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Alzhiemer's at 25

Sunday morning began just like any ordinary Sunday. I woke up before Ben and decided to let Pete out to do his business. Pete is obsessed with fetching so I thought I'd throw his tennis ball to him a few times before putting the coffee on. Having just woken up I was still in my p.j.'s so I just stood inside the door of the back porch and threw the ball out for Pete to chase. After throwing the ball a couple of times, I realized that Pete would be we and dirty from all of the grass and I decided to let him wait on the porch for a little while to dry off some before coming back inside. So, watching Pete chase the ball down one last time, I shut the back door and locked it leaving him outside to play on his own. Then I proceeded with the coffee making.....

I had washed out the pot and I was about to reach for a coffee filter. I turned around and there he was... Pete. He was standing behind me in the kitchen, ball in mouth, tail wagging. He stared at me and I stared back. I shot a quick glance at the door. Still locked. The other doors were closed and locked as well. I stood there for a full minute taking in the situation. I know I locked him outside. How did he get in? The only explanation is that I let him in, cleaned him off, blacked out, and woke up at the coffee pot never knowing what had happened. I am completely baffled. Baffled, and already losing my mind.

Thank You Note Madness

One would think that three months is ample time to write all the thank you notes necessary following a wedding. I'm afraid that's not the case in the Lassiter household. However, we do have a few good reasons for this breech in social etiquet.

1. The husband refuses to write any thank you notes. For some reason, Ben could care less if not one single thank you note got sent out to anyone. Therefore, I am carrying the burden of this social obligation all alone. However, I am lucky that he does acknowledge my passion for writing the thank you notes and he takes care of other household chores so I can take time to write.

2. Moving - twice.

3. Studying for tests

4. More studying

5. Weddings every weekend. Literally.

6. The unfortunate back up of the thank you notes due to important school projects, moving, and starting a job during the same time that all of my showers were taking place.

I think that about sums up all of my excuses. None-the-less, I am well on my way to getting these thank you's knocked out. To any of you already married, congratulations on finishing your thank you notes. To any of you engaged (Ashley)....start now. Even if you haven't received a gift. Just write the note and leave little blanks to fill in the name and the gift. Otherwise you will end up like me.

I hope that this doesn't sound like I am ungrateful for my gifts or complaining about writing the notes. I really do enjoy thanking people for going out of their way to buy us a gift. Ben and I were overwhelmed by the generosity and thoughtfulness of so many, that is why I feel bad that I am taking so long to let them know how much I appreciate it!

The moral of the story is: Stay on top of your thank you notes!!!!!

When is Your Birfday?

It is common practice at a pharmacy to write the patient's birthday on the prescription they are dropping off to be filled. Why do we need your birthday? So we can make sure the person that we are filling the prescription for is you and not someone else with the same name. I find it odd that two of the most difficult things for me to learn when I started working were:
1. the cash register (that thing is rediculous)
2. how to interpret people's birthdays

You can probably understand why the cash register would be somewhat difficult to get used to, but interpreting birthdays? How hard can that be, right?
When I ask for a birthday I'm expecting your standard reply, "1/7/83" or even "January 7th, 83" would be acceptable. Here are a few things I've heard in the past week.

• "the fifth, the fourth, of 79"
• "next month, fifteenth, 50"
• "first day, sixth month, in the 1963"
• "17th of the 10th month, 1968"

Really?? So, I get these responses and it confuses me and I ask them to to repeat it. Then they look at me like I'm stupid and say it again. "THE FIRST, THE TENTH, 1980." Ok. Got it.

So I've decided that when people give me their birthday in this manner, I'm going to tell them about their prescription the same way. "In the morning take, High blood pressure for, your medicine, refrigerate not." Any questions?"