The value of a good tech...

Pharmacy technicians. They can make your life immensely easier or be the source of grumblies. My current is definitely more the latter. She's a great pill counter...but that's the extent to her work a lot of the time. Mornings consist of me running the rx, checking the rx, putting it in a bag, then on the shelf, and putting the stock bottle away. As a pharmacist, I have been spoiled with good techs, I understand that. I think that's what makes it even worse. The pharmacists always are the ones to complete our partial fills and complete finishing putting away the order. Sigh. Maybe I'm just being irritable.

Golden tote released their spoilers and I'm super meh. Lots of the stuff looks like it needs a strapless/backless bra. Ugh. Never had a comfy strapless bra And with my girls I'm not even sure it's possible. There's also a lot of stuff that doesn't look short person friendly. I mean when the dress comes to the knees of the model, its going to be super long on me. I also am not understanding everyone's obsession with the puella dresses. I'm thinking I would look super tentish. We'll see. Tote day is next Monday.

Saw the spoilers for the May Pop Sugar box and I think it looks great! The site I was reading had quite a few commenters that didn't like the stuff but I'm excited. Still haven't been any CFDA spoilers. Wondering when both will ship.

Ran/walked a bunch tonight. 4.29 miles.  Wasn't too bad. My legs have almost fully recovered from my stupid amount of squats. I am slightly frustrated with my working out and results lately. I've pretty much lost a pants size but just feel stagnant right now, if not a bit heavier. I'm not weighing myself, so don't know where I'm at there. The important thing is to keep working I guess.

GO WILD!

Great Weekend

Currently enjoying a wonderful weekend off.  My parents came up and my Mom and I spent the afternoon shopping at the Fargo Public Library book sale. Can't beat fifty cents for a paperback! We had gone to the West Fargo sale about a month ago and here's what we learned.  If you're looking for children's books (little kid picture book types), West Fargo was WAY better.  Adult books, Fargo was amazing. A lot of the books were recent and I couldn't resist a cookbook!

My GoldenTote did get here on Friday! Unfortunately, it showed up AFTER I was done with work. Mom and I did go on to pick it up before book shopping. I got her intrigued about it as well. :)  I have pictures of the stuff but haven't uploaded anything yet. Lazy, I know. I got a large tote this time and love everything but two tops. One I'm meh on and the other is a bit less than meh. Next sale is on May 11, which time wise actually might work a bit better for me. I'll be on lunch about half an hour after the sale starts. The spoilers I've seen haven't turned my crank but there haven't been too many yet. If nothing else, I might be able to get some other stuff.

My frustration now is going to be that I am clothing fixless until Juneish now. I do have my May POPSUGAR box and the CFDA edition so hopefully that will feed my addiction enough!  Maybe reading will suffice. (Currently, I'm reading Blue Adept as a nostalgic trip down memory lane. Probably some of the first fantasy writing I've read).

StitchFix Fix #1

Yay! My first Fix came yesterday! So, without further delay, here's my fix! (Please note-I'm not being paid by StitchFix for the review and all of the opinions are mine or my hubby's alone.) If you've never heard of StitchFix, here's the gist:  you pay a $20 styling fee and your stylist sends out 5 picks of clothing/accessories/purses after you've filled out a big survey they have on their website. The stuff they send is based on your answers and requests. I also use my Pinterest style board to show stuff to my stylist that I like. Once the fix comes, try everything on. Keep what you like, send back what you don't.  If you keep all 5 items, you get a 25% discount. The $20 styling fee also goes towards your purchase if you decide to keep items. If you don't, you're out the styling fee. Make sense?

My box came at work because I have everything delivered there as there's always a person there to sign for the delivery. I live in a perfectly wonderful neighborhood however I don't like to tempt fate. I didn't take a picture of the box and stuff all wrapped up. You'll just have to trust me that it came in the pretty box with the mint and white interior. The package also comes with a note from your stylist and little cards with styling suggestions. Trust me when I say I need all the help I can get!

Item #1 Renee C Gabe Maxi Skirt

Ok, so I can't figure out how to rotate the picture, but if you look closely at the bottom, you'll see the lovely pool of fabric at my feet. Skirt was beautiful, teal and periwinkle stripes. Fabric was super duper soft but woah baby there was a lot of skirt!

