Iowa Comes to Arizona

We miss Iowa football. A lot. So when the Hawkeyes made a trek out west to play in Tucson, Arizona, of COURSE we had to go! Josh, Luke, and I road-tripped it to the desert. It was great to be back at a Iowa football game and see so many Iowa people! In case you missed the game, here's how it went.

Yep, this is the car thermometer on the way to Tucson. That's for real, and it should have been a sign that this was going to be a bad day. (Seriously, we're coming from San Diego. Overbearing heat? Yeah, that doesn't exist to us.)
In case you can't tell by our faces, I will walk you through the game, score by score.

This is when Arizona scores a touchdown after blocking our punt.


This is when Arizona scores a touchdown after an interception.


Iowa scores a touchdown, and we feel a bit of hope.


Arizona returns the kick off for a touchdown. More disappointment and dejection set in.


Arizona kicks a field goal. It just keeps getting worse.


Arizona kicks another field goal. And that completes a just spectacular half, down 7-27. As you can see, by this point we almost stop caring.


The marching band was pretty good. They lifted my spirits a bit.


DJK scores a touchdown.


McNutt scores a touchdown. We're coming back! 21-27. This might be about when Josh got in a minor verbal fight with some ridiculous Arizona fans.


We intercept the ball and return it for a touchdown! We go up by 1!! Wait, we miss the extra point and it's tied. That was horrible.


Arizona scores a touchdown to go up 34-27. Stanzi gets sacked like 52 times, and we go down in flames.

So...that was our trip. It was a very depressing game, but we walked out of that stadium with our heads held high and said to Arizonans, "We may have lost, but you live HERE." And we drove back to San Diego.

They Should Have a Reality Show About Walgreens

So Josh had a customer at Walgreens that was asking him about 'Flaxseed Oil: Cold Pressed,' and she said, "This is for colds, right?"
Josh said no.
And she said, "But it says cold on it."
And he said, "It says cold pressed."
She said, "So you don't know what that means?"
Josh said, "No, but I know it doesn't mean it's for a cold!"

Then she grabbed a bottle of cod liver oil and said, "But this is for a cold right?"
He said no.
She said, "But it's cherry flavored!"
Josh just looked at her a little dumbfounded, unsure of what being cherry flavored had to do with anything, and told her to just go talk to the pharmacist.

I thought this was pretty hilarious :-)

Signs of a Normal Life?

I was on my way to church Wednesday night for orchestra practice. It was the first time I had the chance to break out the old oboe in years!

Anyway, I was driving down the 8 on my way to College Avenue Baptist Church, stuck in a little bit of traffic, when I realized something. This orchestra practice was the first commitment I'd had, on my own without Josh, that was not related to work, in the entire year I've been here. Seriously! Most places that I HAVE to be (church music or volunteer event, softball game, uh...that's about it), I'm with Josh. Otherwise, If I'm leaving the house by myself, it is almost always pharmacy-related or to hang out with my pharmacy-friends.

It was just kind of crazy to think how unbalanced my life has been over the last year! Basically, I'm either working, hanging out with people from work, or having fun with Josh which may or may not involve other people. It's just so different from back home where I was so involved in so many different things. It's been a little bit of pharmacy overload this year, that's for sure!! But I decided that this orchestra practice was a sign that a more normal life is just ahead, peeking over the horizon at me! It will be nice to be able to get involved in some other things in the upcoming months.

But I must say, I am incredibly lucky to have a husband that I seriously don't mind spending ALL my time with :-)

PETCO Park

Go Padres! 1st place in the division! Not that being first place in the NL West has meant that much over the past few years...

We went to a game tonight on a whim. $5 tickets! We had to sneak into the seats we wanted-we've mastered getting by the guy that checks your tickets. We were sure he had us pegged for a while because he kept looking up at us suspiciously, but we just sat there looking innocent, and he left us alone.

Josh got me a hot dog because I was STARVING. I went to put ketchup on it, and when I pushed the ketchup lever, mustard came out. I rather despise mustard, so I had to wipe it all off and then used the mustard lever to get ketchup. The guy behind me did the same thing. Then we noticed a worker standing against the wall laughing to himself as he watched. I'm pretty sure he switched the labels on the ketchup/mustard machine. It was pretty hilarious.

32 Days and Counting

Josh and I will have gone 34 of 36 nights without sleeping in the same bed. Sad. Very sad. He worked for 8 nights. (Then a night together! Yay!) Then I went to N.Carolina for 5 nights. Then he worked for 8 nights. Then he went to Iowa for 5 nights. (Then a night together! Yay!) Then he works for 8 nights. And that is where we are now. Almost done! Josh working nights has its schedule perks, but I am NOT going to complain when it's over. (Watch, I'll probably get a job where I have to work nights for the first year or something. Wouldn't that just be cruel.)

Soccer vs. Football

I found this rather funny!

"If you forget the space, my name spells Vile"

Ah, I love these girls. My co-residents. I increasingly feel like that is a strange thing to call them, though. They are so much more than just my "co-residents" in this crazy pharmacy residency journey; they are 3 of my dearest friends. I think we must get along better and have more fun than any group of residents anywhere, ever. And on Thursday we all get to go to Charlotte together for 5 days! Oh, the memories we'll make...as we sit through 7 hours of lecture a day and freak out about our upcoming project presentations...At least we'll be together.

We have all had our share of hard times over the past 10 months since we met, and we've all been there to help each other out. Through car troubles, boy troubles, student troubles, preceptor troubles, project troubles, health troubles, computer troubles, interview troubles, being-forced-to-go-to-drug-dinners-too-much troubles, talking-about-the-same-simple-things-over-and-over-at-every-meeting troubles ...shall I go on?

I have been so blessed to be surrounded by amazing people through each new life journey. It's crazy to think about how, a year ago, I didn't even know some people who are now such a huge part of my life.

Vi, Vivian, and Silvia are just 3 of the reasons that I frequently say to myself, "Wow. I'm really, really glad I didn't end up in Milwaukee."