high school science class has ten kids. Three girls and seven boys. Two of them are "dating." They are so cute. I also have a famous person's grandkid in my class. Well famous in a certain fan genre. (genres like movies, sports, tv.) My high school social skills class has eleven kids. The entire HS Science class plus one another boy. Everyone is 15 and older. I think the oldest one is 19

I give them quizzes once a week every friday in science. Thursday is always trivia day. I split them into teams, and I give them trivia questions based on the current material and throwing some old stuff in there to keep their brain fresh. The winning team gets five extra credit points on their quiz.

In social skills, I do a lot of random lessons on respect and stress. We do some skits every once in a while. It's a lot of fun. Plus I get to mold their minds. mwahahaha.

All my students have some kind of disability. They are all completely high functioning. A couple have asbergers, a couple have other forms of autism. Some are just slow learners. Some other mental disabilities like OCD or ADHD. But they are all completely awesome! even the moodier ones. Some like to question every one of your actions. Some like to push you. Right before the quiz today (no school tomorrow), one of my middle schoolers asked me casually, "can I cheat on my test?" I laughed and asked him slower. "Can you cheat on your test?" He shrugged and said "yeh." Of course I had to laugh and say no.

So school is awesome. Yay I found my happy place. Now I have to rant about wal-mart.

I get out of school at three, and head to walmart. Sometimes I have to be there at 4, 4:30, or 5. Depending on when I'm scheduled, I might stop at home first to change, eat, and hug the husband. I work until the pharmacy closes at 9.

I'm currently going through one of those "I hate this fucking place, and am about to walk out at any moment." eras. I kind of have three eras that I cycle through. One is "I'm stuck here. I'm going to make myself enjoy it. Life is good any way. So why should I let work ruin it? Let's be peppy and happy all day!" I go from that to numbess. "I'm stuck. So.. I'm just stuck." And then there's the current "I'm about to walk out at any moment." era.

My boss lady (I call her boss lady) is on maternity leave until the end of december. Our other pharmacist is currently on LOA, because he had to get foot surgery. And we have floaters pharmacists. The last few days have been hell. The pharmacy opens at 9am. I get there sometime between 4 and 5, and NOTHING is done. Yesterday there were 83 in fill when I got to work. 83! On a busy day, we can get in the high 20s. And that's super busy. 83! Of course I'm left with all of it when everyone else leaves. And people are yelling at me about why their prescriptions aren't ready at 8 when they dropped it off at 2.

And that's been about three days in a row. Hence my overwhelming desire just to say 'fuck it' and walk out.

I contemplate it. I have the school. But that's part time. Only 20 hours a week. Granted, the pay is decent. But Russ has a part time job too. Well at job with fluctuating hours. 20 one week and 40 the next. Though because we only have one car, and I have to switch jobs every single day, Russ has to cut some of his hours. (he has an alotted number of hours he can use. And they actually want him to take as less as possible. He does merchandising for wal-marts. stalking electronics and setting up signs and organizing gift cards.

My pharmacy hours change too. Some weeks I'm working 20, and some weeks I work 30.

While we would survive if I quit the pharm, it wouldn't be too easy. I'm trying to avoid it as long as possible. Russ is looking for a full time job, so maybe when he gets one, I'll truly plan to quit.

My pharmacy license though has to be renewed by the end of the year. So that always puts a spin on things. My teaching license has to be renewed in February. Another spin. Both cost money too. I'd rather focus on my teaching career. Being a pharmacy tech is like my safety net. It's also a good reason to strive not to fail at my life goals. lol

Anywho, so that's basically what's been going on.
I keep wanting to update here, but by the time I get to lie down in bed, I just turn my brain off. And I'm usually really tired. Two jobs is exhausting. It shouldn't be, because I only really work 40-50 hours a week. But I can't help be tired. It is what it is.

I do love that school though. It's nice to have my own classroom and free reign to work on my teaching style. Unlike last year's school. THAT place. That gave me panic attacks. But now my motto in life, 'everything happens for a reason," reminded me why it's my motto. Because it gave me the experience I needed to get this year's job.

*yawn*
I'm so tired. But I couldn't sleep due to restlessness of lingering anger from this week's pharmlife. I figured I'd come out here and finally update. yay!
I'm going to try and make an effort to get here more. I can't promise every day. I'm going to aim for once a week or once a month.

yayfun!
-mel-
12:57am

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I'm glad you like the teaching job!! It's sounds like a good place to be!

Good grief, why can't anyone else in the pharmacy fill orders?! That would piss me off too. I think I'd end up saying something because that's ridiculous. They should be filled when they're done. Or, you know, whatever needs to be done when they're ready should be done. I obviously don't know how all that works. lol

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