Category: Educational


What’s next?

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January 27, 2012

Thank goodness my kids have finished their college education and we no longer have to search for financial aid information to get them to have enough money to sig up for their college courses. It was becoming extremely difficult to get the help we needed for one of my sons that struggled with his grades. But now we are in the stage of repaying his student loans, which is another challenge on it’s own right.

When I was talking with Madeline about how we had to search far and wide for the financial aid, she was telling me that she had heard that her son might qualify for a scholarship for left handed students. I had never heard of any scholarships based on something like that! What will they think of next!

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A good visit

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January 13, 2012

Andrew dropped into the store today to say hello. He brought a couple of pizzas from Domino’s with him, and we had the chance to visit for a bit in between customers. We haven’t seen him since he left for school a year and a half ago. I can still remember the last time we saw him, right before he left; he was so excited!  He is well on his way now to his final semester and is getting ready to take his gp exam. He was talking about how his univeristy had sponsored a job fair and there was a booth of information about gp recruitment and filling out the gp application.

Andrew has been working long and hard to pursue his dream, and he is a wonderful young man. I hope he does well. I have to admit that I miss seeing his smiling face here at work, and as nice as his replacement is here at work, it’s just not the same since he left to finish his schooling.

 

 

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Got my CEs done

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December 16, 2011

One of the things that I don’t like about being a pharmacy technician is the fact that every years we have to take continuing education credit courses in order to renew our pharmacy technician license. Now you may think that is a good thing, having to continue or education, and normally I’d agree with you on that. But the sad fact is that we are not allowed to utilize that education in our jobs, the company does not give us company time to take the courses (so we have to take them at home on our own time) and the company does not even give us a raise in pay for having done the work. So in essence, I feel that it is a complete waste of time. What do you think?

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Cookie recall

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November 30, 2011

We got a notice in the mail that there was a recall on the cookies that we bought a couple of weeks ago, warning us that we might have purchased a contaminated tin of cookies. Although I was a little bit upset about the recall (since my hubby had already eaten all of the cookies!) I was impressed with the fact that the company used the information from the loyalty card usage to determine which customers bought the product so that they could be alerted to the recall! That is a very good reason to go ahead and sign up for company loyalty cards that I had not considered in the past!

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Work it out

Filed Under: Business and/or Work, Educational, Friends and/or family, General Life, Home and Garden, Relationships by Paige — Leave a comment
November 12, 2011

When I was driving home from class last weekend I ended up driving past an apartment complex that I used to live in back in the early 70′s. Memories came flooding back about the years that I lived there, and the various room mates that I had while living there. One of my most vivid memories of living there is about the time one of my sisters moved in with me for a couple of months while her estranged husband was living in some short stay apartments about five miles down the road.

Back then we worked it out that my sister would stay in the apartment and do the so-called “wifely” chores and I went to work to bring home the bacon. She was a good cook and a good housekeeper and we actually had a pretty good time while she was staying there. We were the same size so we wore each others clothes and shoes, and to be perfectly honest I was more than a little bit sad when she and her husband decided to try to work it out and they took an apartment about two miles away from my place. Seems like just yesterday. Where does the time go!?

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