Going to Europe

We leave on Friday!!! I can't wait. All I've been doing and thinking about lately revolves around this trip. Our firt destination is Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. Check out our cute hotel next to a waterfall!

From there we head to Italy (Cinque Terre, then Siena, Florence, Venice).
Then we fly to Romania for Josh and Edena's wedding. Then back to Italy to fly home. In all we will be gone for 17 days.
Some things (and people) we can't wait to see:

shower curtain is complete

My project for the last month or two is finally complete. It is hung in our guest bathroom. Here are some pictures:

Are you smarter than an 8th grader?

Better than I thought I'd do...but I was a science major in college

Free Online Dating

Not just your ordinary OxyContin robbery

These guys came down through the roof!!! Bye the way, this place is only a couple of miles from where I work (by Balboa Park).

Taking the monotony out of work

Had a guy threaten to pee all over my waiting area at work yesterday...AGAIN! You would think this type of action would be a once in a career opportunity....I guess not. Oh, the joys of downtown.

Olympic Training Center...in Chula Vista?

While driving out east in Chula Vista yesterday in search of a new and chic outdoor mall, Heidi and I got lost and ended up at the Olympic Training Center. Bizarre. Since it felt like we were in the middle of nowhere and had no clue why mapqest led us astray, we decided to enter and check it out. We didn't even know this facility existed, and we soon found out that there are only 2 others like it in the rest of the United States. They had a large lake for rowing, some tennis courts (but I guarantee Venus would NEVER step foot on the sub par courts), soccer fields, a field hockey field, softball field and practice area, dorms/village area, track, and archery range. The highlight was that there were people practicing archery and we were able to walk up very close to them. Not a bad excursion for an accident. Oh, and since I'm sure you were wondering...we later found the shopping mall and it met all expectations.

Like I need a guide

Here's a preview of what is in the article from Good Housekeeping (May 1955):
1. Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready, on time for his return.
2. Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so you'll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your make-up, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh looking. He had just been with a lot of work-weary people.
3. Listen to him. You may have a dozen important things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first- remember, his topics of conversation are more important than yours.
4. Make the evening his. Never complain if he comes home late of goes out to dinner, or other places of entertainment without you. Instead, try to understand his world of strain and pressure and his very real need to be at home and relax.
5. Don't complain if he's late home for dinner or even if he stays out all night. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through that day.
6. Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or have him lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him.
7. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice.



Ok, so no wonder women wanted to enter the work force...maybe they wanted to get all of these things when they returned home from a long day at work. Actually, after reading this list, I'm surprised that the women's movement didn't happen sooner.

A weekend on the job

Here are some highlights (and lowlights) of work this weekend:
1. I was greeted on both Saturday and Sunday by a regular waiting for his Ativan. I was told that on Sunday he had been waiting since 7:30 (we open the pharmacy at 10:00)
2. A girl wanted to by the morning after pill until she found out it cost $40, then decided it was "too expensive."
3. I was asked the best thing to take for a headache if you have high blood pressure (I mention this because it is VERY close to, but a much better question than my all time least favorite/stupidest question of "what should I take for a headache")
4. I had to inform yet another person that they were getting bit by bed bugs.
5. A schizophrenic regular customer showed me how to fight off a male attacker. She told me she was able to use these moves on men before.
6. I had my longest line all weekend at 2:55 on Sunday (we close at 3:00)....needless to say, I left late :(

shower curtain

I'm creating a shower curtain for our guest bathroom. The picture shows the bottom section of it, however the main part will be all the blue color. We have shower doors already, so this is a pure decorative piece. I still have to decide how to hang it. Here are my two options right now:
1. Punce large grommets (about 2") in the top of the curtain and weave a shower pole through the grommet holes.
2. Hang a thin wire using eye hooks anchored into the wall. Then I could punch small grommet holes into the top of the curtain and weave the wire through the small grommet holes.