Rumblings of the week

So it's been a little while. I've had a productive week. Worked Monday, nothing exciting happened. Tuesday, I finally renewed my drivers license which was due to expire next month. Deposited 3 checks that had been sitting in my car for about a month at the bank, had lunch with a friend, and then went and "worked out". After working out, we had our monthly mandatory employee training. It was actually a lot of fun. One of the captains brought a ladder truck from the station he works at part time and allowed us to operate, move it around, and climb it. I think I should metnion that when fully extended it's 104 feet! One of my fellow coworkers has picked up a part time job with an ambulance company so he works all over the area. He asked me to come in at 5 am Wed. morning so he could make it to his p/t job for 6. This is one of those things you can't really say no too, because sometimes when I work in the chemical plants, I have to go in for 6am, which if I'm coming from work requires me to convince the person releiving me in the morning to come in early. Well since hunting season as begun, the guy I was relieveing this morning asked me to come in at 5 also so he can go hunting early this morning. I just need to remember to keep track of the favors. Yesterday, i finally bought a lawnmower, It was a frustrating process however. The Home Depot, I purchased it from was a bit understaffed so I had to go track down a flat cart myself (by track down, I mean find one no one else was using, then knock the stack of boxes off of it). Once I secured the cart, I had to have another customer help me load the lamn mower onto the cart so I could go check out. I visited with 2 friends of mine that evening, and then ended up going to 80's night at a local venue for a little while. Didn't stay out too late due to the need to come in to work at 5.

It's not often that Fridays actually feel like Fridays at work. One of our Rookies who finished completed his FF and was already an EMT found out a few weeks ago that he would be getting shipped off to either Iraq or Afganistan. We work on the same shift, and he's one employee we definitely hate to see leave. So today, had a had a little surprise send off party for him and made jambalaya. His family came, as well as a few of the other employees. The jambalya was good at hte time, but a few hours later I felt really nauseated. I took some meds and am feeling a little better so hopefully whatever it was has come and gone, and I'll be ok for the rest of the shift.

On a side note, I've realized that I have about 5 posts saved that I started typing, probably had too much to say and never finished. This is a frequent problem I have when it comes to writing anything more than a paragraph or two. I guess I made up for it in this post.