Today is National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day! (US) Looking for something to do this afternoon? Take a quick look through your medicine cabinet, and get rid of all your old meds to help combat medication abuse, and help keep kids, pets and waterways safe! Find a collection site near you!
I already know this about myself, so I don’t know why I set myself up for failure… :/ SO I thought it would be a fun idea to have a candy dish of some kind in my office. You know, entice people to come talk to me (or at least have some chocolate available for them if ever I have to deliver bad or uncomfortable news) lol… so this morning I filled it up with Easter candy… set it there by my computer. By 2pm… it looked like this: Soooo…. not sure where the candy went… :P but I’m fairly certain no one actually came in my office today. Shhh… don’t look in my trash… Well, at least I didn’t finish off the whole container… but, seriously. I wasn’t even in my office very long today. Need. Self. Control.
Had a moment today. It was one of those moments when you realize you’ve completely lost your mind. I went through my entire day thinking nothing was out of the ordinary. A few times I thought it was Friday, but other than that, it went along pretty smooth. I was finishing up a few things at the end of the day, so everyone else had gone home. I cleaned up my stuff, logged off my computer, and walked to the door only to realize I didn’t have my keys. I searched the pharmacy high and low. Nothing. I couldn’t leave the pharmacy to check my car because I was the only one left. I couldn’t lock the pharmacy because I didn’t have my keys. I ended up calling one of my airmen to come back and lock up the pharmacy. As soon as she locked up, we walked out to my car. Sure enough… there it was… only car in the parking lot… lights on, engine running, keys in the ignition. As expected, the doors …
Setting the scene, we had the pharmacy itself as the cottage of the Seven Dwarfs, complete with trees, shutters, and forest animals. (notice our almost free-standing tree…) Then we decorated our flight commander (aka the evil queen)’s office as the castle’s dungeon laboratory, complete with the magic mirror and the heart box. The archway was made from painted cardboard boxes and for the heart, I printed a heart, ironed it onto red fabric, and turned it into a small pillow (SP12). Lastly, we made the “Dwarfs’ Mine”… we hung sheets from the ceiling, spray painted the two sheets on the inside with glitter spray paint and taped glittery “diamonds” all over them. Not super fancy, but it did the trick. Kids come through the clinic every year for trick-or-treating. We played music from the Disney movie while they came through… they were all so adorable… they mostly got excited about Snow White, Dopey and the Evil Queen :) Of course it was not complete without the whole gang: Inspiration for the cottage …
Happy Pharmacy Week! Ok, so technically it’s Hospital and Health-System Pharmacy Week… but it’s close enough! And make sure to thank and/or hug a pharmacy technician tomorrow because it’s Pharmacy Technician Appreciation Day! I feel lucky to say I have amazing techs! Definitely couldn’t do it without them. I ordered a cake and cupcakes from Honeycakes for tomorrow… super excited about how they came out! Plus, I’ve been smelling them all evening (that’s not weird, right?) and they smell like a heavenly night of sleep feels (aka aaaamazing). The cake is chocolate hazelnut and the cupcakes are vanilla chai. Danny smelled the cupcakes and thought they smelled terrible, like “Depakote” he says… I think he’s insane, as per usual. I can’t wait to eat my Depakote cupcakes. BTW the Honeycakes ladies are big supporters of BDAR + they make delicious things = they are basically winning in my book!
Life by Ky 