Were Moving....

Jobs!  No we are still going to stay in the same house, but we are changing companies.  Most of you knew some of what was going on, but here is the basics.

1.  We went back to school so that Will could have a job where he was able to vacation and take time off to be with us and the extended family.

2.  We have been plagued by jealousy, and resentment by others from the moment Will was promoted three months after being a pharmacist to being a Pharmacy Manager.

3.  Unethical practices and things asked of Will to do were getting to him, and making it difficult to feel good about things.

4.  With the final straw of a HIPPA Violation done to us, (very serious..a $250,000 fine if we had decided to really be jerks and pursue it) we decided the best thing to do was to find another venue to put our hard work into.

So, we have now what Will likes to say "assimilated" (a term from Star Trek and the Borg) to Walgreens.  We had signed the contract a few weeks ago, but didn't want to say anything till it was official.  Yes we do have that rather large bonus to pay back, but lucky for us they saw how valued Will was in the community, and from the high remarks from a now fellow pharmacist was given a bonus to buy out his contract and allow us to move to Walgreens.

He is so excited to start working with people who are a little more mature, and a little less concerned about what others think of them, or what others are doing with their lives.  He was excited about being told there was plenty of coverage for vacations and there would not be any problem taking them.  In fact we already got a vacation planned and approved for the first week in January.  He was also excited for the opportunity to not be a Pharmacy Manager anymore.  He had enough of that, and didn't really like the 2 or 3am phone calls saying the alarms were going off at the store for one thing or another, and that he needed to come in.  He also didn't like all the unethical things he was told to do when doing paperwork and such for the store  to massage the District Supervisors numbers.  So he said he would be grateful to just be a plain old pharmacist.  He did say that maybe sometime in the future  he would be a manager again, but he would really need to think about it and make sure that things were a lot more ethical.

So there you have it.  We are moving to the Walgreen's side, and gonna stay there.  We will also be able to move back to Utah in the future if we want to and if there is an opportunity to.  There was no CVS in Utah or Idaho or some of the other areas closer to family.

We both feel good about the decision, and we are super happy about it, and are excited to leave all the hurt, and bad feelings, and jealousy, and gossip all behind us.  So here's to a new and even brighter future.

P.S.  Walgreen's Pharmacists don't have the bad reputation that CVS Pharmacists do.  Apparently it is common knowledge that CVS hires some pretty shady characters.  Also just something Will and I though was strange.  Not one single Pharmacist here in Yuma that works for CVS is a US Citizen.  They all are from outside of the country.  I wonder what US citizens knew that we didn't about CVS and Yuma.  Hmmmmm.  Just something we found interesting.

Rabbits

Well here we are with more animals. I feel like I have a freaking zoo around here, but luckily in about a month when the weather cools off we can move these guys outside where they belong. Then I only have to deal with them for about 3 months out of the year in my house when it gets too hot.

Will and I decided to raise rabbits to feed to our dogs. Their vet food is becoming outrageously priced, and it is on back order due to the shortage of farmers raising rabbits for livestock due to the declining economy. So we are looking at preparing to transition our dogs to a raw diet, which is better for them anyway, but getting started is the long hard part.

So we have this temporary indoor housing for them. It is a dog kennel with a divider in it for now. Then when we move the rabbits outside to their permanent home, we can use this for the dogs while we are out of the house. So nothing is going to waste. We double use everything around here.

So here we go raising rabbits for meat. The kids and Will want to save the pelts and make something with them, which is fine by me, as long as I don't have to pay 220$ for dog food every two to three weeks.

Plus the kids are way excited to learn more about rabbits, and to see babies and all that. We will see how cool it is once we have to kill the first one, but for now we keep telling them it is for dog food, and they know that. We will constantly keep reminding them about that fact. But these are young rabbits and ready to make lots of babies. So they will be around for a long while.

So here we go...."Ehhh, what's up doc!!!!"

The girls trying out the bunny cages to make sure they were OK.

ChiChi our Teacup Chiuauah checking out the future dinner.  The rabbit is bigger than he is.

I'm so bad at this...

I am so bad at this. I need to get going on blogging again. I will try to be much better now that the kids are back in school, and I have some moments to myself. I am just going to include a bunch of photos in this entry. A few of the high;lights are the last trip to Sea world for the summer, my awesome and amazing find of 40$ for two dressers, and two mirrors and two nightstands. The kids graduating from white belts to yellow belts in Karate.  There is the kids first day of school, and some photos of our dogs looking hungrily at the new rabbits. Yes we got two rabbits (free - of course) so that we may breed them, and feed our one dog Kira a raw food diet. Her vet prescribed Rabbit and potato food is on back order due to a rabbit shortage, and so now we have to take things into our own hands. Guess it will be a good experience for the kids to learn a little farming on a very very small scale. Other than that, I am doing OK, and so are the kids. Oh yes, one funny this week was when we took Isaac out to dinner with the family for his Birthday, and we had steak. He looked at us after eating the first bite, and said "mmmm, this cow is ripe". Will and I about fell on the floor laughing. Anyway, enjoy the photos, and I will try to be better about blogging.