It Rained on My Parade

This week was a lot of firsts.

The first week back to work since the hospital.  First sunburn of the season.  First beach trip of the summer.  First bbq with my dear friends.  First attempt at blood work since the hospital (don't know if I explained that one but boy was it a doozy.

It was nice to get back to work; to be with people and just immerse myself with the hectic life that is working in a pharmacy.  The store manager was nervous about my return because I guess he believes I'm precious cargo.  He wouldn't let me carry heavy things one day when I worked in the front probably because I had spent the week in the hospital but I told him constantly he was being silly.

When I went to get my blood work done last week it took forever.  And they couldn't use the veins they normally do because they were scabbing or something underneath from all the IVs.  So I had to wait till the end of the week to redo it and they still couldn't use those veins.  Well I went before the beach on Thursday and ended up getting blood drawn from my wrist.  It was weird, and the bandage was huge.  That left a pretty interesting tan line.  At the current moment there is an epic bruise there but I'm pretty I hit it yesterday while at work.  Dad said it could be from the blood work though.

Saturday I had friends over for a bbq and unlike the last gathering at my house, I was actually able to move around freely without a wheel chair.  Yay go me!  I would say it was successful minus all the freaking bugs but I think I got away with only one bug bite on my elbow.  What an obnoxious place to have one though.   I love the summer time though, and gatherings where everyone brings a dish and you just chill.  The only thing that was missing was our pool but there isn't much I could do about that anymore.  Paul said we could have had a huge sumo wrestling competition where the pool was.  Of course if you know Paul you would not be surprised by this suggestion at all.


I'm glad that my little sister is keeping up with her beautiful picture blog.  I love her pictures so much and sometimes even save them (hope you don't mind Em!).  But she just did a new post when I finally got around to checking this thing and I was so pumped.


Today I get to shop with Shannon for some new clothes for work and play.  We were planning on going to the parade but at the current moment it's pouring rain and there was thunder earlier in the morning.  Part of me wishes I knew it was going to rain because then I would have slept in but oh well, this is perfect nap weather later.