Category: Food


Huge gift basket

Filed Under: Business and/or Work, Food, Friends and/or family, General Life by Paige — Leave a comment
January 31, 2012

We have a customer that calls our pharmacy every day as soon as it opens.  She talks to one of us for at least thirty minutes.  She is a very nice lady, but her timing is really bad!  When the pharmacy first opens it is slammed with customers wanting to pick up the prescriptions that they called in for refills overnight.  No one worked overnight, so the opening crew needs to hustle and fill them all as soon as possible.

Well, today we received a huge gift basket full of fruit, crackers, cake and snack foods delivered to us.  The card said it was from the lady who calls us every morning, thank us for our patience!  Wasn’t that nice of her!  I think accepting it is a violation of the company’s policies, but I’m not the one the basket was addressed to, and I’m not the one who accepted it, so I won’t get in trouble.  It would be interesting to see if anyone DOES get in trouble for it!

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A good visit

Filed Under: Business and/or Work, Educational, Food, Friends and/or family, General Life, Relationships by Paige — Leave a comment
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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Enter the brownie-pops

Filed Under: Entertainment and Fun, Food, Friends and/or family, General Life, Relationships by Paige — Leave a comment
December 27, 2011

Seems to me that a lot of my friends on Facebook have been posting photographs of the newest food craze since the cupcake – the cake-pops and the brownie-pops. I guess that these snacks are on the cutting edge of culinary cool! One of my sister-in-laws made a batch of cake-pops and gave them as Christmas gifts to the family this year.

I’m not completely sure, but it seems to me that they bake a cake (or brownies) then use a melon baller to scoop out balls of cake (or brownie) and then poke them with a skewer and drizzle icing over them. They are cute and tasty. Have you made any of them yourself?

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Family drama

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December 26, 2011

Why do you suppose that when families get together, there is a lot of unnecessary bickering and drama? People in my family are always asking me to hold the big family holiday dinners at my house, and it never fails, someone almost always ends up yelling at someone else. For Thanksgiving I threatened everyone with being squirted with squirt guns if anyone started anything, and that dinner went very well. But for Christmas, there was miscommunication and misunderstandings and hurt feelings, shouting, and people leaving in tears. I really hate it when people leave my house in tears.

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Warehouse shopping

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December 20, 2011

Today my hubby and I went to the local warehouse club to pick up a few things. A pair of spiky shoe cleats for my son (he walks to work) for a Christmas present, a pumpkin pie and an apple pie. The size of the pies and cakes at the warehouse club are HUGE and the prices are quite small, compared to the prices at the regular grocery store that we do our weekly shopping at. If there was a warehouse club store nearer to our house we would shop there more often; we could save a lot of money. The price of milk was amazingly low. And much to my surprise the store is now carrying my favorite breakfast cereal – Multi-grain Cheerios! I bought two boxes of those.

Perhaps we should take a hard look at working in a once-a-month trip there to stock up on some of the items.

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