Every Day is April Fool's Day...

...at Walmart.

I usually feel like patients and customers are playing pranks on us everyday.

"No ma'am, I cannot order lingerie for you at the pharmacy...wait, you were kidding, right???  Good one!  Oh wait, you were serious...sorry..."

Then there's the 20-something girl who forgot to bring her brain with her to Walmart.  I instructed her to take one pill three times daily (of her antibiotic), then asked if she had any questions.  "Umm...what does 'three times daily' mean?"

You know when you watch a TV show and the main character has a conversation with herself in her head?  That's what I felt like.  "Yes, Amanda, she did just ask that.  Do you think she's serious?  I hope not.  Don't smile too much, she'll think you're laughing at her.  Keep a straight face.  How do you explain three times daily without using 'three, times, and daily'?  Do you think her mom dropped her on her head as a small child...off the top of a two story building?  This job sucks the brain juice out of my head, I swear.  Holy pharmacy, I hope my lunch is coming up so I can get away from the counsel window.  She's still looking at me, that must have been a real question..."

"Well, that means you need to take one pill in the morning, take one pill in the middle of the day, and take one pill in the evening." Smile.

Those are the times where I walk to the back of the pharmacy and slam my head into a shelf to be sure that just happened. 


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 New camera bag - whoo!

 I like dragging my camera around with me, but I get nervous it's going to get slammed into in my purse and break.  So now I have a sweet little padded camera bag!  Mom got me an awesome Vera Bradley tote for my birthday, which I had every intention of using for a camera bag.  Except it was too awesome to just use as a camera bag, so I've been carrying it with me everywhere as a purse.  I can fit my wallet, iPad, two bottles of pop, phone, and lunch in my Vera tote.  It is saahhweeeet!

And so is my new official camera bag.

It has a big ol' strap so I can wear it as a messenger bag while I'm shooting (the camera, dad).  I can fit my camera, my macro lens, my chargers, my speed light, my laptop attachment, my iPad, and my wallet.  If I ever go on an official shoot I could even take out the iPad and throw in my kit lens.

I read that it's less than wise to carry a camera-bag-looking camera bag when traveling...makes you more likely to get mugged if you obviously have a big expensive camera in your big camera bag.  My new camera bag does not look like a camera bag.  I should not be getting mugged, and that is good.

Maybe I should steal a can of pepper spray from dad to put in my new camera bag, just in case.

I probably won't have to steal it.  He'll read this and make me carry one.  Either pepper spray or a .357.

So if you're a mugger and you're reading this, I'm carrying handguns and pepper spray and taser guns in my camera bag...

...don't mess with me.