When she originally got the prescription the doctor called it in at our local CVS.  She used CVS because we live a county over from the doctor, and she picked the one pharmacy that showed up in our zip code.  That was in April, and since Ellie only uses Zyrtec seasonally I haven’t had to refill the prescription until now.

That hasn’t stopped CVS from being a pain, though.  When I picked up the first prescription I flat out told them I did NOT want auto refill.  That’s because after Ellie’s birth I had been on 11 pills a day because of my preeclampsia not going away immediately, and I had a ton of problems with CVS because of it.  I only needed the medication for 1 month, and I came off it after 28 days.  My doctor had prescribed 3 refills in case my blood pressure didn’t straighten out in one month, so I went through months and months of CVS calling me multiple times a day every month to remind me to pick up my prescription they had auto refilled (without my consent) even though I had told them I no longer used it.  They finally stopped calling about that one about 2 months ago…9 months after I stopped taking it.

When I went on my new birth control after having Ellie I dropped the prescription off at CVS one day when I was in a hurry and didn’t have time to run it all the way to Walgreens in the next town over.  A week before I ran out of birth control pills I tried to get the refill, and I was told I couldn’t because it was listed as something that could not be refilled until 30 days had passed since my last fill date.  That would have left me without birth control for at least 1 day, longer if I forgot to refill it.  I decided to switch my prescription to Walgreens, and I yet again had problems.  CVS refused to transfer the prescription because they said it was already refilled via auto refill even though I wasn’t allowed to pick it up for another week!

I argued back and forth with them for a few days, demanded they take it off auto refill since I’d requested not to have it auto refilled in the first place, and picked my prescription up the day they finally released it to me.  I immediately switched my prescription to Walgreens.  Even though I transferred that prescription in January CVS still calls me monthly with a courtesy reminder to refill my prescription.  I guess they never removed it from their computer after the transfer, and they keep calling even though I keep telling them it was transferred to another store and to leave me alone!

So yeah, I wasn’t happy when Ellie’s doctor used CVS to call in her prescription, but it was done before I had a chance to choose another pharmacy. 

I got the prescription with the intentions of transferring it, but I forgot about it since I haven’t had to refill it in months.  I remembered it last night when Ellie woke up sounding like she had a frog in her throat, but I couldn’t give her any medicine because she’d just ran out.  I tried to transfer the prescription online and have it refilled at Walgreens, but the CVS website kept giving me an error message.  I got the same error when I tried to put the refill in online.  This morning I stupidly just called in the refill because I knew I’d be going to the grocery store across from CVS, and I didn’t want to make a trip all the way to Walgreens to pick it up.  I figured I’d get the refill then transfer it tonight when I got home. 

Mind you, like I said, I called in the prescription in around 9am this morning and set the pickup time for 8pm.  I ran my errands, bought my groceries, and headed across the street to CVS thinking it’d be okay to leave cold groceries in the car as I just had to run in and pick up the prescription. When I told the pharmacist the name she looked in the computer, asked me to spell it twice, then asked if I had dropped off a prescription.  I explained THREE TIMES that I called it in this morning, it was a refill, and the pickup time was for 8pm.  She had me spell the name two more times, first and last, called over two more people to help her, and then asked me if Ellie had ever had a prescription filled there before. 

I gave her an “are you stupid?” look and repeated “It is a REFILL for a prescription originally filled at THIS CVS.  I called it in at 9am this morning!”  I had the bottle from the previous prescription in my purse, and I even pulled it out to show her.  After another 5 minutes or so of repeating myself over and over she finally found it, explained they had Ellie’s birthday listed as Oct 2010 instead of Oct 2009 (filling prescriptions for babies not even born yet, eh?),  and told me it would be just a few minutes before it would be ready.  That still doesn’t explain why it wasn’t filled yet.  It had correctly entered the computer as a refill this morning.  45 minutes later it was finally ready.  Thank goodness Hubby was sitting in the car with the AC running or my groceries would have been ruined.

