Information Overload!

I know I said I was going to do better about blogging - but guess what, I haven't! At least this one has only been a month since my last post right? My partner at work is still not back and I am still working a lot - next week I have a 57 hour week scheduled. I can't complain too much though, I was lucky enough to get an entire week off this week for my anniversary!

I did want to share about a new project I have started at work! My friend Summer wrote a post on her blog about recycling and this is something that has bothered a lot at work the past few years so it hit home for me! Take a look down one of our bays of stock bottles at the pharmacy: Guess where all those bottles were ending up once we emptied them? I'm sure you can guess: in the trash! I always said that I felt like we should recycle at work but I never did anything about it. I guess I was waiting for someone from corporate to do it for me. Well, after reading Summer's post, I decided it was time for my store to start recycling! So I started this basket:

And that is just after a few hours the first night I set up the "Recycle Bin" at work! My boss said that we can't recycle paper (and I understand because something with HIPPA information might end up in there and we don't want to go down that road!), but said that we can recycle bottles! I am so excited! As I mentioned before, I have been off for week, so I'm anxious to get back to work to see how many bags of plastic bottles I have to take to be recycled after a week!

In other news, my sister, Crazy Coupon Carol, did a giveaway on her blog about a month ago of organic cereal and granola bars from Cascadian Farms and I am excited to say that I won! I got 4 boxes of cereal, 2 boxes of granola bars and a reusable shopping bag. So far, everything we have tried has been yummy!

About 2 weeks ago I went and babysat my niece and nephew for a day and here are a few cute pictures of them that I just wanted to share!

So, I am officially the WORST blogger ever! It has been since FEBRUARY, for crying out loud, since my last post! I am ashamed!

However, I do have a fairly good reason. The other pharmacist at my store who works the days that I am off fell down some stairs and has been out of work since March 18th. This means that there are tons of open shifts so I have been working the majority of those shifts. This current pay period I have had more help than previous ones so I'm finally getting more than 1 day off a week (and by a week I mean every 7 days since I work in a retail pharmacy and we are open 7 days a week). Still no idea when my partner is coming back - MAYBE the 28th? I highly doubt it though!

I wanted to share some pictures from last week. I went to visit my sister and spent some time outside with my niece and nephew (I apparently forgot to take pictures of my nephew :( ).
I can't wait to make a scrapbook page with these pictures and my friend, Courtney Baker's stamp set You're Dandy. How cute is that going to be???

I did get around to making the following card awhile ago. I can't remember now what all went into making this card, but I do remember that it was for an Everything But The Kitchen Sink challenge (well, 2 challenges combined into one because I missed the first challenge and then ended up missing both - Go me!). I love the fabric at the bottom of the card and how it looks like an old ruffled jean skirt! I also enjoy looking at the flower I made out of that same fabric!

Well, sorry I have been absent for almost 2 months since my last post - hopefully the next one won't be another 2 months away!

A Few Pages

Today has been another stay-at-home and craft day! Even though neither of these pages were made today, I still wanted to share something! What I made today I REALLY wanted to share, but I want them to get to where they are going first ---- so be on the look out this weekend for a post!

This first page I am not a huge fan of! I wanted to put in a page about me starting off my career as a pharmacist at Rite Aid and I wanted to incorporate my old name plate (my new one looks almost exactly the same except that it says "Pharmacy Manager/Immunizing Pharmacist" under my name). It is an ok page and I suppose that it serves it's purpose. Supplies for this one pare pretty simple: red and blue card stock, a Rite Aid logo that I printed out on my computer and my old name plate! This second page I am much more fond of! Even though this shows that I am almost 2 years behind on my scrapbook since Lila will be 2 next month! Good grief time flies!!

Supplies for this page include some old yellow letters that I had in my stash from AGES ago, the pink background paper is from The Paper Studio, the butterfly is from The Paper Studio - La Petites 3-D Stickers, and the little round thing under the center picture is a little round "looking glass" that says LOVE from Making Memories.

As you can tell from all the different pages lately, my scrapbook is a mixture of 12x12 pages and 8&1/2 x 11 pages. So far I am enjoying switching it up a bit and I think it adds a litte interest to looking through the book!