Status:  Returned (with sadness)

Item #2 Fun2Fun Sonoma Sleeveless Top

This one you don't even get to see on. Once again, I love this top but the fit was wrong. I'm a fairly busty gal and this smooshed them in like none other. The bottom was perfectly loose and flowy. The top, not so much. This was on my Pinterest board as an item that I liked.

Status:  Returned (also with sadness)

Item #3 41Hawthorn Berneen Printed Dolman Sleeve Top

Big oops for me here. I forgot to take a picture of me in it. Neither the hubby nor I liked it. It looked like I needed a much longer torso to make this work. The fabric clung and bunched weirdly in my midsection. Here's a picture of the styling card though.

Oh for the love of Pete, this interface isn't liking me today. Yay center justified that I can't get to turn off!

Status:  Returned 

Item #4 Fun2Fun Isabelle Crochet Tank Top

My hubby and I disagreed on this one. I thought it was cute and different than anything I own. He wasn't a fan at all.  Upon closer inspection of the item however I noticed a really big snag. Pretty easy to have happen with a crocheted top, I'm sure. I probably would have kept this if it wasn't for that.

Picture of part of the snag. The string actually pretty much ran from the top of the shirt all the way to almost the bottom.

Status:  Returned (with sadness)

Item #5 THML Chana Dress

And we have a winner!!  This dress is super cute. Detailing around the neckline and hem. Short but not too short. Nice and flowy. Maybe try with a belt for more definition? Who knows! Hubby's first reaction was "I'd take you out in that!" It will work for so many things-work, date night, Jamaica, maybe even a nice dinner out on our upcoming baseball trip! Great dress!!

Status:  Kept!! (Super excited!)

So there you have it. My first fix and I do believe I am hooked. I switched my account from me scheduling to them and currently have every 2-3 weeks picked. We'll see how that goes. I can always scale back. I was super bummed when I couldn't schedule my next fix until June 1.  As I've said before, patience is not my best virtue. Oh, and if you're wondering, my GoldenTote is still in California according to the UPS tracking. So it's made it from one California town to another. Estimated delivery is May 1. I'm not holding my breath. Next tote day for them is May 4th I believe? Might take a month off depending. I ordered on tote day in April and it really didn't get me anywhere! I might just wait for restocked items also. Frustrating.

And if anyone is feeling super generous and wants to use my referral link, here it is.  

HTTPS://WWW.STITCHFIX.COM/REFERRAL/5053149

What makes a Monday even worse?

Ah Mondays in the pharmacy.  We have a drug treatment physician close to us which means all kinds of Rxs with many steps. Run this insurance and this discount card for this one, a different coupon for this one, can you just fill fifty dollars worth, and my personal favorite-cIIs on the same blank as non cIIs. Most of the time these are some of our most patient customers and my heart really goes out to most of them, it's just draining. We also had someone scoff at our ten minute wait time today...in front of my boss. She was not happy with the dude...said something to the effect of if you want it done right you'll give us ten minutes. Tee hee! She can get away with that...me on the other hand, no way. I'm the little cute one that you can yell at to get your way. We were slow in the afternoon which was nice.

So, to answer my blog title question, I had a dentist appointment after my shift was done to get a filling redone. I'm not a fan of the dentist. Mine is nice and I love my hygienist but cavities? Ugh. I had a really bad filling experience once. My other downfall is that I have a really small mouth. This redo was on the way back of my mouth so there wasn't enough room to get everything in as far as instruments goes. Enter lots of pulling and stretching and tension on my jaw/cheeks. The drilling and filling part was just fine. Didn't feel a thing (from my jaw all the way to my eye, palate and soft palate also) but the stretching was super uncomfortable. I've just felt yucky ever since. Probably need some ibuprofen and a good night's sleep.

On the new clothes front, tomorrow is StitchFix day! At least I hope. Package made it to St.Paul today and also left St. Paul this evening. Maybe it'll be out tomorrow? I guess I won't be surprised if I don't have it. GoldenTote is no where closer than it was on Saturday? UPS site still says it's processing for pickup. Tons of folks who ordered the same day as I did were doing reveals today. Super frustrating. Although it was nice to see some of the surprise items. I saw a lot of stuff that I liked but it seemed like folks weren't happy. I also am wondering if I'm picking the right sizes. Some of the reveals have smaller sizes than I'm doing but look the same size as me.