I am 100% completely done with CVS.  I made sure she fixed the date in the computer, and as soon as I got home I transferred the prescription to Walgreens.  I’ll go out of my way next time to pick it up because it’s way less hassle than dealing with CVS.  How much do you want to bet they’ll still call me over and over every month telling me I need to refill it?

While the guys played some Green Day: Rock Band my cousin and I headed into my office to chat.  That’s when she confessed to me that she’s really head over heels for a guy for the first time ever.  It did make me feel a little warm inside watching how she lit up when she talked about him. 

The downside is that our family doesn’t like him, and she’s having to deal with the crap they’re throwing at her over who she’s chosen to be with.  She wanted to confide in me because she knows I’ve been there.  She wanted advice on how to handle the what those people threw at her, and I basically told her to ignore them, let there words slide off her back, and do what makes her happy.

When Hubby and I started dating I warned him that certain family members would probably snub him.  I remember looking at diamond engagement rings while shopping with my Mom and aunt one day. I had a feeling I had found the perfect guy, and I was daydreaming about what it would be like if he proposed like I hoped he would. I was basically drug away from the case as both women went on and on about how he wasn’t good enough for me and I was too young to think about marriage.  Almost 7 years later these are the same people who love my hubby to death even though they judged him this way so many years ago.  Did they ever admit they were wrong about him?  Of course not! 

It wasn’t that he wasn’t good enough for me. No one seems to be good enough for some of my family members.  They turn their noses to the air and act as if they are all high and mighty, yet they are no better than the people they are snubbing.  Oh they act perfectly fake when face to face with the person they are snubbing, but the second the person leaves the room the comments and gossiping begins. 

They talk about how the person isn’t good enough because they don’t have the exact same values or beliefs.  They don’t make enough money (not like my family has a right to judge that as I grew up poor), they don’t have the right educational background (yet again hypocritical as I was the first person in my family to attend college), and so on.  There is something wrong with every single person that anyone brings around, friend or date, because that person is not a member of our family.  My dad said it best when he said “No one will ever be good enough for them, and they are doing nothing but pushing their own family members away.”

In my cousin’s case she is being told her boyfriend isn’t good enough simply because his mom has made some really bad choices in her life.  My grandmother even felt the need to call me to gossip about it.  She made mention of the fact that his mom came from a “good family”, and she didn’t know what happened to the woman, but she turned into an “evil drunk”.  Then she went on and on about the woman’s poor parents and how they were good people who couldn’t be judged based on their daughter.  I came right back at her with the fact that she’s judging this young man based on his mother’s actions, and she is being extremely hypocritical.  In fact she’s the hypocrite she’s always preaching to us about, and she needed to start following her own advice.

Of course she isn’t speaking to me now, but I don’t really care.  I stood up for my cousin not because she is family but because no one deserves to be treated the way she and her boyfriend are being treated.  Our family hasn’t even taken the time to get to know him.  They are all judging him based on someone else.  If they took the time to get to know him they would realize he’s someone who had a hard life growing up, but he’s risen above it to be a great young man.  They are the ones missing out.  They will never take the time to get to know him.

People like that really make me mad.  I don’t understand why some people are so judgmental.  You can’t judge a person based on how much money they make or who their parents are.  In fact I fully believe it is not up to us to judge anyone.  Sometimes I wonder how I even came from a family like that.  I am a complete opposite, and I’ve become a black sheep for it.  My little cousin is now feeling the same way.  She has been nicknamed as a mini me, and apparently that’s a bad thing according to my family.

My advice to her will stand.  Ignore what they have to say because they can’t think, feel, and act for her.  If she is happy that is what matters.  If I had actually listened to my family I wouldn’t be as happy as I am today.  I wouldn’t be making plans to celebrate my seventh wedding anniversary to the love of my life, and I wouldn’t have my beautiful daughter who is a mini version of her father in so many ways.

Hubby wants me to hold out on getting another one, but I’m so tired of having to return this one to Verizon all the time because it’s screwing up.  He wants me to hold out because he wants the iPhone if Verizon does really get it in January like we’ve heard.

