I remember telling myself that when I started this site that I would keep up with it. It's been over a week since my last post. Going to be hard to keep people interested in my life if I don't ever give them an update. These darn 10 hour shifts are playing hell on me. As much as I enjoy three days off a week, the lack of free time on a daily basis is totally ruining me. Makes me remember why I hated having to work overtime. The stomach flu doesn't help much either. Wednesday was one of my most miserable sick days I can remember in a long time.

I've learned so much in the last week. We haven't been really busy, and I'm almost ashamed of that. I haven't done a whole lot at work lately. A lot of different things. A lot of emotional things. I went to two calls this week with very frightened and very sad parents. One 17 year old died from sickle cell anemia. It wasn't that hard to be around because I can easily rationalize that situation. The doctors told the mother she would be lucky if he lived past 5. We called the doctor who treated him and before we told him what was going on he knew who it was. I feel bad for the parents for their loss. The other call this poor woman accidentally ran over a 6 year old. She stopped to let the kids out of the street and one kid ran back for a ball or something between two cars right in front of her. He's okay now. The craziest thing about that whole ordeal was when he punched one of the firefighters working on him in the face for touching his cut up ear. Then the kid asked one of the other guys what he was laughing at. The weird thing was the mother was either in shock, on drugs, or just indifferent. The lady who hit the kid was falling apart more than the mom. Next time I need to get more updates from the rescue crews so I can stop the imaginations from running wild. I didn't know the status of the kid until we got to the hospital and all we could tell the poor lady was that at least hes screaming at the top of his lungs. Both those situations were very emotional. I kept my cool better than I thought I would. At least I kept it hidden better than I thought I would. I've never felt so afraid for someone in my life than I did for that woman who hit that kid.

That was really all of the more than "usual" calls I did since I commented last. This week was really slow and really boring. I started to have problems with my FTO last weekend. I didn't make him aware of them so I can't blame him for anything, but there really is nothing more annoying than coming to work with a guy training you and he starts the day by saying he doesn't want to be at work. That really didn't set a good tone for the rest of the day. So the whole 4 day work week last weekend was really a waste. Its over now and I move onto a new FTO and I'll start trying to figure out his was of doing things. The real problem is that I'm in the mall district again. There isn't much going on there and not enough exposure to different things. I feel like a glorified security guard working there.

So my days off this week were mixed. On the plus side I saw The Watchmen. I thought it was all it was cracked up to be. One hell of a movie; cool action, amazing cinematography, great story, engaging characters. Some interesting plot twists. It certainly makes me want to go buy the comic to get the full picture. If you want a good review go to my bros review. Between him and his friends they have some good stuff. I don't see how you couldn't enjoy the movie. Other than the length of it, because it did seem to drag for a few moments, it was a great movie. On the down side of my days off I was sick as a dog Wednesday. Stuff flying out both ends all morning long starting at 2AM. Then I got a fever. I'm still uncertain of what was wrong with me. it all seems gone now. I haven't been that sick since high school freshman year. Ten years ago was the last time I got sick that it made me throw up ( other than alcohol related ). That's a good track record. I'm so lucky I'm so healthy. So that's how I spent my days off.

Now I have Saturday, Sunday, and Monday off and nothing much is going on. A baby shower and a wedding yesterday. Lots of fun. people I don't really even know that Amanda has known for a long time or knew from high school. It really is a punch in the face to my age when I go to a baby shower and a wedding in one day. I'm that freakin old that there almost wasn't anything unusual about it. Especially when I'm attending it with my wife that I've been married to for a year and a half. Those baby showers could very easily be us. And by the way, why in hell do babies wear cloths? This mother to be got like fifty different baby onesies. The other mothers at the thing were like because you have to change a kids cloths like 4 times a day from all the puke and stuff that gets on them. That's outrageous. We decided the baby gets an all plastic room to play in with no diapers or cloths and a hose down everyday. It'll save on the laundry and diaper bill.

So that's that for the time I haven't been posting at all. I swear I'll keep up better. This post was suppose to be done Wednesday but then I didn't get off the toilet or off the couch long enough to do anything but see a doctor. I hope my stories aren't too much. Let me know and I'll cut back on the depressing.