4 days in a row left!

Patience is not my best virtue

I had the pleasure of working on this absolutely beautiful weekend. Was fairly boring with occasional glimpses of irrationality and stupidity. Also, many genuine moments where I helped people and felt quite a bit of job satisfaction. The week should be interesting with a coworker off but I'm sure it'll be fine. 

Since I worked the weekend, I had a day off during the week. Since I was home, I had nothing better to do then obsess about my StitchFix and GoldenTote orders. My StitchFix is due to be delivered on Tuesday and I was attempting to cheat by sneaking a peek at my invoice. Do you think I could figure it out? Nope. So GoldenTote obsessing was next. I placed my order on tote day (April 13) and my order just seemed to be stuck in "pending " mode. I was just getting frustrated sitting at home so I thought maybe some regular good old fashioned shopping. As I headed towards the door, Mylo gave me one of his patented black lab puppy dog looks. In that moment, I decided that instead of shopping, I'd go for a run with him. Running over shopping? I have no idea where that came from! I did have a good run though. :) Oh, and just in case you were wondering, my GoldenTote has now shipped. Granted, it's shipping UPS and I don't even think it's been picked up yet but at least it's one step closer! The other good news is that the next GoldenTote is a week away. :)

My other excitement is that it's almost May...which means a new Pop sugar box AND the CFDA special edition box that I splurged on!

Inventory woes

Monday was absolutely insane at the pharmacy. To make matters even better our inventory didn't update correctly. Called our help desk right away, first person thought they fixed it...they didn't. Second phone call resulted in a awful tech person who managed to make things worse. Third person said he fixed it. The one item I knew was wonky I checked and it looked fine...until today. Today's order was huge and expensive. I also seemed to be missing a bunch of items. No idea what happened-some things were just fine, others were completely wrong. Meant I had a long process figuring out what I needed and what I didn't...it was a crapshoot. I did my best, that's all I can do.

On the upside, one of my bosses who isn't in town much is in the store this week. Gave me crap about not recognizing me with the weight I've lost. Another coworker pointed out the down side...my pants looked huge today. I've had them forever...nice wide leg wool gap dress pants with a little belt (that I cinched to the edge of its life).  I know it shouldn't be something I shouldn't complain about but I liked those pants...I have 3 pairs...that will now be taken out of the rotation. :( Also stopped at gordman's today to try on some jeans that I ordered online and guessed on the size. Was pretty happy to button the 9s. The jeans I ordered were in inch weight size but I definitely feel better about the size I picked. 

One of my coworker's wives does StitchFix and I've talked to him about it in the past. Today he related her latest included a super short dress and a shirt that was a little less see through than plastic (his actual words). I said something about just putting a cami under the thin shirt...didn't mention the wonder that are leggings. If she can't figure that out herself especially with the styling cards, eegads!

My Pop Sugar box is apparently walking from California. Shipped on the 15th, estimated to be delivered on the 23rd! Took a day to get from St. Paul to Maple Grove. Really thinking it should have worked out a bit more to get to me a bit quicker! :) At least I didn't pay for shipping!

Absence makes the heart grow fonder...

It's been forever since I have sat down and put my thoughts into the vastness that is the internet community. However, I'm going to try and get back at it because it was both cathartic and motivating. I'm still at the same job, working my heart out and getting little back. Hubby's job title will be changing which should bring a new, interesting wrinkle to our lives. His income will decrease in this weird rotation thing. I think he's more worried about things financially than I am. I figure we lived off of my income alone while he was finishing up with school. Time will tell.

My other purpose for writing again is twofold. I have started working out routinely and counting calories...a very boring way to lose weight but the right way to do it. The last time I blogged, it really helped to keep me motivated to keep on track. My other big motivation is a revamping of my wardrobe. Lately I have realized that I dress like a forty year old...and not a very stylish one at that. (I don't have anything against forty year olds, in fact I'm closer to it than I'd like to admit) So, decided to do something about it. I've bought my first Golden Tote (and my second) as well as signed up for StitchFix. My goal is for every quality piece that I love that goes into my closet, two outdated frumpy things will come out.

So, there it is... I'm sure I will also have plenty of pharmacy ugliness to relate as well. There's always plenty of that to go around!