Honestly I’m not big into the iPhone craze, but if Verizon had it already he would be. I don’t particularly want one because I don’t want to have to pay for iphone 4 insurance. With our current phone plan anything that is considered a smartphone carries a much higher insurance rate. Then again I’d take just about any phone over my enV Touch right now as it’s getting on my last nerve.

The evening started on a sour note when I started cooking dinner.  Hubby wanted General Tso’s chicken for dinner.  I wasn’t planning on chicken tonight, so I had to quick defrost the chicken for it.  I pulled a pack out of the freezer and turbo defrosted it in the microwave.  My microwave is on the fritz so instead of taking 6 min to turbo defrost a pound of chicken like normal it took me 45 minutes.  When I finally got the chicken defrosted I started the fried rice and pulled out my cutting board to dice up the chicken.  I pulled them out of the pack and was pissed off at what I saw.  The package contained small tenders stacked on top of each other, and the two on top looked good.  Unfortunately the stuff underneath was disgusting.  Not only did it look like someone had ran it through a shredder, but it was pretty much nothing but skin and fat…even though the package was boneless skinless chicken breast tenders.  I was surprised because it was a package of Tyson chicken, and I’ve never had a problem with their chicken before.

What was left wasn’t even 1/3 of what I needed, so I had to finish the rice and drag the baby out to the store to buy enough chicken to finish the dish.  Then I had to come home, finish the meal, and reheat the rice.  When we finally sat down to eat around 8pm when I had started cooking at 6. I was so fed up with the food that I didn’t feel like eating much, but I figured Hubby was starving. He took a bite of the chicken and pushed his plate away. I asked what was wrong, and he said "it takes like crap. It’s not your cooking, but that new sauce we bought tastes horrible. That’s nothing like General Tso’s." I took a bite and confirmed he was right. When I did the grocery shopping this weekend Ingles was out of the sauce packets I normally buy, so I grabbed the one General Tso’s sauce they had left. I don’t feel like digging the package out of the trash right now to give the name brand (which I will do later), but the stuff was disgusting.  We ended up having to toss all the chicken I had just ran out to buy, and we ended up eating nothing but fried rice and broccoli for dinner.

After that the evening has progressively gotten worse.  Hubby was getting Ellie’s Zyrtec to give her, and he accidentally knocked the open bottle off the counter into the sink.  Now she won’t have it tonight, and I’ll have to call the doctor tomorrow to see what I can do about it as CVS refuses to give me her next refill as it hasn’t been a month since I refilled it.  On top of that Ellie has developed diarrhea tonight, after being constipated off and on all week, and she’s pretty unhappy about it.

Yeah, it’s been one of those evenings.

So, I spent all night tossing and turning in bed hoping it would go away long enough for me to catch at least 10 minutes of sleep.  It finally did subside enough for me to catch 3 hours of sleep this morning, and I’m lucky I got that much sleep.  Elliana must have known I really needed it because she decided to sleep in a bit longer than usual.

All was well most of the day, but right as Hubby came home from work the toothache returned.  After dinner it was bad enough for me to take some more meds, and that didn’t help at all. I really don’t want to have to go to a dentist. I’ve looked up a few insurance quotes for dental insurance, and so far everything I’ve found has been way beyond what I can afford. Now I’m starting to think it would have been worth it to dump a huge chunk of change on some insurance because there’s no telling how much it’s going to cost me out of pocket if I have to break down and see a dentist for this crap.

I’m now starting to believe it’s not a toothache per say.  I’m beginning to think I have fluid or pressure or something from my sinuses causing this pain in my teeth.  I only believe that because the pain seems to be coming and going based on whether or not my sinuses are giving me problems, and tonight I’ve got an ear ache and clogged up nose as well.

The ache doesn’t seem to be in the same spot either, although it’s all staying on the left side of my face.  Last night everything seemed concentrated around my left back top molar, while tonight the pain seems to be around my top canine and all of my bottom teeth on the left side.

All I know is it’s painful, it needs to go away, and I need to be able to sleep tonight.  At least the weekend will be here soon, so I’ll have Hubby to help me with the baby if I’m walking around in Zombie mode.